Birds of Oklahoma and Arkansas
June 2022 We took the Goddard on an east-southeast course in the early summer of 2022 in order to get to our destination of Tishomingo, Mississippi, by late June for some warranty repair work on our home. Our travels took us through the states of Oklahoma and Arkansas, in which neither of us had previously…
The Gardens at the Philbrook Museum of Art
June 3, 2022 – Tulsa, Oklahoma I don’t know how many of you have spent any sort of significant time – invited or not – in the backyards of multimillionaire Oklahoma oil barons, but when you’ve done it as much as Nancy and me, you start to notice some similarities in the properties. First, the…
Kansas Aviation Museum
May 29, 2022 – Wichita, Kansas “The Air Capitol of the World” – it’s a bold thing to call a city. Our whirlwind tour of south-central Kansas concluded in late May 2022 with a trip to the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita. We soon learned that Wichita is wholly deserving of its “Air Capitol of…
City of Rocks State Park
Faywood, New Mexico – January 8, 2023 One day – I think it was a Tuesday but I could definitely be wrong – about 35 million years ago, a volcano began erupting in what is now southwestern New Mexico. Somewhat later, on January 8, 2023, Nancy, Gunther and I visited City of Rocks State Park,…
Strataca
May 30, 2022 – Hutchinson, Kansas In addition to the Cosmosphere, a world-class space science museum, the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, features another prominent attraction: the only salt mine in the country that’s open to the public. Have I got your attention yet? Read on! Formerly known as the Kansas Underground Salt Museum, Strataca is…
The Cosmosphere
Hutchinson, Kansas – May 28, 2022 Hutchinson, Kansas, seems to be an unlikely place for a world-class museum devoted to space exploration. The state’s main economic driver, by far, is agriculture: Kansas ranks in the top 10 states in the country for revenue from beef cattle, corn, hay, hogs, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat (40 percent…
White Sands National Park
Alamogordo, New Mexico – November 24, 2022 (Editor’s note: alert readers may note that I haven’t posted any updates on this blog for several months. We did lots of things between visiting the Barbed Wire Museum in May and White Sands National Park in November, but I’m going to post this now and fill in…
Kansas Barbed Wire Museum
May 26, 2022 – LaCrosse, Kansas It’s bold to call a town the Barbed Wire Capital of the WorldTM, but that is indeed what La Crosse, Kansas does. The designation came about because of another of La Crosse’s claims to fame: it’s the home of the Post Rock Museum. But before we get into post…
St. Vrain State Park
Firestone, Colorado – May 2022 St. Vrain State Park had its beginnings in 1958 when the Colorado Department of Transportation bought some land around St. Vrain Creek to mine gravel needed for the construction of highways in the area. The mining projects left wide but relatively shallow holes in the ground, many of which filled…
The National Museum of World War II Aviation
April 30, 2022 – Colorado Springs, Colorado The city of Colorado Springs is home to a number of U.S. military installations, including the U.S. Army’s Fort Carson; the U.S. Air Force’s Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Base, and Air Force Academy; and the U.S. Space Force’s Cheyenne Mountain Station, Space Command, and Space…
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