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Dallas

This morning I drove to Dallas Texas and took a tour of the Sixth Floor Museum. This museum is located on the 6th floor of the old Texas School Book Depository, The place that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from. They don't allow Photography in the Museum so I can't show you any photos of the...

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Kugs on the road on April 6, 2010 from Fort Worth, United States

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Begins....

Havent flown since February! Had training and Sim in March... got sick too!

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The OxyMoron on April 6, 2010 from Denver, United States

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A day in Oklahoma

I started today with a visit to the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore, OK. Of course the museum is full of Will Rogers memorabilia, paintings of Will, Newspaper clippings of his syndicated column, and reports of his death in Alaska. They also had three small theaters set up, one showing a 30...

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Kugs on the road on April 5, 2010 from Oklahoma City, United States

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Trip to NYC: March 22

Day one: Arriving Monday evening. We took the Air Train and the subway to get into the city. We checked in at the Belevedere Hotel in midtown Manhattan (a short walk to Times Square). We spent the first evening walking around the area, going out for Chinese food and then finding Rockefeller...

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dafna33 on April 4, 2010 from New York, United States

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Tuesday, 3/23

On Tuesday, we decided to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met") and then walk through Greenwich Village. We were going to have breakfast at Zabar's but then we saw H & H Bagels across the street (once featured in a Seattle radio piece!), so we got take out bagels, lox, and cream...

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dafna33 on April 4, 2010 from New York, United States

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You know, I love a good henge

Is there a better way to start a trip than a little henge? Stubby Stonehenge is half-sized Stonehenge replica that was built by the high- pressure water lab at University of Missouri's Rolla campus as a way to showcase their stone carving skills. They claim that this is the only henge that...

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Kugs on the road on April 4, 2010 from Vinita, United States

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Wednesday, 3/24

Wednesday: a really great day!!! We had a plan to meet our cousin, Alan (who is an artist) at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) at noon to see the special Tim Burton exhibit. We decided to get there before that in order to see the regular collection as well. We stood in line while eating...

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dafna33 on April 4, 2010 from New York, United States

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Thursday, 3/25

Thursday: Well, we still had energy to do more stuff! We started out the day by going to Fifth Avenue and browsing at some of the shops: Bloomingdale's, Tiffany, the really cool Apple store, and best of all, FAO Schwarz which still has the famous piano as in "Big". We found a street bagel...

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dafna33 on April 4, 2010 from New York, United States

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3/26: Our last day!

Our last day! We really just had a chance to do one thing, so we did the ultimate tourist activity and went to the top of the Empire State Building! The visibility was excellent, and we saw a lot. We then found a great lunch spot and headed back to our hotel for our bags and taxi to the...

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dafna33 on April 4, 2010 from New York, United States

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Day 1: The Long Drive

I think I had a bit of cranial flatulence when I said I was hoping to make it to southern Illinois. My original goal was Evansville Indiana, and I made it there. I drove about 800 mi. in 12 hours. Had some stomach problems along the way, but nothing to serious. Tomorrow I'm driving across...

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Kugs on the road on April 3, 2010 from Evansville, United States

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