In our travels we have visited many haunted places, but for some reason we've overlooked one of the most haunted cities in the Midwest: our home city of Decatur, Illinois. There's a lot of information in old newspapers and local legends about Decatur's ghosts and...
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Key West is a small island, about 2 miles by 4 miles, but there are a lot of attractions and a lot of history packed into those eight square miles. Obviously, you can walk or drive around the island on your own to see the...
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Streets of Savannah We’ve always had this mental picture of Savannah, with magnolia trees everywhere, and tall oaks dripping with Spanish moss; all amid quiet tranquil beauty. Pretty vivid mental pics, yet neither of us had ever been to Savannah. That all changed a couple of days...
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The four of us (Monte, Aleta, Mona and I) arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia early Sunday afternoon. We checked in and headed to the nearby Jamestown. This is where the first permanent English-speaking colony in the Americas was established beginning in 1607 and from where we learn...
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We finally found a good WiFi spot…at the home of the turquoise arches. Golden arches didn't fit into Sedona’s color palette so they had to go with turquoise. It’s very odd! We began Wednesday with a trip to Jerome. Jerome is a ghost town clinging to the side...
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We started out from Mystic around 9:00am and got on I-95 headed for Salem, Massachusetts. We quickly exited Connecticut and entered Rhode Island. Rhode Island zipped by and in seemingly no time we were approaching Providence. Mona was navigator and while looking at the maps she noticed that...
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