Finally got a chance to go check out the COllege Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta recently. As I am a rabid fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide, I was quite pleased to see how well represented the team…
I recent had the great pleasure to travel to New Orleans with my wife. While she spent much of her youth living outside the city, I had never been there. While we were only there for a weekend, we made…
Thursday September 8th was the 50th anniversary of the airing of the first episode of Star Trek, “The Man Trap”. On that day I was in Washington DC for business, and before I arrived I realized I was only a…
I’m a prop collector. Not the actual original props used in movies or TV shows – I couldn’t afford that habit, and if I tried She Who Must Be Obeyed would divorce me – but replica props. I have phasers,…
One of the coolest things my son Hunter and I took in when we went to Las Vegas last week was the Atomic Testing Museum. The museum is very well designed, telling the story of the multiple above-ground and underground…
Several months ago I planned a Las Vegas trip for myself and my son Hunter as a graduation present (he finished high school in June) – he had never been to Vegas. Though he’s not yet old enough to do…
Was able to attend an offsite with my work team in Greece this month, and was also able to see a little of the sites and countryside. It was gorgeous… Far more mountainous than I thought it as. As we…
“MURDER! MURDER, MOST FOUL!” Ah, there is nothing more interesting that crime to yours truly… the evil that men do, and so on and so forth. So I (of course) leapt at the chance to visit the Crime Museum exhibit…
I’m not the man I was. One of the great joys in my life has been toy collecting, and one of THE toys central to that has been the toy that is my namesake: G.I.Joe. I’ve collected the 12″ figure,…
Was able to visit London for work over a week ago and had a day to spend enjoying the local tourist traps. One “bucket list” item was the Churchill War Rooms museum, which lets visitors walk through the rooms where…
One of the “symbols” of Brussels is the Atomium building, which was originally constructed for the 1958 World’s Fair. Designed after an iron molecule, the Atomium is a huge installation that you can actually explore – there is an exhibit…
Had the opportunity to travel to Belgium for work last week and was able to squeeze in a day off – so I visited some tourist traps. One of the first was the Autoworld exhibit near the museum district, and…
My son Mike is a Marvel movies NUT, especially the Iron Man movies (and character). So when I decided I was going to take two of my sons to Disneyland as a pre-Christmas gift, I knew he was going to…
Another post with photos from my trip to Scotland, this one covering The Scotch Whiskey Experience, a tourist trap we went to near Edinburgh Castle. I say “tourist trap” in the kindest way, because when you are offered the opportunity…
I crossed off an item on my bucket list this past week by visiting Scotland with my better half, AKA She Who Must Be Obeyed. We stayed in downtown Edinburgh – Old Town, to be precise, and our hotel was…
I already posted pics from my visit to the Star Wars costume exhibit – here’s pics from their recently updated science fiction area: