I think almost everyone has the Aurora on their bucket list, and last night/early this morning was the strongest geomagnetic storm in 20 years. That meant everyone as far South as Florida had a chance, and boy did it deliver! Below is some of the scientific data. We hit a KP 9, which is a…
Today in Ohio we got the once in a lifetime experience, a total solar eclipse we didn’t need to travel for. The last total solar eclipse was in 1806, and the next will be in 2099. Needless to say, we’ll need to travel to see one again. In 2017, we had an 80% partial, and…
Living in a tent for a week next to hundreds of thousands of our closest friends is a challenging feat. Hence the reason I call this more of an experience rather than a vacation. The campground has a lot of Red One Markets with very overpriced basics. They have lots of port-o-potties stationed everywhere, so…
So, back in 2019, NASA’s Super Guppy flew into Mansfield, Ohio with part of Orion so NASA could do testing at Plum Brook Station (now the Neil Armstrong Test Facility) in Sandusky. It was a wild day for us, because we had spent the day in Marietta, Ohio having lunch with my parents and grandparents,…
Our first time to Oshkosh was a very memorable “vacation”. Everyone asks how our vacation went, and I tell them, it wasn’t a vacation, it was an experience! We had rain, wind, tornado warnings, sun poisoning. It was quite an adventure. We stayed 8 nights in 2 tents in Camp Scholler. We left our home…