The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
Think long and hard before you go to a Buffalo Bill site, because once you got to one, you’ll find you need to go to them all. Thus it was that shortly after visiting the …
Category: Amusements
Meow Wolf Denver
I’m not sure where to start to try to even explain what Meow Wolf is. Wikpedia says it’s a “large-scale interactive and immersive art installation,” and I suppose that’s as good a description as anything. …
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park Museum
So I thought Buffalo Bill was a train robber or some other kind of wild west outlaw, but mostly didn’t think anything much about him at all. But that didn’t stop us from visiting the …
Amusements / Art / Birds / Museums / Nature
Scenes from South Central South Dakota
Jury duty obligations successfully completed, we headed west from our home city of Sioux Falls out to the state capitol in Pierre (which we learned is not pronounced “pea-air” (with a French accent), but “pier”). …
Amusements / Authors / Books / Nature
Exploring the Twin Cities
The famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Though the family struggled financially, they managed to just hang on to the fringes of “good society”, but they bounced around …
Amusements / Burgers / Food / Nature
Food and Fun in the Twin Cities
We surprise found ourselves with some extra time in our travel plans, and we found out we could house and pet sit for our friend Heather, we made an unexpected visit to the Twin Cities …
Amusements / Architecture / Art / Birds / Food
Scenes from in and around Kansas City, Missouri
Polly’s Pop in Independence was made using water from a local spring from 1923 to 1967. The brand was revived in 2016, and you can watch production on a vintage bottling machine through a glass …
Amusements / Architecture / Art / Food
Quick Stops in Kansas City, Missouri
Here are some of the other sites that we visited in Kansas City (Missouri) during our travels. Christopher Elbow Chocolates I had Christopher Elbow Chocolates on my radar as a place to stop while in …
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures – Miniatures!
We did a separate post on the “toy” side of the museum, where you can read more about the museum and its founding. This post just features some of the many amazing miniatures you can …
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures – Toys!
We’d just been to the Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis, so were hard pressed to justify visiting a similar museum so soon, but in truth, the miniatures are so fascinating, we almost can’t help …