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Frigate birds above Fort Jefferson on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas. Fort Jefferson is the largest, most powerful masonry fort in the entire United States and was designed to maintain control of the entry way (and some nearby deep water anchorages) to the Gulf of Mexico. Built from 1846 - 1975 out of more than 16 million bricks, it was never finished. Dr. Samuel Mudd was held here for nearly four years after setting the broken legg of John Wilkes Boothe following the assasination of President Lincoln. Nearly 70 miles west of Key West, the Dry Tortugas mark the end of the third largest barrier reef in the world. (Nathanael Miller, 26 July 2017)

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Rainbow Bridge over the Anahulu Stream. Built of reinforced concrete in 1921 its name derives from the double-arches supporting it. Hale‘iwa, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 21 April 2018)

The Callahan Building clock, built in 1919. In 1955 the building was sold to Gem Savings Banks. Gem Savings' HQ was demolished in 1978, and the clock was moved to the Reynolds & Reynolds HQ. It was painted blue and Reynolds & Reynolds added their "Since 1866" tag to it. The 15,000 lb.s clock came to the park in 2006. "A Carillon Christmas" at Carillon Historical Park. The park features exhibits and buildings telling the story of Dayton from 1796 to the present day. Among the exhibits house on the park grounds are the Wright Flyer III from 1905, a section and lock from the old Miami and Eerie Canal, and a massive collection of cash registers (the cash register was invented in Dayton in 1879). (Nathanael Miller, 22 Dec. 2017).

Thunderbird tail feathers. Founded in 1923, the museum is housed in four hangars on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and has more than 360 aircraft in its collection. (Nathanael Miller, 4 Dec. 2017)

Known to the Hawaiians as Le'ahi, Diamond Head is a 300,000 year old tuff cone formed from an explosive erutpion. The crater is 3,520 feet in diameter and summits at 761 feet. The summit is the site of a lost heiau (ancient Hawaiian temple of other sacred site), and was used for coastal defense by the U.S. Army through the first half of the 20th century. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 18 April 2018)

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Key West night life and night shopping. (Nathanael Miller, 28 July 2017)

The Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragment from USS Ponce (LPD 15) at the the Clement Oak. This tree has been alive since the late 16th century. It was also the site of the landing of the first aerial flight in America. President George Washington watched as Jean-Pierre Blanchard took off in a balloon from Philadelphia. Blanchard carried a letter from President Washington to be delivered to whomever owned the property where the balloon landed, thus making this the first delivery of air mail as well. Ponce was in commission from 1971 - 2017. Deptford, New Jersey. (Nathanael Miller, 10 May 2018)

Hizey Bridge, built by James W. Buchanan in 1891. Moved to present location by James Visintine after he purchased it from Fairfield County in 1979. Pickering, Ohio. (Nathanael Miller, 22 March 2018)

The MV Tacoma, launched in 1997. The Tacoma, Wenatchee, and the Puyallup are Jumbo Mark II-class ferries, the largest in the Washington State Ferry fleet. Seattle, Washington. (13 Oct. 2019; Nathanael Miller)

Ancient lava tube. North Beach on the Mokapu Peninsula. Kaneohe Marine Base, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 15 April 2018)

Founded in 1923, the museum is housed in four hangars on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and has more than 360 aircraft in its collection. (Nathanael Miller, 3 Dec. 2017)

The New York-class battleship USS Texas (BB 35) was in commission from 1914 - 1948. It is one of the few American ships (and only battleship left) that served in both World Wars I and II. The ship has been a museum since 1948. La Porte, Texas. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Nov. 2018)

Albus the Crab and the world's largest sandhill crane. "Sandy" is a 40-foot high steel sculpture built from 1998-99 by James Miller. Steele is in the Dakota Coteau Rangeland, a major resting spot for migratory birds, such as the sandhill crane. Steele, North Dakota. (Nathanael Miller, 16 Aug. 2018)

"The Receiver" has moved around Green Bay a bit. Currently owned by the Titletown Brewing Company, it has been repainted to honor Green Bay Packer wide receiver Donald Driver. Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Nathanael Miller, 06 Aug. 2018)

Ranger Natalie Barber in front of the symbolic cabin. The Lincoln birthplace memorial was completed in 1911, and houses a symbolic cabin on the hill where Lincoln was born in 1809. The main site is the Sinking Spring Farm where he is born, and the secondary site maintained is the Knob Creek Farm, where Lincoln lived from the age of 2 to 7 when the family moved to Indiana. Hodgenville, Kentucky. (Nathanael Miller, 7 Dec. 2017)

Protected cruiser USS Olympia (C 6) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia was commissioned in 1895 and reactivated several times, finally decommissioned in 1922. Most famously she was Commodore Dewey's flagship during the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 2018)

Rising to 14,261 feet, Mount Shasta dominates the landscape of northern California. Black Butte is a formation of parasitic lava domes west-south-west of Mount Shasta. Mount Shasta is a stratovolcano, and part of the Cascade arc. Northern California. (Nathanael Miller, 12 Oct. 2018)

The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum was founded in 1975. It is the only musuem dedicated primarily to the armaments carried by the Air Force, and boasts a collection of over 30 aircraft (U.S. and a few foreign), as well as hundreds of examples of munitions used by aerial warfare through history. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Nathanael Miller. 29 Dec. 2018)

Woodburn Hall, 1893. Originally called Science Hall. West Virginia University campus. Morgantown, West Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 8 Jan. 2018)

Erected in 1995, the Port Ludlow totem poles uses figures from the Tsimshian people to tell the story of Port Ludlow's evolution from its pre-human occupation days to modern times. Port Ludlow, Washington. (Nathanael Miller, 04 September 2018)

Originally the Navy used blue lights thinking that was the best way to protect night vision; after the Navy went to red, they didn't retrofit all the sockets that called for blue. The World War II Gato-class submarine USS Silversides (SS 236), on display in Muskegon, Michigan. (Nathanael Miller, 18 Dec. 2017)

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The new Tennessee State Museum building opened in October 2018. Telling the story of the Tennessee from prehistoric times through the modern era, its vast collection is well worth a visit. Featured artifacts include one of Daniel Boone's rifles; a rare 13-star U.S. flag with the original 6-pointed stars first mandated by Congress before the flag was changed to 5-pointed stars; a coat made by future-president Andrew Johnson when he was still a tailor; chairs used during Civil Rights sit-ins; and outfits and instruments used by Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller. 21 Nov. 2018)

The new Tennessee State Museum building opened in October 2018. Telling the story of the Tennessee from prehistoric times through the modern era, its vast collection is well worth a visit. Featured artifacts include one of Daniel Boone's rifles; a rare 13-star U.S. flag with the original 6-pointed stars first mandated by Congress before the flag was changed to 5-pointed stars; a coat made by future-president Andrew Johnson when he was still a tailor; chairs used during Civil Rights sit-ins; and outfits and instruments used by Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller. 21 Nov. 2018)

The CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center houses the salvaged wreckage of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse. Built on and sunk in the Neuse River, the Neuse yielded the largest collection of artifacts of any Confederate ironclad. The Neuse is one of only four salvaged Civil War ironclads on display in the country. Kinston, North Carolina (Nathanael Miller, 6 Feb. 2018)

Founded in 1962, the Maine Maritime Museum preserves the five remaining buildings of the historic Percy and Small Shipyard on the Kennebec River next to the Bath Iron Works. The museum boasts a life-sized, stylized sculpture of the Wyoming, the largest schooner ever built, located on the site where the Wyoming was constructed. It also features an art gallery, displays in the historic buildings detailing ship construction, and a scale-model demonstration of ship launching techniques. Bath, Maine. (Nathanael Miller, 26 July 2018)

USS Texas seen from atop the 567.31-foot-high San Jacinto Monument (the monument commemorates the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto in which Texas won its independence from Mexico). The New York-class battleship USS Texas (BB 35) was in commission from 1914 - 1948. It is one of the few American ships (and only battleship left) that served in both World Wars I and II. The ship has been a museum since 1948. La Porte, Texas. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Nov. 2018)

USS Arizona (BB 39). Arizona was hit by an armor-piercing bomb that detonated her forward magazines during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The ship exploded, killing 1,177 of the 1,512 sailors on board at the time (about half of the lives lost during the attack). Of these dead, 1,102 are still aboard. Arizona was commissioned in 1916 and decommssioned in 1942. The memorial was built in 1962 and is visited by about 2 million people annually. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)

Banyan trees and birds abound in Kapiolani Park. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)

Looking southwest into the crater from the northeast, the laval dome in the center of the crater is a prominent feature. Rising to 8,363 feet, Mount St. Helens lost about 1,300 feet from its height during the eruption of May, 1980. The entire north face of the mountain broke away in the largest landslide in recorded history, resulting in a lateral eruption that killed 57 people and temporarily blasted nearby Spirit Lake clear out of its bed. Today a massive lava dome occupies the center of the crater. Mount St. Helens remains the currently most active of the Cascade volcanoes. Washington State. (15 June 2019; Nathanael Miller)

The world's largest catsup bottle is a 70-foot tall rivted steel bottle built in 1949. Not direclty off Route 66 itself, it was intended to both advertise Brooks catsup and draw people into the town of Collinsville as they passed through on Route 66. Although officially it used to be used as a water tower (today it is simply a nationally registered historic landmark), local lore maintains it is actually filled with catsup. Route 66 was established in 1926 as the core of the new U.S. highway system and ran from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California. It was decommssioned in 1985 after the completion of the interstate system. Vast lenghts of it are preserved today as "Historic Route 66" by the states it ran through. Collinsville, Illinois. (Nathanael Miller, 2 April 2018)

Known to the Hawaiians as Le'ahi, Diamond Head is a 300,000 year old tuff cone formed from an explosive erutpion. The crater is 3,520 feet in diameter and summits at 761 feet. The summit is the site of a lost heiau (ancient Hawaiian temple of other sacred site), and was used for coastal defense by the U.S. Army through the first half of the 20th century. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 18 April 2018)

Founded in 1923, the museum is housed in four hangars on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and has more than 360 aircraft in its collection. (Nathanael Miller, 3 Dec. 2017)

Albus the Crab visiting Hurricane Ridge with Mountain Bear (polar bear) and Vermont (brown bear). Mountain Bear grew up on Hurricane Ridge, and pounced on Albus and I back during our first visit in 2018. Hurricane Ridge rises to 5,242 feet (1,598 m) above sea level, and is one of the most popular spots in the northern part of Olympic National Park. Port Angeles, Washington. (Nathanael Miller; 1 May 2021)

Florida Aquarium. Tampa, Florida. (Nathanael Miller, 22 Feb. 2018)

The MV Tacoma, launched in 1997. The Tacoma, Wenatchee, and the Puyallup are Jumbo Mark II-class ferries, the largest in the Washington State Ferry fleet. Seattle, Washington. (13 Oct. 2019; Nathanael Miller)

Feel your way through the darkness guide your soul into the light swim into the open water drift on the tides that you may find

Balao-class submarine USS Becuna (SS 319) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Becuna was in commission from 1944 - 1969, and won four battle stars for World War II service. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 2018)

Holy Virginia Mary icon. Christmas Eve at St. Helen's Parish. Huber Heights, Ohio. (Nathanael Miller, 24 Dec. 2017).

Keaiwa Heiau is the remains of a temple erected sometime in the early 17th centruy. This heiau ("hey-ee-ow") was used as a medicinal area by local kahunas (medicine men) in which to diagnose, prescribe and prepare remedies, and pray. A heiau is charactrized by a rectangular earthen mound with rock or other structures having been placed atop it. It is a sacred cultural site, so be respectful when visiting. Aiea, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 21 April 2018)

Sunset over Joint Base Hickam-Pearl Harbor. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 23 April 2018)

the fog of adversity slows our pace from the hustle and bustle of life

The MV Tacoma, launched in 1997. The Tacoma, Wenatchee, and the Puyallup are Jumbo Mark II-class ferries, the largest in the Washington State Ferry fleet. Seattle, Washington. (13 Oct. 2019; Nathanael Miller)

The new Tennessee State Museum building opened in October 2018. Telling the story of the Tennessee from prehistoric times through the modern era, its vast collection is well worth a visit. Featured artifacts include one of Daniel Boone's rifles; a rare 13-star U.S. flag with the original 6-pointed stars first mandated by Congress before the flag was changed to 5-pointed stars; a coat made by future-president Andrew Johnson when he was still a tailor; chairs used during Civil Rights sit-ins; and outfits and instruments used by Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller. 21 Nov. 2018)