Category: State Park Adventures

Date Traveled: September 6, 2021 Elk Rock State Park is only 25 minutes from my house, and thus, the perfect place to squeeze in a quick Labor Day Monday before family plans in the afternoon.  It’s a small piece of the larger Red Rock Lake (the largest in Iowa, btw),…

Date Traveled: June 25-28, 2021 I am pretty damned lucky.  I have great parents (me thirty years ago would have disagreed).  Three things about them: They are still in okay health, they live near me, and they are relatively adventurous people. So, sometimes I make them do these SP visits…

Starting things is easy.  Finishing them is not.  Coming back to work on things you haven’t worked on in a long while is even harder. But, if there’s anything the Pandemic has taught us, it’s that there’s always time to try, retry, and try again. That list of banned books…