It was Saturday and we took our time in getting up and around. By 9:20 a.m., we were packed up and headed toward Centerville, TN to the National Banana Pudding Festival. He headed east on Hwy 100 toward Centerville. At 11:45 a.m., we arrived in Centerville and enjoyed a craft fair on the square and …
Who knew there was a festival celebrating banana pudding? We certainly didn’t, until we stopped at the Tennessee welcome center and saw a poster advertising the 6th Annual National Banana Pudding Festival. It just so happened that the festival was in Centerville, TN the very weekend we were to be in the area. Of course …
The Subaru is packed and ready to go. Robert has rigged up our power supply for our little travel refrigerator and our traveling office. That consists of two extra 12v AGM Deep Cycle batteries, an inverter and several connectors that do a lot of cool things. He had been busy with the prep work for …
We’ve been living in our 38-foot Alfa SeeYa for four years now. At first we put several miles on it because we needed to be in different parts of the country. We seemed to have settled back near family in Missouri. We’ve enjoyed ourselves and have worked hard building a business. Our business is designed …
Perhaps one of my favorite quotes is: “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll I think of it often. There are many things out of our control that happen to us, but we have total control of how we REACT. We have the choice …
Robert and I were itching for a little road trip, so one day, we buzzed over to Ft. Scott, KS. Growing up in El Dorado Springs, MO, I took for granted all the wonderful little attractions that were just a hop, skip and jump away. I guess we do that when we’re young. Now that …
Over Memorial Weekend, we hit Rock Bottom! Robert was the photographer at this year’s Rock Bottom Chuck Wagon Races held near Green Forest, AR. Little ‘ole me was his assistant. The weekend was packed full of events from Thursday through Sunday. We certainly jumped out of our comfort zone with both feet. It’s one thing to …
Here we are, Robert and I are hitting Rock Bottom. Yep, we are going to the Rock Bottom Chuck Wagon Races again. This event gets bigger and bigger every year, and it’s even in the middle of nowhere! Over 5,000 participants and spectators are expected to diverge onto the ranch near Green Forest, AR this …
Picher, Oklahoma is a modern day ghost town. It was formerly a major national center of lead and zinc mining. Over a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation left Picher with groundwater contamination and toxic metal-contaminated chat heaps. Picher was declared uninhabitable and efforts to evacuate initiated. In 2009, efforts to close the town began. There …
When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to get out of small town America. Twenty-five years later, I long to be back. Last year, Robert and I decided to plant ourselves in Caplinger Mills, Missouri. It’s a tiny, unincorporated community just 10 miles north of Stockton. You may ask “Why on earth Caplinger Mills?” …
