The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum was a large state-owned park and museum where your grandparents spent half a day hiking in the desert and looking at exhibits on 19 May 2014.
Photos from when Germany was still divided after World War II and Grandpa Roy was stationed in the western sector of the divided city of Berlin from 1971 to 1974.
Bill Mauldin Cartoon Collection The museum has the largest collection of Mauldin cartoons in the nation, if not the world. A few have never been published and at least one was drawn for the museum. Mauldin was a G.I. who drew cartoons when he wasn't being shot at. His two main characters were called Willy and Joe. At least one movie was made about Willy and Joe based on Mauldin's cartoons.
Most people call the country Belorus. That is not correct in Grandpa Roy's opinion. It is Byelorussia. It translates to White Russia, which it was called years ago.
The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley is located in Winchester, Virginia. It endeavours to preserve and enrich the cultural life and heritage of the Valley. Visited 12 July 2024.
The Painted Desert is vast, covering much of northeastern Arizona. This album is in two parts: what your grandparents saw during their drive to Utah and the Painted Desert on the "Petrified Forest" side of the desert.
The Petrified Forest National Park looks like a place where someone has cut down all of the large trees; however, on closer examination it turns out every one of them has turned to stone, agate, over the centuries. 26 May 2014
Sequoia trees are the largest in the world. In addition, they are virtually fireproof. Grandpa Roy visited while he was attending Czech language school at the Presidio of Monterey 1969/1970.