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…
Sabbatical 2016. National Museum of the US Air Force
Part 11 here Today we went to the National Museum of Air Force. To be honest, we are not big fans of the planes, but this Museum opened a new Presidential exhibit recently, so we decided to take a look.…
Sabbatical 2016. Factory Day
Part 10 here First thing in the morning is to call the Toyota Factory, to get the information about tour. Unfortunately, no places are available. Oh well, let’s just go to the Visitor Center and see what is going on…
Sabbatical 2016. The Mystery Hill
Part 9 here After RV Museum we headed to the place where three borders of the states are met. They are Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. It is located right on the country road, but I hope that there will be…
Sabbatical 2016. Elkhart RV Museum
Part 8 here In the morning we went to the Museum, showing history of RVs or motor homes. I spent a lot of time observing the process of the vehicle creation. After that we went to look to the actual…