The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is both a place to find fear and hope. During your tour, you go from the history of the beginnings of Nuclear Science. The race during WWII to make the H bomb. The dropping of the Little Boy on Hiroshima. The arms race between the USA and Russian. But also are hopeful […]
The Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins is just down the street from Homosassa Spring and a great place to add if you are around the area visiting the other Springs in the area. It is a great place to have a picnic or a walk around the learn about the history. The historical value is unbelievable. There is limited parking at […]
Palo Duro Canyon State Park is in the second largest Canyon in the United States at 120 miles long and between 600 and 800 deep. The park is beautiful from the moment you enter to the time that you leave. My first stop was the El Coronado Lodge and Visitors Center which has a wonderful view of the canyon below. […]
Collier-Seminole park was donated to the state of Florida by the Barron Collier who was a advertising tycoon. The park have around 7,271 acres with several trails, provides habitats for Florida’s wildlife, and a bit of history littered throughout the park. As you enter the park, on the right, the last existing Bay City Walking Dredge sits. This helped create […]
Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs was once the home of Hollywood’s animal stars as Ivan Tors Animal Actors were trained and housed for the general public amusement. The most popular was Buck who was the stand in for Gentle Ben but that was back in the 1970’s but he is not long with us today. But one TV star is still […]
In 1823, the Cove of the Withlacoochee was once give to the Seminole Indians in the Treaty of Moultrie Creek. The agreement required that they give up farms and cattle ranches that they had worked and move. The Seminole Indians were partly, Native American that had lived in Florida and partly runaway slaves which had joined the Native Americans. Five […]
The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is located just outside the Badlands National Park but it has three different sites that you have to visit. The picture above is the Visitor Center. In the center, you can relive the “duck and cover” era of the cold war with videos that were shown to teach people how. It has so many […]
Cimarron National Park is 108,175 acres of grasslands that was once a site of the pioneers heading west ward. Loaded in southwest Kansas, the National Park was once park of Santa Fe Trail this was area was called the Cimarron cut off which took pioneers through the Comanche territories but to a reliable water source. The trail below was created […]
The Red Rock Canyon Adventure Park is a privately owned and charges $10 per car for up to 5 people then $2 for each extra person. Motorcycles get in for $5. Or a Season Pass for $49. Camping starts at $12 to $35 starting with a tent without a fire ring going up to a 50amp site with three different […]
The Santa Fe Trail was used by Native Americans as a passage way. In the 1820’s, Europeans start using it to travel from what is now Kansas City, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico for trade and moving manufactured goods. One of the stops along the way was James and Lucinda Mahaffie farm. In 1857, the Mahaffie’s left Olathe, Kansas […]