A Good Canoe can take you there

I read this ages ago, around the year 2000. I forget who the author is...

"Our canoe has also transported myself and my kin to environs where mosquitos have feasted on our flesh, where the summer sun scorched the skin of my toddler and where dreary dounpours had me anxious to return to my mundane life in front of a word processor. But once home staring glassy-eyed into the computer screen, the good memories flood back. Watching my kids play for hours with sticks and rocks, sharing my daughter's excitement whenever she boats a fish, witnessing the unfathomable power of summer thunderstorms, relaxing in the sand for hours as the kids build castles - - it's the sappy stuff that makes you want to brew a cup of coffee and celebrate the moments of your life."

Photos of our own family adventures. We ditched our canoe and got kayaks, but thinking of going back to the canoe one of these days.

While I was away

Here's some of the stuff I've been up to since I posted last....

Enjoying Kansas road trips. Nothing like sunsets over water.

Hiking in the prairies

Road trips to Minnesota

Finding treasure in Nebraska

Interesting stuff close to home

Treated company to some awesome weather

They thought this was the best part of the Arch near Kearney

Western Nebraska Court House and Jail House Rocks along the Oregon Trail

Mamoths who wandered too close to a hot spring

Tunnels in South Dakota

History in Dominican Republic's Capital City

Occasional resort life 

More road trips

Havana Garage in Omaha, Nebraska

 

Small Town USA road trips

We are always ready to explore the highways and back roads while we check out some of the large or small towns that are on or off the interstate. Here are some of my favorite photos from our travels...

 Hanover KS

 A mini Vegas strip in Waterville KS

Crete NE

 Lincoln NE

 

 Old post office Crete NE

Snow sometimes 

 Lincoln NE

 parked in front of a small town grocery

These Cranes are alley art in the Haymarket in Lincoln NE

Fun neighborhood decorations for halloween

High water at a Kansas Lake

 old implement wheels

Spring is turkey travel season

Found after work, I had to move this guy to some nearby shrubery.

 Milford KS cool bench

Art in the country

 Ready for what life brings

Zero turn races at a campground

History humor

Up north cargo

Yes, actually happened. Tractor in our turn lane.

 A hiker refueling

Restaurant décor

Beautiful hand made arbor ready for a wedding

Salina KS at the Smokey River Festival

 Nothing like rain on the interstate

Northwood IA

 This weather system followed us up the interstate for 2 hours

Omaha NE

 Minnesota? or Iowa?

Iowa

 A KOA in MN

Early morning cattle with fog rising from the pasture

The dog is navigating

 LOL Senior Prank

Through the rain, the rainbow

We Can Ride near Minneapolis, doing great work with handicapped kids

 

Homemade Fairbury Style camp furniture.

Storm on the plains

Cattle Country

Barbed wire sunrise

Snow on the firewood

Hay bale sillouette

Traveling art show

Cold day deer

Grain elevator

He mows around his Dump Truck yard art

One bad truck in it's day

 Winter Fog

Into the rain

Campfire is actually on the other side of the glider

Rural farms and abandoned places

I was more impressed by the lunchboxes than the miles of cars at the Museum of Speed in Lincoln NE

Mine was red and black plaid

 Football Saturday in Lincoln, Nebraska

Moon rise (or moon set) over a hay field

Southeast rural NE

Lake living, expecting family maybe

Milford KS

A state park in NE

Found on a hike

 Flood debris - Glad we hadn't come this way when it was bad

 Purple Rain

Fireworks in Missouri

 KCMO

 In a butchers shop

 The Arch in St Louis

 Farm on the highway

View from our window

 A woodchuck?

 A Nebraska Tradition

Kansas City Hotel

 Beautiful old Hotel in Kansas City

 You never know what you will see

 Cows at sunset

Fairbury Nebraska

Someone is building a new school

Salina KS Blues Festival

Lunar eclipse

Milford Lake in Kansas

 Lincoln NE Bike Art (covered with bottle caps)

 I think Crete NE

  

 A field along the highway

 At Ribfest in Lincoln Ne. I accidently left that coozie on a plane

 

 Rural pastimes

 Near Home

 My kid helped a friend do that

 Hay rounds at sunset

 Wahoo NE

 Junction City KS

 Waiting to be restored

 layers of paint give it texture

 Craft Festival

 

 Contemplating the speed at which the weekends pass

 Love boat names

 and campers

 This guy was out fishing most of the day

Campground meals

 restraunt in Wahoo NE

Black and White

Salina KS Blues 

Fairbury NE

Best Mexican food in Wahoo