Posted in Dillon's furrow, History, Iowa, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, country living, enjoying life, faith, life, old military road, perseverance, personal, random, religion, sex, spirituality on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Do you have any baseball fans or stamp collectors in your life who you have a hard time finding a gift for ? We need to talk. I think we can help each other out.
I have in my possession the perfect gift for your special person. Here’s the deal…I am doing a research project on local history. You can [...]
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Posted in Dillon's furrow, History, Iowa, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, church, country living, enjoying life, faith, humor, life, old military road, perseverance, personal, random, spirituality on January 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
That my friends is a 5 dollar Gold piece…When I get that coin (not if but when) I will have crossed the line in the Bigger and Better game I’m playing. I have installed a new “tab” at the top of my blog page (bigger and better/ care to make a trade?) please [...]
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Posted in History, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, enjoying life, faith, humor, life, old military road, personal, random on September 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
September 15th 2007 I walked from Old Capital in Iowa City to Solon Iowa via Hwy 1 in preparation for a 100 mile walk I’d like to take Fall of 2008, retracing Old Military Road and Lyman Dillon. One of the things I did to pass my time was to pick up empty beer cans. I [...]
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Posted in Dillon's furrow, Iowa History, My Walk about, christianity, country living, faith, life, life in the country, old military road, personal on July 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What an awesome day we had today. I literally felt like I stepped back in time. We spent the day looking for traces of the 160 yr old Military road route that I hope to retrace by foot in 2008. I wrote in detail about this trip here: http://hearttoheart.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/planning-my-walkabout-on-the-trail-of-lyman-dillon/
Today we hit paydirt. We discovered a plaque on a [...]
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