We love traveling far away to appreciate and enjoy foreign lands, interesting cultures and majestic scenery. After all, in one of my favorite songs, the B-52s sing: “Roam if you want to. Roam around the world. Roam if you…
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It’s one thing to make your house feel Christmasy with a tree, stockings, lights and mistletoe, a fire roaring, cookies baking in the oven. It’s quite another for a city to evoke a holiday feeling. However, Indy has always…
Instead of shopping on Black Friday, we decided to opt outdoors, and went hiking around a cool, old remnant of the roaring 20’s just outside of Louisville, Ky. – Rose Island at Charlestown State Park in Charlestown, Indiana. About…
Even Willy Wonka would be impressed with the sweet delights from Schimpff’s Confectionery in downtown Jeffersoville, Indiana (just north of Louisville across the Ohio River and my hometown). This charming candy store has been making their signature red hots…
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Finding fossils at Falls of the Ohio State Park – the largest beds in the world – in Indiana
Finding fossils at the Falls of the Ohio State Park, in Clarksville, Indiana, home of one of the largest fossil beds in the world, is a great way to get outside and touch pre-history. It’s also the launching site for the…
With respect to Brewster Higley who wrote the lyrics to “Home on the Range”, buffalo don’t and haven’t ever roamed in North America. But, bison have for thousands of years (buffalo are the mammals in Asia and Africa), and…