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79 years ago today, June 6th, 1944, Operation Overlord (the official name for the D-Day invasion) made landfall in France on Adolf Hitler's "Festung Europa" (in English, Fortress Europe). It was orginally planned to start on June 5th, 1944 but due to bad weather, it was delayed by one day. On June 6...

After Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, we went to Capitol Reef National Park for three days. While we were here we got to do three hikes: Cassidy Arch Trail Rim Overlook Trail Chimney Rock Trail Now, a little history on the name of the park: the name comes from early pionee...

The Boeing 737 is by far the most numerous aircraft type in the skies. Over 11,377 airframes have been built since its introduction over 56 years ago in 1967, and it has achieved much success mainly do to its reliability, such as one of the early landings of 737-100 on a grass and gravel runway in B...

Our next stay after Montrose, CO was going to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, where we stayed at Escalante, UT for about a week. All said and done we did five hikes: Escalante River to Natural Bridge Trail Lower Calf Creek Falls Trail Willis Creek Narrows Trail Phipps Arch T...

For our next trip after the Big Bend Trip, we started out for Southeastern Utah/Western Colorado for a month. This post is focusing on our visits to Fort Larned NHS, in Larned, KS, Bent's Old Fort NHS, in La Junta, CO, and Montrose, CO Fort Larned NHS, Larned, KS: Fort Larned Entrance ...

This is the last post for the East Coast Trip, This will include a list with all of the East Coast Trip Posts and also a little sample of each post. This post has been updated recently to make it so that it has the first 55 words of each East Coast Trip post, so that you can sort of get the idea for...

81 years ago today, April 18th, 1942, the Doolittle Raid occurred and was America's first attack on the Japanese mainland during World War II. Here is the background of the raid: after the Pearl Harbor Attack, the US government wanted to get revenge against the Japanese and they agreed to a plan tha...

The Boeing EC-135 was one of the many variants of the Boeing 367-80 in the world, as well as the first successful jetliner. The 367-80 was built as a prototype for the 707 as well as all of the EC/RC-135 aircraft. This post is about the EC-135 variants - the RC-135 variants as well as the other 367-...

The Boeing E-4B Nightwatch is an Airborne Command and Control aircraft that is designed to survive a nuclear blast. It is also capable of completely destroying cities of billions, in seconds! Total, there are four E-4s and they were originally stationed at Andrews Air Force Base as well as Langley A...

This Big Bend trip was originally planned to be done near the end of the East Coast Trip, but due to several factors (see East Coast Trip Part Nine) we canceled it. But after several weeks, we decided to go to the park. The trip was a little over one week long and we got to do several hikes as well ...