Blue Roads to Hiking Trails

Well, now that we are back in Nashville, I guess that means our West by Southwest journey is over.  Looking back over what we did and compa...

With this first post of this journal, I will briefly recap who we are and how we got this itch.  As a blog reader, I always like to go back...

After having done only about 3 hikes so far this month and really beginning to feel out of shape again, we decided it was high time to get ...

We arrived in Nashville, the city we consider “home”, about noon Monday.  We are parked, at least for this week, at a small campground just...

Another day on the road has brought us to the east side of the Mississippi River and the small community of Galesburg, Illinois.  This is j...

Des Moines, with its population of almost 200,000 is the largest city in the state.  It is located just about in the center of the state wh...

The grasslands and cattle ranches of South Dakota have given way to the slightly rolling hills and farmland of Iowa.  It’s greener here and...