Trains, chipmunks and lettuce. We love this time of year! The air is crisp and chilly, the leaves are starting to turn, and you can get just about anything flavored with pumpkin-spice. Today started out a little rainy, but we Read more…
Every year we plan to go to County Line Orchard in time to pick Honeycrisp apples and every year we’re a couple weeks late. Today’s Date Day changed that! We braved the 95-degree heat, hiked to the very end of Read more…
We’ve been talking about, and looking for, a “retirement home” for several years and have been driving our friends and family nuts every time we commit to a different part of the country. We’ve considered dozens of areas and looked Read more…
A Main Street that stretches over a half-mile with over 125 boutiques, galleries and shops? 28,000 square-feet of antiques? Ireland in Illinois? A new house on Lake Michigan? It’s all inside this week’s Date Day adventure to Galena. Usually our Read more…
Waterfall Glen has a waterfall and is located in a glen. Interestingly though, the waterfall has nothing to do with the name. The DuPage county forest preserve was named in 1973 to honor Seymour “Bud” Waterfall, an early president of Read more…