Oct 9, 2012 - Lawrence, The Bra City

Lawrence grew up around the Kansas river and is the city that Quantrill raided and burned in 1863. Most of the town and housing was destroyed but it immediately rebuilt and many older homes still surround the downtown area. The older part of town, with buildings side by side for several blocks, is still a very vibrant place,in part because the University of Kansas in within 3 or 4 blocks, so the college crowd keeps it hopping. We are on the North side of the river and in the North part of town and have to cross the river every time we go...

Oct 5, 2012 - Travel Day

Left Branson to the Seniors and began our trip North. Did go a little out of the way to go through the Precious Moments Park and Chapel, http://www.preciousmoments.com/content.cfm/park_chapel, in Carthage, MO, just above Joplin. Sherry got worried about getting that close to Joplin and the tornado alley but the sun was out and we went on in. Beautiful place and found out that Samuel J. Butcher built and painted all the scenes, see Park Attractions in the Park and Chapel link above. Spent a little time and a lot of money, had out peanut...

Sep 8, 2012 - OTRA - KS - Lawrence

Today was a day of many twists and turns to get to the Cedar Ridge Corps of Engineers Park on Clinton Lake in Lawrence, Kansas. We only missed one turn, though, and only had to go a mile or so before we found a place to turn around. The roads were narrow, though, with no shoulder so the drive was a bit tiring ... but doable. Campground is nice with long sites but could get crowded, I'm sure, during the summer. I honestly don't remember a lot about this campground or what we did the 2 days we were here so..............next stop, Auburn,...

Aug 11, 2011 - Nathan & Jellyston Park, Lawrence, Ks

Aug. 11, 12, 13, 14, 2011 Started our travels west with our Grandson, Nathan. He’d spent the week with us in Wentzville and needed to get him back to Olathe, KS for his “meet the teacher” night at school on Thursday night. Then his mom and dad had work conflicts over the weekend, so we kept Nathan out at the Jellystone RV park in Lawrence, KS. He had a great 3 days! The park had all kinds of “kid friendly” activities going on. Swimming, jumping pillow, bingo, crafts, made tie-dye shirts, hay rides, fire truck rides and Saturday night we...

May 9, 2011 - Meet the Cousins

We arrived in Lawrence, Kansas on Saturday and came in on the wrong road - right down Main Street! Well, it was the right road on our map directions but the wrong way to come into town for sure! We did get to preview downtown Lawrence quite well from high above everyone - busy, busy on a Saturday. Being a college town, everyone was out enjoying the sunshine and weekend before school was out for the summer! We reached our RV park, got settled in and headed for the grocery store to stock up. I'm so anxious to meet "the cousins"...

Apr 9, 2011 - Kansas And Home Sweet Missouri Home

Last leg of our trip back to our Missouri home. Great drive from Guthrie to the Jellystone RV Park in Lawrence, KS. It’s about 25 miles from our son and family in Olathe, KS. Last year when we stayed at this RV park it was a KOA. Now they’ve changed to Jellystone. Pretty much all is still the same, just lots of Yogi Bear stuff. We got there in time to pick Nathan from school. Boy, how he’d grown! He spent Friday and Saturday nights with us in the RV. Saturday, Nathan was in a bowling tournament in Lawrence. What fun it was to watch these...

Aug 2, 2010 - Branson

Left for Branson on July 23 and parked at Water's Edge near Table Rock Lake. Very nice spot; no cable and unreliable internet, but a nice shady and level area. We were just down the hill from a swimming area and a short drive to where the pontoon was docked. We met the Carlsons and Andi in Olathe, and then traveled down to Kimberling City from there. Jim and Mary Ellen, the Thiers, and the Brooks' were already there. We met for supper at Ahoy's restaurant. Boated on Sunday and Monday, and then on Monday night we drove to the...

Jul 14, 2010 - Getting settled

This morning I woke up to the smell of coffee and came out of the bedroom to see John settled in his Norwegian Stressless chair with a cup of coffee, reading news on the computer and a cat on his lap. Thought to myself that yes, we're starting to settle in! We've de cluttered and organized, decluttered and organized, but there is always more to do on that. Everything has to be in it's place in a 30 foot travel trailer, or it can feel claustrophobic! Our excitement yesterday was at dinner time when I was making BLT's. It's very hot now in...

Jul 4, 2010 - Happy 4th from Lawrence, KS

We were more than ready to leave this campground and be on the road again. Since it was Sunday and July 4th, we expected traffic would be pretty tame going through St. Louis, which it was. It was another three-state day; left Illinois behind and trudged on through Missouri. We fueled at Flying J in Warrenton; didn’t really need it but it was some of the cheapest diesel we’re seen since we left Oklahoma. The traffic was pretty heavy going through Kansas City and we contributed a few dollars to the Kansas Turnpike, to drive in a construction...

Jul 2, 2010 - Home, sweet home

Home, sweet home. It's amazing how connected we get to our home and how disconcerted we get when it changes. We finalized the sale of our house in Topeka on June 30, after several months of organizing and pitching. And yet when the movers came, we weren't ready. It was three days that I'd rather forget, down to the last "since the movers won't take it, should we take the olive oil or pitch it?".....multiply that by hundreds of similar decisions during those three days. And when all was said and done, the movers took too much and we took too...

Sep 26, 2009 - day 10 lawrence camp

our day 10 saturday 26, we drove from great bend to I-70e passing through salina the geo., center of the USA... stopping in abilene old town for a cowboy gun show, now abilene cares for its old town and are restoring an older town with authentic buildings... this is also the birth place of dwight eisenhower from there we went to topeka for coffee the on to lawrence koa to camp. tomorrow we'll be heading onto missouri towards chicago. the weather has been great, mild days, cool nights... ron & bebe OUR DAY 10 PHOTOS IN...

Aug 12, 2009 - LAWRENCE KANSAS

We got a late start and it should be another 270 miles to Lawrence, Kansas. That is where our good friend Eleanor Wittenberg was raised. She was the head librarian at the Whiting Public Library. Her children and our children grew up together in Highland. May she rest in peace. She helped us 40 years ago hitch that tent camper to our 69 Ford 9 passenger stateionwagon with no air for our camping trip to California. All seven of us and the children age one to 9. I was muts!!!We were gone for one month and the cost was $1,000. I remember all of...