STATES WE HAVE VISITED

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HEARST CASTLE

ARIZONA DESERT IN THE WINTER

TONTO NATIONAL MONUMENT, AZ

TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA

Main street Tombstone

Big Nose Kate's Saloon - Doc Holiday's girlfriend

O K Corral - site of the famous gunfight

TUMACACORI, AZ

 

Mission of Tumacacori was established in 1691 by the Jesuit priests as a settlement with the Pima Indians.

 

Cemetery and mortuary

Mission and Priests living quarters

Mission, Cemetery, and Granary

PRESIDIO OF TUBAC, AZ

THE OLDEST EUROPEAN SETTELMENT IN THE SOUTHWEST.  PRESIDIO OF TUBAC WAS BEGUN IN THE MID 1500'S BY THE SPANISH.  DE ANZA BEGAN HIS JOURNEY TO ESTABLISH THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO FROM HERE.

 

Original walls of the Presidio

St Anne church

Spanish cart

USS MIDWAY

 

FLIGHT DECK OF THE USS MIDWAY

SEAT OF THE 'AIR BOSS'

THE "BOSS" IN THE 'AIR BOSS'S' SEAT

HANGER DECK

FALLS ON THE MCCLOUD RIVER, CA

LAVA BEDS NP & MODOC INDIANS WARS

Lava tunnels made from hot lava flows

Modoc Indians leader Captain Jack's Stronghold - where he held off the Army until he was cut off from food and water and had to surrender. You can see why it was called a stronghold and the Army could not get to the indians.

Spot where Captain Jack murdered General Canby during a peace conference

Fort Klamath where Captain Jack and three others were tried and hung for the murder of General Canby.

Scotty's Castle, Death Valley

Ronald Reagan Library

Berlin Wall with the grave site in background

Reagan's tomb

Air Force

BACK TO NATURE AT LAKE FOLSOM, CA

Must be Spring as he was chasing to females

Wildflowers are in full bloom!

Bald eagle flying off with a fish to snack on

MAMOUTH LAKES, CA

OKTOBERFEST IN MAMOUTH

CONVICT LAKE

TWIN LAKES

TWINLAKES

OKTOBERFEST IN MT. ANGEL, OR

May Pole dance

Budweiser beer wagon and the Clydesdales Horses

JET BOATING THE ROGUE RIVER

GOLD RUSH DAYS in OLD SACRAMENTO

THE SPRUCE GOOSE

IT SURE IS BIG!
FLEW ONCE IN 1947
ABOUT ONE MILE AT 75 FEET OVER WATER

COCKPIT OF THE SPRUCE GOOSE

In Howard Hughes footsteps 60 years later


Pilot's seat

Flight deck

VISITING SEATTLE AREA

Ferrying across Puget Sound

Throwing the fish at Pike's Market, Seattle

One of the Great Falls Lewis & Clark had to portaged around

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK

BIG HORN SHEEP

MOUTAIN GOAT

ST MARY'S LAKE

'GOING TO THE SUN' ROAD

POMPEY'S PILLAR NP

Only remaining evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is carved on the rock. Captain Clark carved his name on this rock he named Pompy's Pillar after the son of Sacagawea who was called Pompy. The date was July 25, 1906. All thirteen other times have since disappeared. Leaving their names and other evidence of their presence was an attempt to lay claim to the territory under the Doctrine of Discovery an international Law.

PLEASE MR. CUSTER....I DON'T WANT TO GO!

On this day in history the men of the 7th Cavalry
went marching on...............

June 25, 1876



Last stand hill
Little Big Horn Battlefield

Monument erected in 1881 over the remains
of 210 solders led by
George Armstrong Custer

Lt Harrington led Co C of the 7th Cav

Indian Memorial erected in 2003

LITTLE BIG HORN RE-ENACTMENT

This re enactment is held on Crow Indian Reservation land owned by Real Bird grandson of Medicine Tail whom the Medicine Tail Coulee is named. The re enactment is held on the site of Medicine Tail ford - the site of the Sans Arc lodges where Capt Yates batallion descended down Medicine Tail Coulee to the ford and was met by a small number of Indians. The Indians quickly rallied and chased Yates up the ravine and thus began the beginning of the end for Custer and his command of 210 men


Indians rallying to fight the soldiers

Custer

Indians sight Custer across the Little Big Horn

Indians cross the river to attack Custer

FORT KEARNY AND THE FETTERMAN MASSACRE SITES

Site of one of three forts along the Bozeman Trail that was
under constant attack by Red Cloud's band for two years



Burned by the Indians after the soldiers abandoned fort in 1868

Site of 81 soldiers massacred by 1500 Indians led by Crazy Horse

Snake Oil Salesman

Devil's Tower - Custer State Park - Mt Rushmore - Independence Rock

Devil's Tower and no close encounters!

1874 Custer Expedition in the Black Hills
to find gold and they did at this spot

Rushmore thru the tunnel from Custer St Park

Immigrants on the Oregon, Immigrant, Morman trails
left their names here as early as 1812

CODY, WY - MAMMOTH DIG - WOUNDED KNEE

Old Western Town in Cody

Jeremiah "Liver-eating" Johnston grave site

Digging for Mammoths in Hot Springs, SD

Site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
on Pine Ridge Reservation, SD

WILD LIFE IN YELLOWSTONE

MORE WILD LIFE IN YELLOWSTONE

Traffic in the park

Coyote on the prowl

The girls with a camera hog

GRAND TETON NAT. PARK

Our first wild Grizzly sighting!

Snowing on top

GOLDEN SPIKE HISTORICAL SITE

Promitory Summit, Utah - site of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad on May 10. 1869.

Canyon de Chelley - Navaho Reservation, AZ

'Cowboy Breadfast' - Palo Duro Canyon, TX

Guess who got stuck singing with the cow for his breadfast?

Fort Smith, Arkansas Territory

Fort Smith was a key site in the expansion of the country. Judge Parker presided over the frontier here in Fort Smith from the late 1870s to the 1890's and used the gallows 87 times in order to help bring lawlessness under control.

Sunrise & Moonrise over the Mississippi

"Sunken Road" Shiloh Battlefield

Confederates assaulted Union troops here 11 times and eventually achieved the surrender of the Union troops. One of the bloodiest spots of the Civil War

Lewis & Clark with Seamen, Paducah, KY

Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN

Carton Plantation, Franklin TN

Five Confederate Generals were put on the porch after being killed in the battle of Franklin. 1496 confederate soldiers were buried in the cemetery

Pigeon Forge, TN - Dolly Parton

Chattanooga, TN

Stone Mountain, CA

Savanah. GA - Paula Dean's - Fort Pulaski

Charleston, SC - Fort Sumter - Drayton Plantation

Myrtle Beach, S C

Leaving the Outterbanks

Hatteras Lighthouse, Outterbanks N C

Tallest lighthouse in the US

Site of the Wright Bros first flight

Cornwallis surrendered here in Yorktown, VA