Part 46 here Back in April, while I was busy with moving our blog to the different platform I found pictures from our last Legoland trip in 2013. I was staring at them when kids entered the room and caught…
Sabbatical 2016. The Winchester Mystery House
Part 45 here We weren’t going to visit that place. In fact, we even didn’t know about its existence. But after breakfast, while walking by the tourist attractions booth in the hotel – you know, almost everywhere you can find…
Sabbatical 2016. Bodie
Part 45 here Today’s other destination is Bodie – a ghost town in California. We already made several attempts to visit it during Spring break 2014 and 2015, but the road leading to the town wasn’t reopened from winter yet.…
Sabbatical 2016. Tonopah Mining Park
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. Mizpah Hotel
Part 42 here In the evening Andrey tried to book a room for the next night in the Tonopah’s Best Western where we’ve stayed during our winter vacation. We liked that place, but today all rooms were booked. And I…
Sabbatical 2016. Extraterrestial Highway
Part 41 here After about two hours of driving from Las Vegas to the north, we noticed the Extraterrestial Highway sign. Before 1996 it was ordinary narrow highway with the boring name Nevada State Route 375. However people told the…
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. Temple of the Sun
Part 39 here Following our plan, we were heading to the middle of Utah, but before that we went to an interesting place. It was Mars Society Desert Reseach Station, where the imitation of living in Mars is created. We…
Sabbatical 2016. Utah Rocks
Part 38 here In the morning we visited the Four Corner monument first and than headed to Utah. While driving we noticed a sigh some ruins, an ancient Indian village was here a very long time ago. Pueblo Indians lived…
Sabbatical 2016. Royal Gorge Suspension Bridge
Part 37 here First american explorers found the Arkansas river in that beautiful canyon back in December 1806. In 1906 three railroad companies joined together to build railroad tracks along the river, that solved a big problem with transportation. In…