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State Parks, Historic Sites, and Museums need your help.

Throughout the country, important state parks, historic sites, homes, buildings, and museums are in trouble. Because of the recent rise in gasoline prices and the general world-wide financial collapse, state parks, historic sites, and museums are in danger of closing. Some are being forced to sell off artifacts and property. Most operate on a thin margin and will not weather these hard times without your help.

Places Earth recently encountered closed state parks in Arizona and California is threatening to close all state parks. The story is similar throughout the country.

Places Earth urges everyone to support these vital and important public resources any way you can. Please find a worthy local or distant historic site or museum that is in financial danger and donate your treasure, time, and talent. Write to your governor and other elected officials telling them to find a way to keep these parks open. It will be your loss.

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Road Trips

These pages are a collection of words and pictures of road trips to places in the United States. These articles link to other pages for more detailed information. These pages sometimes include drawings, maps, directions, and hours, all to help you find places to visit and inform you of why these places may be of historical significance.

Select a Road Trip State, Provence, District, Territory, or Region below.

Places Page

Places pages are a collection of words and pictures of places on Earth, occasionally places that no longer exist. These pages sometimes include drawings, maps, directions, and hours, all to help you find places to visit and inform you of why these places may be of historical significance.

Back to Earth

We often take road trips on the weekend throughout Southern California and the rest of the West. In these pages, I will write on some of these trips. In some cases, I will combine elements from several trips to the same area into one proposed trip. In most cases, a page dedicated to one road trip will link to other pages, each featuring an individual stop along that road trip.

The intention, in part, is to help you plan your own road trips.

California or partly in California

If there is no link, the page isn't ready

Astrogazing in Alpine, 2007
Borax - Barstow, 2004
Beyond Barstow - Amboy Crater to Mitchell Caverns, 2005
California Missions
Central Coast: A Castle, a Rock, and Bubble Gum, 2005
A Christmas Pilgrimage to the Missions, 2003
Death Valley, 2006
Eastern Sierras to Reno and Western Nevada, 2006
Eastern Sierras and Yosemite, 2008
Gardens and Missions, 2007
Journey to the State of Jefferson, 2008
Lodi, 2004
Easter Trip to Lodi, 2005
Minnesota Trip, 1988 - updated
Monterey, 2007
Klamath Falls and Area, 2003
Palm Springs, 2005
Passage to Paso Robles, 2005
Pumpkins and Adobe, 2008
San Diego, 2005
San Diego, 2006
San Diego, 2007
San Diego, 2008
Santa Barbara, 2004
Sepulveda Boulevard, 2004
Trip to Trona, 2005
Tropico to Calico, 2004
Wilshire Boulevard, 2006
A Wine Free Trip Through the Wine Country, 2004
A Wine Free Trip Through the Wine Country - the Next Year, 2005
Big Trees, Big Waterfalls, Big Rocks, Small Valley - Yosemite, 2007
Yumping for Yuma, 2005
Yumping for Yuma, Again, 2009
Utah, 2008

Outside California

Adventure to Alaska, 2007
Amblin' Through Arizona, the Sweet Heart State, 2009
Death Valley, 2006
Eastern Sierras to Reno and Western Nevada, 2006
Flyin' to Florida, 2007
Journey to the State of Jefferson, 2008
Klamath Falls and Area, 2003
Louisiana and Texas, 2009
Minnesota Trip, 1988 - updated
Mission Hunting in Texas, 2008
Utah, 2008
Yumping for Yuma, 2005
Yumping for Yuma, Again, 2009

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This page last updated: Saturday, 13-Jun-2009 11:00:48 CDT

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