Our glider being towed into the sky from Truckee Tahoe Airport… The pilot of the glider is Greg Peairs – a former Top Gun pilot and instructor: * * A tow plane pulls the glider aloft and carries it up several thousand feet before, with a loud “thunk”, the tow rope is dropped from the … Continue reading
Picking up right where we left off in Part 1… Outside of Red Square, one can either proceed through Norton Park (more on Norton Park below) or journey across the countryside to see some of the other highlights of Molossia. One such example is the Trans-Molossia Trail. This trail, maintained by the Molossian National Park … Continue reading
The gateway to the Republic of Molossia: As promised earlier, the scene report from Molossia is finally here… ***** It’s a sad fact that Americans don’t get much international travel experience when compared to Europeans or those from other wealthy nations. Perhaps this is because the United States is a large country and there is … Continue reading
No. 18, a Baldwin 2-8-2 locomotive of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad built in 1914, pulls into Gold Hill, Nevada on June 8, 2014: It is still possible to ride the Virginia & Truckee Railroad (V&T) between Carson City, NV and Virginia City, NV today. Continue reading
She stands 16 feet tall and is made up of 3,261 silver dollars weighing in at 210 pounds: The Silver Queen was created in 1957 as a tribute to the miners and the mining industry of Virginia City. Much of the silver in the 3,261 silver dollars came from local mines. The Silver Queen can … Continue reading
For most of you, this will be the second photo of the day (POTD) on the same day. Such actions may seem to violate the natural order of things, but The Velvet Rocket is warming up for the theme of the next few posts and we don’t want to lose our momentum… Long a site … Continue reading
A sampling of some of the people we met on our trip to South Africa… I pulled some of these pictures from the archives, but many of these I am publishing for the first time: Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 