Today was a travel day to our next stop – an AirBnB with three bedrooms, two baths, full kitchen, laundry facilities, and a hot tub!  The night before Anthony and Tom had carefully washed both Khan and Polo, but it rained and the driveway and dirt road out of our guest house oasis left both…

Today’s blog includes contributions from our featured guest editor, Deborah (or just Deb, if you’re into the whole brevity thing) Also, today’s cover photo is of Edward Thome sporting his new authentic western apparel cowboy hat. Ed is the Executive Director of the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation, and has been with us visiting with the…

Today was our day to meet up with our Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation board members and talk together with the Wideners about family history and lore.  We also continued to benefit from their hospitality, seeing the sights of Sheridan. We started out with lunch at the Brinton Museum with a few Wideners and Lynnewood team,…

Today was a sightseeing and fish lesson day.  Peter Widener met us at the guest house and drove us to town to a fly fishing shop he previously owned for outfitting for fly fishing.  Peter apparently knows everyone in town and we overheard lots of fascinating conversations with the locals.  After we obtained flies, rods,…

Today was mainly a travel day – we departed the campground around 8:30AM planning an arrival at the Widener’s ranch around 2PM. We’ve been having strange problems with both the Winnebago camper and the Sprinter chassis it is built on.  For several cycles of extending and retracting the slide-out, we’ve noticed that it does not…

Today was long and fun-filled in the shadow of Mount Rushmore, despite the gloomy weather.  It rained much of the morning, so we cooked inside – Tom and Scott both ate eggs, bacon, and toasted English muffins while Anthony ate boxed Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Scott bought at the Walmart, since it reminded him of…

Since we arrived in Moon Lake we often heard the sounds Killdeer birds, which flew around the yard of the “headquarters” house we were staying near.  On Wednesday morning Tom found an egg in the yard, which was camouflaged to look like the nearby rocks.  He also observed the bird attempting to lure him away…

Today was a big day for us as guests of Moon Lake Ranch.  In the morning before lunch Kelsey gave us a great tour of the “close” parts of the ranch.  We saw sheep and sheep babies, mountain goats and mountain goat babies, and reindeer and reindeer babies.  We got a great presentation of a…

We (or at least Scott) woke up early at Manawa Lake, but Tom, then Anthony followed, we ate breakfast and hit the road by 8:30AM.  It helped that we had loaded the bikes the night before, and hitched up the Polo as well.  Off to Moon Lake Ranch in Northern Nebraska.  This ranch belongs to…

We woke up early at the Veteran’s Museum and decided to show Anthony a piece of Americana by eating breakfast at a nearby Waffle House.  We at a good breakfast and watched in amazement as the waitress brought us a handwritten invoice, added up manually like it was the 20th century. We had planned on…

Our trip today from Nashville, TN to O’Fallon, MO (outside of St. Louis) led us through 5 states: Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. We woke up early after our first Harvest Host stay after a relaxing, quiet night behind the church.  After a quick breakfast we were on our way to our next Harvest…

Saturday we left Allatoona Lake early and arrived at our arrival at our first “Harvest Host” site in Gallatin, TN.  With fairly low traffic congestion and the time change we originally had an arrival time before 11AM! Harvest Hosts is a program where you can stay at places overnight for free – you are just…