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The #60 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Honda-powered Ligier JS-P2 prototype has the most beautiful paint job I've ever seen. Except it's not paint: It's an applique!

Road America

2016-08-07 Tourism 0

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship was the main event of me & my wife’s trip to Wisconsin. I can’t just go somewhere: I have to […]

Oklahoma Firefighters Museum

2016-07-14 Tourism 0

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 […]

Extraterrestrial Highway

2016-06-12 Tourism 3

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 […]

On the way north, from Jasper Point, I passed The Teepees, which are right across the road from the Historic Blue Forest Trail.

Onyx Bridge?

2016-05-19 Tourism 0

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 […]

From the Coachella Valley Vista Point, looking down the CA-74 switchbacks towards Palm Desert.

Road Trip: Mission Viejo

2014-12-23 Tourism 0

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

2014-12-13 Tourism 0

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 turbines with 300-ton overhead crane.

Hoover Dam Tour

2014-12-12 Historic, Tourism 0

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

2014-12-11 Tourism 0

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, […]

Eureka was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1875. It is a narrow gauge 4-4-0 engine.

Nevada Southern Railroad Museum

2014-12-10 Historic, Tourism 0

Headed up to Las Vegas for an extended weekend, partly to visit family, partly to see Penn & Teller and a boxing card. As my […]

Looking from the castle walls, east past St. Giles Cathedral to Arthur's Seat.

Edinburgh Castle

2014-03-26 Historic, Tourism 0

We walked up High Street — which in Edinburgh is a mile of kebab/pizza/fish & chips restaurants, historical markers, and tourist tchotchke shops — to […]