Space Camp is a Blast!
I never wanted to be an astronaut. Never had any interest in hurtling through space on a rocket with fire shooting out its tail. Never wanted to look back on […]
Category Archives: Good Ole USA
Unclaimed Baggage
Have you ever stood at the baggage carousel at the airport, watching the belt clunk it’s way around and around with one lonely bag left? One bag that isn’t yours? […]
Off the Beaten Track: Crooked Creek Civil War Museum
My day started with a man named Fred Wise, who dropped one cannonball after another into my hand. They were heavy! I didn’t need more than two examples to learn […]
Samantha is Back!
I cannot tell you how excited I was when I learned that Samantha Brown was the keynote speaker at the TBEX (Travel Bloggers’s Exchange) Conference I was signed up to […]
A Peek into the Cloistered Life of a Nun
There were only a few cars in the massive parking lot of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama on the Thursday afternoon of my visit there, […]
Huntsville Haiku
Like the Cincinnati Mural Project, Huntsville has turned to its youth to revitalize the city through arts. In Cincinnati, teenagers are hired and trained to create murals to beautify the […]
Something’s Brewing in Vermont
Vermont is a small state. It’s ranks 45th in size among the 50 United States. And yet, Vermont has the most microbreweries per capita of any state. That’s all my […]
Poor Oh Pear!
While traipsing through Vermont, I had to make a stop to pay my respects to those who’d fallen. Those Ben & Jerry’s flavors that just didn’t make it and were […]
Butter Coffee
When I visited a friend in Burlington, Vermont, the first place he took me was to a farm set off a muddy road that he’d been curious about for a […]
File This Fact Away
I know. I was as surprised as you are that on a cold, blustery winter day in Vermont, I was the only person who braved the windchill to pose with […]
Browsing The Atlas 