Southeast Iowa is an easy place to experience the miracle of the four seasons. Change in the seasons here is very much in sync with our changing daily lives. Although we can get extremely hot summers and bitter cold winters here, we also enjoy beautiful displays of colors in autumn and are reminded of new beginnings in watching the unfolding of green buds in the crocuses, tulips, daffodils, and all our glorious flowering shrubberies in the springtime. Iowa is a beautiful place to visit, and if you have never been to the Midwest please consider it. The cornfields are especially beautiful and bountiful here. Our Lady of Grace Grotto continues to be one of Iowa's more interesting stops for visitors.
I recently noticed that my passport expires in March so this is a good time for me to remind you to renew your passport or get one if you don't have one. Even if you don't plan to leave the country anytime soon, you will want to be prepared in case a travel opportunity arises out of the blue. Internet Service Passport Express says they can expedite US passports in 24 hrs. Happy Trails!
How to Apply for a Passport Renewal
Vacation Highlights
A Sedona Arizona Spiritual Quest
Holiday on Saint Martin - Sint Maarten
Visiting A Sacred Vortex On The Island of Anquilla
Visiting Pipestone, Minnesota
Courtney Milne's book, Sacred Places in North America: A Journey into the Medicine Wheel, which offers beautiful photography, follows the spokes of the Great Medicine Wheel outward to the incredibly beautiful sites that are sacred to the Native Americans. One example is the Pipestone quarry in Minnesota; Milne mentions the Lakota legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, and describes the photo of the catlinite cliff this way: it is "the site of a thousand years of sacred pipe carving by the Ojibway, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot tribes, among others. Both history and legend refer to Pipestone as a holy ground where warring nations would put down their arms and smoke the pipe together, united in reverence for the Great Spirit. Today, Pipestone remains the meeting place revered by many First Nations people, and almost all the pipes used in ceremonies by North America's Native people come from quarries here...(15)." Catlinite was named after the first white to visit Pipestone, George Catlin,renowned for his illustrations of Native Americans (Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians; 1973, Dover Publications, New York).
Locations of Anti-Gravity Places in the United States
- The Mystery Spot, Santa Cruz, CA
- Gravity House, Piercy, CA
- Knott's Berry Farm Haunted Shack, Anaheim, CA
- Mystery Shack, Yermo, CA
- The Mystery Spot, St. Ignace, MI
- Magnetic Mine Shack, Brainerd, MN
- Mystery Hill, Blowing Rock, NC
- Mystery Shack, Maggie Valley, NC
- Mysterious Tuttle House, North Woodstock, NH
- Mystery Hill, Marblehead, OH
- House of Mystery Gold Hill,OR
- Confusion Hill, Ligonier, PA
- Casa Magnetica, Arlington, TX
- The Wonder Spot, Lake Delton, WI
Travel Tips For Sensitive Souls
Vacations of the Mind
Article Dateline: June 1997 (Updated May 2005)
