Our week with Warren was drawing to an end.  We still had a day planned to visit Conner Prairie Farm, a living history museum.  But Friday was the hottest day of the week.  We arrived and immediately it looked like things would go sideways.  We went to the barn to see the baby animals.  Warren liked...

On Wednesday of our week in Indy, we took Warren to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, the best children’s museum in the world.  And lest you think I am being hyperbolic, it shows up on Google lists as number one.  There are dinosaurs escaping the building outside as you enter….life-size dinosaurs!...

We awoke on our first full day in Indianapolis with a plan.  Our first excursion was to the newly refurbished Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.  We hoped to sign up for a tour of the track.  Unfortunately, there would be no tours that day.  But the museum was wonderful. 

Favorite things for Warre...

When planning each of the trips we take with our grandchildren, we take into account their unique proclivities.  Warren is easy.  He likes almost anything!  One of the things I knew he would love was sleeping in a train car.  And the Crown Plaza-Indianapolis Downtown-Union Station has 26 bedrooms in...

As Campbell and I began planning our trip to Michigan from California, the one request he made was to see the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.  Once we selected the route, Route 66 adjacent, the one thing that I wanted to take him to see was Meramec Caverns.   Fortunately, the two attractions ar...

Route 66 was established as one of the original numbered US highways in 1926, but was decommissioned in 1985.  By then the interstate system had been completed, and Route 66 was essentially subsumed into I-40, I-55 and I-44, with remnants remaining that followed state roads.  For most of our journey...

In 2009 I was introduced to the interactive street art in the laneways of Melbourne, Australia.  Street artists get permits and do their graffiti-style artwork on the walls of narrow pedestrian passages around the city.  Then, other artists come along and alter each work with their own additions. 

When I was nine years old my grandmother took me on a Greyhound bus tour from Chicago to California and back…twenty-one days on the same bus with the same passengers, our own tour guide and driver, and I was the only child.  The experience of being doted on and exposed to this big beautiful country ...

I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, born at the end of May, when the city is putting on its biggest celebration, the Indy 500.  The year that I was born my mother’s doctor, an old friend of my dad, sent his nurse over to stay with my mom four days after my birth, so that he and my dad could go to th...

One bloom opened up on the hibiscus tree.
She offered her voice in a song to the sky.
The song that she sang was a plaintive cry.
“I’m alone,” she sang.  It is only me.”

The sky sympathized with her lonely state
“I’m here; I see you.  You must not grieve.
Others will join you; if you will believe.
It’s e...