Curling in Fairbanks - Rocks and Sheets

Curling in Fairbanks - Rocks and Sheets

Curling… and I don’t mean your tresses at the beauty salon…  is a popular sport in Fairbanks. A sport with which we were not familiar. Some of our friends from Wisconsin (that’s you, Kari!) were avid curlers, but we’d never seen a game. In advance of our visit to Fairbanks, I contacted the Fairbanks Curling Club and asked if we could perhaps visit and learn more about the game.

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Visiting the Birthplace of Kermit the Frog

Visiting the Birthplace of Kermit the Frog

We prefer backroads to interstates, small towns to cities, and quirky museums and roadside oddities. That’s how we found ourselves in Leland, Mississippi, ‘birthplace of the frog’, only a couple of hundred miles out of our way.

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