At first blush, Mendocino on California’s northern coast is reminiscent of Cape Cod’s coastal towns but with a definite Western twist, like the wooden water towers (we wondered if they are still used, considering Mendocino’s water crisis), some repurposed into shops, like one that houses ...
traveling from one state to another is not likely possible for the time being, and we can only hope that they open up soon. Still, with the coronavirus that keeps on mutating, we have no choice but to stay indoors. This resulted in the prices of camper vans to drop exponentially, and ...
The “Spirit of St. Louis” plane used in the Jimmy Stewart movie on display at Cradle of Aviation Museum came off the same production line as Charles Lindbergh’s plane that made the historic flight from Long Island’s Roosevelt Field to Paris, nonstop, in 33 hours © Karen Rubin/going...
TheLauterbach Giantis a giant fiberglass statue towering over the parking lot of Lauterbach Auto Service in Springfield. The "muffler man" has been around since 1978. He used to hold a tire but now clutches an American flag. In 2006, his head had to be replaced when a tornado took it of...
My own dad used to remind me that, “You pays your money and you takes your choice.” Rod chose neither and joined a rock and roll band and I’m glad he did. I put my money down on the pool table. That was my choice. Don’t get me wrong. Nobody could be prouder to be a ...
the Focus offered a variety of engines, transmissions, and body styles. The car featured anindependent multi-link rear suspensionwhose origins were from a system used on the Ford Mondeo. The rear suspension system aimed to give the Focus handling and ride that would be superior to its rivals ...
and could see remnants of a ladder that would have been used. Turkey Pen, Kane Gulch Trail, Bears Ears National Monument-Cedar Mesa © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com Another .7 mile and we come to a site known as Turkey Pen. Looking up from the trail, it seems the cliff ...
We “know” loneliness is skyrocketing, that it kills and that the #1 predictor of health and happiness is relationships. But somehow, the recent uber-capitalist wellness market has led with two things: a sea of keep-them-spending “me time” products and “digital wellness”—both lonely jou...
The formation once known as “The Gossips” we re-name “The Suffragists” Arches National Park © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com The source of what we see is a salt bed, thousands of feet thick in places, that was deposited across the Colorado Plateau 300 million years ago when...
and we used hotels.com to book one of the few hotels in the park. She interrogated the Ranch at the Oasis, where we stayed a delightful two nights, to insure that they sanitized the room and left it vacant for 24 hours before the next guest arrived, that we didn’t have to go up...