Springfield is the capital of the state of Illinois and Abraham Lincoln spent most of his adult life here. These two facts become very clear, very quickly when you visit. My primary reason for coming here was to visit the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and to see the Lincoln Home National Historic Site but, … Continue reading All You Ever Wanted To Know About Lincoln
I had originally intended to spend just Friday night in Indianapolis and visit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday. A look on TripAdvisor suggested there wasn’t anything else I “had” to do and this was confirmed by my friend, Cathy, who lived there for several years and said “Indy isn’t a great tourist town…” when … Continue reading Indianapolis and the Speedway
Today marks the start of my Fall 2016 trip and the addition of a new feature to the blog. Since today’s journey was rather mundane I’ll start with the blog update. Although I am blogging about my trips so that anyone can follow along my prime motivation has always been to maintain good documentation of … Continue reading Blog Updates and the Start of the Fall Trip.
There’s little to write about today as I simply headed home from the “start/end point” of the perimeter trip. I wish I had been able to make today’s drive last December and truly complete the journey but I will need a final trip in the fall to fill in the large gap in the southwest … Continue reading The End of the Road (until the fall)
Norfolk, Virginia is the main east-coast base of the US Navy and today I was focused on warships. Service men and women always seem to get up at the crack of dawn but, on this Sunday, neither of the two places I wanted to visit opened until noon. After sleeping in and taking a long … Continue reading Navy (Half) Day
I recently learned of an event at home that I want to attend on Tuesday so, today, I decided to drive over 400 miles to get to Norfolk, VA and get into position to get home on Monday. This entailed nearly eight hours of driving which did not leave a lot of time for sightseeing. … Continue reading Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and Aviation History
Today I drove from Savannah, Georgia to Conway, South Carolina and the only stop I made was to do the tour of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter is the place where the first shots in the American Civil War were aimed. It was a union fort that had been under construction for 30 … Continue reading Fort Sumter – Boning up on my American History