Intimidating relief of the Ko olau Range as seen from the Pali Highway – Oahu, Hawaii While in Hawaii on business I had the opportunity to travel Hawaii Route 61 which is better known as the PALI Highway. I had a few hours to kill before my flight so I took a drive around the [...]
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PALI ROAD and the Legend of the MENEHUNE – Oahu, Hawaii
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012All Gave Some – Some Gave All……………..USS Bowfin – Submarine Waterfront Memormial – Pearl Harbor, HI
Monday, January 9th, 2012Memorial Markers for Submarines lost during WWII – USS Battleship Missouri and USS Arizona Memorial in background – Pearl Harbor, HI “No words can sufficiently do justice to the sacrafice made by these men. We simply ask that you take a minute, walk the ring and honor the memory of these fallen heros” The American [...]
The NFL – Nothing more American than going to a Football Game – Anywhere USA
Sunday, December 11th, 2011Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Diego Chargers – NFL Football at it’s best A website dedicated to things uniquely American most definately has to talk a bit about football. The National Football Leauge is the premier sports organization in the world in my opinion. It draws an average of 66,000 fans per game and destroys [...]
Following an old mining trail -Treking in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah
Sunday, November 27th, 2011“A picture is a poem without words” Horace Went on the first snow shoeing trek of the year with my wife yesterday. I had always heard the tales of how the miners back in the 1800’s would make a day trip over the passes from Alta in Little [...]
FORT DONELSON – TENNESSEE: Where U.S. Grant “Unconditional Surrender Grant” earned his nickname
Sunday, November 27th, 201132 Pounder Confederate Gun stares down the Cumberland to where the Ironclads emerged – Fort Donelson, Tennessee “I am pleased to announce the un-conditional surrender this morning of Fort Donelson” U.S. Grant – Brigadier General USA February 16, 1862 When these words reached Washington back in 1862 they were welcome words indeed. The [...]
THE INCREDIBLE INCLINES – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Monongahela Incline – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Learning is it’s own exceeding great reward” William Hazlitt If you ever have the chance to visit Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania I would recommend that you stay in one of the hotels on the south bank of the Monongahela River located in a place called “Station Square”. The views of the incredible [...]
Time whispers of Valor past – Trenton, New Jersey
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Hessian Barracks – Trenton, New Jersey Went for a run one drizzly morning in late winter in Trenton, New Jersey. Even though New Jersey is the Garden State, Trenton is not considered a garden spot but if you look closely, the Capitol city of New Jersey has some incredible history associated with it . I [...]
PORTLAND HEAD LIGHTHOUSE – Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Portland Head Lighthouse – Cape Elizabeth, Maine – “A pillar of fire by night, Of cloud by day” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Lighthouses don’t fire canons to call attention to their shining, they just shine” Dwight L. Moody I have traveled to numerous lighthouses up and down both coasts of the United [...]
ASTORIA, OREGON – Gateway to the Mighty Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean; by Jaromy Jessop
Sunday, September 4th, 2011Downtown Astoria, Oregon with the Astoria-Megler Bridge in the background crossing the Mighty Columbia River “Ocian in view, o the joy” Captain William Clark upon reaching the Pacific One of the more incredible places I have ever been has to be Astoria, Oregon. There are so many interesting things to see and the setting [...]