Read highlights from the ever-nomadic Goza family's perpetual journey across America. On the road since 1988 and no end in sight. Also see our ongoing travel journal which was begun in January 2003 and is updated daily.
Index to Travel Articles
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Heading West: Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Mesa Verde National Park (and coming soon: Arches National Park)
Chicago - The slightly exaggerated tale of events by Zephyr (added May 2005)
Return to Roswell, New Mexico (February 2005)
Massachusetts Marvels (Summer 2003)
Steps Through Time Explore US History (Summer 2003)
The Memphis Make Over (May 2003)
Trudging Through Texas (May 2003)
Bishop and Manzanar (May 2003)
Submerged in Seattle Explore Seattle - underground and above. (April 2003)
Breakdown in Barstow (March 2003)
Grand Canyon by Dennis
Grand Canyon Train by Zephyr (February 2003)
Cape Canaveral, FL (January 2003)
STS-107 Shuttle Launch- Cape Canaveral, FL (January 2003)
Doing Disney - Orlando, FL (January 2003)
Kwanzaa in Birmingham, AL - A Kwanzaa celebration, and a fabulous meal at Mizan Plaz, the restaurant affiliated with Culinard and Virginia College. (December 2002)
On the Trail of Twain - Over the years, we've pursued Mark Twain to many places: Carson City, Virginia City, Hannibal, Calaveras County, Hartford, and even his gravesite in Elmira, New York. (November 2002)
Pentagon - We return to see the results of the Phoenix Project on the first anniversary of 9-11. (September 2002)
New York City -
After performing in Middletown, New Jersey, we return to New York City to see a Broadway performance of "Les Miserables" - and, of course, to see The Naked Cowboy again. (September 2002)
Salem, Massachusetts - We expose myths about wiccans and pagans in Witch City - Salem, Massachusetts, home of the 1692 Witch Trials, where innocent people were hanged on Gallows Hill. We also camp at Winter Island and have ice cream at The Dairy Witch. (July 2002)
Hannibal, Missouri - Back to America's Hometown (and Mark Twain's Hometown) of Hannibal, Missouri for National Tom Sawyer Days, and the Fence Painting Contest. We tour both Mark Twain Cave and Cameron Cave. (July 2002)
Hot Springs - We visit hot springs in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; Pagosa Springs, Colorado; Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico; and Hot Springs, Arkansas. (June 2002)
Shoal Creek, Civil War Reenactment A Civil War Reenactment near Kansas City. (May 2002)
Reno and Las Vegas Nevada Las Vegas and Reno (The Biggest Little City in the World). Visiting the MGM, the Luxor, and in Henderson the Ethel M Chocolate Factory and the Living Machine. Mourning the Mapes. (March 2002)
Northern California and Oregon - Easter in Redding; Shasta, Castle Crags and Black Butte. Then on to Eugene and Albany, and Ashland, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Gilroy, home of the Gilroy Garlic Festival; then Build-A-Bear at the Galleria in Glendale. (journal April 1 - 13, 2002)
Cahokia Mounds - We visit Collinsville, Illinois, near St. Louis, site of an ancient Native American culture of mound builders - most impressively Monks Mound (January 2002)
Zephyr attends Magic Science Camp at Science Central in Fort Wayne, Ind., where we also watch the Olympic Torch pass on its way to Salt Lake City and the 2002 Olympic Games. (December 2001)
Hannibal, Missouri -Samuel Langhorne Clemens left quite an imprint on this little city by the Mississippi River, which was also the home of Titanic survivor The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Lear Jet inventor William Lear. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Injun Joe, Becky Thatcher and Pudd'n'head Wilson are everywhere you turn. (December 2001)
MUSEUMS: COSI and National Inventors Hall of Fame, COSI in Ohio & Indianapolis Children's Museum - The latter is especially worthwhile at Halloween. (November 2001)
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - Cannons and monuments mark the site of the pivotal Civil War battle. And ghosts still linger in the streets around Willoughby Run. (October 2001)
New York City, September 11 - Shortly after 9-11, we visited the Big Apple and viewed the ruins of the World Trade Center. We also visited the Pentagon. (September 2001)
Craters of the Moon National Monument -Astronauts have trained for moon missions at these lava beds in Utah
Fort Union - New Mexico
Dinosaur National Monument -Dinosaurs still rule in Colorado and Utah, thanks to paleontologist Earl Douglass and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Strap on your life jackets for a wild ride down the Green River in Utah (July 2001).
Niagara Falls - This time, we hit the Cave of the Winds tour… (August 2001)
Who wrote the Hardy Boys? - Who really wrote The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books? Franklin W. Dixon? Carolyn Keene? We search for clues in Bayport, NY. (August 2001)
We Love Lucy - We pay our respects to Lucille Ball, the greatest comic ever, at the Lucy and Desi Museum in her home town of Jamestown, N.Y. (August 2001)
