It was Friday July 11, 2014 and I was in Springfield, Illinois; just a few miles from where Abraham Lincoln had lived for 16 years before becoming President. My head was shaking with excitement as we left the motel and…
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17: JAMES K. WAS COLUMBIA’S ‘SPECIAL K’
The final Presidential stop of July 7, 2014 sent us south of Nashville for over 40 miles and into the heart of Columbia, Tennessee where we found the ancestral home of James K. Polk. Even though we drove a long…
15: WHERE GREATNESS WAS BORN
At 4:10pm on June 6, 2014, we arrived at the Hodgenville, Kentucky birthplace site of our 16th President Abraham Lincoln. It was hot, we had been on the road since 4:30am, and we had about 45 minutes to tour the…
7: DALLAS ROCK CITY
For eight long months I stood silently on a living room shelf in Michigan nodding at anyone who walked by. I started to think I had become a ‘yes’ man; but the fact was: I was just happy that my…
6: CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH GARFIELD – MAYBE TOO CLOSE!
It was overcast in Northern Ohio on the morning of July 17, 2013; but there was no threat of rain – which was always a good thing. The first and only scheduled stop for the final day of the trip…