The Busload of Books Tour is about to begin. In service of our mission, we’ll be traveling through all fifty states in the year ahead. We’ll visit state parks and national monuments, roadside attractions and hole-in-the wall eateries. From the Black Hills (South...
For the pre-K-1st graders we meet on the Tour, we’ll be giving away a copy of Everywhere, Wonder, our picture about the importance of noticing and appreciating the beautiful and interesting things to be found wherever we go. The point of our school presentation for...
Hello, friends! It's time to talk about the Pacific Northwest. For that is where we'll conclude our tour of the lower 48 in May of 2023 before driving north through the Yukon to Alaska. Please tell us things about Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. We want beauty,...
Because Sunday is a day of rest, we're taking it easy on you and only asking about two states today. We'll be spending late December of '22 and early January of '23 in California and Nevada and welcome any suggestions. In California, we're especially interested in the...
Moving right along to Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. We've planned a few extra weeks next April to explore these four glorious states and would love your recommendations. We'll be in Denver, Santa Fe, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City, but where else should we go?...
The best vacation we've ever taken was to the Black Hills and Badlands, with a dash of Devil's Tower thrown in for good measure. We'll be visiting all three again on the tour. But what ELSE should visit and see and do and eat and jump over in the great west north...
Friends, we are really picking up steam. Tell us where the bus should go in the great southern middle of things. This is your chance, people of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas! Sing the praises of your places. Reveal the secret splendors....
HELLO, FOLKS! Here's today's challenge: Please tell us where to go and what to do in the east north central states, by which we mean Michigan, Wisconsin, Wisconchigan, Minnesota, and Iowa. Thrill us with your dazzling suggestions! Wow us with your insider knowledge!...
Meet Julie Gagne, a 21-year veteran instructional coach at Central Elementary in Ferguson, MO. We’ll officially meet her in March of 2023, when the Busload of Books Tour pays a visit to the Central Stars. Julie took a few minutes to tell us about herself, her...
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for! Some of you, anyway. Please tell us where to go and what to do, try, see, taste, and experience in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. Please? Robbi just scowled at me and told me to...
Rolling right along here, folks. (bus pun intended). Please tell us what to do, visit, attempt, behold, admire, and devour in the great American Southeast. We’re looking you, denizens of Virginia, both Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida! As much as we appreciate...
The Daily Minute: 11.28.23
In which Robbi lets us peek into her process, which no longer includes great heaps of sugary snacks.
The Daily Minute: 11.27.23
In which Robbi will be drawing all night on a deadline, and Matthew is heading to the sleeping loft.
Slow start over here this morning.
The Daily Minute: 11.16.23
In which we take a soggy tromp through Tilghman Neck.
