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Jar, That’s kind of cool, though I don’t remember seeing any choppers yesterday painted like that. Years back, my parents visited an air museum in the Phoenix area, and that one had the plane on which Kennedy’s body was carried back to DC. They said it was surprising how small it really was.
On another note….we might not have two tickets to Paradise, but we do have two tickets…to Billy Joel in Lambeau. Woo hoo!
On another topic….those of you who are facebook friends with Trekkin’ may already have seen the photos he posted on facebook about our visit to the Minnesota Air National Guard Museum yesterday. We had a blast, like kids at an amusement park. History, airplanes, other aviation artifacts! As a result of our visit there, we learned a few other things when visiting my parents afterward and sharing our experiences, including the fact that one of Dad’s cousins married a cousin of Richard Bong.
This was one of those experiences that is a true geocaching gem. I don’t think we’d have learned about this awesome location if not for the virtual placed there.
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This does require advance planning and the time to enjoy the tour. Had we already known of this site, we’d still have gone through the hoops to visit it, cache or not. I encourage anyone with an interest in history or aviation to give it a visit.
Well, there’s probably a fair degree of truth in that observation, Steve. Birds are more interesting than a cache, anyway! 😉
Trekkin’ has loved his Map60csx, and when that finally died, he took over mine. Sadly, the city navigator can’t be loaded onto it and apparently isn’t supported by it, anyway. What we wonder is….does it allow for the general description being displayed? Size, hints, etc? It doesn’t happen too often, but now that my Oregon died, I took over his, and in the past, he’d take that with the info he wanted. There might be a couple occasions in the near future when that stuff would be nice for him to have. I had already signed up for a two day dulcimer workshop in Racine the same weekend of the campout, and while my off hours are more likely going to be birding the shoreline to try and get some life birds, I’m sure there’ll be a cache or two in the mix!
For as long as we’ve been caching (almost 11 years), we’ve burned through relatively few GPS units. We started with his Magellan Explorist, which he actually bought for other uses. When that conked out beyond repair, it was the Map60CSx. I had an Oregon 300 eventually, and also my own Map60CS, which the dog ate. When they replaced it, they upgraded to the 60CSx, which he now owns. I took his Oregon 450t when my 300 conked out last year. He had bought that on a good sale to deal with the lack of hints and stuff, but still clings to his Map60CSx. I will say that when we’re out together, he is always at the cache site before me, while I’m still circling around and trying to get a fix, so I can speak to the value of that external antenna!
No, we don’t have a smartphone, so that solution to his dilemma isn’t an option. Thanks for asking about this, Jim! I didn’t realize Garmin had acquired DeLorme.
Well, I spent the better part of the day birding the city wetlands. Turtles climbing up onto deadfalls all over!
I also went to see the local Peregrine Falcon nest box, conveniently located on the US Bank building. At least one of them was home.
Don’t know if I can do that this soon. But I am looking into it! It’s been about six years since I’ve flown anywhere. What happened to all the cheap flight deals????? I’d be flying into Albuquerque.
So, I’ve jokingly told Trekkin’ that to fully understand this person I want to portray, I need to spend some time birding on horseback in New Mexico. Amazingly enough, there are a couple dude ranches out there offering just that, and I didn’t think the rates were too bad. So we shall see! I’ve never been there. Closest my travels have brought me to the southwest is Death Valley.
One place is 300 a night, and that includes food and the riding and all. The other is 145 and the riding is an add on, bringing it close to the first depending on the ride I’d choose. Way more reasonable than the yoga/riding retreats I was exploring earlier. Heck, I can throw a mat down and do my own yoga. Probably after a day in the saddle, I’ll have to! Dreams are good.
I must have missed it…what character research?I’m working on doing a living history presentation of Florence Merriam Bailey, who is credited with writing the first modern field guide for birding, and advocating for birding with binoculars instead of a shotgun. Quite a fascinating woman, especially for her time.I need to get fabric to make a pair of jodphurs as part of my “costume.” I told Trekkin’ I really need to go horseback birding in the canyons of New Mexico wearing those jodphurs for historical authenticity, but so far, he’s not buying it!I set myself to do my first “run through” for my Audubon club in May. May will creep up faster than I realize and I have a long way to go!We had about four inches here, but it’s already beginning to melt.
Debby, Thanks for the book recommendation! I just finished “Death on the Prairie.” That was the only one they have at the library across the street, but it seems most of the rest are available at the main branch in La Crosse. I need to stay away and concentrate on my character research for now, though!
Today I worked at the Habitat storage space, helping to build storage/shelving for the paint supplies. In the process, I learned how to build a wall…but I don’t know who’s paying for it. 😉
Ba da BOOM!
Monday night’s winds have officially been designated a tornado touchdown around here. It was on the ground for about four minutes before pulling up just south of where we live. An area family’s farm was damaged severely, but no one was hurt. The barn, which has been around since 1895….gone. Flattened.
In answer to bartrod’s question….we just got back from there a little while ago. The mounds are not very obvious, but the view is pretty spectacular. This area was explored over a period of years from 2010 to 2015, I believe. The clincher for the Cahokia transplants theory is the fact that some of the pottery shards recovered were dated to Cahokia, so about 1000 years. Working theory is they brought some things along. There is a new display at Perrot that we explored last fall, and I think they had replicas of some of the artifacts displayed there. The local library also has a display based on that dig. They also recovered various artifacts at river level, in what are now neighborhoods. It’s a pretty interesting little trail.
If they did arrive in dugout canoes, that’s a journey of over 500 miles…upstream! I’m impressed.
Trempealeau. Three remaining temple mounds. I suppose local kids have known of them for generations, but there is a new trail there. We noticed it last fall, just before they were done doing the trail work and signage, but didn’t want to make the hike over the winter, given the terrain there. Hopefully we can visit today. It is not in Perrot Park, but they do have displays there now that tie in to this information. Our younger son took part in a dig in that area when he was about Pooh’s Pal’s age.
Thanks, no biggie. It happens every single time to me, whether I’m on the laptop or iPad. It will often allow me to only view one topic and does the same thing all over again if I go to a different forum topic.
The wind has been horrible and constant sinceMonday night. Supposed to die down by noon, after which time we hope to go exploring. Temple mounds built by “immigrants” from Cahokia. We visited that site about a year ago, so this should be interesting…if these winds ever stop.
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