Saturday, December 5, 2015

12/05/2015 Houston, Texas

Today I went to the National Museum of Funeral History.  It was a lot more interesting and much bigger than I expected.  They had a lot of tributes to famous people that have died and a large number of funeral transports.  I found the most unique one was a 1916 Packard Funeral Bus. It was the only known one of its kind remaining. There was a compartment for the casket to slide in and then seating for the pall bearers and 20 mourners.  A multitude of caskets were also on display as well as the history of embalming, funeral customs around the world and a trove of other death related stuff. There was even a three person casket.  All-in-all, I took 263 pictures.  Here is a sampling of them.































































Friday, December 4, 2015

Introduction

The purpose of this blog is to update friends and relatives as to my travels around North America.  While email worked great for status updates on Fran, they didn't contain many pictures.  Once I started sending out updates on my travels, pictures were a necessity and email was no longer practical.  Thus, I have started this blog.