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Found out that defaults on our TechSmith Camtasia changed with an adverse effect on the audio. Corrected, probably poorly, by dubbing the original video. On Sunday, May 19, 2024, we spent about 4 hours in the Nevada State Museum. The museum is in the old U.S. Mint with a new addition to the north. Absolutely beautiful museum covering many subjects including mining, minting, dinosaurs, The First...

Corrected Audio - On Friday, May 24, 2024, we rode the Yosemite Mountain & Sugar Pine Railroad, just south of Yosemite National Park. The run is through the national forest to a picnic area, then back to the depot. The total ride time is about 50 minutes, totally enjoyable. Our day started out thin overcast and then started to clear up with nice temperatures from start to finish. There is a sma...

This is a redub of the original posting. For some reason I had mic issues that showed up on TH-cam. The Warren Engine Company No. 1 Museum in Carson City, Nevada, is a nice, one hour tour. Admission is free. We had to ask the receptionist at the office hours and she opened the museum for us. Some really nicely maintained older fire equipment on display. Worth the stop for general interest. Than...

On Wednesday, July 3, 2024, we visited the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, Calif. We spent about 5 1/2 hours and probably saw 75% of the museum and read 10% of the signage. I highly recommend memberships so you can tour the museum numerous times. This video is "The Vault." Sort of a parking lot for items not on the museum floor and most of the displays have no signage. With some deta...

On Wednesday, July 3, 2024, we spent about 5 1/2 hours in the Petersen Automotive Museum. And we saw about 75% of it and read about 5% of the signage. We are glad we joined as members as we need to go back and finish the museum, which changes its displays on a recurring basis. Super exhibits with outstanding signage. Some truly one-of-a-kind and very low production units vehicles as well as som...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 for the NROL-186 mission on Friday, June 28, 2024, about 8:14 p.m. PDT. The sun had set a little earlier, you can see it is not as good a video as other launches, too bright. We found a site, possibly www.spacelaunchschedule.com/ which gave us a video/audio feed with a lot of information. This video has the stage 1 recovery landing back on the recovery barge. Thanks for watc...

SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, Sunday, June 23, 2024, as seen from Ramona, San Diego County, California. Beautiful night with high clouds about 50 minutes after sunset. My shots were shot with my cellphone in landscape. My Wife's shots were in portrait. I recommend landscape for this sort of shot. Thanks for watching, Rex

We were on our ridge waiting for the SpaceX Falcon 9 out of Vandenberg Space Port on June 18, 2024, at about 8:40 p.m. Clear skies and a kind of bright moon with the launch about 40 minutes after sunset gave us a beautiful contrail as the missile climbed into space. A nice view of the dynamic wave off the nose as it pushes supersonic through the upper atmosphere. I catch the first stage deceler...

We drove from Carson City, Nevada to Lone Pine, California, on U.S. 395. This is just road shots. The country varied quite a bit with beautiful scenery as we went. Snow capped mountains, grass laden valleys, running streams, lakes with ice floes, and such. This is just giving you an idea of why you might want U.S. 395 between the I-15 and Carson City / Reno, Nevada. Beautiful drive on a nice ro...

We spent about 2 1/2 to 3 hours at the Churchill County Museum in Fallon, Nevada, on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Super museum covering a lot of subject matters from the First People, to the European Pioneers, to the cowboy era, to the bad guys and good guys, to mining, to the U.S. Military, and much more. Really nice display of carriages, horseless carriages, and motor vehicles in the annex out bac...

We stopped at the Ward Charcoal Ovens out of curiosity on Friday, May 17, 2024. We were ahead of our vacation schedule and several Ely, Nevada locals said it was worth the time. We really enjoyed it. About 5 miles off U.S. Rte 50 on gravel & dust road so our car turned tan & sand brown from dark blue. Dust was EVERYWHERE. Besides really educational, the ovens were only in use for three years, t...

We were told by several people that NAS Fallon has a super museum and we needed to stop by. Disappointed. As seen in the videos, the signage is often wrong. This is not what I would all a museum, it is aircraft parked out in the desert on display. The Naval Air Station is a rather secure installation as I understand it. I am a retired Naval Aviator with numerous West Coast tours and I have neve...

We rode the V&T RR from the East Depot of Carson City, Nevada, to the Virginia City, Nevada, Depot on Sunday, May 26, 2024. We were pulled by Steamer #18 in both directions. The weather was beautiful and the equipment operated flawlessly. Once in Virginia City we strolled around a bit, we had been there a few days earlier. Then we boarded the "Short Haul" or "Short Run" train pulled by a diesel...

Bowers Mansion State Park is off U.S. 395 between Reno and Carson City, Nevada. It was not on our tour list. However, we were running without a destination in the afternoon and made the stop. Really nice park with good signage and a lot of history. Highly recommend you check the hours and events on the homepage for Bowers Mansion State Park and visit while it is open for tours. The locals we ta...

Museum of Western Film History, Monday, May 27, 2024

National Automotive Museum, Monday, May 20, 2024

Nevada State RR Museum, Carson City, Nevada, Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Kit Carson Trail in Carson City Nevadam Monday, May 20, 2024

US Route 50 across Nevada with the Passport Loneliest Road in America, May 2024

Under Alien Skies Philip Plait Book Review, Tuesday, May 14, 2024

The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan Book Review, Sunday, May 5, 2024

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Book Review, 6 out of 5!! Sunday, May 5, 2024

Book Review - DK Books Smithsonian Trains, Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan - Book Review, Sunday, April 14, 2024

The Kingdom Keepers Series by Ridley Pearson - Book Review, Sunday, April 14, 2024

Awesome Facts for Disney Fans by Lisa Marie Bopp Book Review, Sunday, April 14, 2024

Eclipse in Ramona, Southern California, Monday, April 8, 2024

SpaceX Launch International Space Station, Monday, April 1, 2024

AZL GP 30 Turnout Conductivity Issues V2, Sunday, March 24, 2024