Home of the Famous HIGH-Pie If you’ve seen the movie, Top Gun (1986), you’ve undoubtedly seen one of its inanimate stars – “The Top Gun House” – a blue seaside historic cottage on a palm tree lined street in Oceanside, California. Built 135 years ago in 1887, this house was initially a vacation home for Dr. Henry […]
Dateland, Arizona | Interstate 8 at Milepost 67 Located about halfway between Yuma and Gila Bend on Interstate 8 in the Arizona desert, the small town of Dateland has been a welcome site to weary travelers for three generations and counting. Established in the early 1920s as a water stop along the railroad lines, Dateland is in […]
During California’s Shutdown It’s nearly the end of summer 2020, and California’s theme parks remain closed due to the state’s shutdown related to the COVID-19 pandemic. LEGOLAND Park in California, like all the state’s theme parks, is temporarily closed. However, Miniland U.S.A. and The Big Shop opened on August 13th. Want to visit LEGOLAND’s Miniland? Entry […]
How to Celebrate a Golden Birthday
Arizona Route 66 Side Trip to Meteor Crater Fifty thousand years ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky and crash landed into the desert that is now northern Arizona. Over fifty years ago, NASA used this same spot as one of its lunar training sites. What is this place? If you guessed Barringer’s […]