Thorncrown Chapel
I sit in a pew and stare at nature through the glass walls of the Thorncrown Chapel, a tiny building deep in the Arkansas woods. It’s beautiful. But something is […]
Ozark – St. Francis National Forest
Why is it we never hear anything about Arkansas? That question prompted me to looking into the state. And I may have discovered why no one talks about it much. […]
Lamoille Canyon
NPR plays on the radio as we drive to our next destination, over two hours away. But two hours is nothing now. Mountain ranges slide in and out of view. […]
Bonneville Salt Flats
Salt surrounds us. It saturates the water and settles on the ground. You can smell it in the air. It has been bulldozed into mountains. Watching it all is the […]
New River Gorge, WV
A low fog blankets the dirt road, concealing the cabins and tents. It is midnight in West Virginia and I am in a fairy tale. Or possibly a horror story. […]
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
My mom wants to visit all the national parks in the United States. There are a ton in Utah and Alaska and, I thought, none near Michigan where we live. […]
A Christmas Story House
After planning the Cuyahoga Valley National Park adventure, I check the surrounding area to see if there was anything cool we could check out. There was. The house from A […]
Red Wolf Sanctuary
Let me start by saying: If anyone is within 500 miles of this place, go visit. I’m not kidding. I’ll wait. I don’t remember how I stumbled upon this place. […]
Creation Museum
I had heard about the Creation Museum and got such conflicting reports that I knew I had to see it before I died. So after the abandoned ship, we went to […]
Abandoned Ship
A story recently went viral about an abandoned ship in a creek off the Ohio River and I needed to see it. And after some research, I found it. The […]
Louise and Claire 