So what do we call a trip that takes us north close to the Canadian border and then a little west? The title we came up with is Northern Plains, […]
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We’re a couple in our 70’s who love to travel and find new and interesting places. Come with us and experience places you may have visited, places you never knew existed, and places you’d love to go to, At Your Pace.
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Our final post centering on the Civil War was a trip I took to the Gone With the Wind Museum in Marietta with some women from my Tri Delta Day Group (seniors). So enjoyed this time to learn about Margaret Mitchell (author) and what was behind the making of the movie.
Jamestown’s city fathers wanted tourists to come to their city, so they made bison their marketing draw. In 1959, they commissioned a 26-foot-tall, 60-ton concrete giant to stand watch over Jamestown in […]
On top of a hill overlooking Jamestown next to the National Buffalo Museum (previous post), is the Frontier Village, a bit of the Old West in this recreation of a […]
During the 1960s and 70s, as you may remember depending on how old you are, the U.S. and the USSR were locked in a Cold War that didn’t have a […]
About 8 miles from the command facility is the launch silo for one of the Minuteman missiles from the Cold War that’s controlled from Oscar-Zero. There’s nothing around here, just […]
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