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The Texas White House (part 2)

Posted by Nerd Trips on 3:45 pm in Presidents | 0 comments

Now it’s time to hit the road as we start the driving tour of the LBJ ranch, a place that served as a driving force in the life of our 36th president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, shaping how he viewed the world. The Visitor’s Center offers a car audio tour CD featuring information, soundbites and music, which really adds to the experience.

The Texas White House (part 1)

Posted by Nerd Trips on 2:14 pm in Presidents | 0 comments

Everything is bigger in Texas, and that is very true of our trip to the Texas White House, home of our 36th president Lyndon Baines Johnson.

You don’t just tour LBJ’s house when you visit: you see a working ranch with livestock, a schoolhouse, an airplane hangar and landing strip, lots of old cars, a state park and a national park with a river running through it, all accompanied by a driving tour CD with soundbites and era-appropriate music.

Happy Birthday President Harrison! (Benjamin Harrison, that is)

Posted by Nerd Trips on 4:45 pm in Presidents | 2 comments

As we celebrate the birthday of President Benjamin Harrison, here some random and not so random facts about our 23rd president.

BlogHer 12 (Not So Nerdy Trip)

Posted by Nerd Trips on 3:17 pm in Not So Nerdy Trips, Presidents | 2 comments

It’s the trip that combined President Obama, Martha Stewart, Katie Couric, the Jimmy Dean “Sun” guy, a vibrator giveaway and a Nerd Trip to Grant’s tomb! BlogHer12 was quite a weekend.

Nerd Trips Teaser: Where is the “Brown House?”

Posted by Nerd Trips on 9:21 pm in Presidents | 2 comments

We all know that the President of the United States lives in the White House, but do you know which president built the “Brown House?”

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House (Part 2)

Posted by Nerd Trips on 9:51 pm in Baltimore Sites, Historic Persons, Mini-nerd trips | 0 comments

O! Say Can You See. In this post, we will see more from our tour of the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House in Baltimore. Flag maker Mary Pickersgill and a team of eight other women, including indentured servants, took just six weeks to sew the mammoth flag that survived the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, inspiring attorney Francis Scott Key to pen a poem that would become our national anthem.

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House (Part 1)

Posted by Nerd Trips on 7:48 am in Baltimore Sites, Historic Persons, Mini-nerd trips | 0 comments

We found a way to make the War of 1812 celebration a little nerdy with an excursion to the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House, home of flag maker Mary Pickersgill, whose mother was a flag-making “rival” of Betsy Ross when both lived in Philadelphia.