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The following morning we enjoyed a continental breakfast and set off for downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. A great thing about Days Inn is that they are cheap and always offer a nice breakfast (as long as you can wake up before the breakfast ends). As soon as we stepped outside, we quickly found out that it was much cooler…
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We left Longview in the early morning and began our journey to Amarillo, TX (our next planned stop). However, there were a few more items we needed for our graphics workshop, so we stopped in Dallas at Vanderburg Drafting Supply. Vanderburg‘s has all the drafting supplies anyone could need or want. We picked up a parallel ruler and a roll…
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After unpacking a few necessities from our car (filled mostly with art supplies), we sat down and visited with Sharon, Derek, and Coleman (our sister/in-law, nephew, and her foster child). Also present were her two dogs Bria and Odie and her parakeet Brucey–the bird with nine lives. This was the first time we had met Coleman and we found him…
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We returned from our trip out West on Friday June 17th 2011. We will be putting together a mini series documenting our trip, what we learned, and the sites we visited. This will be the first in the series. My wife Dev and I discussed attending the Mike Lin Graphic’s Workshop in Las Vegas. We had actually been discussing the…
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The two ways to get to Dauphin Island involve either the ferry from Fort Morgan or I-10 to highway 193 and across the bridge. We chose the ferry ride to get there. On that particular day the bay had some rough seas, but was surprisingly fun (as opposed to scary). You can watch some unsuspecting people get splashed while on…
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Last weekend we traveled a little ways down the road to Camp Helen. Camp Helen is a state park near Panama City Beach, Florida. The park is also near Lake Powell, one of the largest coastal dune lakes in Florida. Coastal dune lakes are a rarity, only existing in a few places around the world including New Zealand, Australia, Madagascar,…
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Time for part 2 of the 1965 Holy Land Time Traveler. Continuing our journey, our couple has now reached Jerusalem after passing through the Syrian border. Learn more about the ancient city and where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried. You can watch the beginning of their adventure at Holy Land part 1
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If you like airplanes, really cool ones, the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum is the place to be. You can sit in the cockpit of fighter planes and helicopters, visit a typical US town during War War II, catch an IMAX movie, take a ride in the flight simulator, see spaceships, and even catch the Blue Angels practicing (outside of course)…
