2020 Destinations?

THE TSG XMAS TRILOGY

Our Christmas offering this year--three clips strung together in rather haphazard fashion for your amusement...

editor's note-youtube/microsoft trivia dept:

The video was flagged with a copyright notice for the music cue on the last segment, called "Blossoming". This seems odd because the music came from the Windows10 video editing app (see below). One would think that Microsoft would've acquired the usage rights for songs when stocking its music library. but we guess not. 

Museum Pieces

Dreaming Of A White Christmas...Tree

No flocking required!
Albino redwood spotted in Henry Cowell State Park along the Roaring Camp Railroad tracks

(one of about 400 known specimens, according to Wikipedia)

A Momentary Lapse of R̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n Time

aka: TSG fools around with the new-ish Pixel time Lapse video option 

(how serendipitous is it that youtube has a canned audio track called "Beach Bum"?)

Bon Appétit

Home Of The Bat Boy?*, Part I

*The Weekly World News clippings prominently displayed

at Lost World Caverns would have visitors believe that Bat Boy was found there. 

However, our research has found conflicting information indicating 

he was discovered in Hell Hole Cave, over 100 miles away.

The truth is down there...somewhere, and TSG will get back to you

when we find it.

Recent Fungi

Shot On What, By Who?

Bare Bones Post

Sand Tracks

Not Your Average Disc Golf Hole

Ace Adventure Park / Oak Hill WV

In The Parking Lot This Morning

More Wildlife

Mama bear & cub near Cades Cove, TN

Where It All Began

Depending on your definition of "it", "all" and "began", of course...

Roy R. And Friend

Somewhere on Route 66

Connies (Three Different Ones)

The Lockheed Constellation has long been one of TSG's favorite aircraft. 

We were delighted to discover a trio of them at the Pima Air and Space Museum.

L-049 (first model) / 1950

VC-121 "Columbine" (Eisenhower transport plane) / 1952

EC-121 Warning Star / 1954

You've Heard Of "Foothills"...

...but what about "Leg hills"?

Or, perhaps, more accurately, leg-and-foot hills?

The sad remnants of the Picacho Peak Trading Post greeting statue  / AZ

What If...?

Questions, questions, questions, posed at the venerable Arizona roadside attraction

"The Thing?".  

Face(s) Off

A selection of those "put your face here" boards seen on the trip so far. 

The original plan was to copy and paste some humorous visages into the blanks, 

but that turned out to be a bit more work than we had patience for at post time.

Carlsbad Caverns NP / NM
(actual orientation)

Loveless Cafe / Natchez Trace TN

Mammoth Cave NP / KY

Nevada Northern Railway Museum / Ely NV

Cosmosphere / Hutchinson KS

Buffalo Bill Cultural Center / Oakley KS

Buffalo Bill Cultural Center / Oakley KS

John Wesley Powell River History Museum / Green River UT

Pima Air Space Museum / Tucson AZ