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6% grade in Texas hill country Ghost Town Museum Chocolate Dipped Cone at Dairy Queen From Abilene to Weatherford: Texas Hill Country With the Permian Basin just memory, we left Abilene in a pouring rain storm and headed east through… Continue Reading →

Dora and Edward liked to get their hands dirty with spying for Churchill. But they never knew what dirty was. They never visited the oil patch in Texas. Today we zoomed out of over-priced, boomtown Midland, Texas where they charge… Continue Reading →

Dora and Edward had great adventures everywhere from Moscow to Berlin to Lisbon to Egypt. But even they never encountered a wild and woolly Texan. Nor did they drive from Van Horn to Midland as we did today, watching the… Continue Reading →

Juarez, Mexico seen from I-10 going through El Paso Dora and Edward fought their way through the wilds of New Mexico fending off German spies looking for the A bomb during WW2. Edward and Lawrence had a busy time of… Continue Reading →

Dora and Edward traveled to Italy and Venice in Hitler’s Spy. But even going to Italy you couldn’t discover a tastier minestrone soup than that served at the Olive Garden at the Sunland Park Mall in El Paso, Texas —… Continue Reading →

The Daily Mail has an article about the 100th anniversary of the Lusitania sinking.

Edward and Lawrence met a spy during WW2 on the road to Santa Fe. They thought they’d captured him. But he escaped and fled south. They found him in a bar in Las Cruces. He again eluded them. They chased… Continue Reading →

Right now 100 years ago the torpedo hit the hull of the Lusitania. 18 minutes later the ship was gone after experiencing a 2nd mysterious explosion. As i’m writing this, we’re in the 18 minute time frame shortly after 2PM… Continue Reading →

Zooming along I-10 in southern Arizona and New Mexico there are now all sorts of shops and diversons such as the Thing at exit 322 as well as Texas Canyon, the Dinosaur McDonalds at Benson, etc. But one hundred years… Continue Reading →

Dora Benley became an expert at packing her bags. Her journeys in pursuit of the Lawrence maps or her flights from pursuers who were trying to steal them made her a pro. She left a bag packed at all times…. Continue Reading →