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 …
Category: Museums
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 …
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Maybe I did too much in one day in a heatwave, but I was not especially impressed by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. It was very well-rated and came recommended, …
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 …
American Banjo Museum
I visited the American Banjo Museum on my own while Doug was working. I don’t know anything about banjos (still don’t), but it was just a few blocks’ walk from something else I was doing, …
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 …
National Ranching Heritage Center
Several people recommended the National Ranching Heritage Center to us, and it has a whopping 4.8-star rating on google. Since Doug was working, what else was I gonna do on a scorching hot August day …
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? …
Pennsylvania Academy of Art at Albuquerque Museum
When we were in Philadelphia last year, we were unable to visit the famed Pennsylvania Academy of Art because it was closed for renovations. I unexpectedly found out what the Academy’s collection was up to …
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 …