America in the Fall—Exploration Destinations. When summer vacation ends and the kids are back in school…that’s when many empty nesters hit the road to explore new destinations both close to home and around the country. Correspondent, Tom Wilmer, shares a sampler of intriguing things to see and do, including: The Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia. A visit to Spaceport America in New Mexico where Virgin Galactic is transforming space travel with planned sub-orbital flights for tourists and the cost to play is no longer limited to the rich and famous.
Then it’s off to Northwest Georgia for a visit with Park Ranger Christopher Young at Chickamauga National Battlefield, the site of a bloody Civil War confrontation in the fall of 1863. Afterwards it’s off to Independence Missouri for a conversation with Diane Houk director of the Puppetry Arts Institute where you’ll find one of the world’s largest collections of Pinocchio ephemera, and we’ll learn that Pinocchio was not as nice as depicted in Disney’s interpretation.