We don’t make many stops in Louisiana on our summer road trips because it’s just too hot. But on Big Trip 15 we visited the Tabasco® Factory and Museum and it is one of our favorites from all the years. Tabasco History Tabasco Sauce is made by McIlhenny Company, which was founded by Edmund McIlhenny…
Utah is known for its magnificent red rocks and is home to the Big 5 National Parks. But… in Southern Utah you will find a small, hidden gem that my kids and I loved. Cedar Breaks National Monument. A. Maz. Ing. Cedar Breaks is an easy 30 miles from the I-15 interstate so you really…
The wide open spaces of North Dakota are the perfect place for an Enchanted Highway full of larger-than-life metal sculptures. What is the Enchanted Highway? The Enchanted Highway is a 35-mile stretch of road in western North Dakota where you can see the world’s largest scrap metal sculptures. The northern end of the Enchanted Highway,…
Before I started writing here I had already gone on twelve Big Trips! Over time I will be adding the daily overviews of past trips, and today I’m giving you Big Trip 12. We’ve been to so many great places that I hope to inspire your future itineraries with our report. At the end of…
You’re probably wondering what a rotary jail is… Well, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It’s a jail that rotates around a central core with wedge-shaped jail cells. The selling point of this design, patented in 1881 by William H. Brown, is that only one cell at a time could be accessed through…
Day 1 Big Trip 15 has begun and we kicked it off with a marathon day… almost 13 hours on the road! (Our daily videos are back… one-two second clips to make a full day’s journey in less than 60 seconds!) Coffee Pot building Built in 1927, the Coffee Pot in Bedford, PA is an…
Another summer, another Big Trip… Here’s a brief rundown of where we went this year and a return of the daily videos. (Don’t worry – each video is less than a minute long!) Day 1 We didn’t even leave the state of Virginia on Day 1. The beauty of a shorter distance to cover in…
“As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down I became a visitor to hell.” Private Charles Neighbor, 29th Division, Omaha Beach On June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied troops were tasked with the mission to jump, swim, run, and crawl ashore to the cliffs at Normandy and drive the Germans back. The Germans…
I’m so excited to announce that I am on an episode of This Indulgent Life, the Podcast! I spent an hour talking to Mary all about our annual Big Trip and could have kept talking all day long. I just love to talk about our trips. 😊 You can listen to the podcast on This…
It has been 10 months since I started writing here at Behind Every Day and I have published 65 posts since then. As I near the end of the calendar year, my mind turns to year-in-review mode and I thought it might be fun to look back and see which 5 of the 65 were…
Becki at A Book Lover’s Adventures has been running a series on her blog this year called Hometown Tourist. She was kind enough to accept my submission to feature Arroyo Grande, CA. We only lived there for three short years but it found a place in all our hearts and in many ways feels like…
Every year my family takes an epic cross-country road trip. We started calling it “Big Trip” and the name stuck. This year is Big Trip Lucky 13. (I’m not too superstitious but it just seemed like a good idea to hedge our bets and add “Lucky” to the name for this year.) We’ve been driving…