Big Boy

When I set out on my trip on June 4th, I resolved to travel all the way to the East Coast, and then back, all the way to the West. By the time I arrived in Cheyenne on June 20th, I had a cooler full of trout, and concern I

I love Colorado. I love the weather, I love the mountains, I love most of the people I come across. Weed is doing good things there. It's the top place I'd move if I could find a job there. After seeing 4023 in Omaha, I drove

Leaving Green Bay, I headed across Iowa to Sioux City. I wasn't going to say much in this post but since there wasn't a full museum there, you get extra filler more brilliant content! I headed to Sioux City because I'd read about a

It took a few days to get from Scranton, PA all the way to Green Bay. I considered seeing Niagara Falls and then cutting through part of Canada, going across Michigan and then taking a ferry into Wisconsin. I ended up not doing that because I came out to see

Back to Big Boy Locomotives after some detours. On June 10th, I visited the Steam National Historic Site. This is a real national park, run by the federal government "in celebration of the machines that built America" as my tour guide put it. If you're a

Friday morning (6/6/2025) I visited the National Museum of Transportation, the resting place of Big Boy #4006. I couldn't pass up the stupid headline, even though I only met two of the Daves, but Dave #2 informed me that there is a Dave #3. (I saw

I've had a rough couple of years. I can't get into every reason why, but I've left my job after more than a decade, and I've had a hell of a time trying to find a new one. (I've been