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Paris Coffee Shop – Fort Worth Comfort Food

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Fort Worth is filled with incredible restaurants. You can find Texas sized steaks, succulent Tex-Mex, pit smoked BBQ, and fresh seafood. But when the people of Fort Worth want home cookin’ they go to the Paris Coffee Shop. As the oldest family owned and operated restaurant in Fort Worth, it would be easy to dismiss […]

Exploring Aberdeen, South Dakota – #IGTravelThursday

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After our fun learning about Laura Ingalls Wilder in DeSmet, the girls and I headed north- to Aberdeen, South Dakota. We couldn’t have asked for a better place to camp than Wylie Park Campground.  Play structures dot the park.  This one was just outside our camper – which meant I could watch the girls as […]

The State Fair of Texas in Dallas has Texas Sized Treats for Everyone

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Texas is known for a lot of things and nothing describes the passion of a Texan the way football, fried food and trucks do. The State Fair of Texas in Dallas’ Fair Park has been in existence since 1886 and boasts the largest annual attendance in the United States with an estimated 2.5 million to […]

Iowa State Fair Tips – #igtravelthursday

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It’s State Fair time in Iowa (really one of the best state fairs in the country- it’s even listed in 1,000 Places to See Before You Die).  During our recent (yes, annual) visit, I made sure to send out images of my top tips for visiting the Iowa State Fair.  If you have the Iowa […]

Dinner with Kids at The Melting Pot in Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri

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As a special treat for our girls we decided to splurge on dinner at The Melting Pot in Country Club Plaza.   While you do see children in the restaurant, you don’t see many.  I made our reservation online and mentioned that we were bringing our daughters, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise to […]

Images from Prelude to Christmas in the Amana Colonies, Iowa

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We spent Sunday in one of our favorite Iowa areas: the Amana Colonies. I’ve written many times about the Amana Colonies but I just wanted to share some photos from our day. We visited the Tannenbaum Forest in the Festhalle Barn behind the Visitor’s Center. The girls were both happy to see Santa- he had […]

On the Road Again

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I’ve been working on plans for the past few weeks for a winter getaway for us. Because Doug’s family is in Texas it made sense to plan something in the south. We haven’t been down in almost 3 years and it will, hopefully, be warmer there than our home in Iowa in late December. Here’s […]

Drew’s Chocolates, Dexter, Iowa

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About half an hour west of Des Moines lies the tiny town of Dexter. Dexter may be most well known as the location where Marvin and Blanche Barrow, of Bonnie & Clyde notoriety, were captured. Lesser known, but nearly as famous, are Drew’s Chocolates. Drew’s Chocolates began in 1927 when Helen Drew began making candy […]