There is a town called Villa Epecuen, an old tourist town south of Buenos Aires. Seems thsi town got swallowed up by a lake in 1985 when the dam burst. The waters did not recede for 25 years. 2009 the waters finally began to recede. This blog post by Messy Nessy shows pictures of the town with the waters gone. Check it...

Wow…this is from 1939. What do you think? Say Something about this.

On the earliest of Cattle Drives each trail hand carried his own provisions in a sack. Until 1866 that is, when Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight bought an old Army wagon and converted it into a Chuck Wagon, Chuck being slang for food. It seems there was a shortage of cowboys and trail hands for the large cattle drives. Goodnight decided to improve the quality of...

Even though there is a train museum located in Old Sacramento, I did not have time to visit it. I certainly wanted to, but that darn old nemesis, time, won this trip. There was, however, a few cars parked at the train station so I was able to take pictures of them.  Have to admit I am always fascinated by choo choos. I don’t know why.  Maybe it is that...

A friend of mine recently applied for a position in Hawai’i. As much of my formative years were on Oahu I, of course, asked where. She has several options but one of those was Moloka’i. When i think of Moloka’i, I think of the leper colony and Father Damian. Along with the rest of Hawaii’s long and rich history, school children learn about the leper colony...