As I wandered around Maquoketa Caves State Park on Day 5 of my Iowa tour, I kept thinking about how similar this place is to Illinois’s Starved Rock State Park. I had visited Starved Rock during my Illinois State Vacation five and a half years … Continue reading Iowa 2025 Trip Report (Day 6)
My next stop in Iowa was the town of Maquoketa (Muh-KOH-kuh-tuh) and the nearby Maquoketa Caves State Park. This was to be my first visit to Maquoketa, so I wasn’t sure how much time I’d need. The park’s web site claims, “13 caves can be … Continue reading Iowa 2025 Trip Report (Day 5)
Today we fire up the Way-the-Hell-Back Machine so’s it can take us back to July 2009. And yes, I do mean “fire up”. That’s right…the Way-the-Hell-Back Machine runs on coal. The idea of a coal-fired time machine may seem odd at first, but it makes … Continue reading Roxborough State Park (July 2009)
Voyages with Parkinson's 