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Happy Thanksgiving!!
Day 2 of the big storm that is hovering over the area.  It looks sort of clear towards the south, so let’s head down Highway 89 into Arizona and try for a view of the north rim of the Grand Canyon today.  As I drove across the Arizon strip, [...]

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Before heading over to the park, I stopped a explore Moqui Cave, a really cool museum that the host’s father started and created.  His father, Garth Chamberlain, was a man of many talents. He was a professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1940s; an artist who created [...]

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Last night I arrived in Caliente, Nevada and took a motel room to settle in for the night.  I soon learned that Caliente is a very active train town.  A train seemed to come through every half hour and, of course, a train has to blow its whistle when it [...]

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I left Sacramento yesterday and drove down east on Highway 50, “The Loneliest Road in America“, to Austin, Nevada, the middle of Nevada.  I spent the night at the Cozy Mountain Motel, 12 rooms fit for a king–newly remodeled and 5-star beds–I have not been in a small motel [...]

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Today is my last day in Nashville and then I fly home this evening.  I decide to check out a few of the sites on the Battle of Nashville brochure that I picked up in the hotel lobby. Most of the sites on the map are only a history marker [...]