Ed's Travelogue Today: Boulder City, Nevada and Bighorn Sheep

We drove up to Boulder City yesterday. We like walking the Historic District and have several shops we tend to favor - one of those being "Boulder City Co Store" - and while in there the cashier asked if we were going to check out the Bighorn Sheep?

Huh? What Bighorn Sheep? Here in Boulder City?

He gave us directions and when we got to the car it only took us about 5-minutes to get there. There's a small park - Heneway Park - just off the main road that leads to Lake Mead and we could already see the sheep as we pulled up. The park itself looks quite ordinary: baseball diamond, gazebos, playground...

...and Bighorn Sheep! A whole gaggle of them :-) The people who were there were all well behaved and simply sat down and admired these beautiful creatures as they roamed freely among the people, ate, lay down. Having been here since '91 we knew about the wild burros which roam freely around the Red Rock Canyon area and have plenty of pictures of those, but we had never heard of there being Bighorn Sheep roaming freely. It was a nice time - a little warm at 109°F/42.77°C - but we were in the shade and there was a nice breeze blowing so it was comfortable. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Lake Mead is clearly visible from the park

Ed's Travelogue: Frank Lloyd Wright's House Taliesin, Spring Green, WI July 1977

It has taken me forever to scan my photos and so far I'm all the way up to 1980! There's a reason for that, as I look back on my life I can see where I definitely had a bad case of wanderlust. But ya can't have wanderlust without a camera in hand - or at least enough of a budget to buy the souvenir postcards of your trip :-) So why not share some of my experience with you guys (or bore you with 'em - whatever LOL) Frank Loyd Wright was one of, if not the, most famous architects Amercan has produced. Even as a kid I enjoyed reading about him and looking at photos of his buildings, probably because he too was a native Wisconsinite. In retrospect I managed to see several of his buildings: the Greek Orthodox Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (I think I have some postcards sequestered away), the Johnson-&-Johnson headquarters building in Racine, Wisconsin, and of course his famous Taliesin residence in Spring Green, Wisconsin.Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Ed's Travelogue: The Mystery Spot, St. Ignace, Michigan June 1977

Welll, ya gotta do stuff like this every so often. Do what you ask? Visit a total kitschy tourist trap. So, like this you spend your money hahahahaha. To kind of put this in perspective, even though I was beginning to get really interested in photography I didn't even bother to take pix of this - just bought the post cards! Overall, it was fun to walk through the attraction and be 'astounded' by the quirkiness of it all. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Ed's Travelogue: Mackinac Island and Historic Fort Mackinac June 1977

As stated previously, my dad had bought a trailer on Shawano Lake (about 30 miles west of Green Bay) as a summer place. Nothing big or fancy but it was his getaway and jumping off place for fishing. Dad loved fishing. I hated fishing, but I loved eating fish hahahaha I actually loved the boat ride and being out in the water, what I lacked was patience: waiting for some stupid fish to eat a worm! LOL But I get that a LOT of people enjoy just being out on the lake chilling and - hopefully - catching a good haul of fish. Because of that our freezer in the basement nearly always had frozen fish for mom to cook up: pan fish, Blue Gills, Northern, Trout. Name a fish that makes its home in the lakes of Wisconsin and we probably had it. Evan a record Gar Fish for Shawano Lake - caught by my brother-in-law who kept it as a souvenir hahahaha (BTW Gar Fish aren't good for eating).

Anywho, Shawano was a jumping off place for more travels during the summer. Me, my sister, nephews, and niece would make occasional forays into Michigan's Upper Peninsula. On one of those trips we went to Mackinac Island a place only accessible by boat as no vehicles (other than emergency vehicles) are allowed on the island. As I remember, we crossed over the Mackinac Bridge which connects the Upper and Lower Peninsula's, then parked the car and took the ferry over to the island, then debark and enjoy! Mackinac Fort is the oldest military installation I've ever visited and it was fascinating to watch the re-enactors do their thing out on the green. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

  

I think some of these pics were taken by my sister as all I had at the time was a Polaroid SX-70

The world's longest porch - took four shots with the SX-70 from far away to capture it!

 

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