Part 43 here Behind our hotel there was a Tonopah Mining Park that we were going to check. Silver was found in the area by Jim Butler in May 1900, when, as rumor has it, his mule ran away. Being…
Sabbatical 2016. Las Vegas, Nevada
Part 40 here After camping we decided to head to the south, through the corner of Arizona to Nevada. Our Tundra required a regular service, so we decided to stay for a day in Las Vegas, to see the city…
Sabbatical 2016. White Sands Missile Range
Part 33 here In the morning we were heading to the Missile Range, there is an open-air museum with all types of missiles that had been tested and launched here. We drove by White Sands Dunes and here we learned,…
Sabbatical 2016. From Portland, Oregon through Portland, Maine to Portland, Texas
Part 31 here We don’t have a detailed route, usually we have the next couple days destinations in mind. So when we sat in our hotel room after visiting the Science Museum in Oklahoma, a bright idea came into our…
Sabbatical 2016. Science Museum Oklahoma
Part 30 here All Thursday we were driving to Oklahoma City where the Oklahoma Science Museum is located. While driving, we noticed a “first stage” of the unknown rocket near the road and visited an oldest swinging bridge in Kansas…
Sabbatical 2016. Titanic and Fantastic Caverns
Part 29 here There is a Titanic museum in Branson, that was our destination for today. Unfortunately, because there are a lot of copyrighted things inside we were not allowed to make photos. For example, letters and telegrams that were…
Sabbatical 2016. Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
Part 27 here Today we are going to another museum. Right after entrance we saw a giant Sloth and near was the wall with fossils. Next was the hall of fear explorations. Here we had a lot of fun, even…
Sabbatical 2016. John F. Kennedy Space Center
Part 22 here After arriving to the train station and getting our car back we went to the Cape Canaveral, to visit the Space Museum. First was the bus tour, we went through some of the launching pads. One of…
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…