Two hours east of San Bernardino through Cabazon (where the concrete dinosaurs in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure live), past Palm Springs and a series of steep climbs up into…
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Day 435 – Tucson, AZ – Discovering the ancient saguaro cactus.
Tucson sits about 60 miles north of the Mexico boarder in Arizona between California and New Mexico. This area has been populated by native people for over 12,000…
After several long spurts of driving and active sight seeing, we were ready for a brief repose. I had packed for a beach adventure a year and a…
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Day 405 – San Antonio, Texas – Looking for the basement of the Alamo.
It wasn’t until 1691 that Spanish explorers first met the Payaya Indians of the San Antonio River Valley. It was June 13, the feast day of Saint Anthony,…
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Day 394 – Austin, Texas – In search of TPS reports and high weirdness
Austin is a city I’ve always wanted to visit. I kind of thought I might have waited too long and all the tech hipsters might have drove the…
Our next stop was Austin, Texas, a 7.5 hour drive from Hot Springs, so we decided to break the drive up into two days and head through Shreveport,…
For more than 8000 years, native people had been visiting the area for the healing powers of the springs located in present day Hot Springs, Arkansas. Many tribes…
“I’m going to Graceland For reasons I cannot explain There’s some part of me wants to see Graceland” – Paul Simon Graceland After Elvis Presley’s first house purchased…
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Day 374 – Winter is coming. Out of time for the east coast.
My main goal for the summer was to visit my daughter in New Jersey and see her new apartment, visit my family in West Virginia, and see the…
In the course of a week we drove through all five great lakes and took a few side trips along the way. We killed a couple of weeks…