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Sun, 5 Aug 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 3 Aug 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [166]
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT WOULD NOT HAVE APPROVED. Although Pullman, Illinois is just a few miles from some of his more famous creations, the town of Pullman was at the opposite end of the architectural spectrum. Wright designed for the wealthy ... Read more >
Wed, 1 Aug 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [149]
AFTER PAUL TURNED US ON TO TALIESEN WEST, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home/workshop in Phoenix, we were hooked. Knowing we would be heading east, Connie bought the Frank Lloyd Wright pass that would gain us admission to Wright designed buildings ... Read more >
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [182]
WE’VE BEEN DRIVING THROUGH CORN AND SOYBEANS for so long I am considering buying some bib overalls and a John Deere hat. The 3 I states aren’t all farms — this is Lincoln Land, too. Back when Honest Abe was an unknown country ... Read more >
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 16 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [187]
THE TWO MEN COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN MORE DIFFERENT, except that Dred Scott and George Washington Carver were black and both were born into slavery. Scott was born at the end of the 18 th Century; Carver during the Civil War. Scott was ... Read more >
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [193]
THE GATEWAY ARCH IS THE NEWEST NATIONAL PARK, less than 5 months old when we visited. Granted, the Arch — along with the Cardinals — has been the symbol of St. Louis since 1965, but now it is officially a part of the National ... Read more >
Sun, 8 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [268]
TALL GRASS PRAIRIE NATIONAL MONUMENT isn’t exactly convenient to Topeka, but at least it’s in Kansas — unlike Kauffman Stadium and Independence which are in Missouri. Connie had a couple of nondescript prairie birds that she ... Read more >
Fri, 6 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [217]
HISTORY CAN HAPPEN ANYPLACE, and involve the most unlikely heroes. Monroe Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, for example, wasn’t anyplace special. It looks and smells like any other school. But it was reserved for black students ... Read more >
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [217]
ACTUALLY, TOTO, THIS IS KANSAS! Knee-high corn, golden wheatfields, anti-abortion billboards and more places selling tractors than cars. The billboard-sized version of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” that welcomed us to Goodland ... Read more >
Sun, 1 Jul 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 28 Jun 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [218]
FOR SIX WEEKS COLORADO ONCE MORE FELT LIKE HOME. For even though our drivers licenses and plates proclaim South Dakota, in our hearts we are Coloradans. And after months in the desert Southwest, Colorado seemed so green, the air so clean ... Read more >
Tue, 29 May 2018 | By pbm6 | Views [394]
Coming to terms with divorce and remarriage in Key West
In Key West:
I stop the car somewhere on the Keys. I’m not quite at Key West yet. I’m apprehensive about getting to my destination. I thought it was a good ... Read more >
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Tue, 29 May 2018 | By pbm6 | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 23 May 2018 | By donna_jeff | Views [343] | Comments [1]
We are busy packing final items for our 2018 pilgrimage. You'd think it would take less time to pack light, but we've been at it for hours. Must take just the right things and very few of those! Jeff is still trying to force-fit a favorite pillow into ... Read more >
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