https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 17 Feb 2023 23:02:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/rocky-mountain-high-colorado/ Mon, 22 Jun 2015 06:23:02 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=6383   I know, I know: Colorado is not in the Midwest but it made this escape a little easier to just add it here. 🙂 It threatened rain as we drove into Kit Carson, CO slowly gaining elevation with every mile. We visited the little museum in town and spent the night parked there without […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/kansas/ Sun, 07 Jun 2015 21:28:15 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=6285   This is the 49th of the fifty states that we have been to! Atchison is the birthplace of Amelia Earhart and near the campground at Warnock Lake, was the International Forest of Friendship which is a tribute to pilots, especially, women pilots.  Here there are native trees donated from each of the 50 states, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/missouri-part-two/ Mon, 25 May 2015 21:22:09 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=6247   We left Branson Monday morning and went back into Arkansas to Bentonville – the birthplace of Walton’s 5 and 10 – the original Wal-Mart. They have a museum, shop and soda fountain. The town is very nice and spread out with Wal-Mart logistics, transportation etc. headquartered there.   As much as some people may hate […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/missouri-part-one/ Fri, 15 May 2015 18:37:12 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=6033     We spent the night in Mt Vernon, IL before finishing the drive to the Mississippi River again in Saint Louis, Missouri. It was rather cloudy when we got up this morning and it did rain enroute. By the time we go to the Anheuser Busch Brewery, it had stopped but continued to be overcast. We […]]]>