The Old Depot Museum in Vicksburg, MS

April 9, 2024 On March 28, after Bruce finished making friends with a visiting cat, we walked around to the front of the Old Depot Museum. We paid to tour the museum and got our Vicksburg Passports stamped after paying. The museum has lots of exhibits of trains, planes, boats and ships models. They also […]

Lunch and a Visit to Catfish Row Museum

April 4, 2024 On March 28 (Thursday), we rode back to downtown Vicksburg to do some more touring. We stopped at Rusty’s Riverfront Grill for lunch. I had an oyster po’boy with a baked sweet potato as my side. The bread was good French bread and the oysters were plump and juicy. They were nicely […]

Visiting the Coke-Cola Museum in Vicksburg, MS

April 3, 2024 After our tour of the Jesse Brent Lower Mississippi River Museum, we walked the short distance to the Coke-Cola Museum. The lady at the front desk let us buy a Coke ice cream float and after we paid the entry fee, allowed us to walk around the museum with the floats. She […]

Touring the Former Flagship of the COE (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

April 3, 2024 We got a lot of rain in Vicksburg, MS on March 25 (Monday). We stayed home and played with Nox until she was tired out, which happens very quickly these days. After all, she is 15 years old. The weather cleared up by Tuesday (March 26), so we headed to historic downtown […]

A Walk Around Downtown Quincy, Florida

March 20, 2024 This post is out of order, as it is about our day in historic downtown Quincy, Florida on March 12. We decided to try out a restaurant that mostly got rave reviews in downtown Quincy, Big Papa’s Chop House. We rode the motorcycle to downtown Quincy and parked across the street from […]

Ya’ll Aboard for a Ride on the Rockton, Rion and Western Railroad (RR&W) to the Pumpkin Patch

November 3, 2023 On Saturday (October 28), Bruce and I rode to the South Carolina Railroad Museum. I was very excited to get to ride the train. As soon as we got there, we got tickets for the last ride of the day to the pumpkin patch. It was also the last ride of the […]

Living History Museum in Wytheville, Virginia – Part 2

October 24, 2023 After touring the Great Lakes to Florida Museum, we toured the log buildings around the Living History Museum. Like many living history museums, they do demonstrations at various times. They were not doing demonstrations while we were there. It was a beautiful walk around and I was impressed by the steam tractor. […]

Living History Museum in Wytheville, Virginia – Part 1

October 24, 2023 On October 19, after visiting the First Responders Museum, we walked down the hill past the Great Lakes to Florida Museum to the Living History Museum. We were told to look for the white house to pay for the entry fee. We admired the grounds as we walked to the house. The […]

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Hike

October 5, 2023 On September 20 (Wednesday), we took Nox in the truck to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley for a hike. The hiking trails are free. We parked just inside the entrance and headed to the Pasture Trail. We took a detour and walked across the road to see the Overlook. Nox was […]

Historic Lyme Village Outside of Bellevue, Ohio – Part 2

September 28, 2023 We toured Cooper General Store and got to see a demo of a bottle capper. We were very familiar with bottle cappers since we had one when Bruce bottled his home brew beer. The old cash register still worked. It would allow for cash as well as purchasing on account. Schug Hardware […]