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Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: September 2, 2026
Called the “Glass City River Wall”, twenty-eight silos are painted using 3,500 gallons of paint incorporates sunflowers and portraits of three Native Americans, a salute to the indigenous people of the area.
Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 12, 2026
This 1,005-acre state park was a perfect stop to stretch our legs during our 260-mile drive and enjoy the picturesque hills, woodlands and lake. We hiked the two-mile Lakeview Loop Trail and then ascended the .5-mile Woodchuck Loop Trail. Along the trail were plenty of plant growth, unique colorful mushrooms, wild berries, lots of songbirds in the trees and we saw four deer during our trek.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 11, 2026
This small hamlet in Westmoreland County has less than 150 people but this heavily wooded area was the site of an alleged UFO crash on December 9, 1965, just outside Kecksburg. A large bright fireball was seen by thousands of people in six states and locals said that the UFO was “acorn shaped”. Although the government said that the fireball was a meteor, locals claim that an Army flatbed truck arrived within hours, threw a tarp over the Acorn and hauled it away. Witnesses say that a band of writing like Egyptian hieroglyphics circles around the 15 foot object.
In 1990, the TV show “Unsolved Mysteries” filmed a segment on the Space Acorn UFO and built a life size replica of the acorn-shaped UFO which is erected on a small hillside across from the volunteer fire department building and a social club/bar building. After hearing loud voices from the inside of the social club and finding the door locked, I rang the doorbell four times, but no one came to open the door. There is allegedly a small UFO Museum inside the social club. The outside west wall of the club has a sign saying that a large mural will be painted there in the Fall of 2026. Another sign indicated that a UFO Festival had been held there 25 days earlier.
The Space Acorn UFO replica and a sign enlightening visitors on the incident is easily accessible and a great stop to check out.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 11, 2026
This 18-foot-tall Coffee Pot was built in 1927 and began as a café (next to a gas station) and then a bar. It sits along the “Lincoln Highway Corridor” on the grounds of the County Fairgrounds. Back in the Lincoln Highway era (1912-1940), entrepreneurs came up with creative approaches to draw motorists to their attraction. Looking through the front door, the inside of the pot was empty much to the disappointment of my wife who expected to purchase coffee there. Outside is a picnic table under a tree, a convenient spot for travelers to eat lunch and view this unique roadside attraction.
Biking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 8, 2026
We conquered another section of the C & O Towpath bicycling the dirt and stone path from mile marker 10 (ten miles from the end point at Washington DC) going westward past locks 15-20. We passed the Great Falls Tavern and the National Park Visitor Center at MM 14.3 and continued to MM20 before turning around and heading back to the truck. We bicycled past Billy Goat Trail A, B & C and the Great Falls Overlook. Most of the trail was shady and the towpath was crowded with bikers, joggers and walkers.
Exploration Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 6, 2026
Built circa 1833, this seven-sided toll gate house sits along the National Road, America’s first long distance highway. Two signs posted on the house show the toll fees charged to users for using the road for a wagon, carriage or type of animal. Almost $10,000 in tolls were received in the first year of operation. The toll collector earned $200 per year and free-living quarters.
Exploration Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 6, 2026
This small log cabin served as the headquarters for British Colonel George Washington during the French & Indian War. A ghost of George Washinton wearing a bicycle jersey appeared at the front door.
Biking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 6, 2026
We began at C & O Canal Visitor Center at Mile 184.5 of the C & O Towpath Bike Trail (or mile 0 of the 150-mile GAP – Great Alleghany Passage Bike Trail which heads northwest). We biked ten miles southeast on the C & O from downtown Cumberland towards Harpers Ferry (and eventually Washington DC). We bicycled parallel along the North Branch of the Potomac River and spotted deer, fawns, groundhogs, turtles and owls.
At the Visitor Center was a fantastic exhibit of the old canal and its history. Next door was the Eastern Maryland Railway where earlier Rosie, me and our bicycles rode the train from Cumberland to Frostburg, Maryland then bicycled back 18 miles down the mountain. Railroad pedal cars from Frostburg that were pedaled downhill earlier by patrons, sat on the rails waiting to be towed 18 miles back uphill. After biking we had a late lunch at The Crabby Pig Restaurant where we enjoyed a crab burger, crab soup, and a fish sandwich.
Exploration Team: Dave Miller
Date: August 6, 2026
This Halloween roadside attraction was not open when we visited, but it stood out like a sore thumb. Whether it was a museum or a haunted house attraction or both, the house and the exterior area had dozens of creepy props, ghouls and cryptids.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: August 6, 2026
At the edge of town and along the north side of I-68 sits the skeletal metal beginning of a replica of Noahs Ark. Way back in 1974, Pastor Richard Greene was repeatedly told by Jesus to build an Ark next to the interstate and people would come from around the world to see it. The ark would be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. In 1999, the massive steel beams for the Ark structure were installed. The next phase was to erect the roof beams and enclose the structure.
