Barbecue restaurants are a Kansas City tradition. Our recent road trip tour of several Kansas City style barbecue restaurants was an opportunity to indulge our love of good blues music, and check out authentic atmosphere and recipes. Here’s our first stop: Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue – Billing itself as a local Kansas City tradition dating back …
Along the banks of the Platte River, in the sandhills near Kearney, Nebraska, there is a staging area for a sandhill crane migration pattern that has been taking place since the beginning of time. The Sandhill Crane, a bird for which fossil evidence dates back over nine million years, gathers along the Platte after wintering …
A funny thing happened to me 40 years after high school, during a trip through South Dakota. Sometime during the hours we rolled along I-90, I came to newly appreciate Rølvaag’s classic saga of the immigrant experience, Giants in the Earth. This post contains affiliate links and/or references to our advertisers. We may receive compensation …
A gifted Ojibwe diplomat who navigated a changing 19th-century political landscape, Chief Hole-in-the-Day lives on in Minnesota place names. One of the captivating place names we pass through on every return trip from the cabin in Northern Minnesota is Hole-In-The-Day. There’s a street that runs parallel along Highway 371 in Nisswa, and a bay in …