All posts by Terry Harrison

2021 Summer Travels

Corvette Museum

We visited the Corvette Museum late in the afternoon and had the 115,000 square feet to ourselves.  The museum opened in 1994 and sits on a 60-acre campus, complete with race track.  Our self-guided tour began with a walk down vignettes depicting Main Street in an American small town.  Early model Corvettes are cleverly displayed against the backdrops of a Photo Shop, Al’s Barber Shop, an assembly line, a Mobil gas station, a car dealership and a repair shop. Continue reading Corvette Museum →

2021 Wild Horses

Wild Horses of the Lower Salt River

Wild horses, descendants of the horses brought by the Spanish, have roamed freely along the Salt River before the Tonto National Forest was designed in 1902.  Even though they had been living on the land for over a century, their fate was uncertain in the early 21st century.  In 2015, the United States Forest Service issued a notice declaring the herd as “unauthorized livestock” and announced a plan to capture, remove and auction off any unclaimed horses. Continue reading Wild Horses of the Lower Salt River →

Nova Scotia, 2019 Summer Travels

Hurricane in Lockeport

We knew a monster was coming for us.  Nothing could alter its path, stand up to it or stop its appetite for the land and the sea and the air.  Nothing in its path, including us, was safe or would be the same.  It began near the Bahamas and was closing in our hideaway by the sea.  Terry’s video below shows Dorian chewing and whirling and spinning its way by Lockeport,  downgraded to a category 2 hurricane when it hit Halifax. Continue reading Hurricane in Lockeport →