Dodge City and the Santa Fe Trail

The praire along the Sante Fe Trail, just outside Dodge City, KS. We have spent a few days in this wind swept area checking out the historic sites....Fort Dodge, Santa Fe Trail, and Boot Hill/Front Street in Dodge City. Tomorrow we head south into Texas. Life is good on the road.

Dodge City, KS

We are in Dodge City, KS. We visited the Boot Hill Museum / Front Street Replica. Interesting! Mat Dillon (the TV show Gunsmoke) did not exist...but Wyatt Erp and Bat Masterson did and they were peace officers here for a while. The Long Branch Saloon was real too. There is a very nice Museum with over 20,000 authentic atifacts on display.

Gateway Arch

We visited St. Louis today to take a tran ride to the top of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial..the Gateway Arch. It is so tall that the only way to get a good picture of it is to be driving to or away from it! LOL We have driven by this several times but have never taken the time to stop...it is worth the time to stop and check out this site. I'm glad we took the time this trip. Life is good!!

View from the top

I took this picture at the top of the Gateway Arch...630 feet above ground...of downtown St. Louis. Awesome views. Life is good! The arch was started in 1961 and completed 10/28/1965.

Downtown Chicago

They sure keep downtown Chicago looking good. We enjoyed checking out the area with Susie and Denny.

Art in Millennium Park

We visited Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. There are some realy fun things to check out there. Here is a picture of one of two fountains that light up. This face changes...the person smiles and the eyes blink, then the mouth puckers and the fountain flows out of the mouth. The children really have fun running under the water and spashing about. The Bean is another cool thing to see in this park.

The BEAN

Check out this cool piece of art. Ed, Denny Susie and I had fun looking at the reflections in the BEAN.

Fall Escapade 2007

We have been working at the Escapees Fall Escapade in Goshen, IN. Here Ed is helping Steve & Nancy from Chapter 31 line up for the parade of banners at opening ceremony. We had a great time helping Denny & Susie Orr, Chapter Directors. We went in early on 9/4 to get ready for the Escapade that started on 9/9. At the end of the Escapade we stayed for Chapter 51's rally and finally left Goshen on 9/17. We worked during the day, but partied every night. Lots of friends and lots of good Amish food!

Geocaching in Warsaw

Marge and I went geocaching this weekend. We looked for 4 different ones and found 3 of them. This is a lot of fun....kind of like treasure hunting, but you don't keep the treasure. Life is good!