El Dorado is known as Boomtown, from the big oil boom down there around the turn of the century. In the past ten years or so, it's pi...

An updated version of this story appears here. In almost every city or town in America, there is one local hangout that's been around ...

The Branson Scenic Railroad is something you might not expect in Branson -- something that is completely historical and not the least bit gi...

Violet Hensley plays the fiddle. She makes fiddles. You could say she’s spent a lifetime, fiddling around. And what a remarkable woman ...

they're one heck of a funny family. This is the very first story I wrote for Tie Dye Travels, on September 10th, 2007. They've com...

Here is a selection of random pictures not included in Tie Dye Travels , but that still deserve a viewing. I'm just a hobbyist when it...