2026 Donner Tunnels There are some old train tunnels up near Donner Lake. They are abandoned and you can just walk through them and they go for miles. There's birds and bats in them and lots of graffiti. Parts of the tunnels are concrete, other sections have been carved out of
Point Arena Lighthouse We spent a couple of days at the Point Arena Lighthouse - they have cottages right next to the lighthouse. The drive there was pretty long and a little treacherous. I'm standing at the beginning of Mountain View Road - and the horror on my face and in my hands
Model of the Old Testament Tabernacle A group that travels with a life-size model of the Old Testament Tabernacle came to Reno last week. There was a youth conference for a couple of days and then tours were given on the third day. The youth who attended the conference were the tour guides. we'
The Alamo We traveled to Houston with the team, so we were there on Monday and had a couple of days with a lot of free time while the team was doing team stuff. We drove to San Antonio to see the Alamo and the Riverwalk. There's Biden and Trump
NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston On Tuesday we still had a lot of free time to kill, so we tried out the NASA space center A mock shuttle on top of an airplane - you could walk around inside both of them inside the plane We took a tour of the astronaut training center funny name
Ridgeline trip to Phoenix The front of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, built in 1928. It looks the same as it did in the 20s a cool stained-glass window in the lobby the first night there was a outdoor dinner party at the hotel there were a lot of pools - here are the waterslides
The Silver Circuits - State Robotics Competition in Las Vegas: Battle Bots and Hoover Dam Carson's team went to a Battle Bots show the first night we were in Vegas, so we joined in and checked it out. It was pretty fun, it wasn't an actual competition, it was just for fun. The next morning, we drove over the Hoover Dam;
Rexall Drugstore Museum, McGill, Nevada, part 1 Rexall Drug in McGill, Nevada was built in 1908. It was open until 1979, when the owner passed away and left the store to the town to be used as a museum. Everything was left as it was in 1979. Me signing the guestbook. The soda fountain was built in
Rexall Drugstore Museum, McGill, Nevada part 2 We could open drawers and handle the old pill bottles. I thought it was so cool to be able to walk around and look at anything, pick up anything - which is so different from other museums. I was looking at some old lipsticks from the 60s and Keith told me
Stokes Castle Stokes Castle is near Austin, Nevada. It was built in the 1897. There is also an old mining structure down the hill from the castle. This was one of the first things we saw on our trip to Utah for Phil's wedding. Stokes Castle is up on a
Myrtle Creek and Myrtle Point and Coos Bay We stopped in Myrtle Creek after leaving Mt. Shasta. We got out of the car and walked around a nice park and a really cool covered bridge. Next stop - Myrtle Point. This is the Logging Museum that had been built in 1910. It wasn't open that day. Front
Wilbur D. May Museum - Sweet: A Tasty Journey We went to the Wilbur D. May Museum in Sparks to see the Sweet: A Tasty Journey exhibit, which is all about candy production and its history. This picture is made out of jelly beans. This was cool; you push a button to hear about different candies from other countries.
Bodie, California - Walking through a Ghost town Bodie was founded in the 1860s, after W.S. Bodey discovered gold here. It became a booming mining town through the late 1870s, but that quickly died down by the early 1880s. The town didn't instantly become a ghost town though; people continued to live there through the
Bodie, California This was probably taken in 1989. We tried to replicate the 1989 picture (it was not easy sitting perched on those spokes!) ....and it was not easy getting up there .....nor was it easy getting down
Day trip on the Northern California Coast - Fort Bragg, Glass Beach and Point Cabrillo Light Station We were starving, so we had some lunch, fried fish and shrimp and clam chowder. Then we went to Glass Beach, where part of the beach has sand made up of pieces of glass. The other part of Glass Beach is all tide pools. lots of jellyfish pieces and a
Visit to Visalia We went to Visalia last week to visit family. We went out to Mooney Grove Park to go to the Tulare County Museum, which has been around since the 1950s. Some of these pictures are out of order; the above photo is inside the Emken House. This is a marker
National Automobile Museum Reno has a great automobile museum, and the last time we went to the National Automobile Museum was probably 10 or more years ago, so we decided to go today. It was great 10 years ago, and it's still the same today. The museum layout and Main street
Lone Pine and Manzanar Internment Camp in California We drove down to Bishop, CA to look at a car for sale and ended up seeing lots of other things. This is a bakery in Bishop with a cool old bakery truck in front. We wanted to go inside and see what bakery items they had, but they weren&
Tragedy Springs Melvin and Nan took us up to Tragedy Springs, which is a little south of Lake Tahoe. There are a few family connections to the people who were involved with the events that transpired there. The little house back there with the green roof houses the spring.
Old IronTown Settlement We drove about 30 minutes west of Cedar City to see the old IronTown Settlement. There are remnants of an old home, a charcoal kiln, and a molding house - all for producing ore and iron. Old homesite with chimney, floorboards and even plaster left in some places on the walls.
Butch Cassidy Childhood Home, Garfield County, Utah Since moving near Butch Cassidy's old stompin' grounds, we've been reading more about him and were able to visit his childhood home. It was a very nicely restored cabin with signs explaining a little bit about him.
Four Corners Monument - Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado Far from everything is the Four Corners Monument, marking the corner of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. We pulled up to find it closed.... What??? We imagined it was just a spot on the ground with some shops around it. But it was gated up. Apparently, you normally have
Historic Route 66 - Gallup, NM Continuing along Route 66, we went to Gallup, NM. Gallup is surrounded by Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi Native American Reservations. We stopped at Walmart and found the welcome sign was both in English and a Native American Language (Navajo?).
