If you had seven days of free time, would you spend it riding a bicycle across the entire state of Iowa in the dead of summer? No, neither would I, but 15,000 people feel otherwise. It’s RAGBRAI: Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa! RAGBRAI is the oldest, largest, longest bike touring event in the world! Oldest … 48 years running now...
Leaving Kansas, we spent a full week in St. Joseph, Missouri – or as the locals and cool kids refer to it: StJoMo. StJoMo was the location of the beginning of the Pony Express. Here, in 1860, a lone rider left these historic stables (inside and outside views below) carrying saddlebags filled with letters, hopes and dreams. Unfortunately, dreams were not enough...
Poor Kansas: 82 years have gone by since the iconic movie “whirled” (tornado pun) to life, and still they can’t escape their association with Oz. But our brief “spin” (again, sorry not sorry) across Kansas revealed that besides flat fields, tornadoes and Oz … that this state is as odd as a bunch of oompa loompas! A motorcycle made...
Remember when your greatest joy as a child was to sit in an enormous pile of sand and play the day away? Well, regardless of your current age, we’ve got the ultimate playground for you! Behold … Great Sand Dunes National Park in southeastern Colorado! You’ll be BLOWN AWAY by this place — just like the landscape gets BLOWN AWAY every single day...
Ahhhh Taos, the epitome of southwestern charm and good vibes! Label us “delighted” to be here! But perhaps you’re having a different sort of day —that is OK, because Taos invokes a wide variety of different feelings, and you’re sure to be covered here! Allow us to eleborate! Feeling low? If you’re feeling low, how about getting...
Charming Adventures ventured southwest from Abiquiu to the Jemez Mountains, a volcanic chain that extendes throughout northwestern New Mexico. Besides the high altitude, we also got high (no — not what you’re thinking) climbing ladders more than 140 feet into the sky to the ruins of ancient Pueblo Indians, who have lived in this area since even before the...
From touristy Santa Fe, we transitioned to the sleepier side of New Mexico in Abiquiu. But “sleepy” doesn’t mean boring, as we found ourselves sinking into the magic of Ghost Ranch, the creative outpost of celebrated artist Georgia O’Keeffe; and experiencing the mystery and magic of an unbelievable sand cave carved entirely by hand by a different kind of...
Dateline: June 2021. Phoenix is broiling under a heat wave with multiple days at 118. Skies are thick and hazy with smoke from surrounding wildfires. Our sticks’n’bricks house is half torn apart from a remodel that gets more expensive by the hour due to Covid-related supply chain issues. YEP … time to hit the road, all right! Charming Adventures...
If you cringe at the thought of visiting a museum, finding them to be a bore or a drag, perhaps you’ve been going to the wrong museums! This country is chock-full of the most exciting, most interactive, most moving and certainly most charming museums that you should definitely add to your travel bucket list! Charming Adventures is here to tell you all about...
January and February had the three of us staying close to home, with a smattering of mini-adventures right here in good ole Arizona. We survived a terrible two-week rumble with Covid over the holidays, but that’s not why we’re staying “safer at home.” Instead, we’re sticking close for two exciting non-travel adventures: making plans and...