Geo: 29.4245, -98.4946 So, we skipped the Friday practice at the track. Smart move on our part. We got up and got ready for the track early Saturday morning. When we went to board the bus at 7:30AM it was pouring rain at a 45 degree angle. The wind was blowing about 30 miles an hour. On the way to the track, they announced that the gates wouldn't open until 10:00AM. We turned around and headed back to the hotel. Then they announced that the gates would open at noon. So we went back to our room and hung out until 11:15AM, then back on the bus. It was still pouring! We got to the track at noon and proceeded to gear up and head on out to our grand stand. By the time we got ... read more

Geo: 30.2676, -97.743 We left Amarillo and drove to Dallas, which is an all day drive. We got up on Monday morning and headed out to the JFK Memorial. After viewing that we walked over to a really cool looking old building. It was called The Old Red Museum of Dallas County History. It used to be the old courthouse. It was built around the late 1890's after several of the original ones burned down. It is now a very nice museum. We spent a couple of hours there before we headed over to Dealy Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum. Everyone of my generation remembers where they were when the news that JFK had been assassinated hit them. I was sitting in a 6th grade class at Cleveland Elementary School when it was announced over ... read more

Geo: 35.6915, -105.937Before we left Albuquerque, we stopped at the Museum of Natural History and Science. It had a lot of info about the history of New Mexico. After that we drove over to Santa Fe. We checked into our B&B and headed over to the old part of town. We had some lunch and then toured the San Miguel Mission Church. It is considered the oldest active church in the nation. After that we visited the oldest adobe house in Santa Fe. It was originally constructed in 1200 AD. It has been added onto and reconstructed several times. But there are several parts of it that are original. We then visited the Loretto Chapel. It has a really neat staircase that goes up to the choir loft. The staircase looks like it is floating in ... read more

Geo: 34.8408, -111.776 So we left on Thursday morning for a lesurely drive to Tonapah, Nev. We went into Yosemite and up thru Tioga Pass. It was a nice drive. Then into Nevada. What a desolate place! There is nothing out there but desert brush. no trees, no animals, nothing. We arrived in Tonapah and went to our hotel, which is the Mitzpah Hotel. It was pretty cool. It was opened in 1901. It has been restored and the rooms modernized. We liked it. The first thing we did was have a drink at the Bar Mitzpah. The next morning we got up early and headed thru the rest of Nevada and into Arizona. Its much nicer there, especially th closer you get to Sedona. We went into town for some dinner and to listen to ... read more

Geo: 48.8567, 2.35099 We got up and went over to the Citadelle. It is mostly underground. It is a series of underground rooms that were used as bunkers in WWI. They have a cool car that you ride around in that helps explain what the soldiers were going through during the war. After that, we went over to visit the Cathedral. I can't believe that every town in this country has a huge Cathedral! It must have taken thousands of people to build these things and they were building them everywhere at about the same time, the 1200's. We looked around and visited the cloisters next to the Cathedral. Then it was time to head over to Reims. We dropped off the luggage and went over to the Museum of Surrender, which is where the Germans ... read more