60's on 6 - First Day of Summer

Yo Ho Tour guide, where are we going today?  Bismarck ND.  Bismarck, Bismarck, that's a Huge German Battle Ship.  It can blow us out of the water.  First KW, it was a German Battleship sunk in WWII in 1941 by the British.  Second, we are not near any water.  Third, your imagination just runs rampant with you doesn't it?  Well tour guide I do have a vivid imagination, so I guess so.  KW, can we get packed up and leave with out your mind wondering off into outer space.  OK Tour guide, let's get this cart moving.


Jamestown North Dakota.




National SELFIE day.  Mrs. tour guide and the Urban Dictionary calls this an USIE.


The "World's Largest Buffalo Monument" is a sculpture of an American Bison located in Jamestown, North Dakota at the Frontier Village.  It is visible from Interstate 94, overlooking the city from above the James River valley.


White Buffalo.




Frontier Village.


Mrs. tour guide on the train.


Louis L'Amour was an American novelist and short-story writer.  His books consisted primarily of Western novels, however he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections.


Some Loius L'Amour novels.


Hey tour guide, why in the world is Mrs. tour guide in that coffin.  Well, I guess the horse thief doesn't need it any longer, so she wanted a picture.


Barney.


Bam Bam.


Fred.


Barney, Bam Bam, and Fred getting out of the sun.  Fred never did come out for a picture.  KW wasn't too happy about that.  He remembered the Flintstone house in Utah this past winter.


Antiquing in Frontier Village.  Mrs.tour guide looking at boxes of license plates.

Success.  She has finally found number 50, Louisiana.


Tour guide buying Caribou coffee and windshield washer.


Mrs. tour guide checking out the Harley Trikes.


Tour Guide, KW doesn't seem to know what he is doing.  I better help him.


OK, KW, I will give you a hand in writing the blog tonight.  I will look up stuff on google using my iPhone and air drop it to you on the Mac Laptop.

TTFN:

PS:

The Battle Ship Bismarck.

KW&CJ Like to listen to 60's on 6 on Sirius-XM Radio while in the Jeep traveling around this country.  Mrs. tour guide emails Phlash Phelps about our travels.  Today he mentioned us twice on his show.

Gordon "Phlash" Phelps is a radio personality and disc jockey on Sirius-XM Radio, broadcasting from Washington, D.C.  He hosts the weekday morning drive time Phlash Phelps Phunny Pharm on the '60s on 6 channel, which plays music hits from the 1960s.

An "USIE" is a group selfie, where someone takes a picture of themselves with other people in the shot.

First day of Summer.

The summer solstice (or estival solstice), also known as midsummer, occurs when one of the Earth's poles is tilted the farthest toward the Sun.  It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere, (Northern and Southern).  For that hemisphere, the summer solstice is when the Sun reaches it highest position in the sky and is the day with the longest period of daylight.  At the pole, there is continuous daylight around the summer solstice.  On the summer solstice, Earth's maximum axial tilt toward the Sun is 23.44 degrees.  Likewise, the Sun's declination from the celestial equator is 23.44 degrees.  The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's summer.  This is the June solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.  Depending on the shift of the calendar, the summer solstice occurs sometime between June 20 and June 22.

 

Sunset over Bismarck North Dakota.