admin The Agate Fossil Beds are in western Nebraska about an hours drive north of Scottsbluff. A large fossilizes leg bone was found by James Cook on his land in 1887. Since then large numbers of fossilized bones and complete skeletons of prehistoric animals have been found in the vicinity. The bones were found around ancient waterholes. It is thought the waterholes dried up in a time of drought and the animals died in the shallow waters of a few remaining ponds.
31st October, 2019
My niece was attending school at Western Nebraska Community College so my sister flew from Australia, met me in Florida and we flew into Denver, Colorado to start the trek north to visit. From the moment we left the plane in Denver we were freezing. We drove through light snow all the way to Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
October 6, 2019
It was, finally, time! The weather has given us a little reprieve from that Florida summer heat. I had been wanting to get outside and hike some local trails for months, but it had simply been too hot. At last, a Sunday morning has rolled around with a light breeze and a renewed freshness in the air.
8th August, 2019
“The young woman who deep down in her heart wants to do something and wants to be something and strives to that end will certainly find something to do.”
-Maggie L. Walker
June 5th – 9th 2019
We headed from our campsite at Prince William Forest Park near Washington DC to the entrance of the Shenandoah National Park. We made a quick stop at Front Royal to pick up some supplies for the next couple of days and headed into the park. It took us about 2 hours to get to Big Meadows Campground at mile marker 51.
June 3rd, 2019
This site has been on my radar for quite a while. The first manned powered flight. Wow, where would we be now without powered flight. I definitely wouldn’t be able to travel as much as I do and the world would not be s small as it now seems.
June 3rd, 2019
Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island was the first English settlement in the United States. Colonists were initially helped by the local Algonquian Indians but quickly ran out of supplies.
2nd June 2019
Cape Hatteras National Seashore stretches for 70 miles along the North Carolina Outer Banks. NC Hwy 12 links the islands that make up the National Seashore.
December 11, 12 2017
I remember driving to the Blue Mountains when I was young. We lived in Sydney so it was a nice day trip. It left me in awe then as it has every time I have managed to make the trip.
December 27-30 2018
This was a very quick trip to Chicago on our way to the Wisconsin Dells with our good friends the DeWitts. We had 2 days to enjoy the city. The first stop was The Bean in Millennium Park and a little bit of ice skating.
