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Shelley’s family has an interesting tradition for these Fourth of July weekend gatherings (one of several traditions.) A number of quizzes are created on posterboard and people submit answers to… Read more »

This post is from Shelley: The family-tours part of the vacation included July 4th at my grandparents’ cottage, the Locust Lodge, on the Potomac. I’ve spent several Fourths there over… Read more »

This post is form Shelley: When we started heading northwest towards my old college town, I looked up and saw an exit for J Clyde Morris Boulevard south in Newport… Read more »

This post is from Shelley: Nostalgia Tour 2004 is off to a great start in Virginia Beach. Although the roads and the strip malls have changed a lot, huge parts… Read more »

We drove the rest of the way into Virginia Beach, the town where Shelley spent her high school years. Although we passed through a raging downpour on the way into… Read more »

This day we proceeded deeper into Virginia, following the southern border with North Carolina. Crawling up and over the mountains on small single lane roads was fairly exhausting, but once… Read more »

Once again, there’s not a lot to say about the day’s travels. We continued through Kentucky, finally entering the Eastern Time Zone (another hour lost!) and just barely crossing into… Read more »

There’s not a lot to say about this day. We drove eastward across Kentucky, following twisty back roads through gentle hills. We stopped at Bowling Green, KY (snicker) to get… Read more »

On the fourth day, we left Arkansas and returned to southeastern Missouri. We continued to avoid the interstate but found a town where we could get the oil changed (somewhat… Read more »

We woke up the next morning, and started weighing bruises, soreness, stiffness and sunburn. We quickly decided that Tim and I were still crazy enough to do the river a… Read more »