Silver Dollar City is the big amusement park near Branson. It has small shows and a lot into the park of rides. It’s built on hilly ground, so the one big hill going down into the park was ticky to get Marty down in a wheelchair. Other than that, it was a decent amusement park and had a lot of neat roller coasters. Hattie and I were the only ones to go on...
Over Spring break, we took a trip to Branson, Missouri. We took my 15-year-old daughter and a friend of hers. It’s a great family destination. I don’t think you can run out of stuff to do at Branson. (You can run out of money though.) We booked a condo through VRBO. It worked well for us except that it was on the second floor. This made it a little more...
The last day we were in Grand Rapids, we went up to Cedar Creek to Deer Tracks Junction. It’s a privately run animal farm and safari. You can choose to go through the safari or the petting zoo. Or you can choose both for a different price. I highly recommend doing both. They are both incredible. We chose to go through the Safari first. You can buy a small...
Last summer we took a short family vacation to Grand Rapids Michigan. Normally when you think of vacationing in Michigan, you think of Traverse City or Mackinac Island. I was afraid they would be crowded in the middle of the summer, so I chose Grand Rapids instead. We went on VRBO and rented a very nice house for three days. As soon as we got there, we went to...
There were a lot of cool things to see and do on Maui. I’ll try to cover a few of them in this blog. First of all, our condo was really nice and the views out of our patio door were amazing! It was located in Kehei and close to the middle of Maui. Another town we visited was Lahaina. It was a neat historic town about half an hour from us. We drove along the...
On our last day in Maui, we drove to the top of Haleakala. This is a large volcano that makes up most of the island. The last eruption was approximately 500 years ago. One of the downloads I got from Shaka guide had this drive on it. We got a lot of information from this as well as learning what stops were coming up. We started by driving through a very pretty forest...
The road to Hana (pronounced Hona according to Marty) was probably my favorite day. It was a very full but beautiful day. We saw waterfalls, sea, mountains beaches and all in low 80-degree weather with a nice breeze. We downloaded a guide on my phone before we went. It was called Shakaguide. I would highly recommend it. It was triggered by GPS, so it told us where to...
I know, the title is a little corny, but we had a great time in Maui. I’ll cover more in future posts, but today, I want to cover the highlights. We went there with my son and daughter-in-law. First off, Hawaii is very strict about Covid requirements. You have to fill out a few forms and if you are unvaccinated, you have to have a NAAT negative covid test taken...
In early October, we went fishing for Chinook Salmon, also called King Salmon. They come into the rivers at that time to spawn. Most of their life is spent in Lake Michigan, then they return to the river or creek where they were born to spawn. They only spawn once and then they die. They start coming up in September and are done in October. The fish aren’t...
