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Bigfoot Lives!

Living in small-town Nebraska has taught me to always take advantage of area happenings, no matter how weird. This is how I found myself...

Finders Keepers Diamond Digging!

Every adventure starts with hope, enthusiasm and a little bit of craziness thrown in. Crater of the Diamonds State Park in Arkansas fills...

Coney Island Hits the Spot!

Step back in time to a historic lunch counter and savor coney dogs with fresh-cut french fries and shakes whipped up in a stainless steel...

Are They Among Us? Roswell Adventure!

Tragically, I have always wanted to go to Roswell, New Mexico to check out the International UFO Museum and explore everything related to...

Survival Librarian!

My interest in survival started in elementary school as I read My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, Five Boys in a Cave by...

Tents on Trucks are Us!

Wednesday seemed like a perfect day to take the pickup tent on its maiden camping voyage. The weather is cool now in Nebraska after some...

The Nebraska State Fair Adventure!

Where can you find foot-long corndogs, a huge aquarium full of Nebraska native fish, the world’s largest pair of overalls, a bronze pig...

Sandy Beaches of Central Nebraska

For the price of some sunscreen, bug spray, and a little bit of gas, central Nebraskans can walk our own sandy beach in the form of the...

A Visit to Sjuts Peony Garden

What a beautiful day walking through the thousands of peonies along the West Fork of the Little Blue River. Stopping up at the shop, we...

The Mysterious Life and Death of Oscar the Pelican of Heartwell Lake

Imagine, if you will, a pelican so famous that he led the Easter Parade in Hastings in 1938. Later that same year for the Hastings...

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