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Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Oz Museum
Appropriately located in a small town in Kansas (Wamego to be exact!) is the Oz Museum. Follow the yellow brick road past movie memorabilia, memories of L. Frank Baum, and more. Full of Oz History The OZ Museum is dedicated to all things Oz, from the very beginning through today – over 100 years of…

Were there ghosts?! Visiting the Exchange Hotel Civil War Medical Museum
Some say it’s haunted – it’s ranked the second most haunted place in Virginia! – but we did not see any ghosts or spirits when we stopped to see the Exchange Hotel Civil War Medical Museum. Maybe because it was a sunny, summer day. Or maybe there were ghosts and we just didn’t see them……

80 Days? No problem! Dueling Journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland Race Each Other On a Trip Around the World
So by now you probably know that I like to go all-in when I’m researching a new idea to write about here. When I read 80 Days to Elsewhere by KC Dyer it reminded me of a podcast I had listened to a year or so ago about two women who were racing around the…

20 Days of Me Series
The 3 latest installments of the series-
Playing Favorites
Day 8 of the 20 Days of Me! They say you shouldn’t play favorites but sometimes I just can’t help it. It’s true. I may love all seasons (well, parts of all the seasons anyway 😂) but I do have a favorite. It may even be a cliche favorite but that’s okay because I…

Messy Bessy or Neat Nellie?
It’s time for the next installment of 20 Days of Me! Today you will discover the truth about me. Am I a Messy Bessy or a Neat Nellie? If you know me in real life or if you follow me on Instagram (and especially in my Instagram stories) you probably already know the answer. …

Penny Lover
Day 6 of the 20 Days of Me! Do you collect anything? I am a bit of a packrat so I am always collecting, even unintentionally. But I do have a couple purposeful collections. Of these, squashed pennies are the main one. What is it about these flattened pennies that makes me want them…
