Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
St. Augustine is the oldest, continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States. The was founded by Spanish explorers in 1565. It become part of the United States in 1819. In that time is was the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years, then it was the capital of British East Florida for a…
I’m not sure why, but Ben and I have been into space lately. Strange (for us) but I’m totally getting into it. We started watching “For All Mankind”, which is a very interesting show and got us looking up facts about the space race. Fast forward a couple months and we found ourselves in Florida….
We just spent a couple of days in Sleepy Hollow, New York (Tarrytown). Yes, Sleepy Hollow, as in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. I really wanted to visit the area in October because of The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze, which is displays showing thousands of carved pumpkins! So Blaze was the reason…
Since we enjoyed the Paramount Pictures studio tour so much we decided to book the Warner Bros studio tour the following day. We didn’t have enough time to do the deluxe tour (equivalent for the Paramount Pictures VIP tour) at the Warner Bros Studio (even though I really, really wanted to), so we went with…
This is the third Universal Studios park that we have been to. We love our theme parks, and especially love the Harry Potter areas at Universal Studios. Since we only had one day at the park, and we really enjoyed it while in Japan, we decided to get the express pass ticket. The pass was…
One of the things that I really wanted to do while in LA was a studio tour. I love movies and TV, I love the magic and everything behind the scenes. I’m not really a crazy celebrity fan – I’m all about the magic behind the camera and the history throughout the years. I looked…
Our a return trip from Breckenridge, Colorado we went the direct route down Interstate 80 (rather than the scenic route we took out – see Roadtrip through Nebraska Sandhills for details on that trip). We did take our time on the 8 hour journey, stopping near Breckenridge at an outlet mall for some shopping, and…
During our route through the Nebraska Sandhills to Breckenridge, Colorado we went through Cheyenne, Wyoming. We had a bit of time in the afternoon and the following morning to find things to do. After a bit of research I found the Terry Bison Ranch. Since we’ve had a theme of bison/buffalo over the last few…
The Nebraska Sandhills Scenic Byway stretches 272 miles from Grand Island, Nebraska to Alliance, Nebraska. We decided to head to Breckenridge, Colorado for a long weekend. Rather than taking the generic route across Nebraska on Interstate 80 we decided to take a scenic route through the Sandhills. The route is only a few hours out…