Our last stop of the trip before I had to fly home was Frances Perkins NM. Frances was the Secretary of Labor under FDR and was the first woman in a presidential cabinet. She was integral in passing …

After spending the night with our friend in NY, we headed on to Connecticut. Not only did we mark off our last remaining county in CT, but we also did a short walk on the New England NST (my 380th …

Supplementing Steamtown is this huge stone bridge, built to handle the huge steam engines going to and from Steamtown.

On our way to see a friend in NY, we stopped by Steamtown NHS-my 379th NPS unit. Man, if you’re a train lover, this place is for you. Lots of steam trains and everything else you can imagine about …

After spending my actual birthday with friends in Philly, we headed north, stopping at Jim Thorpe’s Memorial and Grave. Such a tremendous athlete-football, baseball, and Olympic events.

This was our first stop on my birthday to mark off my 378th NPS unit. Hopewell Furnace is a well-preserved charcoal-fired iron furnace so important to the US in the late 1700s and throughout the …

Visited the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School today. Thousands of Native American children were forced to go to school in these Boarding Schools, where they were stripped of everything of their …

Three Mile Island was the site of a partial nuclear meltdown in 1979.