Winter Driving

Winter driving sucks. I know this. I have 12 hard-earned years of winter driving experience in Minnesota and Wisconsin. You can’t be in a hurry. You have to stay alert. Try to drive during daylight hours if it’s snowing. Pack your trunk with a survival kit. Steer into the skid. Pump your brakes to slow

By |2016-10-21T15:29:38-05:00February 23rd, 2008|Blogging the Great River Road|Comments Off on Winter Driving

Churches along the River Road

Continuing with the religious theme, let’s talk about churches. I am not a religious person (hard to believe after the last two posts, huh?), yet I never get tired of visiting churches. In many small towns, the church is the most impressive structure. In the mid- to late-1800s the Upper Miss Valley was the frontier, the edge of

By |2016-10-21T15:29:39-05:00December 11th, 2007|Blogging the Great River Road|Comments Off on Churches along the River Road

Shrines, Convents, and Saints

Now that the weekend road trips have slowed, I thought I would tell you about some of my favorite places from the summer. Let’s start with a few of the religious sites I visited, not churches but other places with religious significance. I’ll tell you about my favorite churches in another blog. Sinsinawa Mound (Wisconsin). I mentioned

By |2016-10-21T15:29:39-05:00November 29th, 2007|Blogging the Great River Road|Comments Off on Shrines, Convents, and Saints
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