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March 2023 - Plews

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Louisiana, Missouri Our first trip this year was to sell the Trapper's plews (if you don't know what plews are I suggest watching Charlton Heston's movie The Mountain Men ).     Northeast Missouri was our destination.   Stayed at Cuivre River campground.     Got there around 4:30 and as it was a rainy miserable day it was almost dark by the time we pulled in, and it was cold about 34 degrees.    Of course, the furnace in the camper didn't work.   Fortunately that was fixed by replacing a fuse which I did while the Trapper started dinner.   Time for a nice hot shower, except the water heater wasn't working either.      No hot shower after a long day of travel was most annoying, especially since our shower at home had been in renovation all week and we had only had sponge baths all week long.   Fortunately neither of us smelled, so sponge bath again, as the water was not turned on in any of the bathhouses at th...
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January and February 2020

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Home again after almost a month of traveling. Almost 3 weeks in South Africa with family, then off to Europe for 8 days that will be etched in my memory forever.    Time with Jacob and Seb, and a visit or two with Melody were priceless, as it always is. Never can spend long enough there.    Arrived in Munich on a Tuesday, stayed until early Thursday morning. Wednesday a quick walk around town then on to Neuenschwanstein Castle, which is the stuff fairy tales are made of. No photos inside, and it really defies description. But the stairs! Hundreds of steps up and then all those stairs down, not to mention the incline just to get up to where the castle is perched on the side of a hill. I did take the horse drawn carriage for most of the trip to the top, all but about the last several hundred yards so I was panting when I began the stairs to begin with.   Thursday morning I boarded the train for Klagenfurt for a short visit with a long-time internet frie...
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July 2021

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 July 1, 2021 Paris, Texas has it's own Eiffel Tower (Or maybe Texas Tower would be better) with a great farmer's market.    This was a day trip while we were staying in Hugo, Oklahoma.  Hugo, named in honor of the French writer, Victor Hugo as was suggested by the town surveyor's wife, is an unassuming little town but when you reach the city limits there is a big sign that says, Hugo Oklahoma, Circus City, USA. Then when you get into town there are businesses with circus in the name, Angie's Circus Diner...    The old railway station has a park in front of it with 2 statues of lions and the depot has a statute of a lion and a buffalo in front of it. Curiousier and curiousier.   I knew why it was called that, but if you didn't have the background you would be a bit baffled. In 1941 a man and woman who operated a grocery store in Hugo approached a circus, Kelly Brothers, to have their winter quarters there. Over the years since ...
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