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PCH – Day Two – Seattle to Mount Rainier
After a very very long day, a thunderstorm ripped through Seattle like I’ve never heard in my entire life. There were long stretches in between thunderclaps, but they were incredibly loud. I truly didn’t understand how Hunter slept through all of it. But he did. I woke after eight hours and Hunter after 11 hours.…
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PCH – Day One – Seattle
We arrived so late last night (1:00am my time EST), but we stayed at a hotel just three miles from the airport. And with me being me, I had my Target run done about a year ago, so this morning the first thing we did was do a drive-in and pick up the essentials, but…
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15 Day Road Trip from Seattle to San Diego: Pacific Coast Highway Adventure
This trip began germinating when I began working at Dime. Thanks to a 1950s banking regulation, I am forced to take ten business days in a row of vacation. With ten days plus weekends, Hunter and I can do some serious exploring. My first thought was to drive The Lincoln Highway, but the more I…
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The Smoke House
When I took The Warner Brothers Tour in 2019, the tour guide mentioned that behind the studio is a restaurant called The Smoke House. Not only is it an old Hollywood favourite, he proclaimed, but George Clooney ate there so much during ER, that he name his production company, Smoke House Productions. So when I…
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Saarinen Wing
The Living Room I organized all of the albums!Debrah: “it’s not your job.”Me: “it could be.”
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ABQ Biopark
What a zoo!!! I wish we had had more time to explore the aquarium! The Goldielocks of zoos! At 64 acres, it wasn’t too small nor too big…it was just right! And once again, zookeepers who cared. When the elephant keeper noticed Hunter, he brought the elephant over to say hello…just so special!
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Endangered Wolf Center, Eureka, Missouri
I pulled up to the gate ten minutes early, and was quickly told that I was 24 hours and ten minutes early…yeah, I cried. Like full on cried because we were day two into out 18 day Route 66 adventure and I feared for what else I had screwed up, and Hunter really wanted to…
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Miller Park Zoo, Bloomington, Illinois
We stopped at this small zoo during out Route 66 journey, and it did not disappoint. The animals were clearly taken care of and well loved. With roaming zookeepers engaging in on-the-spot educational moments and a walk though wallaroo and wallaby walkabout that rivals the kangaroo exhibit Columbus Zoo in Ohio, I was wildly impressed…
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John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois
Hunter watches a show called Animal Atlas which featured The Shedd Aquarium and a very special sea turtle named Nickel who lives at the Shedd Aquarium, so the moment I announced that we would be going there, I was taught all about Nickel and his odd float. On a plaque on Nickel’s tank: “Why does…
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Johnny Morris Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium, Springfield, Missouri
Attached to the Bass Pro Shop Flagship store in Springfield, Missouri, this is by far the best aquarium I have been to yet! Whoever designed it should win an award and go on to redesign every parking lot that doesn’t make sense! Seriously, the traffic flow of the aquarium, the way the exhibits were laid…
