The alarm went off bright and early on Sunday July 24, 2016 and before I knew it, we were standing in front of the State Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. Although I was comfortably situated inside the camera case, I…
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44: ‘SHOW ME’ AROUND MISSOURI
It was 2016 and after a long winter of standing on my dresser with two broken legs, it was time once again to face surgery. From the icy grip of Old Man Winter until May, my photographer had grappled with…
43: THE JEFFERSON ‘REVENGE’ TOUR
At 8:30am on Monday August 17, 2015, I was once again on my way to Ohio. Although my photographer was headed for a four-day safety conference in Cleveland, I was brought along on the trip for one simple reason: The…
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…
36: FROM BOBBLE TO HOBBLE IN IOWA
The long Michigan winter was finally over and I was anxious to hit the road to see some Presidential sites. But when June of 2015 had arrived and I hadn’t been anywhere yet, I started to wonder if something was…
34: “ROSALYNN CARTER LOOKED AT ME!”
I was only in my second season of visiting Presidential sites and all six of those pilgrimages had taken place outside of my home state of Michigan. That all changed on Monday September 22, 2014 when I found myself in…
33. ANGUISH ONBOARD AIR FORCE ONE
The alarm clock went off at precisely 6:00am; which was the normal wake-up time for any trip that I’ve been on with Bob Moldenhauer. It was Sunday September 7, 2014 and we weren’t very far away from a handful of…
32: A “BIRTH” DAY IN OHIO
Exactly 43 days after finishing an exhausting whirlwind trip to Washington D.C. and Baltimore, we were on the road again. That early September trip was slated to be a short two-day venture to southern Ohio where we would spend most…
31: FINAL MISSION: CAPITOL DUECE
It was fairly boring for me as I hung out at the Hilton Garden Inn in White Marsh, Maryland while my photographer attended a safety conference there and Bob Moldenhauer did some sightseeing in the Philadelphia area. At one point,…
30: “IRREVERENT” WITH THE GENERAL?
“Siri, driving directions to Mount Vernon.” Those words seemed simple enough to get us from the National Mall to the home of our first President George Washington. The GPS’s voice immediately replied that it would take 25 minutes for us…