About the title!

Many of my adventures start out as a big or bright idea I have for something fun and interesting to do. My parents always taught us to live life as an adventure and some of these postings will reflect that. Other stuff will really not fit that category but it's my blog and I can write what I want!

A bit about me, I was child number 5 of 7 and grew up Goodland Kansas. My parents were school teachers, we always took a summer vacation, an inexpensive adventure for the most part.

One of my earliest memories of vacations was in August 1966 we moved from Reading Kansas to Goodland Kansas, before school began we took a long weekend to visit Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak. My mom was a collector of things, in the early days it was rocks. When we were at the peak, it was so foggy, and there might even have been light snow, mom made dad stop along the road and one of my siblings jumped out to get her a rock. Upon inspection when we arrived home, it was discovered to be a large chuck of cement! That hunk of cement sat on the north side of our house for years!

http://www.springsgov.com/sectionindex.aspx?sectionid=18  
1954 Pikes Peak promotional video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXrJM12Di0&feature=related

In 1967 the family purchased a Mobile Scout trailer the next year and we were off on adventure. We watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon huddled around a small black and white TV in a camp ground in Cheyenne Wyoming while attending Frontier days. We explored Yellowstone, the piggy back bridges of the Tetons, the heights of the Rocky Mountains. As a family we explored every “Dead Indian” museum in South Dakota, we loved to travel to visit Aunt Nona's ranch in New Mexico, and on and on.

Bob and Margaret Waugh, Lewis River Washington State Park

Walk on the moon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

Grand Teton Natl Park Signal Mountain Campground!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFc55QWOGUA

http://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Frontier_Days

Over my lifetime I have enjoyed many of our National Parks and Monuments, I will write about these adventures and many other things in my Big Ideas column.