Archive for March, 2010
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A trip to 3 of America’s most dramatic places
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Since that Saturday afternoon in 1949, when I first saw the western movie, “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” the longing to go and see where the movie had been filmed had never left me. On a rainy Thursday afternoon fifty years later, I walked into Gouldings Historical Museum at Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park and [...]
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Travelling with our cats
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
I was never a cat person, until I met my wife some 22 years ago. Yes, it took some time but here I am; not only living with them, but now, I have a CAT OF MY OWN! Traveling in the past, prior to our “RV” days, meant that we paid someone to come to [...]
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RV Trip to Mission Bay & San Diego
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Our plan was to travel from our home in Ventura County, California to the San Diego area for “a few days,” visit Sea World and to see some of the area’s other attractions. We left home in our 31’ class C around 10.00 AM. Due to an accident on Highway 1, the “Coast Route,” we [...]
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Heading South from Yellowstone, Part 4
Monday, March 1st, 2010
If the Mizpah Hotel was the “queen” of Tonopah, then the Goldfield Hotel was surely the queen of Goldfield. Built in 1909, this four-story beauty still stands as a sentinel in “downtown” Goldfield. We had spent a great deal of time in Goldfield in the late 1990’s and even participated in a Goldfield Days celebration [...]