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I started today at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. Yup, it was as exciting as it sounds. This was by far not the best Presidential Library I've been to, but I think it did leave me with a better understanding of Hoover. A few miles down the road was the home of the American Pickers. Of course they weren't here, even Danielle was no where to be found. Although they do have a few picked items for sale here, they are generally overpriced. What you can purchase here is a ton of T-shirts, hats and anything they could put their Logo on. They do however display a lot of Picked items that you'll remember from the show, but most of them are not for sale. After a quick pick in Iowa I decid... read more

Herman Reinders Lived and worked his farm near Alliance Nebraska until his death in 1982. As friends and family gathered to pay respects to him, there were discussions of a memorial. In June of 1987 35 of his friends and family gathered and built Carhenge. It was officially dedicated on the Summer solstice in 1987. I visited Carhenge the first time in 2007. Although not much has changed in the past 7 years I couldn't resist a return visit. Carhenge will be in the path of the Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, Maybe a 3rd visit will be in order. More photos... read more

I've spent most of the last three days driving around the edge of Colorado. Basically from Pueblo to Denver the hard way. Yesterdays drive was just amazing, as you could see yesterday, it left me speechless. The part of the drive between Silverton and Ouray was listed by USA Today as one of the 10 Bucket list drives everyone should take. In fact, if your not careful it could be the last drive on your list. It's a steep uphill drive with lots of tight curves and not a lot of guardrails. It's one of those Roads you see on TV or in cartoons where one side of the road is a mountain that goes straight up and the other side goes straight down and there's no guardrail. Then once you get to the top ... read more

first on today's list was the Pueblo Air Museum. This is the International B-24 Museum, one problem, they don't have a B-24. They do have a very nice B-29. B-29s are very cool planes. But no B-24. They also have a lot of other planes and cool stuff Including a C-119 which is the type of plane used in the 2004 version of Flight of the Pheonix. Next was the Colorado Prison Museum. This Museum isn't housed in the actual Prison because... well... it's still a prison. So the museum is located in the old Woman's Prison next door. Then I headed towards Duraango when all of a sudden I saw a sign... read more

It's not a ton of salt, it's closer to 3 tons of pure salt. The Kansas Salt Mine tour takes you 650' below the surface into an active salt mine. Well they don't take you into the active part of the mine, the tour is in part of the mine where they are no longer extracting salt. The tour starts with a quick safety film, visitors are required to follow the same safety precautions as the miners. this means a hard hat must be worn at all times and you must carry a portable emergency respirator. Then it's a 90 second elevator ride down the 650' shaft to the gallery area where you can take a self guided tour until your ready for the train tour. The train is about a 30 minute guided tour ... read more