As a continuation of our trip to the 2014 Louisville ACA, we also stopped at the Louisville Zoo. My GPS was giving me fits, and kept trying to make me enter via a service entrance, but we did finally figure it out. I’ve got mixed opinions on the Louisville Zoo. It was very difficult for us to find our way around to the various exhibits even with the map. Many of the paths were not marked well, we We ended[…] Read the full article&#8594

Whenever we travel, I try to incorporate visits to local zoo’s into our itinerary. While traveling to Louisville, KY for the 2014 ACA convention, Gail decided we needed to tour Andrew Jackson’s home which was in Nashville. I visit zoos and she visits presidential homes and libraries. The Nashville Zoo is a relatively new zoo, or at least one that is just beginning to do some serious expanding. While it was marked pretty well, the layout did take a little[…] Read the full article&#8594

I had never been to the American Livebearer Association annual convention, but decided that since it was going to be in St. Louis this year, it would be a perfect time to get my feet wet. It was a smaller convention than the Amer. Cichlid Assoc., but there were a lot of nice people involved as well as many interesting speakers. As these conventions usually do, they also had a vendor room, an auction, and members selling fish out of[…] Read the full article&#8594

On our way out to Denver for the American Cichlid Association 2013 convention, we (or I) decided to stop at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, KS. It was well worth the stop. We got there quite early to beat the heat as well as to leave sufficient travel time to our next stop that evening. The zoo was very well done, and as well as being very well laid out. There was quite a bit of tree cover, so[…] Read the full article&#8594

Over Spring break we traveled to Washington DC area, but took a side trip to Chattanooga to visit the Tennessee Aquarium. It was well worth the detour. The aquarium is housed in 2 adjacent buildings each about 3-4 stories high – one named Ocean and the other River. You enter at ground level and then are taken to the top floor from where you start to wind your way down to ground level. The displays are well done, and there[…] Read the full article&#8594