Strasburg, United States Travel Blogs

Relaxing at Edgewater Farm...
Sep 28, 2004 (3 photos)

The prep continues! Wonderful times at Mom and Jim's place, Edgewater Farm. Long days of feeding chickens, avoiding being bitten by donkeys, auctions, up and down the river (Jim caught cheating), whiffle ball, 'Hi Neighbor', slow down damnit, ...

I'm Feeling Mellow - Some More Observations
Jul 16, 2009 (3 photos)

Coming from a farm community where farms are described in terms of one hundred acre blocks and are usually homesteads with original settlement houses intact, the farms of the Midwest are imposing.  In this area they talk about sections of ...

Commanche Crossing Museum
Jul 10, 2009 (10 photos)

... the railway sponsors became a leading citizen of the town and thus the name of the community was changed to Strasburg. The museum, a collection of heritage and new buildings, houses memorabilia of the turn of the 20th century and has some interesting ...

Goodbye to Strasburg CO
Jul 31, 2009 (7 photos)

... would be passed on and has applied it to 'green' buildings somewhere in the east rather than carry on the tradition. Although Strasburg is not the official site of the 'last' spike on the first continental railway, it commemorates the last spike that made ...

One more Trip to the Field
Jul 23, 2009 (9 photos)

Note to readers: For those of you who have been faithfully checking the blog - blame the weather for my tardiness in providing updates. I am posting this in Great Falls Montana because over the past few weeks, every time I would go to update the ...

Stormy Skies
Jul 14, 2009 (9 photos)

One of the things that never ceases to fascinate me in this part of the country is the sky.  The day usually starts with a cloudless or almost cloudless blue canopy and by noon the blue is the background for big fluffy white clouds.  Often, by ...

Strasburg, Colorado
Apr 15, 2007

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The Farm
Jun 16, 2005 (2 photos)

The Farm Day at School

Back to the Farm! Lisa visits!
Jul 3, 2005

Family 4th Waterford Water Balloons Fellas, I'm in a league! Water attack

Be Kind! Rewind!
Jul 16, 2008

500 miles 10 hours 60 combines 100 grain trucks 10 loose screws 38 degrees C 4000 feet driving backwards down the Interstate going backwards in time

Where the smells of nature are never too far
Jun 24, 2009 (22 photos)

... It was beautiful weather, and the clickety clack of the ride and the view of the picturesque farmland was very relaxing. The Strasburg railroad also included and miniature restored steam train that we got to ride.  And there were little "cranky cars" ...