(Grand Rivers KY to Dover TN) Another attraction at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area was a recreated homestead they called The Homeplace. Period buildings were moved from around the area to form a typical subsistence farm from the 1850s period. Volunteers, dressed for the times, demonstrate throughout the year with chores typical for […]
(Anamosa IA) I met up with a camping friend who took me for lunch out in the country. Of course, I had to have their famous pork tenderloin sandwich. Wow! It was huge, and so-o-o tasty. It turns out that the famous artist Grant Wood grew up in Anamosa. My friend took me by the […]
(Fort Sumner NM) I had intended to visit the site of Bosque Redondo where Apache and Navajo natives were kept after being forced from their homelands. Unfortunately, the monument was closed on the day I arrived. However, adjacent was the old fort cemetery where Billy the Kid was buried. He had fled to this area […]