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.
Joplin, Missouri Pummeled By Tornado
75% of the town was destroyed in a tornado on May 22, 2011.
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.
Saab Lives, For Now
A Lithuanian bank owned by Russian investor Vladimir Antonov intends to loan the Swedish automaker $48 million, enough to pay suppliers and continue production.
The Best (and Worst) of Cardomain
Cardomain is a shrine to Gen-Y narcissism with shiny colors, awful photos, and strange characters. Like Myspace, most profiles have been abandoned and forgotten as people moved to the suburbs (Facebook), leaving behind an embarrassing time capsule of online idiocy.
Weekly Wrap-Up – 9 April 2011
Saab needs CPR. Subaru needs caffeine. The corn lobby scores another victory.