Nevada's Ice Age Fossils State Park

 Nevada's Ice Age Fossils State Park

Opened in January 2024, Ice Age Fossils State Park is Nevada’s newest state park. It’s a 315-acre park in the Tule (TOO-lee) Springs area that highlights the area’s wealth of paleontological and historical riches. They refer to it as “A New Park With Old Bones’.

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Visiting Boys’ Town Nebraska

 Visiting Boys’ Town Nebraska

As we headed east on our US-6 adventure a month ago, we passed Boys' Town, just west of Omaha, Nebraska. The sign flashed by, and I immediately googled Boys' Town to learn more about it. I’d watched the 1938 Academy Award-winning movie ‘Boys' Town’ with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney many years ago, but I guess I never really thought about the ‘real’ place.

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