Category Archives: Travel

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.

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 A: Chesterfield MO – Home B: Wichita KS – Picked up Ian C: Denver CO – Motel 6 D: Las Vegas NV – Motel 6

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 the bottom. My dad was planning a vacation to New York and DC so he asked if I could watch his house and take care

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 85 mph in certain areas. Texas is now the fastest state in the union. In the late 1990s, Montana earned the name “Montanabahn” after replacing

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.