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 …
Lubbock Memorial Arboretum and Clapp Park
We wound up in Texas in August in a van because Doug had a work event. While he was working, I went to look at flowers at the Lubbock Memorial Arboretum, which is part of …
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 …
Food FOMO in Albuquerque
Due to a family emergency, I wound up making a quick trip back to NJ while Doug was left alone to his own devices in Albuquerque. I definitely had some Fear Of Missing Out feelings …
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 …