Visiting Lakeport Plantation House in Arkansas

July 12, 2022 With the weather being so hot, we decided to do something indoors. I had wanted to see the Lakeport Plantation House. It is the only river plantation house left in Arkansas. We drove past corn and cotton fields to get there. There were very large magnolia trees and pecan trees in the […]

Lake Chicot State Park, Arkansas – Part 1

July 6, 2022 Last Friday (July 1), we decided to check out Lake Chicot State Park. It is on the northeast end of the oxbow. Lake Chicot is a beautiful oxbow lake, the largest in North America. We decided to take Nox, since we were planning to do some hiking. Since we were taking Nox, […]

Winterville Mounds Outside of Greenville, MS

July 2, 2022 After our visit to the Greenville Cypress Preserve (https://retirementrvdream.com/2022/07/01/greenville-cypress-preserve/), we headed to the Winterville Mounds. The museum was closed due to renovations. It is an interesting building, as it mimics a mound. There is a picnic area and a long pond at the font of the site. To get to the mounds, […]

Poverty Point World Heritage Site – Part 2 – The Museum

June 17, 2022 The museum at Poverty Point World Heritage Site is small, but dense. It has a lot of artifacts and information. This post is picture heavy because I found so many items interesting and want to share them. I enjoyed the pictures they had above the cases. It helped me understand how the […]

Poverty Point World Heritage Site – Part 1

June 17, 2022 The Poverty Point World Heritage Site is 16 miles from the Poverty Point State Park that we are staying in. Today, Bruce drove us to the Poverty Point World Heritage Site. We passed corn fields and soy bean fields. We pulled into the small parking lot and Bruce parked next to a […]

Checking Out Ellis, KS – Part 2

May 21, 2022 See https://retirementrvdream.com/2022/05/20/checking-out-ellis-ks-part-1/ for earlier in the day. We walked along a gravel road that is next to the scaled down train tracks. We saw the old brick buildings that had been part of the railroad roundhouse. We noticed a park and as we walked around, we realized it was a town RV […]

Checking Out Ellis, KS – Part 1

May 20, 2022 Yesterday (May 19), my friend contacted me and we made plans to meet up. She also made some suggestions of places to see and some restaurants to try. I wanted to see the train museum in Ellis, KS. I love trains. It runs in the family as my great-grandfather was a train […]

Aurora History Museum

September 5, 2021 I took Friday off as I was told my PTO was about to cap. This a four day weekend and I can see how much fun being retired will be. Since we got rained out of our walk on Friday, Bruce and I stopped in at the Aurora History Museum last Friday. […]

Stopping in Fruita, CO at the Dinosaur Journey Museum

October 2, 2020 I had been wanting to see the Dinosaur Journey Museum which is a part of the Museum of Western Colorado for some time. I let Bruce know that I wanted to stop in Fruita, CO to see the Dinosaur Journey Museum and I asked if we should stop on the way to […]

The Moab Giants Museum and Dinosaur Park

October 2, 2020 Since we couldn’t get into Arches on September 27th (Sunday), we went to the Moab Giants Museum and Dinosaur Park, just north of Arches. This museum had a 3D “aquarium” that show pre-historic sea creatures. It was amazing and I wish it had a few more exhibits. They also had a small […]