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Mommy/Daddy Travels


This is here to show that Mommy and Daddy actually had lives in their pre-Lydia days, and even in the days before they met each other. This will be a similar grouping of places as on the Other Travels page. As these go back several decades, it will probably never be complete, but it should make for somewhat interesting reading.
 

Zoos Children’s/Science Museums Art/Historical Museums Nature Centers/
Natural History Museums/Etc.
Natural Wonders Botanical Gardens Farms Apple Orchards
Campgrounds Amusement/
Theme Parks
Fairs, Festivals, and
Recurring Celebrations
Christmas Celebrations
Concerts, Stage Plays, and
similar Entertainment
Sports/Entertainment Venues Specialty Shops/   
Restaurants
Miscellaneous

Zoos

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Great Plains Zoo
Sioux Falls SD
Bronx Zoo
New York NY
Jacksonville Zoo
Jacksonville FL
Woodland Park Zoo
Seattle WA
Brookfield Zoo
Chicago IL
Lincoln Park Zoo
Chicago IL

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Children’s/Science Museums

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Cincinnati Science Museum
Cincinnati OH
Museum of Science and History
Jacksonville FL
Pacific Science Center
Seattle WA
Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago IL
Adventure Science Center
Nashville TN
When Daddy went here, it was called the Cumberland Science Museum.

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Art/Historical Museums

M&D Together M Only D Only
The Music House Museum
Acme MI
Gilmore Car Museum
Hickory Corners MI
Soldiers & Sailors Monument
Indianapolis IN
We’ve all seen this from the outside, but only Mommy has been in the museum portion within.
Art Center of Battle Creek
Battle Creek MI
Ivy Green
Tuscumbia AL
Stephen Foster Museum
Bardstown KY
Art Train
Battle Creek MI
We all saw an Art Train at a stop in Ypsilanti, but its emphasis was entirely different (more postage stamps than painting or sculpture).
San Juan Capistrano
Capistrano CA
Huntington Library
San Marino CA
John J. Audubon Museum
Henderson KY
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago IL
Ford’s Theater
Washington DC
Lincoln’s Birthplace
Hodgenville KY
Lincoln’s Birthplace
Hodgenville KY
Jefferson Memorial
Washington DC
House of Seven Gables
Salem MA
Peshtigo Museum
Peshtigo WI
Lincoln Memorial
Washington DC
Fort Crailo
Saratoga Springs NY
National Art Gallery
Washington DC
National Portrait Gallery
Washington DC
Corning Museum of Glass
Corning NY
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington DC
Independence Hall
Philadelphia PA
Washington Monument
Washington DC
James K. Polk Museum
Columbia TN
Winterthur
Winterthur DE
Casey Jones Museum
Jackson TN
U.S.S. Arizona Memorial
Honolulu HI
Museum of Childhood
Wakefield NH
Guinness World Records Museum
Empire State Bldg.
New York NY
This museum has since closed.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York NY
The Cloisters
New York NY
Prairie Village Museum
Rugby ND
Brandywine River Museum
Chadds Ford PA
Mercer Museum
Doylestown PA
Electric Map
Gettysburg PA
It’s being replaced in 2007 or 2008 with a more modern, and probably more detailed, program.
Corn Palace
Mitchell SD
1880 Train
Hill City to Keystone SD
Gutzon Borglum Museum
Keystone SD
Laura Ingalls Wilder Home
DeSmet SD
Mount Rushmore
Keystone SD
Woodcarving Museum
Custer SD
Country Music Hall of Fame
Nashville TN
The Hermitage
Nashville TN
Bennington Museum
Bennington VT
Norman Rockwell Museum
Rutland VT
Shelburne Museum
Shelburne VT
Mount Vernon
Alexandria VA
*White House & Capitol Building
Washington DC
We saw these from the outside only.
*Twin Towers & Grant’s Tomb
New York NY
We saw these from the outside only, while on the Circle Line Cruise around Manhattan.

Note: Some places, such as Winterthur and Huntington, could be listed as well under Botanical Gardens.

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Nature Centers/Natural History Museums/Etc.

M&D Together M Only D Only
Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
Washington DC
Ruggles Mine
Grafton NH
Mommy and Daddy tried to get here together, but they closed early and wouldn’t let us in.
Field Museum
Chicago IL
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington DC
American Museum of Natural History
New York NY
Ocean World
Fort Lauderdale FL
Closed in 1994, the year after we went there.
Field Museum
Chicago IL
Sea Life Park
Waimanalo HI
Mammoth Site
Hot Springs SD
Delbridge Museum of Natural History
Sioux Falls SD
Vermont Raptor Center
Quechee VT
Mount St. Helens
Amboy WA

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Natural Wonders

M&D Together M Only D Only
Rocky Mountains/Great Divide
CO
Beaver Island
MI
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Medora ND
Mammoth Cave
Mammoth Cave KY
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Gatlinburg TN
Profile Rock
NH
Lost River Gorge
North Woodstock NH
Niagara Falls
NY/Canada
Ohio Caverns
West Liberty OH
Jewel Cave
Custer SD
*Horsetail Falls, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier
OR/WA

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Botanical Gardens

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Foster Botanical Garden
Honolulu HI
Longwood Gardens
Kennett Square PA
McCrory Gardens
Brookings SD

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Farms

M&D Together M Only D Only
School Farm Outdoor Education Center
Dowling MI
Borg Turkey Farm
Hudson MI

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Apple Orchards

M&D Together M Only D Only
? Apple Orchard
nr. Hudson MI

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Campgrounds

M&D Together M Only D Only
Bill Rice Ranch
?
Clear Lake Camp & Conference Center
Dowling MI
Camp Barakel
Fairview, MI
Family Camp
Gun Lake, nr. Hastings MI
Camp Barakel
Fairview, MI

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Amusement/Theme Parks

M&D Together M Only D Only
Cedar Point
Sandusky OH
Opryland
Nashville TN
Closed in 1997.

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Fairs, Festivals, and Recurring Celebrations

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Middlesex County Fair
NJ
? Circus
nr. Coldwater MI
Hastings Fair
Hastings MI
Hillsdale County Fair (?)
Hillsdale MI

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Christmas Celebrations

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Concerts, Stage Plays and similar Entertainment

M&D Together M Only D Only
Michael Card Concert
Hill Auditorium
Ann Arbor MI
1776
Michigan Theatre
Ann Arbor MI
Young Messiah Concert
Palace of Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills MI
Grand ol' Opry
Nashville TN
Beach Boys Concert
Chrisler Arena
Ann Arbor MI
BJ Thomas Concert
Chrisler Arena
Ann Arbor MI
Merrill Womack Concert
Ann Arbor MI
Ice Show
Palace of Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills MI
Phil Keagy (sp?) Concert
? NJ
Ice Capades
? NY
Shows on Broadway
New York NY
Paul Stuckey Concert
? PA
America Concert
Muehlenberg PA
Banana Splits Concert
Coldwater MI
Kitty Wells Concert
Coldwater MI
Army Brass Quintet
Ypsilanti MI
Stratford Theatre
London ON

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Sports/Entertainment Venues

M&D Together M Only D Only
Silverdome
Pontiac MI

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Specialty Shops/Restaurants

M&D Together M Only D Only
Neath the Birches
Mackinaw City MI
Wall Drug
Wall SD

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Miscellaneous

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Mackinac Island
Mackinac Island MI
Coors Brewing Co.
Golden CO
NASA
Huntsville AL
Denver Mint
Denver CO
Benson & Hedges(?) Tobacco factory
? KY
Hershey Chocolate Co.
Hershey PA
Wonder Bread Factory
Indianapolis IN
Old Mission Lighthouse
Old Mission MI
(w/Lydia?)
Circle Line Tour
New York NY
GreekTown
Detroit MI
Lake Michigan Crossing
Ludington MI-Sheboygan WI
ChinaTown
Chicago IL
U.S. Open Chess Tournaments
Chicago, Jacksonville, Dearborn

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Mommy and Daddy have been to 40 states together, and Mommy has been in a few of the 10 others (SC, MS, LA, AR, OK, TX, NM, AZ, NV, and AK).

The places listed above can be broken into four categories, two large and two small:

  1. Places where neither had been to until they went together (this usually happened on long trips, such as to New England, Florida, the Dakotas, the Pacific Northwest, and Hawaii)
  2. Places that one had been to, and later introduced the other to (this is usually the case where one has special memories from childhood)
  3. Places where both had visited separately, then later visited together (these are generally large and fairly handy attractions, such as the Henry Ford Museum and Cedar Point)
  4. Places where both had visited separately, but haven’t been back to (e.g., Lincoln’s birthplace, Field Museum)

Updated most recently on 24 June 2008.