With eager anticipation, I ordered Kaitlyn McConnell’s first book, Passport to the Ozarks. I have been following Kaitlyn’s blog, “Ozarks Alive!” for at least 2 years. Her blog never disappoints and her first, self-published book doesn’t, either. Who is Kaitlyn McConnell? After I read about Kaitlyn’s ...
Viking River Cruise Day #6: Nuremberg
Day #6 of our Viking River Cruise Grand European Tour got a bit weird. Thanks to low water in this section of the Danube River, we could not continue on the good ship “Bragi,” and had to be transported via Mercedes Benz coaches to another port near Nuremberg, and onto a new ship – the “Skadi.” It ...
Cedar Gap Conservation Area
You know how sometimes, some of the most interesting places in your state lie within an hour’s drive and you’ve never been, because “some day” you’ll get there? That “some day” came the other day, when we had yet to get out and explore to find some fall foliage worth photographing. I had driven by ...
WWII Vet Howard Chrisco
Harry S Truman said, “Study men, not historians.” When Howard Chrisco of St. James looks back at the escape that he and his fellow soldiers made from a Japanese work camp in the Philippines during WWII, he cannot help but think that there were too many “coincidences” to make the smooth transition ...
Viking River Cruise Day #5: Regensburg
Our program director, Karl, briefed us the night before we docked in Regensburg, Germany, and said, “It’s my kind of town.” Regensberg, Germany Known for its reputation as one of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe, Regensburg’s history easily dates back to Roman times. It managed to survive ...
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