Boise City, Oklahoma

In 1943, a B-17 training mission went off course and accidentally bombed Boise City, Oklahoma. No one was hurt and there was minimal damage. Today, a replica bomb memorializes the event on the town square.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Looking out over the Oklahoma City National Memorial chairs that represent each of the 168 people killed in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing on April 19, 1995.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

This is about half of a monument to the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. With 45 figures and over 100 yards long, it is one of the largest bronze sculptures in the world.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

There's a museum for everything...Skeletons!

National Weather Museum, Norman, Oklahoma

There's a museum for everything...Weather!

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

There's a museum for everything...Pigeons!

Waco, Texas

There's a museum for everything...Dr Pepper!

Bowie, Texas

That's a knife!

Waco Mammoth National Monument, Texas

The fossilized skeletons of 19 Columbian Mammoths were discovered in Waco, the largest such find anywhere. Columbian Mammoths were, well, mammoth. The tusks on this guy were 11 feet long!

San Antonio, Texas

Meditating at the Japanese Tea Garden, an amazing reuse of an abandoned rock quarry.

San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio has five well-preserved Spanish frontier missions dating back to the 1600s. This is Mission Espada.

San Antonio, Texas

The San Antonio River Walk is lined with restaurants, shops, hotels, apartments, parks, interesting landscaping, and historical points of interest, and you can walk or ride in a boat along its fifteen miles.

San Antonio, Texas

Remembering the Alamo.

Pencil Bluff, Arkansas

We had to move around some across 3 states to find a spot without problematic clouds, but we ultimately saw the eclipse!

Idabel, Oklahoma

Eclipse glasses...check! Reservations in Totality Zone...check! Forecast for clear blue skies...uh oh.

Galveston, Texas

Enjoying sunrise at our Galveston Airbnb!

Galveston, Texas

Drilling for oil on the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig!

Montgomery, Alabama

The names of the more than 4400 black people lynched in America between 1877 and 1950 are engraved on 800 steel columns suspended over a walkway at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.