Tag: kemp nussbaum
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Okefenokee Swamp
11/16/2020 – 11/20/2020 We left Savannah eager to continue our journey, heading south on coastal Highway 17 where we weaved over and under I-95 committed to stay off the interstate and keep it slow. Highway 17 is also a road where my great great grandmother and namesake, Blanche Kempner Nussbaum, lost her life when she…
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Savannah Bananas
10/27/2020 – 11/16/2020 Note: We decided to create an Instagram account so we can post more real time status of our journey. As you know, our blog which takes more time to create is running up to a month behind. We hope you find this enjoyable. Toohey (@travelswithtoohey) • Instagram photos and videos Savannah is…
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In My Mind I’m Gone to Carolina: The Carolinas
10/15/2020 – 10/23/2020 The North Carolina mountains hold a special place in my memories. One of the earliest trips was with my mom and dad to the High Hampton Inn after dropping my sister off at camp for two weeks. We stayed there for a few nights enjoying time with my grandparents who made their…
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The Buckeye State
September 20 – 27, 2020 There have been bits and pieces that we pick up from each state that travel with us along our journey. For example, we continue to clean the red dust we picked up in the deserts of Utah, the grey dust along the gravel roads in Idaho, Oregon, and Montana. We…
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The Wisconsin Shore
I’ve always enjoyed the State of Wisconsin with each visit having been positive including fun business trips to neat towns of Milwaukee, Madison, and a life dream of seeing a game in Green Bay. I have a love of all things cheese and when introduced to this magical little thing called a curd, I was…
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North Dakota: Fifty was Nifty
Two things: Thing 1. As of this writing and certainly your reading of this blog, I have now officially visited every state in the good ole U.S. of A, with North Dakota being the last. Mind you, this was over a lifetime and mostly accomplished for work purposes versus play. Our drive from Fort Peck…
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Goodbye Oregon, Hellooo Washington
Today was going to be a big push north into Washington with the destination of a horse rescue farm just outside of Port Angeles, WA. We set our plan in motion crossing the vintage looking metal expansion bridge over the Columbia River and into the state of Washington. Our first introduction was a drive that…
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Missoula, MT to Lewiston, ID: The Amazing Highway 12
Wondering about wandering. Our journey so far has been more about simply wandering up the road versus having any set plans. When we get somewhere we have to decide, day by day, do we stay or do we move on. Where is “move on” if we decide to move there? Our original plan was to…
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Sloverlanding from the Tetons to the Sawtooths and along the Salmon River
Daily travel can get exhausting, but the benefits of us doing it together have been pretty profound over our first month. A month ago, we would each sort of do our thing around the house with infrequent conversations about the common issues. We both worked in different industries spending lots of time and energy in…