Category Archives: travel
Pirates of Powell Gardens
May 27, 2012 It took a long time to edit all of the photos from my first day of summer vacation and even longer to get them and the video posted via the Overland Park Hampton Inn’s very slow WiFi. … Continue reading
Starting Summer in the Paris of the Plains
May 26, 2012 Kansas City Here I Come Friday was my 23rd commencement at Bartlesville High and I decided to launch my summer break by skipping town for Memorial Day weekend. But the forecast everywhere was in the 90s, too … Continue reading
Return to Roaring River
May 18, 2012 Another Friday off for an unused snow day = another day hike. The coolest place within a day’s round trip was the childhood source of my love for day hikes: Roaring River State Park in Missouri. So … Continue reading
Tulsa and Table Mound
Friday: Tulsa Wildflowers It was another three-day May weekend, made possible by unused snow days in the warmest winter on record. On Friday I went to Tulsa with my friend and colleague Betty Henderson. We had lunch down there and … Continue reading
A Loop at Lake Carl Blackwell
Friday, May 4, 2012 was one of the district’s unused snow days for the school year and classes were dismissed. My former piano teacher, Myra Schubert, had invited me to Bethany to see her current flock of pupils at her … Continue reading
Meador Manor 