Full Dinosaur Quest
Durbuy, BELGIUM – Durbuy Adventure Park
One of the more surprising destinations on my dinosaur quest was the Durbuy Adventure Park, a zip-line/rock-climbing activity center in southern Belgium, which for some inexplicable reason has a Stegosaurus skeleton in its lobby. This excursion was way off course for our tour, but Toasty and I bravely took the 5 hour drive anyway, crashing that...
Bandholm, DENMARK – Knuthenborg Museum of Evolution
For this portion of the tour I was joined by Nick "Toasty" Tosti, who, in addition to being a great guy, also works as a cameraman for some of the shows I am on. This left him uniquely qualified to get some cool footage of this part of the dinosaur tour-trip, which we then turned into a sort of travel blog for the NSP patrons. It was great fun...
Brussels, BELGIUM – Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Several years ago, I wrote an entry in this journal about visiting the Royal Belgian institute in Brussels. That day I got to see their awesome Stegosaurus skeleton, but sadly was unable to get near this very cool Stego cast, which sits in a rarely-opened section of the building known as the PaleoLAB. It's only accessible a few days out of the...
Teruel, SPAIN – Dinopolis
After some rest and recovery from flying halfway around the world, my buddy Joe and I took a car service out into the deep Spanish countryside. Teruel, our destination that day, is a beautiful, medieval looking city about 3 hours outside of the capital. It has all the stone-work and narrow streets of classical Europe, but these days its biggest...
Madrid, SPAIN – Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
As I've said so many times before, I am extremely lucky to get to travel and see the world during the NSP and Game Grumps live tours. This year we toured through Europe and the UK and I was determined to make as many dinosaur stops as I could fit into the travel schedule. The first order of business was to take a side trip to Spain to see the...