Full Dinosaur Quest

The Australian portion of the dinosaur adventure continued in the national capital city of Canberra.  This town wasn’t near any of the places I was performing on tour, so I had to take a 6-hour side trip to get there and back on the day off between shows.  It was exhausting, but worth it!  The National Dinosaur museum is a very kid-friendly...

I recently found a website that allows you to find the opposite point of any location on Earth.  I typed in the name of the small New Jersey town I grew up in, and the response the site gave me was a wilderness point in the Western end of Australia.  That fact was going through my head as I looked at the Stegosaurus display at the Australian...

This Dinoquest has taken me a lot of places.  Some of the Stegosaurus skeletons I’ve visited are located near each other and can be seen in one trip (Like in the many museums of Utah or the East Coast.)  Others, like this one in Milan, are a journey unto themselves.  This awesome trip to Italy was taken on the heels of a two-week long European...

Down in the heart of Georgia lies a huge renovation project aiming to raise Savannah’s national profile as a destination city.  Entire blocks are being restored and updated with the hopes of creating a walkable party town like Austin or New Orleans.  One of the crown jewels of this project is the JW Marriott Riverside, a former power plant that...

In my earlier entry from Canon City, I mentioned that the specimen at the Royal Gorge History Center was one of only two casts of “Ms. Spike,” a nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton that’s become the official state fossil of Colorado.  Here is the other one!  Located a few hours away at the University of Colorado Boulder, this cast can be found...