Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I like to think of Door County as Wisconsin’s thumbs up to the world, a peninsula of sunshine and warm cherry pie. Beautiful in any season, but particularly so in the fall, Door County features sunrises, sunsets and 53 public beaches on a narrow piece of land that stretches toward the horizon. We arrived last [...]
All roads should lead through Tupelo, Mississippi like ours did on a recent Spring Break trip. We SHAKE, RATTLED AND ROLLed into that little town, a MESS OF BLUES from TOO MUCH time on the road “PLEASE RELEASE ME from this car,” a U.S.MALE called from the backseat, where’d he’d been trapped for 500 MILES. [...]
I’d seen friendlier welcome signs than the one that greeted us as we crossed the Wisconsin border into Iowa Saturday afternoon. “Travel not advised,” the flashing sign read. Ours was not a recreational trip, and we wanted to honor a commitment we’d made to the people on the other side of it. Still, we warned [...]
We just got back from a nine-day road trip that took us 2,100 miles through seven states and, with apologies to those who might take this the wrong way, we had an f-ing good time. To me, F stands for all the best things summer offers -- Family! Friends! Food! Fireworks! Freedom! and Fun! We [...]
My husband turns 55 today, the perfect age for a man who loves crazy long road trips, respects all posted speed limits and monitors the stop signs outside our house with such Barney Fife-like intensity he scares drivers who dare to roll through. "Did you see that?" he'll ask me as he shakes his fist [...]