Category: Dining

Relaxing Las Vegas Weekend

November 22, 2022 We went to Las Vegas in April 2022 for a convention, but we only attended the convention one day and spent the rest of the weekend enjoying Las Vegas.  We stayed at the Park MGM for the first time, and we enjoyed staying there.  We mostly walked around enjoying the great weather

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Nevada Road Trip: Tonopah to Las Vegas

We traveled from Tonopah to Las Vegas after completing our Highway 50 road trip. We saw the painted cars of the International Car Forest, the wild donkeys of Beatty, and stopped by the Area 51 Alien Travel Center before we arrived at our hotel in Las Vegas.

Highway 50 Road Trip : 6th and Final Day – Carson City, Tonopah

Our official sixth and final day of our Highway 50 : Loneliest Road in America road trip concluded in Carson City, Nevada. We continued through Nevada to stay the night at the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah.

Highway 50 Road Trip – Day 5 – Virginia City

Day five or our Highway 50 : Loneliest Road in America road trip was spent off of Highway 50 in Virginia City, Nevada. We spent the day touring a historic cemetery, touring the haunted Mackay Mansion Museum, taking the Ponderosa Mine Tour, and visiting the Comstock Firemen’s Museum.

Highway 50 Road Trip – Day 4 – Fort Churchill State Park, Fallon, Dayton, Virginia City

Day four of our Highway 50 : Loneliest Road in America road trip taken in September 2021. We started the day touring Fort Churchill State Historic Park, the Churchill County Museum, and made it to Virginia City where we would be spending the next two nights.

Highway 50 Road Trip : Day 3 – Eureka and Austin

Day three of our Highway 50: Loneliest Road in America road trip took us from Eureka, Nevada to Fort Churchill State Park. We stopped at Hickison Petroglyphs, Austin Courthouse, Stokes Castle, saw some telegraph station and pony express ruins, tossed shoes into the Shoe Tree, and ate an enormous burger at Middlegate Station before we camped for the night at Samuel Bucklands Campground inside the Fort Churchill State Historic Park.

Highway 50 Road Trip – Day 2 : Ely and Eureka

Day two of our Highway 50, Loneliest Road in America road trip through Nevada. We stopped at Ward Charcoal Ovens State Park, White Pine County Museum, Northern Nevada Railway, and ate a delicious dinner at the Jailhouse Cellblock Restaurant in Ely, Nevada before staying the night at the Gold Country Inn in Eureka, Nevada.

Modesto Road trip – Day One: Delano Heritage Park and Tulare Historical Museum

I learned about the Almond Blossom Cruise in Modesto from an email I received from Visit California.  After doing a little research, I decided to take a mini-road trip to Modesto during the last weekend in February.  Ripon was holding their Almond Blossom Festival that same weekend so we would also have their activities to

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Taste of Universal

April 11, 2021 We went to Universal Studios Hollywood for their Taste of Universal event on April 11, 2021.  The State of California had just announced a lifting of restrictions for theme parks, but we attended before this went into effect.  We attended with my “adopted” family, and it was the first time I had

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