ShareTo date, I’ve not made public mention of my Missouri Bucket List; the list of things I’d like to do and places I’d like to see while I’m living in Missouri.
Today’s the day that I admit to you that I do have a small list of must-dos and must-sees, must-eats and must-drinks while I’m calling [...]

ShareSmall Town Girls Guide blogger and Traveler writer Melissa Gilliam could use your support.
If you enjoy her blog, www.smalltowngirlsguide.com, please vote for her online in the Best Personal Blog  in the Riverfront Times Best of the Web contest for 2010.
The contest closes today, so take a minute to vote right now at http://polls.riverfronttimes.com/polls/stl/webawards2010/

ShareSomewhere amidst the beautiful, rolling hillsides of rural Missouri in between Ste. Genevieve and Farmington is a tiny community called Kaufman. Kaufman used to have a school house, but that school house is now a brewery. That brewery held a home brewer’s contest on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 30.
Twenty-five home brewers from all over Missouri and [...]

ShareThis small town girl grew up in a Ford family. From my Dad’s Ford F350 work to my brother’s first sports car (a Ford Probe) to the Ford Aerostar that I learned to drive in, my family has always driven Fords.
It’s been said that you can take the person out of the country, but you [...]

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Council Bluff Lake from the Trail, photo by MilliGFunk Photography
Who knew that “one of the most beautiful mountain bike trails in the state of Missouri” (source) was right in my backyard in the Mark Twain National Forest?
Council Bluff Lake Recreation Area offers a 440-acre lake – the largest in this particular forest – that’s surrounded [...]

ShareTraveler is happy to offer our News & Views readers a fresh voice on the outdoors. Posts from  Melissa Gilliam’s blog, Small Town Girls Guide, will now appear on this site.
Melissa says “This blog began as my attempt to capture how my background as a small town Missouri girl translated to the hippest borough in [...]