2023 Fall & Back-to-School Gift Guide

2023 Fall & Back-to-School Gift Guide

Whether you are a died-in-the-wool outdoors person, or a stay-inside and work/study person, we’ve got some great new products to introduce to you this quarter. A few of the products shown in this guide are affiliate items, which means we get a small commission...
Fall Roadtrip 7 – Mid-Atlantic states for food fun

Fall Roadtrip 7 – Mid-Atlantic states for food fun

If you are a history buff, you’ll love driving around the Mid-Atlantic States.  Revolutionary War, Civil War, whatever; history awaits at just about every major crossroad.  In addition, food is phenomenal in so many unexpected places. With fall leaves changing...
Fall Roadtrip 4 – Exploring the dark skies

Fall Roadtrip 4 – Exploring the dark skies

If you are looking to be awed by something in nature, there’s hardly anything more majestic than being able to see thousands of stars in a truly black sky. Unfortunately, you need to get away from the city to appreciate it. With light pollution, most of...
Fall Roadtrip 1 – Ginormous corn maze and more

Fall Roadtrip 1 – Ginormous corn maze and more

  It’s that time of year when you should be planning your fall road trips. So for the next week or so, we’ll be bringing you some likely candidates for dynamite road trips.  First up… SPRING GROVE, ILL. — After a hot, wet summer, the corn at...
Track fall colors and camp along the way

Track fall colors and camp along the way

The website, Hipcamp, has come out with a great little interactive tool to forecast color changes each week this year and at the same time, locate campgrounds in those locations.  Even if you plan a driving/cabin vacation, you’ll still find the site helpful....