Elkton Hotel Quincy

... a turn to be even colder! By the time we got to the house, Martha was off to work and Bill was way up on his ladder working solo. We jumped in and helped get the last of the hardy plank up into the peak of the house. We did as much clean up as we could to turn our work areas back into the front porch and driveway. Matt was at work being the best grill man in town so we rode over to him to taste his artistry. We were not ...

... submerge ourselves in French living, learning and loving. A program such as this one comes with a lot of mystery and intrigue. I have yet to know where I will be living, what kind of accommodations will be provided, and where I will be traveling throughout the year. For those of you that know me well, you will also know I like having plans. Plans are good. They keep life in order and everything at bay. The first year I was to leave for college, I started packing ...

We stayed in St. Charles, Missouri, just west of St. Louis, to visit Kristi's family on our roundabout way back to Texas. We visited with all of Kristi's family, enjoying some home cooking from both grandmas. One night with Kristi's dad, we took a tour of the Anheuser Busch brewery ...

... show Darren the Missouri campus he always tries to discount due to his Kansas ties. We visited Kristi's brother Brian and his girlfriend and they served as our tour guides around a campus that has changed quite a bit in ten years which made Kristi feel really old. It's still a beautiful campus.

We arrived in Hannibal, checked into the hotel, and headed out for lunch. Then, we walked up the hill to the lighthouse to get a good view of the river. Afterward, we toured the Mark Twain house and museum and took an hour long ride on the Twain Riverboat.

the day started in a heavy fog that was cold and wet. In the first hour everything was soaked but it was cool and the wind which the weather channel promised that it would be in our face was calm. The day produced 3,475 feet of climbing as Missouri bode us farwell. We ...

... and his wife, Elsa felt that this experience provided a testimony-building connection to their faith—a tangible link between lessons learned and faith lived. As parents of two teenaged children, they now share a deep desire to someday return with their children.
Immediately upon arrival in the city, a special sacrament meeting was held at the Nauvoo Stake center. Members of the Choir and Orchestra assisted with the music and ...

... Thatcher house, and a couple more of the buildings where Judge Thatcher lived and worked). The boys said the enjoyed the trip, especially the Cave, which we all liked, and the Tom Sawyer stories during the cave tour. Oh, Lynn and I bought $60 worth of very nicely painted stones from the Cave giftshop. Amazing - we bought very little last month all over Scandanavia and the Baltic States, including Russia, but the Mark Twain Cave Gift Shop had nicer genuine art pieces......

... general's strategy - coded in the music - to the soldiers. There was a balloon festival happening that weekend, but we weren't there early enough to see the morning accent and we wouldn't be staying for the evening takeoff. ** This may have meant that there were extra visitors, hence the reenactors -- didn't ask if they are there regularly ** We stopped at the Moo Moo Café in Keokuk for a snack. The owner is a ...

While I was behind the wheel headed for Cincinnati I realized that after swinging through Ohio and trekking Indiana we will have visited 10 states together: Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, and Indiana. I got excited when we drove through Miami, OH...I wanted to hang out with the ski team, and the same when we got into Indiana, I wanted to go say hi to ...