One Ship, Two Ships
Today is the day Ray and I are to climb aboard the biggest ship we have ever boarded for the first cruise we have ever taken. That isn’t saying a whole lot for us, because we have spent very little time on…
Category Field Trips Near and Far
A Mountain That God Made
Our train leaves the Anchorage Depot this morning at 7:15 a.m. Alaska Time. Today we might see moose, black bear, brown bear, beaver lodges, lots of waterfowl, and possibly even a wolf between Anchorage and Denali! We have one stop…
Native Nations
We arrived in Anchorage last night and headed over to our bed and breakfast. Before our trip, we found a B and B up here that costs less than our usual chain hotel. Our host promised a big breakfast that includes her mother’s bread made…
Heading North
Daddy loved to explore Tennessee and Kentucky. On countless Sundays Mother or Daddy opened a front door of our two-door white Ford Falcon (our car before we got the VW bus), so that my brother and I could push the front seat…
Budget Travel 101 — Lesson 1
I grew up with a daddy who loved to go and a mama who was willing to sacrifice to satisfy his wanderlust. They weren’t going to let the smallness of Daddy’s paycheck keep us at home. Since Daddy worked until…
“Pardon Me, Boys, Is This the Chattanooga Choo Choo?”
Ray and I headed out on Thursday for our last convention of the 2014 convention season. Notgrass Company has been coming to this curriculum fair for fifteen years. I think that I have been there myself fourteen of them. We love…