travel – Little Seeds Read

And Still, We Survived

This morning I read a children’s book that shocked me and made me just shake my head–The Caiman by Maria Eugenia Manrique (2019, Amazon Crossing Kids), which you can learn more about under the Recommended Reads section of the blog. It is the surprising non-fiction story of a Venezuelan man, Jose Faoro, who raised andContinue reading “And Still, We Survived”

Time Traveling on Trains

My husband and I traveled to Boone, Iowa, to ride an old train this week. The Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad operates over an 11-mile section of the former Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad, between Boone and Wolf, Iowa, a former junction with the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. Visitors can see severalContinue reading “Time Traveling on Trains”