Arriving from Alaska, I’m surprised at the change of the Seattle waterfront–the Alaska Way viaduct is gone! I commuted on this rickety old elevated highway for 20 years to the Pike Place Market–and have to say, it sported some of the best commuting...
After my Phytosaur femur assembly (see three blogs back), I could not assemble the proximal and distal heads of this particular bone which demanded a field trip back to the site. I can’t be too specific where this is, but one can get very lost in country like...
Matt, the Curator of the museum collection here at Petrified Forest shows me the likeness of a Metoposaur on each side–an 8′ long lizard/salamander type of critter that lived about 220M years ago. This is my next project. This appears to be the left...
After a ridiculous 35 day government shutdown our National Parks are finally open so I hurry up to Petrified Forest National Park from Tucson where I’ve cooled (?) my heels for two weeks. As a former NPS ranger, and now also retired from 35 years of dentistry,...
I’m back in Jackson en route to Tucson (where I’ll make a presentation to the Historical Society and elsewhere) but my first stop is Jackson Hole where I’ve visited now for 52 years. I am driving but many people fly in and out. The Jackson Hole...
After my NPS Centennial Roadtrip, I had to move my poster business out of a private home and into a real warehouse. I bought this sight-unseen. It was originally a machine shop in the 1970s with 400 amps of power at 480 VAC! Perfect, except for the ugly mural on...
