Oklahoma Firefighters Museum
After flying into Oklahoma City, and checking in to our hotel, we immediately headed over to Miller Stadium to watch Rayo OKC take on the […]
Tourism
Extraterrestrial Highway
My wife and I normally visit Las Vegas in December. Frankly, it is a lot cooler then. The last time we had been there another […]
Onyx Bridge?
No plan survives first contact with the enemy. After my Jasper Forest Road hike, I drove to the Petrified Forest’s north entrance, near the Painted […]
Road Trip: Mission Viejo
When my wife & I drive to California, we like to take the scenic routes as much as possible: CA-98 along the Mexican border, if […]
Hotel Exercise Room
Up early (6:30 a.m.) to hit the hotel gym despite drinking two classic martinis (olives = dinner ), a whiskey (Glenfiddich 12 yo, straight) followed […]
Hoover Dam Tour
Nice bike, but too hard to figure out, so did the same thing as yesterday, manipulating the resistance every two minutes to simulate riding hills. […]
Hotel Exercise Room
Surprisingly, I was not the only guy in the Cosmopolitan gym at 6:30 a.m. The guy next to me on the bikes, and his trainer, […]
Nevada Southern Railroad Museum
Headed up to Las Vegas for an extended weekend, partly to visit family, partly to see Penn & Teller and a boxing card. As my […]
Edinburgh Castle
We walked up High Street — which in Edinburgh is a mile of kebab/pizza/fish & chips restaurants, historical markers, and tourist tchotchke shops — to […]
Rosslyn Chapel
We trained from Glasgow Queen St. to Ediburgh Waverly (the central station). After checking in to our hotel, we walked north up Bridge St., then […]