After a full month in Wisconsin, it was weird to flip the page in our atlas (yes, we still use a paper atlas) to a different state … in fact, a series of different states, as we spent the last ten days of this 11-week adventure meandering back to Arizona. But just because we were...
La Crosse, Wisconsin, is only 30 miles from our previous stop in Sparta, but has a completely different vibe. Having three colleges in a relatively small town means that the population is mostly young and vibrant. And where there are college kids, there is alcohol. So much so, that La...
“Well, hello there!” from Ben Bikin! Ben is the honorary, mostly-silent mayor of Sparta, a small town known as the “Bicycling Capital of America.” Ben stands (well, sits) 32 feet high on his 1890’s Penny Farthing bicycle. Check the Chevy Suburban in the photo for a sense...
Leaving Door County, Wisconsin, we journeyed to Green Bay to tour historic Lambeau Field, named for Curly Lambeau, the first captain and later head coach of the Green Bay Packers. With the start of what might possibly, hopefully, maybe be a non-Covid compromised season of NFL action...
Ready, set, go … our next two stops of this 11-week trip would be the busiest yet! With an influx of friends and family (our parents from Arizona, aunt/uncle from Chicago, cousins from Florida/Michigan, and friends summering in Wisconsin), it was a wild and wooly ten days of...
If you’ve ever wanted to quit life and run away to the circus, then RV’ing might be right for you. And if RV’ing away to the circus is right for you, then Baraboo, Wisconsin, is your destination. This tiny town with a fun name is the location of Circus World Museum, a...
Seven weeks into this particular RV adventure, moving to a new town every 3-5 days, we often find ourselves wondering exactly where we are. At the intersection of Should I Stay & Should I Go? Where The & Sidewalk Ends? Making all decisions via Rock & Paper & Scissors...
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...
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...
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...