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Category Archives: Renaissance Bucket List
Memphis Belle Exhibit Opens at Air Force Museum
Grand opening accompanied by fly-overs and ramp tours of WWII B-17 bombers and P-51 fighters. Early in 2018, the US Air Force Museum announced that it would be unveiling a new exhibit dedicated to the Memphis Belle, and that the … Continue reading
A Ferry for Two…
Cars, That Is. There are two ways to get from Ophelia, Virginia to Sunnybank, Virginia: either Hacks Neck Road to US 360 (18 miles) or via State Rt 644 (2 miles). A no-brainer, you say; “down State Rt 644!” Well, … Continue reading
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Tagged cable-ferry, Chesapeake, ferry, free, Little Wicomico, Merry Point, Northumberland, Rappahannock, Sunnybank, two-car
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Photo of the Week – Pony Express Rider
The “Photo of the Week” is back…at least for a while. There are several Pony Express Rider silhouettes along US 36 through Missouri. This highway roughly follows the route of Pony Express riders. Between April 1860 and October 1861, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Missouri, Pony Express, silhouette, St Joseph, US 36
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Wildlife Encounters
Animals we saw on our trip. Special to: Travel as I Have Envisioned It Could Be One of the things I was looking forward to on our trip was seeing, and hopefully photographing wild creatures. There were limited spotting opportunities … Continue reading
Posted in Natural History, Renaissance Bucket List, travel
Tagged bear, bear cub, bighorn sheep, bison, bull moose, geese, jackalope, Moose, muledeer, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, raven, sparrow, wild animals
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Cee’s Photo Challenge – Yellow
Posted in response to Cee’s Photo Challenge – Yellow. Photos were taken at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky during the very first day of our 21-day trip to Utah and Wyoming and back. This was our very … Continue reading
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Tagged Bowling Green, Cee's Photo Challenge, Color, Corvette, Corvette Museum, Kentucky, Yellow
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Our Final Day of Pop-Up Adventures
Wall Drug, The Badlands National Park, and the Minuteman Missile Historic Site Day 19 – Travel as I Have Envisioned It Could Be Visiting the Badlands of South Dakota was never on our “radar.” Chatting with neighboring campers at the … Continue reading
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Tagged 177, Badlands, bighorn sheep, black-footed ferrets, boondock, Historic Site, I-90, ice water, launch control, MAD, Minuteman Missile, missile silo, Missouri River, moonscape, National Park, nuclear missile, palette of colors, Plankinton, Retro, Riverside RV, silo, South Dakota, South of the Border, T-Res, Tyranasaurus, Wall Drug, Whitewater
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Mount Rushmore National Monument
Day 18 – Travel as I Have Envisioned It Could Be In addition to Devils Tower, I also insisted that we include Mount Rushmore in our return itinerary—another place I had never been. Getting There I had done some research, … Continue reading
To Devils Tower National Monument, and Beyond
“Beyond” is Custer, South Dakota Day 17 – Travel as I Have Envisioned It Could Be Ever since I first saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I have wanted to visit Devils Tower in Wyoming. So, when we were … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear's Lodge, climbing, Devils Tower, Extraterrestial, first national monument, geoogy, igneous rock, intrusion, name, origin, Theodore Roosevelt
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Cody to Moorcroft, Wyoming – A Travel Day with Discoveries
Day 16 – Travel as I Have Envisioned It Could Be Throughout our trip, we planned our daily distance goal to allow for contingencies—weather, traffic, or distractions (really attractions!). Moorcroft was selected as today’s destination for two reason: (1) it … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerial Firefighters, Air museum, B-24, boondocking, bull moose, C119, Cody, Moorcraft, Moose, Mountain stream, Museum of Flight, P2V Neptune, WWII aircraft, Wyoming
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