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April
16th - 26th: SWMBO and I will travel to Paducah,
Kentucky via the Great River Road, podunking along
the way, with frequent stops including Eldon, IA
where we will have our picture taken a la "American
Gothic", provided we can find a pitchfork to borrow
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2355, perhaps
stopping on the way to visit where Captain J.T.Kirk
will have been born
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2081 and
ending up for a couple of days in Paducah.
http://www.americanquilter.com/shows_contests/
which is kinda near the epicenter of the Reelfoot
Rift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone
. Tension runneth rampant. Return to Menomonie and
prepare to leave again.
April 30th -
May 26th: Will travel solo, via rig to Thermopolis,
WY and learn how to pickle(?)/preserve dinosaurs,
May 3rd - 8th. http://www.elderhostel.org/Programs/programdetail.asp?RowId=1%2B2SH%2B334
Explore
Wyoming, visit G.A. Custer
http://www.nps.gov/libi/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm
and, with luck Sheep Table Mountain
http://weatherflute.blogspot.com/2007/03/travelogue-sheep-mountain-table.html
Arrive at Hot
Springs, SD and spend a week trying to dig up a lost
childhood pet
http://www.elderhostel.org/Programs/programdetail.asp?RowId=1-1PX60
before returning to the land of cheese, butter, cows
and methane.
June 5th - 7th
Where else but -->>
http://www.skunktails.com/
Now with a good
start to the summer of 09 will just have to wait and
see where the road leadeth, although one place high
on the list tis Britt, IA
http://www.hobo.com/convention.htm
--- and so it
goes ;-) Perhaps we will meet along the
way, I'd like that.
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