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Indian School Park ~ October 21, 2006
Art class, Phoenix Indian School, Arizona. Photographed by Messinger, June 1900. American Indian Select List number 161. Courtesy of The National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/ While we were in...
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Our family stopped at Cabela’s on the way to California since we often don’t get down to the west side of Phoenix and there were a couple of items that we wanted to get. We had gone to Cabela’s once...
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San Diego Natural History Museum ~ December 27, 2006
The last time we were at the San Diego Natural History Museum was probably about ten years ago, and boy was I shocked when I visited it this time. It sure wasn’t the same old natural history museum...
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San Diego Model Railroad Museum ~ December 27, 2006
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the largest indoor model railroad display in the world! The individual HO and N scale layouts are also among largest of their type. The San Diego Model Railroad...
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San Diego Maritime Museum ~ December 29, 2006
We’ve walked past the Maritime Museum on San Diego’s Embarcadero dozens of times and admired the ships from the outside, but it was the addition of the HMS Surprise from Master and Commander fame that...
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YUMA CROSSING STATE HISTORIC PARK ~ March 17, 2007
Yuma Crossing State Historic Park was the site of the Yuma Quartermaster Supply Depot, used by the U.S. Army to store and distribute supplies for all the military posts in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New...
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YUMA PROVING GROUNDS ~ March 17, 2007
On our way home from Yuma, heading north on Hwy. 95, we passed the Yuma Proving Ground. Since 1943 when General George Patton trained his soldiers there, the Yuma Proving Ground has played a...
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WILLIAMS, AZ ~ June 10, 2007
On Saturday night after the Beale presentation, we left Riordan Mansion and got onto Route 66 heading west from Flagstaff toward Williams. (As you’re leaving Riordan Mansion State Historic Park, just...
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THANKSGIVING TRIP ~ November 22-25, 2007
I don’t know about you, but the day after Thanksgiving my e-mail inbox was inundated with special sales, deals, and other offers. It seems that everyone was jumping on the “Black Friday” bandwagon. Of...
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CIVIL WAR DEMO~ January 12, 2008
American Civil War, December 1862: Major General Ambrose Burnside, in command of the Union Army of the Potomac, sent troops to occupy the vicinity of Fredericksburg. General Robert E. Lee reacted by...
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