Adventures in the Age of Covid
What do you do when your travel plans are curtailed due to lockdown? The answer is a right outside your door. Literally.
Exploring Galena, IL
I knew I had to return to Galena after spending a weekend there with C’s Boy Scout troop for Grant’s Pilgrimage back in March. I fell in love with the…
Finding Fun in Nearby Forest Preserves
The kid’s summer schedules left us with very little time for an extended road trip this year. We were going to be limited to three-day trips, overnighters and day trips.…
3200 Miles in 32 days : Part 7- Washington DC Day Two
Start with Part 1 here. Go back to Part 6 here. The next morning we ate the hotel’s complimentary breakfast then headed back to the subway. We had hoped the…
3200 Miles in 32 Days: Part 6 – Washington DC
The next morning we loaded up the car again and headed north. We drove over a bridge into Newport News (the name prompted me to do Bugs Bunny quotes, “Hocus-cadabra!”…
3200 Miles in 32 Days: Part 5 – Georgia to Virginia
Read 3200 Miles in 32 Days: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 We left Georgia to begin the last part of our month long trip, the family…
3200 Miles in 32 Days: Part 4 – Georgia
We made it back to Georgia near midnight due to the limited visibility during the storm. State roads without streetlights and buckets of rain made it difficult to see the…
3200 Miles in 32 Days: Part 3 – More Universal Studios / Back to Georgia
Read part 2 here. Right off the bat, Diagon Alley was impressive. The facade is breathtaking, and the triple-decker Knight Bus outside has a chatty shrunken head to entertain guests.…
3200 Miles in 32 Days: Part 2 – Georgia to Florida
Read Part 1 here. After a week in Georgia, we took a relatively short drive down to Orlando. Well, relatively short when you consider the miles between Chicago and Conyers.…
3200 Miles in 32 Days: Part 1 – Chicago to Atlanta
Yep, you read it right, 3200 miles in 32 days. The mileage is rounded up, but it’s darn close. We didn’t plan on making this a marathon trip; it just…