Detroit. Full Stop.
Doug has worked for a company that is headquartered in Troy, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit) for many years, during which time he has made countless trips to the area. He also made some great …
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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 …
Quick Stops Around Oklahoma City
Jim Thorpe Museum Inside the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame was the Jim Thorpe Museum. There wasn’t much by way of artifacts, mostly pictures and signboards telling the story of his life. Jim was born …
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
It’s been almost 30 years since Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring 680. More than 1/3 of the building was …
Scenes from Lubbock, Texas
Prairie Dog Town Gotta stop and see Prairie Dog Town while visiting Lubbock – especially since it might not be there for long. It was established in the 1930s by K.N. Clapp, who was alarmed …
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? …
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 …
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Nineteen sovereign Pueblo nations can be found in New Mexico today. Their ancestral lands once stretched into Colorado and Arizona, home to magnificent dwellings like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Despite centuries of colonization, Pueblo …
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 …
Wyoming State Capitol
Cheyenne is one of the state capital cities that is nowhere near the center of the state. It wasn’t even a dot on the map until the builders of the transcontinental railroad ended up there …