For Part 1, Click HERE. #5 – Boone-Mergency, Defiance, MO (2006) – The “Beer and Now” trip seemed to take us to tons of attractions that required we watch a 7-10 minute video before getting on with the actual visiting of the awesome thing. This was the case at the home of Daniel Boone, too, [...]
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Between 2005 and 2009, my brother and I went on four epic road trips that spanned ten states, six major league ball parks, and more novelty roadside attractions and museums than I can recount. We’ve always taken along a few pals with us on these trips, which always have been an extremely good time in every [...]
Day 5: Walden Pond – To be a transcendentalist was to be, in a lot of ways, pretty friggin’ awesome. If my general readership is anything like my American Literature students, the term “transcendentalist” might as well be in a foreign language for how much meaning it holds. But for guys like Ralph Waldo Emerson [...]
William Bradford’s Grave – Bradford’s “On Plymouth Plantation” is probably the most famous and most detailed primary source we have of the Pilgrims’ early experience in the New World, but we don’t credit this guy just for being an interesting author. He was also the governor that held the new settlement together through some ridiculously [...]
National Monument to the Forefathers – Our last full day in Massachusetts took us an hour down the coast to Plymouth, which is where the Pilgrims eventually settled after coming over to America on the Mayflower. It’s one of the most fabled stories in our history, and that’s why someone built an 81-foot monument in [...]
