Even though I’ve traveled through the eastern part of Iowa on my journeys to Chicago to visit family, somehow I’d never made it south to Burlington, Iowa. So when my mom and I spent the weekend in the Villages of Van Buren we made a slight detour to tick something off my 2015 travel bucket list…
Lombard Street
On our first full day in San Francisco we headed across the Golden Gate Bridge toward Sausalito to explore Muir Woods. Coming from the suburban Midwest, the landscape of towering sequoias and redwoods was something I could hardly imagine. But after just a few hours I was a convert – we spent the rest of the morning hiking among these beautiful trees…