Earl Conn is a really nice guy. He's the retired head of the journalism department at Ball State University and still has fun writing travel articles for a bunch of newspapers.

We spent some time with Earl and his family last month and here's his article.

Earl told me he wasn't sure if the editors would go for the headline his grandsons pitched. I'll bet those boys are pretty proud of their first editorial endeavor.

Not to mention all those notches on their coaster belts.