OmegaMart in Las Vegas, Nevada is a trippy and fascinating place to visit! I loved it all, but aside from meeting a charming employee, my favorite moment by far was finding this energy drink, which also happens to be my favorite piece of flash fiction I’ve read all year. So haunting and surreal! Are we …
Pioneer Living History Museum – Phoenix, Arizona
In May 2021, I had a lovely trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum in Phoenix, Arizona! The hours are reduced for the summer (it gets very hot here) but it’s definitely worth a visit as soon as the temperature is cool enough that you can tolerate it. There are a ton of historic and …
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The Queen Mary – Cabin A-149 – April 2019
The Queen Mary, launched in 1936, is one of the most incredible artifacts/ships in the entire world. Just stepping on board feels like stepping into history. Hopefully she’ll open again after COVID! A friend and I stayed the night in April 2019. I’ll share more photos of the rest of the ship later, but here’s …
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Tiny Coney Island – EnterTRAINment Junction
I love pretty much any place named Coney Island. So when I visited EnterTRAINment Junction (fall 2019), I was thrilled to hear they had a miniature Coney Island display! (Themed to Cincinnati’s Coney Island in 1965.) The most famous Coney Island is the one in New York City, but many cities built their own parks …
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God’s Provision and Art at Terminal 3 at Sky Harbor Airport
Yeah, I haven’t been out very much in the past year and change. But I’ve always enjoyed going to the airport. Airports always remind me of adventure and exotic places. (Also giant sunglasses, I guess?) So early March 2020, my brother flew in to Sky Harbor International Airport, as we were holding a small memorial …
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Globe, Arizona (October 2020)
So the last time I went out of town was a day trip to Globe, Arizona in October 2020. The drive from the Phoenix area was awfully hilly/traumatizing for my old-ish, underpowered car. Trying to get “Baymax” (named for its many airbags) to do anything near the speed limit was difficult to impossible. And then …