Selections from St. Joseph, Missouri
St. Joseph, Missouri, didn’t have the most exciting museums in the world, but that didn’t stop us from visiting! The cover photo is from a statue in St. Joseph, The Pony Express Riders by Hermon …
Category: Amusements
Amusements / Food / Museums
Odds and Ends in Northwestern Missouri
A few “there’s not much to this, eh?” sites in Northwestern Missouri. Walt Disney Hometown Museum I’m honestly not clear how the Walt Disney Hometown Museum in Marceline has a 4.8 rating on Google. The …
High Points in High Point, N.C.
Business took me on a quick weekend trip to North Carolina, and I was able to squeeze in a few forays for burgers, beers, and barbecue around my work obligations. High Point, N.C., is the …
Amusements / Art / Authors / Books / Civil Rights / Museums
Look What We Saw in Northeastern Kansas
There was plenty to keep us occupied as we passed through Kansas. Here are some of the sites we visited in the northeastern part of the state. Maybe driving across eastern Kansas isn’t the most …
Evel Knievel Museum
Even though I’m not especially a fan of famed stuntman Evel Knievel, I mean of course we were gonna go to the Evel Knievel Museum in Topeka, Kansas. How could we not? The museum is …
Amusements / Art / Food
Food and Fun in Oklahoma City
Centennial Land Run Monument The Centennial Land Run Monument in Oklahoma City is totally epic! It commemorates the Land Run of 1889 “when 50,000 people rushed into the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory to stake …
Roswell, New Mexico is Out of this World!
We went to Roswell, New Mexico preparing to be amused, and we were. It is all aliens, all the time. Want a burrito? There’s an alien eating a burrito out front. Want a car wash? …
Bricktown: Alien Attack!
Doug loves his LEGOs so of course we went to the LEGO exhibit in Roswell, New Mexico, where life is all-things-alien-all-the-time. In spite of the attraction being called “Alien Attack”, it turns out that most …
International UFO Museum and Research Center
Let’s face it, there’s only one reason you’d be in Roswell, New Mexico, and that’s to figure out what happened in 1947. Was there a UFO or not? Our first stop in solving “The Roswell …
Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum
The vacation we had booked for 2020 that got canceled thanks to the pandemic was a trip to New Mexico, which included a hot air balloon ride in Albuquerque. ABQ is considered a premiere destination …