Big Tex
Texas State Fair History The Texas State Fair has been held at the same site, Fair Park (itself a National Historic Landmark), since 1886. Our visit was the second day of the month-long fair, but we arrived pretty early so the crowds weren’t too bad until people started arriving for the Grambling State vs. Prairie View game […]
Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, TX
The Sixth Floor Museum The former Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, downtown Dallas, TX, houses the Sixth Floor Museum. Each exhibit chronicles the events leading up to John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The museum’s permanent exhibit includes film, audio, photos, some Kennedy family history and lots of other artifacts. One highlight is the sniper’s perch, where police […]
Historic Guthrie, Oklahoma
We wanted to get a head start on our drive back to Dallas from Wichita, so we ended up stopping at a known quantity: a Sleep Inn and Suites in Guthrie, OK with a relatively big parking lot just off the highway. It didn’t hurt that there was a Braum’s within walking distance. What we […]
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Cedar Breaks National Monument is located east of Cedar City, in southern Utah. It’s a giant amphitheater dipping over 2000 feet from the Colorado plateau from a height of over 10,000 feet. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared it a National Monument in 1933. Inside the bowl are columns, arches, pinnacles and canyons resembling a smaller […]
Pythian Castle
History of the Pythian Castle The Pythian Castle was built in of cut limestone blocks in 1913 by the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order. Its original purpose was to serve as a home for aged members and orphaned children of members. The design was grand, with a large foyer, ballroom, meeting […]
Colorado to Missouri: An Unlikely Route
Under pretty much any circumstances, it doesn’t make any sense to stop in Springfield, Missouri on the way from Denver, Colorado to Los Angeles, California. It’s almost 800 miles in the opposite direction, but apparently someone in Springfield has some pretty persuasive powers. Working as tour managers in the field of mobile marketing, schedules and routes can […]
Mt. Rushmore
Rapid City, South Dakota, is a convenient place to stop on the way from Billings, MT to Sioux Falls, SD, just about half-way. It’s also a great jumping off point for exploring Custer State Park, Badlands National Park and Mt. Rushmore, in addition to being close to Sturgis. Ours was a short visit, but even […]
San Diego Sunday
Our first California Coast dive was La Jolla Cove Ecological Preserve. If only we could have gotten a photo of ourselves in all the gear. Since we’re used to water temperatures closer to 80 than high 60s, we were equipped with thicker wetsuits, hoods, gloves, etc. These photos are pretty much what we looked/felt like. […]
Wichita, KS
The City of Wichita grew from trading posts set up at the confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers in the late 1800s. The “Keeper of the Plains” still stands watch from this spot where the rivers flow together. There are lots of parks and museums in this area, and we visited several, including […]
Tulsa Life
We admittedly didn’t put in as much effort into this visit to Tulsa as we had other places. There are certainly plenty of interesting things to do, but it was such a short visit, and we were working a lot. Maybe we were tired, maybe it was the weather, who knows? In all fairness, Tulsa […]