Touring America's Parks with Shayne

  This building is the Scottsdale Historical Museum at the Little Red Schoolhouse.  The museum opened in November 1991 and operated by the Scottsdale Historical Society.  This building is located at 7333 East Scottsdale Mall.  It is near Old Town Scottsdale. The Little Red Schoolhouse, originally constructed as the Scottsdale Grammar School in 1909.  It was a tribute to the wisdom and foresight of town founder, Chaplain Winfield Scott. It is still located on its original site in Old Town Scottsdale, the Little Red Schoolhouse was dedicated on Scott's birthday on February 26, 1910.  After serving as a school between 1909 to early 1950's, it served as Scottsdale's first Town Hall (1955-1963), then it was a public library (1963-1968), and then it was the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center from 1973-1991. This was Chaplain Winfield Scott and his wife. The schoolhouse is a small building for a school.  Here you can read the history of Scottsdale ...

  I bet you are wondering why I have this church on my blog.  With my theme of going to see Frank Lloyd Wright buildings.  This was one of his designs.  There were portions of a 1950 design for the Southwest Christian Seminary in this church.  Frank Lloyd Wright was not alive when this place was built in 1971-78.  Taliesin Associated Architects built this church. This First Christian Church is located in Phoenix, AZ. First Christian Church of Phoenix

This is the Taliesin West House.  The design came from Frank Lloyd Wright the architect.  This was Frank's winter home located in Scottsdale, AZ.  In the late 1930's, he purchased six hundred acres of land in the Sonoran Desert at the foot McDowell Mountain.  This home was his winter home, studio and architectural laboratory until his death in 1959. The house was constructed of stone, cement, redwood, and canvas.  There are angled roofs, exposed beams and rubble walls mirror the colors, textures and forms of the surrounding landscape.  Later on somethings got replaced with steel and fiberglass. Now you can visit it to see the amazing house.  You can take a tour or do a self-guided tour.  We took the self-guided tour.  When you are there, you download the app on your phone, and you listen to it through your headphones that they provide or bring your own.  Bring your own headphones is the best.  There is number along the pathways of t...

In August of 1986 I went to visit my dad when he lived in Alaska.  On this trip we went to Denali NPP located in Denali Park, AK.  One of the ways you can get there is by train from Anchorage to the Denali. Here are some pictures I found of us on the train to the park. My dad, Bob My dad and me My stepmom, Meg. My dad and Meg. The park contains North America's highest mountain, 20,320-foot Mount Mckinley.  Large glaciers of the Alaska Range, caribou, Dall sheep, moose, grizzly bears and timber wolves are other highlights of the national park and preserve. More than a Mountain Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)

  In August of 1985, I went up to Alaska to see my dad and my stepmom.  On this trip we went to Kenai Fjords National Park that is located in Seward, AK.  We went on a boat ride to see the glaciers and saw a lot of wild sea animals.  It is summer up there, but it was still very cold on the boat.  You can go on a charter boat to take you around the national park.  It is an 8-hour ride and takes you around 100 miles.  I do remember they did have some soup on board to get warmed up. Whale Dolphin A lot of Sea Lions Glacier Sea Otters The park within 20 miles of Seward, includes one of the four major ice caps in the U.S., the Harding Icefield, Glaciers radiating from 700-square-mile icefield continue to cut deep glacial valleys, many ending at tidewater.  The coasted fjords and associated offshore islands are remnants of "drowned" mountains.  Here a rich varied rain forest is to sea lions, sea otters, seals and tons of thousands of breeding birds...

 I don't remember going here when I was younger, but I did remember that I have been here before.  It is a crater in the Earth ground.  It is huge hole.  It is near Winslow, AZ off of Interstate 40, Exit 233.  Here are a couple of pictures that were taken there. Here is my stepdad and me. Here is the Meteor Crater. Meteor Crater: A Must-See Natural Wonder | Top Things to Do in Arizona

In the 1980's my mom, my stepdad and me went to the Grand Canyon NP located in Arizona.  I think this was a trip after we moved to Phoenix from Illinois. My mom Kathy and me My stepdad Ron and me The park, focusing on the world-famous Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, encompasses the entire course of the river and adjacent uplands from the southern terminus of Glen Canyon NRA to the eastern boundary of Lake Mead NRA.  The forces of erosion have exposed immense variety of formations which illustrate vast periods of geological history. Geologic Wonder and Ancestral Homeland Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

 When I was a baby my dad and mom went to Gothenburg Pony Express Station located in Nebraska.  This was one of the stops for the Pony Express NHT when they riders would bring mail to different states in the country. My dad took this picture of my mom and me. Of course, I am the one setting on the saddle bag that the riders use to use during their travels. Gothenburg Pony Express Station (U.S. National Park Service) Pony Express Station