Posts Tagged ‘Road Trip Through History’
On The Trail of Genghis Khan
I’ve admitted before that I have a soft spot in my heart for Genghis Khan. My Own True Love and I dearly love a road trip, especially if it includes a historical site or three. How could I resist On The Trail of Genghis Khan–the story of a Road Trip Through History on the grand…
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Road Trip Through History: The Arabia Steamboat Museum
The Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City is a private museum. Like all private museums, it’s the result of personal passion. Unlike many private museums, it’s big, professionally designed, and stunning.* The museum weaves together three separate stories into an exciting whole: life in frontier America, the steamboats that served as the semi-trailers of the…
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Road Trip Through History: The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Recently My Own True Love and I took a week-long road trip that looped down the Mississippi, across to Little Rock, through northwest Arkansas, up to Kansas City and back to Chicago. For much of the trip, historical sightseeing was out of the question. All we could do was make lists of sites and museums…
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