Elmira, NY: Little Giant of Industry
A small museum in a small city tells a surprising story of the industries that once gave the city a much bigger role.
Family Travel
An Afternoon at Bluebird Trail Farm
A doubly-pleasant visit for PHeymont: the farm visit itself, and a pleasant walk on its hiking trail.
Haunted house—with no way out!
For Halloween and horror freaks, a Japanese company has launched a pandemic-era haunted house.
A Day in the Rose Gardens
A magnificent rose garden becomes a magical family day for Marilyn Jones and her granddaughter.
Vasa Museum (VasaMusett), Stockholm
DrFumblefinger visits the Vasa Museum, the most popular museum in Scandinavia. Here you'll find displayed an intact and remarkably well preserved warship that is almost 400 years old.
Fort Museum of the NorthWest Mounted Police, Fort MacLeod
Gumbo was visiting the Fort Museum, a recreation of an old NorthWest Mounted Police fort in southern Alberta.
Paris: 'Plages' open for the season
The seasonal beaches along the Seine have opened for the year, with some new features as well as the usual.
More travel businesses setting own mask rules
With official mask rules varying from place to place, theme parks and hotels are setting their own tough standards.
Kansas science museum reopens with Rube Goldberg machine
Wichita's Exploration Place celebrates its reopening with an attention-grabbing and complex device.
Moorten Botanical Garden, Palm Springs, California
On a visit with friends in Palm Springs, PortMoresby seeks out a corner of Southern California desert history at Moorten's Botanical Garden.
Summer saved: Paris Plages to open
The temporary summer beaches that have become a tradition along the Seine and the Bassin de la Villette will soon return.
The Living Desert Zoo & Gardens, Palm Desert, California
Though it’s been there for 50 years, it was new to PortMoresby, on a visit with friends at that most perfect season, springtime in the desert.
Mysteries at the St Louis Science Center, Missouri
Samantha and family had a wonderful visit to the Saint Louis Science Center on her last visit to MO. Read more about this wonderful museum on her post.
No Disney for now? Try Lego...
A Texas family's Disney trip turns virtual in the hands of a master Lego builder
Legoland New York waiting for 2021
Fans of putting bricks on top of bricks to build fantastic buildings and creatures will have to wait a bit longer to do it big-time in the northeast. The huge new Legoland resort development that was to have opened July 4 in Goshen, N.Y., an hour's drive north of New York City will now not open until well into 2021 because of the virus pandemic's effect on construction and business in general. The 2021 opening will match the planned opening of a 250-room Lego-themed hotel at the resort,...