Part 21 here That finally happened and we rode a train. We bought tickets to the coach car, not sleeper, but we will ride in sleeper next Spring or Summer. Our train had a name Auto train, went from Virginia…
Sabbatical 2016. Washington DC
Part 20 here We came to the hotel pretty early and decided to go for a walk a little bit. Right under our building was a passageway to the subway station. We wanted to go and look to the National…
Sabbatical 2016. How Many?
Part 19 here Today we were planning to get to the Washington DC, the capital of the United States. But first we wanted to explore the ships that dad had noticed yesterday when we returned from the Independence Hall. OK,…
Sabbatical 2016. Independence Hall and US Mint
Part 18 here South of Pennsylvania was very hot and humid. In the morning we decided to go to the Independence Hall by fast-speed subway. Oh boy, it was really speedy 🙂 When we came to the square, there was…
Sabbatical 2016. Hunt for the Solar System
Part 17 here When we went through New Milford, we noticed a giant yellow ball near the school. Intrigued, we decided to stop and learned that McCarfy Observatory was located here. They placed a scaled Solar System in the public…
Sabbatical 2016. Three events in one day
Part 16 here Not far from Portland there is a huge rotating globe, the largest in the world, named Eartha. Its diameter is 42 feet and it is a 1:1,000,000 scale model of Earth. If a model of the Sun…
Sabbatical 2016. Road to Maine
Part 15 here In the morning we visited another ice cream factory, Ben&Jerry’s. They claimed to make a yummiest ice cream in Vermont! We went to the factory tour, saw the production floor and funny advertisement video about factory. Also…
Sabbatical 2016. Barton Garnet Mine
Part 14 here Today we are pretending we are treasure hunters and will go to the garnet pit. The garnet mining started here in 1876. One of the versions how that place was found is that Barton came to the…
Sabbatical 2016. Museum of Glass
Part 13 here There is a wonderful Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. It is interesting not only of the all information you can learn there – there are lectures and tours there, so it is easy to spend…
Sabbatical 2016. Cave Day
Part 12 here As you have probably figured out, today will be the cave exploration day. We saw a lot of different types of caves for the last several years, some of them had smooth concrete floor and others were…