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Today's adventure was to visit Lowell Observatory, the earthly home of the planet Pluto. In the late 19th Century Percival Lowell, a Harvard trained mathematician, had a keen interest in astronomy. He had done calculations indicating the presence of a planet beyond...
Fans of the 2006 Pixar film Cars, know the fictional town of Radiator Springs along the very real Route 66. It's based on a composite of several communities along the historic route including Seligman AZ. Another interesting note about Seligman is that at one time in...
The 1831 version of the London Bridge was deemed by the City of London to have reached the end of its useful life and in the late 1960's was auctioned off to the highest bidder, an Arizona real estate developer for $2.46 million. Robert McCullough had the bridge...
Our home tonight is at the KOA near Needles CA between Historic Route 66 and the Colorado River in the Mojave Valley. Tonight we are blessed with perfect weather, a beautiful sunset with purple mountains in the distance, and a clear sky with no moon. As we sit in our...
The journey south along the coast is behind us and our eastbound journey is ahead. After several days of traveling twisty coastal roads and after studying the maps, we are opting for interstate travel for smoother grades and longer curves. We're using overdrive and...
This morning is a good time to move on. The KOA is packed with weekend revelers including some who believe that the ban on campfires doesn't apply to them. And the forecast is for red flag conditions, hot, dry, and windy. So we are traveling east through the fertile...
Our home at the moment is Ventura Ranch KOA in the hills of California's Ventura County. This morning is beautiful, sunny, and pleasantly cool as we prepare breakfast in our T@B Clamshell kitchen. Last night though we had the excitement of a windstorm lasting from...
The route from San Luis Obispo to Santa Paula took us through stunning scenery and along gorgeous beaches. Our plan had been to stay ay Hobson Beach but no electric sites were available and with plans to be away from the T@B for several hours tomorrow we deferred on...
Last night we set up on Site C-10 for two nights in the El Chorro County Park after being unable to find the campground we'd initially picked out on our Allstays app. It's a pleasant place though not quite as convenient for our major purpose for coming to SLO and...
Early this morning we got hugs from Lou and from Megan as they each headed out to their professional realms. For a couple of hours we stayed coccooned in the apartment giving rush hour traffic a chance to calm. Later in the morning we made our way to Cupertino and a...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.