There is nothing like staying in a historic hotel! I love the architecture and beauty of a hotel with class, and the Blackhawk Hotel in downtown Cedar Falls fits the bill. On a recent hosted stay, my husband Keith and I were in a lovely King Suite of this hotel built in 1870. We dropped […]
The entire two and a half square miles of downtown of Eureka Springs is on the National Historic Register. I traveled to Eureka Springs on a hosted trip along with my friend Rose Hammit and a group of travel writers that are part of the North American Travel Journalists Association. When we drove into town […]
Mason City, also called “River City” has an amazing array of art and sculptures on parade and they encourage the public to choose their favorite and vote on it! River City Sculptures on Parade is a non-profit group and they are in a partnership with SculptureOne. This partnership has programs like this that exist in […]
How’s the song go? “Some day’s are diamonds, some days are gold”, this past Saturday was both a diamond and gold! Keith and I struck it rich when we found the lovely Lewis Round Barn Museum. On our way to a flea market at the Adams County Fairgrounds, we spied the Lewis Round Barn Museum […]
All I can say is what fun! We toured the 21c museum and gallery before heading into The Hive restaurant where Chef Matthew McClure sat at my table and shared! Art outside! Outside the hotel/gallery was very cool. My favorite hands down was a very unusual car, a Fleetwood Cadillac limousine that was covered in […]