Missouri Travel
Here are some highlights of my travels to Missouri:
Road Trips (PDFs)
To Iowa and Back (including Yellowstone) Road Trip 2024
I made my annual trip to the Midwest to see family, with stops at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve and in St. Louis as I headed east. Heading back west, I visited the Badlands and Black Hills in South Dakota, and I finally had a nice visit to Yellowstone National Park after other attempts in recent years were thwarted by early winter storms.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2022
I headed out to the Midwest to visit family. Along the way, I checked out a wide variety of sites, from dinosaur bulges to Frank Lloyd Wright, Pullman cars to French colonial settlements, Buffalo Bill to Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Garden of Eden to Popeye.
Eastern United States Road Trip 2022
After the COVID pandemic kept my road trips mostly in the desert Southwest for the past two years, I set off on a 3 1/2 week road trip across the Southeast and then up the East Coast before heading west back to Las Vegas. Among my destinations were several newer National Park System units that I hadn't been to before, a number of Native American moundbuilder archaeological sites, American history sites from the settlement of Jamestown to the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era and a number of other sites.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2018
In October 2018 I took a road trip from Las Vegas to the Midwest to visit relatives, making a handful of deliberate and ad hoc sightseeing stops along the way. On the way back home I spent a few days in the Moab/Green River area of Utah to visit Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. Unfortunately, rain, local flooding and snow limited some of my sightseeing.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2017
In October 2017 I drove from Las Vegas to Illinois and Iowa to visit some relatives, padding the drive with some sightseeing days in New Mexico, Texas, Illinois, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2016
Here is a summary/photo set from the October 2016 cross-country road trip I took to visit relatives in Texas and the Midwest.
Slide Shows (YouTube)
