Pea Ridge National Military Park sits in the northwestern corner of Arkansas on the Missouri border. It is the site of the largest Civil War battle fought west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War and the only…
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One of our objectives in travelling the US is to look for good places to retire. We love the San Francisco Bay Area but the housing costs and traffic are not ideal for retirement, particularly not early retirement. We…
If I join a band, I may name it “Two Days in Little Rock“…but as usual that comment has very little to do with this post. Although Little Rock is the largest city in Arkansas, it’s home to only…
I have an irrational aversion to bowling shoes and hot springs. Invite me roller skating and I’ll throw those rented skates on like a disco queen, but bowling shoes (even though there’s a sock barrier) always grosses me out…
I was not a fan of history in school but I can’t get enough of it as an adult. In high school, I was pretty sure knowing about some dead guy who lead an army in a war was not going…
When cotton was king and slavery prevalent, Natchez, Mississippi was at its center. The land and the river for transport made plantation owners here enormous fortunes. In fact, before the civil war, Natchez was home to more millionaires per capita than any other American city..…
By March 1, 2023, it was finally warm enough to move north of Florida! (If we stay too long in freezing temps, the tanks full of fresh water, along with grey and black waste water, freeze up. Like the…
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about touring the eastern U.S., it is that it’s the setting of a tumultuous past. The many skirmishes and change of control in different areas between the Spanish, the French, and the English,…
Our second HipCamp site in Florida was in the town of Apalachicola. Say that 3 times fast. We met the fun-loving owner of the house, after having a little trouble with the electrical, which was quickly remedied. She and her significant…
