- Rafting on the Mendenhall River below the ice fields of Mendenhall Glacier Juneau, Alaska
Mendenhall River Rafting Trip Below the Mendenhall Ice Fields near Juneau, Alaska - Fly fishing float trip on the San Juan River in New Mexico and a stay at Soaring Eagle Lodge
- Invited guest of the Director of Donor Services (American Battle Monuments Commission) at the Groundbreaking and Dedication Ceremonies for the National WWll Memorial in Washington, D.C. after creating artwork for the organization
Senator Bob Dole with officials at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the National WWll Ceremony - "Got my Kicks on Route 66"...from Amarillo, Texas to Santa Monica, California with my daughter, high school friend and another friend — the same Route my parents drove during WWll. Drove the Kansas segment several years later with my husband. Story I wrote, the online Route 66 Road Trip, is posted on my Gatekeepers of History site, where I write stories about certain people I have met during my travels
www.preserveamerica.com/gatekeepers/legends_route_66
Longhorn Limo ride to Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas—compliments of owner, Bobby Lee
Standing next to one of the antique cars that line Route 66 in Seligman, Arizon - Breakfast with cowboys in the Sonoran Desert
- Stayed at two historic dude ranches...Kay El Bar Ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona and Lazy E L Ranch in Roscoe, Montana (Stayed in the Charles Russell Cabin)
Lazy E L Ranch in Roscoe, Montana - Climbed Beech Cliff Loop in Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island, Maine and Prouts Neck Cliff Walk in Scarborough, Maine
- Cobb's Pierce Pond Camps in Western Central Maine — one of America's last remaining old time fishing camps-electricity by generator only. Camped overnight on a remote island on the 8 mile-long pond with its eerie silence, punctuated only by the sounds of loons and coyotes
- Tu Tu Tu Lodge
Gold Beach, Oregon
- Moss-Squatch in Quinault Rainforest, Olympic National Park, Washington
- Encountered a sandstorm when driving from Utah into New Mexico
- Went on an air boat and a swamp buggy in the Everglades, Florida
- Flew in a float plane over the Maine Wilderness
- Stayed in an eco-tent at Maho Bay, St. John's, Virgin Islands. Built on the side of a mountain, the conservation-minded tent community was on boardwalks
- Took the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad into the San Juan National Forest to Tall Timber Resort, accessible only by the train or helicopter. The sounds of the steam train coming up the mountain several times a day and the bugling elk defined this experience
- Heart-to-heart talks with people from different cultures along Route 66 about why they have chosen to live and work on the Mother Road
Carol and Carlos Quiroz at Beck Boots, Custom Cowboy Boot Company in Amarillo, Texas - Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Journey and Cookout
through Cache Creek Canyon, outside Jackson, Wyoming
Covered Wagon Ride Through Cache Canyon and Cookout/Entertainment by Bar T 5 Ranch, Jackson, Wyoming - Hot air balloon ride over the Snake River near the Grand Tetons outside Jackson, Wyoming
- Visit with musician Chuck Leavell (Rolling Stones) and his wife, Rose Lane, at their Charlane Plantation in Dry Branch, Georgia
...Also at the Plantation — Sipped moonshine with a former roadie working there who was with the band, Deep Purple, and learned about life on the open road with a major rock band
- Launched my Preserve America-related satirical humor book, Daisy's Reality Show Adventure, at Pink's Hot Dog Stand in Hollywood, California
- Haircut by the famous Angel Delgadillo, "The Angel of Route 66,"
Seligman, Arizona
- Attended mule riding class with wranglers for riders going down on Bright Angel Trail into the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I climbed down to a protruding rock and had a photo shoot of the riders, but did not ride
- Stayed at The Howlers Bed and Breakfast Inn in Bozeman, Montana, which is also a wolf sanctuary. Had an eye-to-eye encounter with one of the wolves
- Mt. Washington Auto Road and Mt. Washington Cog Railway
New Hampshire
- The Californian, Amtrak zephyr train experience with husband, Rick, from Chicago to Emeryville (outside San Francisco.)
It traveled across the Rockies and Sierra Nevada with views of the Mississippi River and Donnor Lake
- Carol sketching, from atop a Cherry Picker, a scene from The Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona
- A wild off-road ride into the Cherokee National Park at Horse Creek, Tennessee in an old purple pick-up truck named Festus
- In costume at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, Louisiana
Carol in Costume at Mardi Gras World New Orleans, Louisiana - Painting in Sycamore Studio
- In Route 66 road trip biker garb
- Spent a day on Lake Powell in Arizona on a luxury houseboat and afterwards, a speed boat ride through Levitation Canyon at sunset
Ready to go onboard a houseboat Lake Powell, Arizona - Many lodging experiences, from The Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in San Bernardino, California to a stay in the Royal Suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City
- Walked through Thurston Lava Tube in Volcanoes National Park, Big Island, Hawaii — Emerging into a fern-laden rainforest
- Guest artist at the United States Coast Guard South Portland, Maine Station. Carol and her husband, Rick, stayed in the barracks. A mock Search and Rescue was set up for them when they were in the utility boat. Also toured a buoy tender and Coast Guard Cutter
- Carol and her husband were the Grand Marshals in one of their town's traditional Fourth of July Parades. Carol was also honored with a float created in her name another year, when she was the Executive Director of Connecticut's first TV commercials for tourism
- Wild Burros on Main Street (Route 66)
Oatman, Arizona
- Peabody Hotel Ducks and visit with the Duckmaster in
Memphis, Tennessee
- Sun Studio Tour - Private tour by the owner and sang, using Elvis Presley's microphone in
Memphis, Tennessee
- Ten Thousand Waves — Japanese spa experience in the high desert
of Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Heartbreak Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee. One of the last guests to stay at this historic hotel before being torn down in advance of the opening of a new Hotel across the street. Was given the Graceland Suite. Also visited
Graceland
- In studio audience of TNN (The Nashville Network) in Nashville, Tennessee
- Private dinner with an Amish family on their farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- A steep hike from Deadwood, South Dakota to Boot Hill (St. Moriah Cemetery) to visit the burial site of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock, and other notable figures of the Wild West
- A private tour of the secret wine cellar at '21' Club, the historic Prohibition speakeasy. Three Wallace originals hang on the walls of the iconic restaurant
- Visit to the White House at the invitation of First Lady Laura Bush
- Invited guest with husband and daughter (basketball recruit) to tour West Point, attended the West Point-Air Force Football game, and dined with a Major General at Hotel Thayer
- Private lunch and tour with Collette Guste, the granddaughter of the founder of Antoine's in New Orleans (Antoine Alciatore), the oldest family owned restaurant in the country, serving traditional French Creole cuisine since 1840
- Was a passenger on several Harley Davidson motorcycles
- Joined a trucker in his 18-wheeler on a drive to learn about his cross-country adventures
- "Old time photo sessions" in South Dakota, Montana, New Mexico and Florida
The Route 66 Travelers at Old Tyme Photos in Tucumcari, New Mexico - Regional culinary adventures at hundreds of historic establishments around the country from Joe's Stone Crab in Miami and Union Oyster House in Boston to Mama Mango's in the Florida Keys and the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo
The Route 66 Travelers in the Beer Garden of the Big Texan Steak Ranch with owner Bobby Lee, in Amarillo, Texas - Chosen 'musician' to play seal horns on stage at Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium in Orlando, Florida
- Deep sea fishing for bluefish on the historic boat, The Mijoy, in Waterford, Connecticut
- Taught watercolor painting on the cruise ship, Holland America, from San Diego, California to Hawaii
- A day out with Captain Clive Ferrin, Lobster Fisherman from Boothbay Harbor, Maine
- When writing the story about Roger Brashears, Storyteller, Official Historian, Spokesman, Publicist, Promotion Director, and Director of Public Relations for Jack Daniel Distillery (Lynchburg, Tennessee) on my Preserve America Gatekeepers of History site, he called often with many of his fondest stories
- A private tour, by the General Manager, to the Ballot Room of The Balsams Grand Resort, Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.
Since 1960, all of Dixville Notch's registered voters have gathered at midnight in the Ballot Room at the Resort to cast their ballots in the presidential primary and general election. The polls are closed as soon as everyone has voted, which sometimes only takes one minute. Since New Hampshire has the first in the nation primary, Dixville Notch is often the first to report results
- Cross country skiing between historic inns in Vermont
- One year project...Country Stores of Vermont. Thirty country stores were featured on a two-sided 2' x 3' poster. Art was on the front and testimonials from the storekeepers and histories of the stores on the back. A collaboration between the storekeepers, Carol and a writer, the posters were launched and presented to the people of America on the steps of one of the featured stores by then-Governor Howard Dean. The #1 Artist Proof was given to the Governor to place in the State House and posters were placed in every public and private school library in Vermont. The prints, distributed to each of the storekeepers, were loaded in the back of a station wagon and given personally (the old fashioned way). An art show, "Flatlanders in Vermont," held at one of the artist's galleries in Connecticut, featured the originals
- Back Road Traveler: Spent eight years traveling the back roads of Litchfield County, Connecticut, creating pen and ink drawings of historic structures and landscapes that were featured in a national award-winning weekly newspaper, The Litchfield County Times
- Climbed the lighthouse at St. Simon's Island, Georgia, with the curator
- As is tradition, Carol and her Route 66 co-travelers sat on the metal chairs under the neon at the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico, 'talking about life'
- Sitting on one of the many benches lining Main Street in Mountain View, Arkansas, listening to foot-stomping music played on the steps of Town Hall on the Green by musicians. A near every-day occurance, the town is known as the Folk Music Capital Of the World
- Windjammer cruise on the historic sailboat, Appledore, in Camden, Maine
- Frequent visitor to the iconic Willow Grove Park in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia) in the 1950s and 1960s. One of the biggest attractions in the park was the music pavilion, at which John Philip Sousa and his band played every year but one, between 1901 and 1926. The park's slogan was "Life is a lark at Willow Grove Park"
- In the Mojave Desert, Arizona, on Route 66
- In the Lucille Ball Room, Silver Saddle Motel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
(Many Route 66 Hotels and Motels have rooms named for actors and actresses as many
movies, featuring these stars, were filmed on Route 66 and elsewhere in the West)
- Off-Road Adventure in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
- Standin’ On The Corner In Winslow, Arizona...Route 66
- Luau and Drums Of The Pacific performance in Maui, Hawaii
- Pashmina scarf line created by designer Pam Kubbins, owner of Pam's Pashminas, a Boston Company, based on Carol's watercolor, Wild Roses
Carol and owner/designer Pam Kubbins of Pam's Pashminas at a trade show. -
As a Justice of the Peace, Carol has performed weddings at historic sites in Connecticut
- SELECTED PLEIN AIRE PAINTING EXPERIENCES:
- Commission of a client's covered bridge before having to escape being 'eaten alive' by mosquitos
- Doing a painting on an easel at a farm when one of the cows approached and began eating my paper. She would not leave--(Guess she didn't like the work)
- While working on a commission of a waterscape of Pierce Pond, Maine in a canoe, for the Maine Wilderness Watershed Trust, I had an authentic watercolor experience as my husband thrashed his fly-fishing rod back and forth, bringing me a constant supply of water on my paper
- And when, on a Maine Beach finishing a painting, the wind propelled the paper into the water and eventually it was delivered back by the crashing surf...completely intact
Enjoying a giant pretzel while negotiating a licensing deal with Pam Kubbins for the scarf line at The Prince and The Pauper German Restaurant, Springfield, Massachusetts
