A month after our last trip had finished, Tom, his wife Vicki, and I embarked on what my photographer had dubbed “The Griswold Family Vacation”. Our 23-day agenda was filled with Presidential sites, scenic stops, antique flea markets, and over…
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54: WIN, PLACE, AND SHOW ME THE WAY HOME
It was an overcast morning on Thursday August 4, 2016 when we left the LaQuinta Inn in Jackson, Tennessee. By the time we drove the 129 miles to Nashville, however, the skies had brightened up and the threat of rain…
37: PICKIN’ AND GRINNIN’ WITH “DUTCH” REAGAN
Ready or not, here I come – broken legs and all. It was Sunday July 19, 2015 and I was headed back to Iowa; this time in the family’s Dodge Avenger with my photographer and his wife Vicki. Tom was…
18: ROCKIN’ THE COUNTRY IN NASHVILLE
“Music City, U.S.A.” awaited me on July 8, 2014; I was up early and anxious to get into downtown Nashville. I knew of five Presidential sites there and I believed that we could walk to each one of them with…