If I had to write a top five list of places in Europe I must see before I die, this next city would definitely be on it. Luckily, Julia, also known as adventuresinparadise, doesn’t mind paying the 18.50 Euro to go inside her favourite local tourist destination in order to...
Last month on a whim my friend and I decided to visit the Billy Graham Museum at Wheaton College. Or maybe it was all part of God’s plan. I guess I’ll never know. Graham went to several Bible colleges before eventually graduating from Wheaton College in 1943. But Wheaton is...
In one of my last posts I mentioned I have been a pet sitter for over a decade. Once in awhile I get a crazy cat lady (shocker…I know) who lives in a house that should be featured on Hoarders. One customer literally lived in a um, store/museum/warehouse. Her entire...
I’m bringing back one of my favorite discoveries from this past year for American Guide Week. I personally paid a visit to Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop in Evanston, a town on the border of Chicago. After looking at all the various pieces of jewelry and crystal in the...
We all have opinions on what is considered “real art”. As someone who grew up with a mom who was a struggling artist, I have many thoughts on this subject, and have covered it a few times already on this blog. I still have the vivid memory of an older...
Shout out to Conan O'Brien’s first guest on his new late-night show, Nutcracker Museum curator Arlene Wagner, a former ballet teacher who used to be involved with the production of…wait for it…The Nutcracker! She started the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington State about 15 years ago with the mission “to...
Horse-drawn delivery vehicles get the attention they fully deserve at the Thrasher Carriage Museum in Frostburg, Maryland. I know…I know. Sometimes I stay up late at night worried there are not enough museums about this subject. Thank god someone like Mr. James Thrasher had the foresight to begin collecting them...
I’ve been watching a lot of Parks and Recreation lately. Of course you do not need to know this information at all. But after reading about Charles Lummis (a man with many talents who also had a strong interest in women and drink) I couldn’t help but think of the...
Have you heard how all the bees are dying? Well, we’re shit out of luck without them as it’s estimated 80% of the Western diet depends on bee pollination. So most of us will probably starve to death, while the monkeys laugh at us. Eventually, all humans will become extinct....
A few months ago the Liberace Museum shut its doors. Now it looks like the same fate awaits the Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, Pennsylvania (the actor’s hometown) if they don’t receive a “George Bailey miracle”. I’m sorry…but my mind keeps going back to the image of Dana Carvey impersonating...
