Sandia Peak Tramway
Doug loves his tram, cogway railroads, funiculars, and aerial cable cars, so of course we took a ride on the Sandia Peak Tramway, an aerial tramway outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico (new state!). The tram …
Category: Amusements
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is on Google Maps with a location of simply “Colorado,” so I’ll orient it by saying it’s roughly in the center of the southern part of the state, …
Amusements / Flowers / Nature / Religion
A Visit to Crestone, Colorado
We had a long-planned trip to visit our friend Krissy while she happened to be in Crestone for a spell (she normally resides on the west coast). We had a great time on our few …
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 …
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 …