St. Charles, Missouri Wandering Wednesdays took us to the First State Capital, a beautifully restored brick building, which stood at 200 S. Main for more than 200 years. This grand building, which housed Missouri’s very first capital when Missouri became a State in 1821, was used about five years while plans for the first permanent […]
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Wandering Wednesday took us leaf peeping up Hwy 21. Before we left Hillsboro we spotted a beautiful eagle soaring high above us. What a thrill, what a majestic bird! The Cathedral Basilica located at 4431 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, was our destination today. As we pulled into the parking lot our lips were already talking
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Wandering Wednesday on Tuesday? Yep, we sure did. Heading south to Tower Rock, an island in the Mississippi River, we took the backroads to enjoy the beautiful changing leaves before they disappeared into smoke or mulch. As we traveled, we made many twists and turns on the little country roads. We must have traveled the
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Today was a gorgeous fall Wandering Wednesday, so we decided to hunt for the prettiest tree in Missouri. Heading south on highway 67 and west on 221 we knew we would hit the jackpot. Beautiful Fall Leaves We hadn’t gone far when we began to see beautiful trees at the back of freshly mowed fields,
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Have you ever began to just drive to see where you would end up? Todays Wandering Wednesday was exactly that. We had some business to take care of early in the morning and as we came back through Arnold we still didn’t have a plan of attack. Mastadon State Park Driving down highway 55, we
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Joplin, Missouri The Joplin area was a beautiful place to spend some time celebrating a special event in our life or for just resting and relaxing. Following our visit to George Washington Carver’s National Monument we drove into Joplin to view The Grand Falls which was deemed the “largest continuously flowing natural waterfall in Missouri.”
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