by Mike Wendland | Nov 18, 2019 | Tom and Patti Burkett
By Tom & Patti Burkett Driving across Nebraska on highway 4, it’s hard to miss the big building sitting at the top of the hill. From below, it looks like a plow blade cutting through the prairie soil. And, of course, that’s exactly...
by Mike Wendland | Nov 10, 2019 | Tom and Patti Burkett
By Tom and Patti Burkett For years we’ve had the City Museum of Saint Louis on our list of travel stops, so recently when we went to visit out park ranger daughter in the Ozarks we piled into the vehicle and drove the two hours north. We...
by Mike Wendland | May 28, 2019 | People & Places, Tom and Patti Burkett
By Tom and Patti Burkett We were looking forward to a stop in Lindsborg, Kansas. Many of Tom’s ancestors are Swedish, and we maintain a number of Swedish traditions, especially around holidays. There are a number of Scandinavian heritage...
by Mike Wendland | May 7, 2019 | Tom and Patti Burkett
Southern Illinois is nestled between two of the biggest rivers on the continent. Historically, regular floods of both the Ohio and the Mississippi left the region covered deep in silt, fantastically fertile soil. Until the early twentieth...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 17, 2019 | Tom and Patti Burkett
By Tom & Patti Burkett Off the beaten path travel is all about small towns. The last generation highways and two-lane roads that wind through every state go right down the main street of every county seat, shipping terminal, and stringtown strip built since we began...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 1, 2019 | Tom and Patti Burkett
Do you remember that scene when Maria runs across the mountain meadow singing “the hills are alive?” We never knew the Sound of Music was based on a true story. When the von Trapps left Austria in 1939, they were assisted by their...
by Mike Wendland | Dec 4, 2018 | Tom and Patti Burkett
New Haven Connecticut is probably best known as he home of Yale University, and if you go there, you would certainly enjoy a walk around that iconic campus. But New Haven has some other things to offer that are not quite as obvious. Connecticut is...
by Mike Wendland | Nov 11, 2018 | Tom and Patti Burkett
If you’re someone who enjoys boondocking, you’re sure to have discovered the treasures to be found in the US National Forests. Some of these tracts are huge, and most of them include at least some variety of campsites. The Wayne National Forest, in our...
