https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 17 Feb 2023 23:01:03 +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/kentucky/ Fri, 15 May 2015 03:37:51 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=5993   We spent the day/night of May 9th in Bowling Green, Kentucky, taking a break from it all and stayed in a hotel to celebrate our 34th anniversary. J Next day we checked out and drove to Mammoth Caves National Park where we did the Historic Cave tour. These caves are the longest system in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tennessee/ Sun, 10 May 2015 20:51:06 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=5927   We have been to Memphis before (for a marathon) and visited many of the sites then (like Graceland, BB Kings on Beale) but not in such warm weather.   From the Visitor’s Center, we walked the pedestrian overpass to Mud River Park where they have a scale replica of the Mississippi siting historic spots and […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/arkansas/ Sun, 10 May 2015 18:05:00 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=5871 Our next state, our 45th , was Arkansas. We drove on the country highways to get to Crater of Diamonds State Park. The drive was through rural AR and being spring, it was very green here too. This state park allows you to dig for diamonds and some semi-precious stones – Doug thought we might […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/oklahoma/ Tue, 05 May 2015 07:20:18 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=5787   We drove across the state line into Oklahoma. The plains gave way to rolling hills then flattened out again. There are lots of wind turbines in places here too and the odd oil derrick. We spent one night in El Reno in a hotel as it going to dip down to almost freezing (!) […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/northern-texas/ Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:14:39 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=5698   After Doug saw his surgeon on the 20th and we got the “okay” to hit the road again, we left Austin on the 21st. Doug is doing very well. He still gets tired easily but the “good streaks” are getting longer and as long as he eats, he keeps up his strength. Surgeon recommended […]]]>