Author: kimba_grebel

Written by Kim After a long day yesterday we lagged a bit in the morning before getting out and about. We are staying in Park MGM which is the only smoke free casino in Vegas. It is so nice not to have a sore throat, teary eyes and stinky clothes from the smoke. We will […]

Written by Kim I had my big milestone birthday in July and Alex asked me what I wanted. I really didn’t want anything but he insisted that I must have something because it was a big one. As I approached my 60 I was thinking of something getting my whole family together but with 2 […]

Written by Kim What an amazing trip! We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to take to the road for a journey like this. We both met our goal of visiting all 50 states. Many have asked now what. Hold that thought I’ll share more at the end but first let me recount this […]

Written by Kim This morning we left Tupelo pretty early to get started toward Tennessee on the Natchez Trace Parkway which is 444-miles of scenic drive through Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. Today we traveled a little less than half of the parkway starting at mile marker 267 from Tupelo to Nashville. The current parkway more […]

Written by Kim We left Little Rock this morning headed to Tupelo, Mississippi. It was about a 4 1/2 drive mostly through cotton fields and other farms, It was all agriculture and no livestock. As we’ve done on many of our drives we took country roads and state highways (Alex forces it in Google Maps […]

Written by Kim Well….today was not our most exciting day but got us another state – Arkansas. Now Alex is down to 1 and I have 2. We’re really coming down the homestretch. We didn’t really have anything planned for today so Alex suggested a small detour to see Branson on our way. our drive […]

Written by Kim ***Warning long post with lots of pictures*** We drove the stretch of historic Route 66 from Tulsa to Joplin, Missouri today for something different on our amazing road trip. Route 66 was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926. The […]

Written by Kim Before leaving Wichita to drive to Tulsa we decided to take some bikes out for a ride along the Arkansas River. We rented bikes right outside the Hyatt. The path was relatively flat but these bikes weren’t as easy to ride as the ones in Boise. It felt like the gears were […]

Written by Kim Before leaving Omaha I wanted to stop at the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. It is a 3,000-foot long walkway stretches across the Missouri River connecting Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa. You can stand at one point on the bridge and have one foot in each state. Pretty cool! Our drive today […]

Written by Kim We had a 5 hour drive from Grand Junction to Cheyenne. There was a lot of construction and some traffic going the other direction as we passed through Denver heading east then north to Cheyenne. When we got to Cheyenne we had lunch and took the trolley tour downtown where we learned […]