Following our visit to Arlington, my mind was racing during the 45-minute ride to Chantilly, Virginia. After all, I had stood where no bobble head has ever dared to stand – on the grave of President John F. Kennedy. We…
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24: WHERE REAGAN BROKE THE CURSE
A majority of the Presidential sites that I had visited had become famous long ago in our nation’s past, but the Washington Hilton Hotel became infamous in 1981. Mongo parked the Optima two blocks from the hotel and Tom carried…
21: GROUNDHOG DAY IN JULY
After driving over three and a half hours from Springfield, we pulled into the driveway of the Royal Victorian Manor in Woodstock, Illinois around 6:30pm on July 11, 2014. We had reservations for a special room on the second floor…
20: LINCOLN’S LEGEND LIVES IN SPRINGFIELD
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…
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…