Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
Illinois & Indiana Capitols & last Route 66 Stop (for now) We bypassed St. Louis, to go where we haven’t been before, but we still got to visit with an old St. Louis work friend of Mark’s. Jim and his wife drove up from southern Illinois to see us in Read more…
Three stops in a week…Missouri-Kansas-Missouri We moved Northeast from central Oklahoma to central Missouri over the last week, taking a bit of a Zig-Zag route (including ), with 3 stops: Joplin, MO for 2 nights, Lawrence, KS (between Topeka & Kansas City) for 3 nights, and Columbia, MO (north of Read more…
Our First “Real” Visit to Oklahoma We drove through Oklahoma on I-40 in January 2013, with only one, short stop. So, it only barely “counted” as state visit a at all. That has been rectified! And…no more snow…actually above 70o every day! Although, we did have lightning last night, and Read more…
First Stop, Amarillo, Texas! After 6 weeks in New Mexico, it was time to head Northeast, across the Prairie and Midwest, to Pittsburgh by May 3. We made it out of New Mexico on I-40 and half-way across the Texas Panhandle to Amarillo, our longest driving day since we took Read more…
Last Stop in Nuclear New Mexico! Yesterday we got up at 6:00 AM to attend the Trinity Site Open House! The Army did a great job hosting it. Eight Security Soldiers checking 8 vehicles at a time going in, great parking management, plenty of porta potties, plenty of buses to Read more…
While we do a lot of our route planning around visits to National Park Sites (and State Capitols, etc.), we try to leave time for other sightseeing. The Bonus Sights around Grants, New Mexico, were AND…Hopefully our last SNOW!!! Five nights in Grants, and it only Snowed, a little, the Read more…
And Snow in Los Alamos! We had a little snow on our afternoon visit to Los Alamos, or should I say visits…the 20th and again yesterday, the 24th. So, we didn’t walk around as much as we might have, but we did visit the Manhattan Project NHP – Los Alamos Read more…
Enough to close National Parks, delay school openings! We got to Santa Fe last Wednesday, with threats of a snow storm coming in a day, so Thursday we made it into the city. We wandered around Old Town for awhile, visiting Santa Fe Plaza, Loretto Chapel, the Cathedral Basilica of Read more…
The ORIGINAL Las Vegas…Las Vegas, New Mexico Seriously…this Las Vegas predates Nevada’s by 70 years, having been established by a Mexican land grant in 1835. We just spent 4 nights here. Two National Parks in 3 days, from 2 locations! We got here on Saturday, after spending Friday (our last Read more…
AND…began “Nuclear” part of our “Nuclear New Mexico” Trip Starting day 4 in Albuquerque, and so far it’s only gone into the mid 40’s over night and hit the high 60’s during the day. A bit cooler forecast for today, but supposed to hit 70 tomorrow! TOASTY after the last Read more…