As long as I am writing about National Trails this week, I might as well finish off the week with our visit to the Frontier Trails Museum. We visited the Frontier Trails in Independence during the time we were “stuck” in Kansas City in October. We were actually in Independence to visit the Truman National …
Santa Fe Trail, a National Historic Trail
As I explained yesterday, there are several different kinds of trails administered by the National Park Service. National Scenic Trails are the most well-known. But Tom and I prefer the National Historic Trails that tell a story of a particular place and time in history. We recently traveled most of the Santa Fe Trail. The …
National Trails System Celebrates 50 Years of Trails
I was going to write about the Santa Fe Trail today, but decided before I do, I need to give you a little more information on the National Trails System. The National Trails System Act of 1968 calls for establishing trails in both urban and rural settings for people of all ages, interests, skills, and physical abilities. …
Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico
The last National Park Site I want to mention in New Mexico, is Pecos National Historical Park. It was the last site we visited in New Mexico last October. Pecos National Historical Park contains an ancestral Puebloan site. It also has a Civil War battlefield and is part of the Santa Fe Trail. I will write …
Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans
I recently finished reading the book “Searching for Sunday” by Rachel Held Evans. It was my first devotional book of 2019. I read her book, “A Year of Biblical Womanhood” in 2013 and enjoyed her humorous attempt to live a Biblical lifestyle. As good as that book was, “Searching for Sunday” was even better. Rachel …
Farmhouse Cafe and Bakery, Taos, New Mexico
After a morning hiking the Rio Grande Del Norte, Tom and I were ready for some lunch. Fortunately Taos, New Mexico, was close by with lots of places to choose from. After looking at Trip Adviser and driving through town, Tom and I chose the Farmhouse Cafe and Bakery just north of town. It had …
Navajo-Churro Sheep and Navajo Weaving
As I mentioned yesterday, today I am going to write about Navajo-Churro Sheep and the Navajo Weaving produced from their wool. I got interested in Navajo Weaving while I was at Pipe Spring. Lots of visitors would tell me they had watched someone weaving on a Navajo Loom. At Pipe Spring I used a floor …
Weaving Southwest in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Today I return to the southwest and some of our travels out there. We saw lots of things while traveling back to Ohio in October. Weaving Southwest is one of the places I want to be sure to mention before being done with New Mexico. I first heard of Weaving Southwest when I was learning …
Waiting Out the Government Shutdown
As I mentioned yesterday, Tom and I are waiting out the government shutdown, hoping to be able to go to work at Fort Frederica National Monument soon. We did not anticipate the shutdown would last so long, and it does not appear that it will end soon. So, what are we doing as we wait …
Border Wall, the Bible, and the Government Shutdown
Tom and I are currently in the fifth week of the government shutdown with little end in sight. I feel that a border wall is a useless waste of money. Let’s invest in more agents and better technology for our border security. Holding government workers as hostages in a battle over whether to build this …