MO Road Trips
Below are some writing examples from my old blog, MO Road Trips. It centers on different local travel adventures I've taken and places I've explored along the backroads of Missouri. Since I've started out, the blog has evolved from just a travel log into a place for my thoughts on travel and fun activities as well. It's a great place to fulfill my wanderlust and share the gems I've found. Explore some of its content below, or visit MO Road Trips.
Ride on down to Rocheport
It’s time for another post about one of the cutest destinations around Mid-MO, Rocheport. As a town of just under 250 people, Rocheport should be tiny. But it’s a bit of a resort town, with a large selection of bed and breakfasts, a few restaurants and more antique and goods stores than you can count on your fingers (which will come in handy when you want to get some unique gifts this holiday season).
Les Bourgeois Winery is just outside of the adorable downtown, which has buildings dating back to the turn of the century and older, all painted in bright and beautiful colors. And Rocheport is not a small town that’s hurting. There were several brand new or in progress mansion-style homes being built in town.
It’s located right along the Katy Trail and Missouri River and provides a quaint and quiet backdrop to the surrounding nature and farmland. The local cats will come up and greet you with a wink and a foot nudge where the trail meets the downtown business district, and the alpacas in the enclosure against the trail will eye you suspiciously, but still be quite a sight to see.
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It's October, and that means pumpkins!
October is when it comes out in full force. Fall is upon us, and with it, pumpkins. Pumpkin spice lattes, decorations, pumpkin beer, pumpkin pastries, it’s all pumpkin all the time. But where do all these pumpkins come from? This weekend, we went straight to the source to find out.
Well, we went straight to the pumpkin patch. An adorable American tradition that is just a good, fun experience. We visited Fischer Farms, which sits right outside of Jefferson City, almost directly across the river from the Capitol, to do our pumpkin-picking.
But they weren’t just full of u-pick pumpkins. You could pick sunflowers yourself, play in the corn pit or get lost in one of their corn mazes.
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The Ultimate Road Trip
Sometimes, road trips are taken to get us to places or events that mark our lives. They are our main mode of transportation, as we travel through the fields of corn and soybeans, the trees waving in the breeze. And while I often say that the journey itself can be just as great as the destination, sometimes those events that wait at the other end of the road are all you can focus on.
Especially if it’s been a long time coming, and 108 years is a long time to wait. Longer than a lifetime.
So when the Cubs won the World Series, I naturally had to go home to Chicago and be a part of the historic celebration.
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