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GRAVE DAYS


2025 06 02 - NV - Mountain View
Mountain View Cemetery, road sign We had pegged in directions for the Masonic Cemetery and didn't look to close when we arrived. It...
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Jun 31 min read
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2025 06 02 - NV - Masonic
Entry sign (inside Mountain View Cemetery) We had a breakdown on what I was driving and our quickest thing to do is find a local...
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Jun 31 min read
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2025 05 24 - CA - San Joaquin National Cemetery
Entry, Memorial weekend National cemeteries are the easy ones to walk and find graves. For three days now we are mostly killing time. We...
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May 251 min read
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2024 12 16 - CA - Riverside National Cemetery
Snow covered mountains in the distance. This is our third partial day of not working here in California. We chose this cemetery to walk...
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Mar 181 min read
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2024 12 15 - CA - Miramar National Cemetery
Avenue of Flags We hadn't planned on stopping here, didn't really know where the other National Cemeteries were in CA. Then I was looking...
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Mar 161 min read
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2024 12 14 - CA - Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
High above San Diego This cemetery is now on what would be called 'prime land.' Overlooking both the Pacific Ocean and San Diego. The...
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Mar 151 min read
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2024 12 15 - AZ - Mesa City Cemetery
Waylon Jennings We had already done our one hour walk today, plus a fair amount of walking at the National Cemetery so when we got here...
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Feb 11 min read
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2024 12 15 - AZ - National Cemetery of Arizona
No grass to mow here (most places) Office was closed when we were there, but we had the grave locations and the locations are marked. I...
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Jan 311 min read
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2024 09 10 - CA - Golden Gate National Cemetery
This is Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Francisco. It is about 15 miles south of the Gold Gate Bridge and about 2 miles west of the...
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Oct 20, 20241 min read
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2024 08 27 - MN - Fort Snelling
Lots of wind damage at the cemetery from the last storm. This was an old tree, but a lot of the smaller ones have a very small root...
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Oct 19, 20241 min read
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2024 08 11 - MN Day trip
Today my first stop was the Linwood Cemetery. This is the first time I've been here since the death date has been etched in for Mom....
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Aug 30, 20242 min read
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2024 07 27 - MN - Fort Snelling
I haven't spent much time checking out graves lately. And we haven't been returning rental cars to the airport lately either. Today we...
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Aug 19, 20241 min read
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2024 05 07 - MN - Fort Snelling
Do to poor planning and weather, we ended up at Fort Snelling on Memorial Day instead of one or two days before. We did make sure we...
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Jun 10, 20242 min read
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2024 05 19 - Evansville MN - Lake Christiana
This is a picture of the gravestone for a 1st cousin of my Swedish grandfather. It is likely that his brother is the person standing next...
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May 24, 20241 min read
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2024 05 19 - MN - Ashby
After our 'walk in the park,' we stopped at three cemeteries before heading home from the weekend. The first one was Grue. Today is...
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May 23, 20242 min read
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2024 05 18 - MN - Battle Lake
Picture: Main entrance to cemetery. Our main walk for today was at the Lake Carlos State Park. Then we had eaten at Stella's in Battle...
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May 22, 20242 min read
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2024 05 18 - MN - Carlos
Picture: Street signage. TRINITY LUTHERAN CEMETERY This morning we are visiting two cemeteries in Carlos MN. This is the first one and is...
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May 21, 20241 min read
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0204 02 27 - CA - Manteca
Picture: Entrance sign. I had dropped a truck nearby and after eating we still had time left before we would find out about our next...
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May 20, 20241 min read
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2024 02 01 - CA - Northern
Picture: Masonic Cemetery - Orland CA We had delivered in Medford OR and then were able to get south of the snow yet last night. Today we...
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Feb 15, 20242 min read
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2024 01 18 - FL - Tampa
Picture: Lee Memorial Park - Tampa FL This cemetery has about 15,000 graves. We did not come in the main entrance so we did not see the...
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Feb 14, 20241 min read
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