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  • California Edition 5: Monterey, Big Sur, and the Collector

    June 15 – 17, 2021 Lysette likes to say I am a collector of things, to which I disagree. My position is that a serious collector of things would have lots of things, more like Fred Sanford of Sanford & Sons amount of things. A serious collector of things is way more disciplined and organized…

  • Natural Bridges National Monument

    April 4 – April 8, 2021 We left Fruita, Colorado for our southerly jaunt into Utah on this day, Easter Sunday, 2021. We decided last night that Natural Bridges National Monument would be our destination. The journey took us along I-70 for a few miles to exit 204 towards Cisco, a town which might no…

  • The Bee-line to Golden

    March 2 – March 7, 2021 The Rio Grande river starts at over 12,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado where the snow melts producing pure fresh water, the nectar of life. From there it drops, flowing through Colorado’s San Luis Valley providing water for growing crops in an otherwise dry land. It…

  • Texas Episode 5: Crossing the 100th Meridian

    February 22 – March 2, 2021 The TWT team would like to thank all of you for your comments. We get many in the blog itself but more who send us text, emails, and even call from time to time. We have one friend from Savannah who is an engineer for a business jet manufacturer.…

  • Texas Episode 2: Goliad – Small Town, Big History

    February 1 – 3, 2021 Travel Journal Our plan was to move inland, away from the coast and into the area of Texas between Austin and San Antonio known as the Texas Hill Country. Fredricksburg is the town that Lysette wanted to visit for cycling so it became our destination. We needed one stop on…

  • Louisiana: Palmetto State Park

    January 26 – January 29 Our time in the state was brief. Most people think of New Orleans when they think of Lousiana but this town wasn’t in our plans. I have spent my share of time there with college football, watching UGA lose their national championships hopes to Pittsburg with a Dan Marino last…

  • Mississippi Territory

    January 16, 2021 – January 26, 2021 This is a bonus Travels With Toohey History Moment. Something that has always interested me about Mississippi and Alabama were that they were close to being mirror images of each other. This got me thinking about why? My research found that both states were a part of the…

  • Sweet Home Alabama

    January 13, 2021 – January 16, 2021 I have often wondered when looking at the map of this area why Alabama didn’t get the panhandle part of Florida which would have given it more of the beautiful beaches. Apparently the first annex of the Mississippi Territory which included Alabama didn’t include any waterfront property but…

  • The Quagmire of the Florida Panhandle

    January 3, 2021 – January 13, 2021 Our final days in Florida, spent along the panhandle moving west, were interesting, perplexing, and possibly considered a quagmire* of sorts. The premise of our quagmire is that, as we left Savannah in November, our intent was to explore only the panhandle of Florida and to forgo the…

  • Big Cypress National Preserve

    December 14 – December 16 You will find this blog much more appropriate in length based on words and pictures but huge on quality. You will also note a tone of exhaustion and fatigue as we struggled to find our happy spot in this camp. However, as we prepare to post this blog entry, now…