PART 7: 2011 American Road Trip – Napa Valley, Highway 1, Highway 101
The Napa Valley region is stunning in the daylight, like a scene from The Sound of Music.
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PART 6: 2011 American Road Trip – San Francisco, Castro, Golden Gate, and Berkeley
Checked out the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco’s Castro District.
PART 4: 2011 American Road Trip – Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Mojave Airplane Graveyard
Accidentally came across an airplane graveyard in the Mojave Desert.
PART 2: 2011 American Road Trip – St Louis to Las Vegas
Be sure to read Part 1 for a trip overview. Travel Dates: 4/15/11 through 4/18/11.
2011 American Road Trip – 9000 miles, 32 days, Coast to Coast
Because I took almost 3,000 pictures, I broke the trip into separate articles linked at.
Traveled Five Hours for One Sandwich
Frustrated with local choices for Italian beef, I boarded Amtrak at 4 AM and headed 300 miles north to Chicago.
Man with funny accent covers 200 countries in 4 minutes.
Hans Rosling, a world-renowned Swedish statistician, uses animated bubble charts to depict the growth, wealth, and health of world populations over the last two hundred years.
Disappearance of the Paperboy
Do you still receive a newspaper? If you do, and you’re up early enough to witness the delivery, you will find its no longer delivered by a child on a bicycle.
Texas Allows 85 mph Speeds
The Texas House passed a bill that allows speed limits to be as high as.
Chevy Vegas packed nose-down in railroad cars for shipping
The Chevy Vega started a lasting trend at General Motors: Great ideas with poor execution. It did, at least, contribute one interesting piece of railroad history.