The Toskey Reports: Day 5: The Creation Museum

Our final day of vacation we hit The Creation Museum. Wanna know what they had there? Dinosaurs! Lots of dinosaurs! And they had a lot of information about dragons too! Were dragons and dinosaurs the same thing? I don’t know. I do know dinosaur bones have been found just about everywhere, and dragon legends areContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: Day 5: The Creation Museum”

The Toskey Reports: Day 2, Part 3: Signs of the Times at the Smokey Mountains

At one of the vistor’s center in the Smokey Mountains National Park, there’s a slab of cement with a sign posted beside it. It was a First Amendment / free speech area. I had never seen such a thing before! Neither had Mom. I scratched my head. “So, if you want to talk, you haveContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: Day 2, Part 3: Signs of the Times at the Smokey Mountains”

The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 2, Part 1: the Thing about Cheap Hotel Rooms

Mom thought it was funny when she discovered I’d been in the car all night. Yeah, mom. You’re quite the joker. They trust you with kids, and you can’t even take care of a teddy bear? Sheesh! The two of us went to find the breakfast room at our hotel. The weird thing was thatContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 2, Part 1: the Thing about Cheap Hotel Rooms”

The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 2: Slow Food and Near Misses

It seemed to take forever for dad to get packed up for our trip, but finally we were on our way. Kinda. No one had eaten breakfast so Dad decided to stop at Macdonald’s. Mom scowled at him. She’s gluten intolerant. That means she can’t eat anything with flour in it. It messes up herContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 2: Slow Food and Near Misses”

The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 1: We’re Goin’ on a Road Trip!

Hello. Toskey here, the traveling bear. It’s been a while since I sent any notices, and back then it was through emails. Talk about snail mail! So, anyway, I overheard mom and dad saying they were gonna be taking a little vacation. No kids this time, just them, well, that didn’t seem right. Yeah, theirContinue reading “The Toskey Reports: The Great Smokey Mountains: Day 1, Part 1: We’re Goin’ on a Road Trip!”