Posters went up in advance of the Thanksgiving potluck dinner. It was the first big indoor gathering in months, and we almost didn't go....

Spanish moss hangs from a tree along Lake Lochloosa, near Hawthorne on our trip south. We just stayed overnight but for future...

Saturday, February 15 dawned to a layer of ice on the bayside grass, which would soon turn brown. Pelicans and gulls and other coastal...

A pelican lands on a channel marker of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Note: Just a few yards from our camper, we have the best place...

Sunset on an early December day creates a changing scene across Estes Bay down the coast from Rockport, Texas in this panoramic photo....

Saturday's high was in the 80s, but Sunday morning reminded us of the change ahead, with northerly winds dropping the temperature to the 40s

Mammatus clouds hang ominously over the Pactola Lake Campground on July 2. Fortunate for us, they didn't produce any large hail. They...

Thunderheads build on the west side of the Black Hills on an early June morning. Sheridan Lake, Black Hills, South Dakota Editor’s note:...

Whitetail deer have had the run of the campgrounds next to Sheridan Lake all winter. They'll move to more secluded areas once hundreds of...

The spring grasses and flowers have yet to emerge on the shores of Sheridan Lake, named for the former town that was submerged when...

NOTE: For this post, we travel back in time, before all the COVID-19 stuff began, when we just dealt with setbacks as they came along. At...

A line of cars and pickups grew as people waited for their takeout orders at Paraiso Mexican Restaurant in Minneola. MINNEOLA, KANSAS...

The sun rises over a farmstead near Minneola that has been in Angie's family for decades. MINNEOLA, KANSAS It’s April 3 Finally, March,...

A moss covered pile of fallen trees provides the only color just a few days into spring along a creek in Miami County, Kansas....

The Saipem Constellation, a pipeline laying vessel, motors through the Corpus Christi Channel at Port Aransas. The ship is almost two...

In our 18 months of wandering, we’ve had a few of those cross-country drives, getting from point A to B with overnight stops, where we...

Hello from our campground on Estes Bay, about four miles west of Rockport. We chose this place because we could park about 50 feet from...

Welcome to the TQN blog. Larry here. Since I’m the writer in the family, you’ll soon find that most of the writing is mine. But let’s...