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Birthplace of Route 66 Festival – Day 3: August 15, 2015
Saturday was the big festival day for us. We knew we’d be heading out early the next morning, so this was our one full day to take it all in—and we made the most of it. Getting ready in the bigger trailer has definitely been a nice upgrade. There’s still a bit of morning choreography involved, but nothing like the old Scotty days. Everything has its place now… even if I was still figuring out exactly where those places were. We made our way over to the festival grounds and started with the car show and local vendors before heading into The Glass Place—basically the hub for many of our…
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Birthplace of Route 66 Festival – Days 1-2: August 13-14, 2015
As online chatter started among Route 66 roadies about the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in Springfield, Missouri, we thought it might be fun to attend, especially since we weren’t able to make it to the festival in Kingman the year before and knew we wouldn’t be able to attend in Los Angeles the following year. When we first considered going, we debated taking the car versus the RV. But after purchasing a new-to-us truck to haul the Shasta Oasis, we didn’t want to leave that costly combo sitting at home collecting dust. If it was going to collect dust, it had better be road dust! The Rail Haven was…
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August 13–16, 2015: Birthplace of Route 66 Festival – Springfield, Missouri
✨ INTRO As chatter started building among Route 66 roadies about the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in Springfield, Missouri, we knew it was something we wanted to experience. We had missed the festival in Kingman the year before—and wouldn’t be able to make Los Angeles the following year—so Springfield felt like the perfect opportunity. When it came time to plan the trip, we debated between taking the car or traveling with the trailer. After recently purchasing our truck and Shasta Oasis, the decision became pretty easy. If that setup was going to collect dust, it had better be road dust. And just like that, another road trip memory was…
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May 11-14, 2015: NCPAA Conference, Lexington, Kentucky
This was my first time attending the National Citizens Police Academy Association’s conference, which was hosted by the Lexington Police Department and Lexington Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association. It was a great time, I learned a lot of new things that will assist my community and our police department. I also had a good time touring some of the Lexington area’s attractions: Keeneland Race Course, Calumet Horse Farm, Buffalo Trace Bourbon Distillery, and Kentucky Horse Park. I was introduced to the delicacies of bourbon candy (not so good for my waistline though!) and bourbon cream (mixed with root beer makes a really good “adult” root beer float!). Photo Gallery Click on…
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June 20, 2015: Cozy Dog Run
It was a great day to go on a road trip for the day, so we decided to take our grandson to lunch over at the Cozy Dog Drive-in on Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois! Photo Gallery Click on any photo below to launch the photo gallery. [FAGP id=2779]
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The Road Trip That Made Me
Sometimes I sit and wonder when I became addicted to road trips and all of the memories they create. Growing up, we frequently vacationed in northern Minnesota and drove some 800 miles each way from Indianapolis to our destination, which was a cabin at a resort on one of 10,000 lakes. But I think I can point to a trip 30 years ago in July of 1985 that really opened my eyes to what a road trip vacation is all about. It was July 4th weekend of 1985 when my mom, dad, and I loaded up in my folks’ 1977 Chevrolet Impala. I was getting ready to head into my…
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Well, we’re movin’ on up!!
As indicated in my previous blog post, we are selling our Serro Scotty HiLander travel trailer. We are having growing pains (or at least, the beginning of them), and it’s a good time for us to move on up…to a bigger travel trailer! We started out with our first travel trailer being a small T@B, which was good for a couple, but yet we actually quickly outgrew that, even without additional family! Just switching the bed back and forth to a dinette, orchestrating who would get dressed first, leave the trailer, so the other person could make the bed back into a dinette and get dressed… And not to mention:…
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*SOLD* 2010 Serro Scotty HiLander Travel Trailer
***WE HAVE NOW SOLD OUR SERRO SCOTTY HILANDER TRAVEL TRAILER*** Due to a growing family tree (one grandson now and his little brother is coming soon), we are selling our beloved Serro Scotty HiLander and upgrading to a larger trailer with a bunkhouse, etc. We just ordered a 2015 Shasta Oasis and are very excited to get it. That said, if I could keep and maintain two trailers, we’d keep the Scotty…but we’re working toward early retirement, so it makes more financial sense to sell. So, we are looking for a good home for our Scotty. At the bottom of this post is the standard information from Serro Scotty’s website…
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My Cousin Vinny Filming Locations
My Cousin Vinny: A Very Brief Summary The 1992 comedy hit, My Cousin Vinny, stars Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne, Ralph Macchio, and Mitchell Whitfield. The movie is about two friends from New York traveling to California to attend college. Billy Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and Stan Rothenstein (Mitchell Whitfield) head south to take advantage of warmer weather in January, and while in rural Alabama, they stop at a convenience store to stock up on food for the trip. After Billy inadvertently shoplifts a can of tuna fish, they are stopped by local law enforcement, armed with a shotgun, who orders them out of the car with their hands up. And for…
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The Fugitive Filming Locations
The Plot The Fugitive is an excellent movie starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, a prominent Chicago vascular surgeon, who comes home one evening to find his wife brutally beaten and shot. Still in his apartment is the killer, a one-armed man, who fights with Dr. Kimble and then flees. Asserting that they are unable to locate the alleged one-armed man, the Chicago Police Dept. builds a solid case against Dr. Kimble; he is brought to trial and convicted. As he is transported to prison, the Menard Correctional Center in southern Illinois, another prisoner attacks a guard and the ensuing disruption causes the bus driver to get shot. This…