Des Moines Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Boy, another day, another dollar (oh that's right, I forgot to ask for donations). Today's trek took me to Des Moines, through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. I keep meaning to grab trip statistics off my GPS, but that'll have to wait until Friday's report. Today went well, with only a couple of drops of rain along the way. It was interesting...

Aww, my dear, dear girl pulled through, booked her flight and will be joining me in Orlando! It was a very happy day for this lady. She'll be coming from Denver so I do still get the small adventure of getting to Florida on my own and of course, my first girls getaway. I know for some of you seasoned travelers the thought of this being a big dea...

We took the Moterhome in for a tire repair and the tire guy had one tire to match our current tires so we bought it for our spare and headed to Des Moines. We arrived in Des Moines at 4:30 and meet with Mary's cousin Tom Wright in downtown Des Moines for dinner in the new trendy downtown area. We toured his modernly refurbished offices which use...

"The hardest thing about travel is deciding to go. Once you've made that commitment, the rest of it is easy." - R. Markey Deciding to go. That probably was the hardest thing. There were so many reason not to go. It's really easy to find reasons not to go. But once we sat down and talked about it, we realized that with a few life changes and a lo...

We were moving a little slower this morning, still tired from yesterday's excitement. We decided to take a detour at the start of the day and head north to Lake Michigan. Neither of us has ever seen any of the Great Lakes and we were so close, it seemed a shame to miss the chance. I 65 would take us right up to Gary Indiana and Lake Michigan. Ga...