Fifty senior citizens, riding a bus for five days, looking out the window to watch the leaves change colors. If that’s you’re impression of a bus tour, think again. The times, they are a-changin’. If you would have told me a year ago that I would be taking bus tours on a regular basis, I ...
The evidence dates all the way back to 6000 BC when goats and sheep were first sheared to make carpet. A 3500 year old Egyptian fresco shows a handloom and carpet being woven. William Sprague opened the first woven carpet mill in the United States in 1791, and many more soon followed. Almost all of ...
Hello. My name is Crystal — and I’m a claustrophobic. I recently rediscovered this unfortunate fact while taking a twenty-minute ride on the Stuff-‘Em-In shuttle service that operates between the Louis Armstrong International Airport and downtown New Orleans. Claustrophobia is one of those things you don’t know you have until it’s usually too late. And ...
On the St. Louis riverfront stands a big arch-shaped hollow chunk of stainless steel. It stands some 630 feet tall and is 630 feet wide at the base. It’s the first thing that you see when you cross the river from Illinois into Missouri. As you might think, you also see it duplicated wherever you ...
Missouri is known as a political bellwether, is second in the United States as far as cattle, and has the St. Louis Arch. Some of the hidden treasures of Missouri are its over 25 wineries all across the state. Most are nestled amongst the winding turns of the Big Muddy, the Missouri River. A dozen ...
