Stirrings from the empty nest

Last winter, I started the long process of turning the old family room into the new family room. It's a finished basement which, for t...

I drive back East fairly often, although I haven't done it this year. It's about a 23 hour drive over two days, and in addition to r...

At the tail end of a segment on our being a nation of dreamers on MPR's Midmorning yesterday, I did a short interview with host Kerri Mi...

It's not really Oshkosh until we've stopped at Ardy and Ed's drive-in for lunch, which was today's mission. That's Darw...

I've seen some cool things in the years I've been coming to Oshkosh, but I haven't seen anything as outstanding as tonight's...

So far, this has been an "uncomfortable" Oshkosh, not in the sense that there's a lot of mud and all, but that it feels like i...

You not only bring a lawnmower, you use it to mow the grass around your campsite.

Anybody who has ever brought their little kids to Oshkosh recognizes this picture. It's Oshkosh in the campground. Kids doing what kids...

Three RV-10s are sitting at show center at this year's  Oshkosh. Their pilots have earned the honor. They flew from Brazil to attend the...

All love starts in France. Or aboard the Ford TriMotor. Just ask RV-7 builder and RV-4 owner Michael Regen of Maryland, who proposed to Ka...

I awoke fairly early this morning, looked out the tent and saw this...  The line from yesterday afternoon was gone; I don't know where...

It's a lovely evening in Camp Scholler at AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh... as long as you're looking up. Glance anywhere else, and you...

(I'll be posting Oshkosh dispatches this week both here and my other blog -- Letters From Flyover Country) Got in from a quick trip th...

The hardest part about writing a eulogy isn't the words -- although they're frequently no picnic -- it's getting it right. You d...

Jennifer Helen Collins, 31, of Gardner, formerly of Princeton and Fitchburg, died on Sunday July 18, 2010 at UMass Memorial Healthcare in Wo...

If you live in Minnesota and are old -- or getting there -- eventually you end up at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Today was our ...

An RV-pilot/builder friend, Pete Howell, took this great picture of the Twin Cities on Saturday. It gives you a good idea of the layout of M...

The down side of living in Minnesota is once it gets warm, you can almost hear the clock ticking while you listen to the birds singing. This...

Today was to be the longest-run of the long ride home and, funny, it was. From Alamosa, Colorado to Lincoln, Nebraska took about 12 hours. W...

From time to time on this trip, I've found myself thinking, "how would I fly here when the RV-7A is done?" The trip back home ...