On our way to deliver concrete pads to a coop near Des Moines this June, Papa and I stopped for lunch at Cole's in Slater, Iowa.  Visit...

St. Louis Trip, Day 8, Friday, July 31, 201 5 Court in Centerville, Iowa (the Appanoose County seat) was first held in a building that wa...

St. Louis Trip, Day 8, Friday, July 31, 201 5 Another stop on our trip home from St. Louis was the Monroe County Courthouse in Albia, Iow...

St. Louis Trip, Day 8, Friday, July 31, 2015 It's not everywhere you go that traffic will slow down and wait for some random blogger ...

St. Louis Trip, Days 2 & 8, July 25+31, 201 5 On our trip, we spent two nights at Super 8 motels, one in Bowling Green, Missouri, and...

The National Balloon Museum has a basket available for visitors to take photos in.  The gentleman who was acting as museum curator kindly c...

On our  Winterset trip  last May, we stopped at the the National Balloon Museum in Indianola, Iowa. Admission was only $3 per person. ...