vintage motels in Las Vegas

Roadside America | Mid-Century Hotel Signage in Las Vegas   Well I figure while i’m discovering these old files why stop now while on on an old motel roll?! This set is from the outskirts of Las Vegas. If you are at all familiar with Vegas, this was all located past that downtown “Fremont Street…

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a retro blast from the past: Old Chicago Motels

roadside america | Mid-century motel design So this is what I get for poking around in some old backup drives looking for files from way back: a little trip down memory lane and some time wasted. I found all sort of photos (baptisms, Christmas, holidays and vacations) and then I came across these. I REMEMBERED…

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My trip to Asia – the Final Post: ROBOT RESTAURANT

SO i’m betting everyone who has been following along is as exhausted and jet lagged as I WAS when I got home–lol. But I swear – this is the last post and the final time you’ll see be babbling about China…but today we’re just talking about Tokyo, Japan. The flight from China to Tokyo was…

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My Asia trip- part 4 (!)

I know, I know–‘enough already with these damn China posts’ you’re saying… So as part of our tour we strolled though the Beijing Night market ( except we went during the daytime) which was probably a good thing since some of the sights were haunting enough in the full sun [i’ll warn you now this…

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My Asia Trip – part two

Forgive me for jumping around a little, but after 10 days of seeing so much, even I CANNOT keep straight what happened when! We had a drover who schlepped us around at our whimsy (you are not allowed to rent cards in China, and if you ever go you’ll see why–it’s not a place i’d…

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my Asia Trip – part 3 (!)

SO thanks for following along here on this virtual trip with me – it’s fun to go through edit down and revisit places this way, and I hope you;re enjoying it as well. We took a 5.5 hour bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing. And the rumors about pollution are all true. Get this- we…

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My big Asia Trip – part one

So if you have been anywhere near my facebook feed in the past month, it’s pretty obvious that I had ben on a little journey to China and Japan. Our friend Kristen who lives there now ( for business) was gracious enough to invite us over and gave us the Grand Tour of Shanghai, Beijing…

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my Mom & Dads wedding album + preserving memories

wedding albums and your personal history _____ Some of us are lucky enough to still have our parents wedding album lying around somewhere, or at least know where to locate it. I have had my parents book for MANY years, and had wrapped it in a saran-like shipping plastic to ‘keep it safe’.  I was…

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