Billy Wardle Happenings

 After Christmas we spent some time in Omaha.  We visited the SACS Museum, which was were the air nuclear defense for the United States was coordinated.  The museum also documented space exploration and different rockets.  It is about a half hour outside of Omaha to the west. A nuclear bomb

 You need a lot of space for an R.V. Museum.  This museum is in a large warehouse.  Sheri was especially interested in the Daydream as she followed them traveling Route 66 on Youtube.  They had all types of R.V.s, including trailers, tear drops and large modern coaches.  Many are made in the Elkhart area.  They have a small store with books and other R.V. items.   Keep your Daydream alive

 The Highway 66 Museum is located in the old Power Plant building with the Visitors Center.  It is upstairs.  I really enjoyed the John Steinbeck section.  The had an old truck which would be similar to the Joads traveling across the country,  There was also a good display of the old city center in the days of Route 66.

The Makah museum is very fascinating.  It is located in Neah Bay which is along the San Juan de Fuca Strait.  The only disappointment is they do not allow pictures or videos to be taken inside.  The museum houses some 55,000 items from the Ozette Archeological Site.   This site is 300-500 years old and was buried by a mud slide.  It included six long houses and their contents.  As such in the museum are whaling boats, sealing boats and the tools to go with each, harpoons, seal clubs, seal spears.  One of the most interesting displays is a long house where you can go inside and see the dealings.  These homes are very large and have different sections for different families.  There are also samples of clothing.  The clothing that survived 500 years is clothing made of cedar smashed cedar bark.  Historical Makah Culture as found at the museum is fascinating. long house

 The original Bass Pro Shop is in Springfield Missouri.  We toured there once before when visiting family; and decided to return since we were driving through after the reunion in Arkansas.  It is a bigger deal now with a museum/ aquarium but we didn't have time to go there so stayed on the free side.  The aquarium was rather expensive.  We were traveling with the Halls. Sheri bought tee shirts and I bought fudge. We saw the alligator fish, the racing museum, and display on the history of Bass Pro Shop, which started with a Bass fishermen, Johnny Morris.  He originally sold fish bait out of his father's liquor store.