by Will | Sep 18, 2010 | Vacation Update
Today we went to Independence Square in Philadelphia. What a wild area of contrasts. In this 20 square block area there are the huge tall buildings of the 1700’s (Like Independence Hall), which max out at about 5 stories, surrounded by 20 story skyscrapers...
by Will | Sep 17, 2010 | Vacation Update
Slept in a little bit this morning. Not surprising since both Sharla and I were really wasted after so many late nights and early mornings. So it was 11 a.m. when we finally hit the road for Philadelphia. We decided to stop in at Valley Forge, which is just west of...
by Will | Sep 16, 2010 | Vacation Update
Got up and had a liesurely breakfast in the hotel dining room overlooking a marina on Lake Erie. Gorgeous! Headed up to Niagara Falls. I figured at first that we would take a couple of hours to look the place over and then move on to Philadelphia. But after reading...
by Will | Sep 15, 2010 | Vacation Update
We left the motel in Ottawa, Illinois at about 10 this morning. Before we left town, we went downtown to the site of the first Lincoln-Douglas Debate, which actually took place in August of 1858 and was for the Senate seat for Illinois. There is a memorial on the...
by Will | Sep 14, 2010 | Vacation Update
I wasn’t able to update the blog last night due to no internet, so this update will be for both yesterday and today. We got up fairly early at Kadoka, and found that there were three churches in town: a Lutheran church that started at 10, and a Presbyterian and...
