Anniversaries 21-30 (2015-2024)
As the third decade of marriage began we were headed into the teenage years with our oldest, more family activities, and more interesting states to visit.
2015 - New Mexico
Scandia Tramway, Shiprock, Four Corners, Santa Fe, the "Lab", Taos, Rio Grande Gorge, SNOW!, Route 66, Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, Spaceport America, and the Very Large Array.
2016 - Louisiana
The French Quarter, chicory coffee, Andrew Jackson, beignets and cafe au lait, National World War II Museum, dresses, Battle of New Orleans, Swamp Tour, crawfish etouffée, hurricanes (both types), and all that jazz.
2017 - South Carolina
Kazoos, tea, The Citadel, Fort Sumter, low country food, plantations, biking on Kiawah Island, married on the beach (connection to Amazing Grace), The Moonstone, The Oak Ridge Boys, South of the Border, Redeemer Presbyterian and ended in a dungeon.
2018 - Wisconsin
Saying in a brewery, German food, custom cocktails, the Bronze Fonz, a 15th Century French chapel, a Jesuit missionary, beer, bbq, badgers, Lambeau Field, no goats on the roof, bathroom fixtures, and the QWERTY keyboard.
2019 - Missouri
Clydesdales, Army Engineers, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Carvaggio, Giant shuttlecocks, KC Barbeque, Al Capone, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, the Gateway Arch and Death on the Nile.
2020 - South Dakota
Elephants Can Remember, Mt. Rushmore, Old Time photo, buffalo pies, President Eisenhower, Badlands, snow!, Wall Drug, Deadwood, Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, Homestake Mine, neutrinos, more snow!
2021 - New Hampshire
USS Albacore, dinner in a wine cellar, Polly's Pancake Parlor, Mt. Washington Cog Railway, Pollyana, World's Longest Candy Counter, a dinner train, Archie, Five Little Pigs and pedaling a rail bike.
2022 - Colorado
Lumber Baron Inn, Murder in Mesopotamia, Manitou Springs water, Pikes Peak Cog Railway (2 in a row), cherry pie, Rocky Mountain National Park, Mork & Mindy, Celestial Seasonings, Stranahan's Whiskey, alligator/quail/elk/bison/lamb dinner, and the first pedestrian crosswalk signal.
2023 - North Carolina
Taken at the Flood, Nags Head, seafood platter, Wright Brothers, Kitty Hawk, Brew Thru, fish tacos, Cape Hatteras, Cora Witch Tree, Lost Colony, Roanoke Island, Mother Vine, Mother Earth Motor Lodge, Fleetwood's Rock-n-Roll Wedding Chapel/Bar/Vintage clothing store, the Biltmore Estate.
2024 - Maryland
Waffle House, Antietam, Cards on the Table, Inner Harbor, Edgar Allen Poe, Kermit the Frog, blue crab, Fort McHenry, War of 1812, John Wilkes Booth, USS Constellation, Annie Oakley, Old Trinity Episcopal Church, Harriet Tubman, Mason Dixon line, Lyon Rum, and the Naval Academy.
2015 - New Mexico
Scandia Tramway, Shiprock, Four Corners, Santa Fe, the "Lab", Taos, Rio Grande Gorge, SNOW!, Route 66, Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, Spaceport America, and the Very Large Array.
2016 - Louisiana
The French Quarter, chicory coffee, Andrew Jackson, beignets and cafe au lait, National World War II Museum, dresses, Battle of New Orleans, Swamp Tour, crawfish etouffée, hurricanes (both types), and all that jazz.
2017 - South Carolina
Kazoos, tea, The Citadel, Fort Sumter, low country food, plantations, biking on Kiawah Island, married on the beach (connection to Amazing Grace), The Moonstone, The Oak Ridge Boys, South of the Border, Redeemer Presbyterian and ended in a dungeon.
2018 - Wisconsin
Saying in a brewery, German food, custom cocktails, the Bronze Fonz, a 15th Century French chapel, a Jesuit missionary, beer, bbq, badgers, Lambeau Field, no goats on the roof, bathroom fixtures, and the QWERTY keyboard.
2019 - Missouri
Clydesdales, Army Engineers, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Carvaggio, Giant shuttlecocks, KC Barbeque, Al Capone, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, the Gateway Arch and Death on the Nile.
2020 - South Dakota
Elephants Can Remember, Mt. Rushmore, Old Time photo, buffalo pies, President Eisenhower, Badlands, snow!, Wall Drug, Deadwood, Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, Homestake Mine, neutrinos, more snow!
2021 - New Hampshire
USS Albacore, dinner in a wine cellar, Polly's Pancake Parlor, Mt. Washington Cog Railway, Pollyana, World's Longest Candy Counter, a dinner train, Archie, Five Little Pigs and pedaling a rail bike.
2022 - Colorado
Lumber Baron Inn, Murder in Mesopotamia, Manitou Springs water, Pikes Peak Cog Railway (2 in a row), cherry pie, Rocky Mountain National Park, Mork & Mindy, Celestial Seasonings, Stranahan's Whiskey, alligator/quail/elk/bison/lamb dinner, and the first pedestrian crosswalk signal.
2023 - North Carolina
Taken at the Flood, Nags Head, seafood platter, Wright Brothers, Kitty Hawk, Brew Thru, fish tacos, Cape Hatteras, Cora Witch Tree, Lost Colony, Roanoke Island, Mother Vine, Mother Earth Motor Lodge, Fleetwood's Rock-n-Roll Wedding Chapel/Bar/Vintage clothing store, the Biltmore Estate.
2024 - Maryland
Waffle House, Antietam, Cards on the Table, Inner Harbor, Edgar Allen Poe, Kermit the Frog, blue crab, Fort McHenry, War of 1812, John Wilkes Booth, USS Constellation, Annie Oakley, Old Trinity Episcopal Church, Harriet Tubman, Mason Dixon line, Lyon Rum, and the Naval Academy.