Once upon a time, I met a stranger long ago when AOL was just a small company under a few hundred employees and before the world wide web was popular. This stranger, I later discovered... worked for DIA and by coincidental relations, he knew a relative of mine. To make a long story short we became good friends, so to speak, as one could for interacting online and I remember him telling me stories of back home, a small quaint town tucked in the deep woods of Missouri. He talked about the beauty of the Midwest and how one can go a short distance for hunting, hiking, camping, horse back riding, canoeing and yet have city life a moment away if one desired. But me being a West Coast girl, with sunny weather and latest trends...I thought how could one find anything interesting in the Mid West...how boring that would be to live there.

Well years later, I am here smack in the middle of America... making a life for myself with friends and family. I sometimes drift back to those late night conversations on how proud he spoke of his home life, and how he could just kick back and watch nature outside his cabin or go hiking on the Mississippi River...and now I find myself doing similar things and finding out that Missouri lives up to it's title the, "Show Me State". I am a traveler. I have traveled many places around the world, lived in many places from desolate to crowded spaces... and I have to say, after several years of living in the Mid West....Missouri brings you back to your American roots, your heritage, your nature...your true soul of who you really are. The weather either makes you or breaks you. The land that offers so much wild life and the people that go out of their way to provide warm hospitality that can match Southern charm any day...to the diverse cultures from French, German, Italian to others... add flavor to living here. I hope that by starting this blog, I can share with you with what I experience on my everyday living here in Missouri and I hope that you will walk down these passages and enjoy them as much as I live them.



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