California Academy of Sciences
Um, this place is pretty cool. It is a natural history museum, planetarium, rainforest, aquarium, and zoo all wrapped in one. I learned a lot, but since I’m writing this […]
Category Archives: Museum
Exploratorium
I hated this place. Despite it being a hands-on museum, I was still overwhelmed by the amount of children that were there. Buses and buses and buses of them. They […]
Dinosaur Journey Museum
I push the doorbell from the 1980s in front of a rubber Dilophosaurus that looms over me. Nothing happens. Then its head jerks and his mouth opens, emitting a menacing […]
Sleeping Bear Dunes
The dunes in the upper lower peninsula of Michigan are pretty well known in Michigan. I’m sure every kid has gone at least once. There are actually dunes all along […]
Hot Springs National Park
“Now lean forward, and I’ll scrub your back,” Sarah said. I am sitting half naked in a century old bathtub filled with natural spring water. I lean forward and Sarah […]
Thorncrown Chapel
I sit in a pew and stare at nature through the glass walls of the Thorncrown Chapel, a tiny building deep in the Arkansas woods. It’s beautiful. But something is […]
A Christmas Story House
After planning the Cuyahoga Valley National Park adventure, I check the surrounding area to see if there was anything cool we could check out. There was. The house from A […]
Creation Museum
I had heard about the Creation Museum and got such conflicting reports that I knew I had to see it before I died. So after the abandoned ship, we went to […]
San Francisco
Getting to San Francisco I was living 8 hours away when I decided to go to San Francisco. I had planned on driving, but after finding out San Francisco has […]
Louise and Claire 