Jason Kosmicki (aka Koz, pictured above on the right) and Matt Friia (aka Bravo, pictured above on the left) will be touring NBA cities this season with an agenda. Whenever the Nuggets have a full off-day while on the road, Koz and Bravo will join Nuggets forward Eduardo Najera and visit one of that city's most popular tourist attractions. The Koz & Bravo U.S. Tour will provide a patriotic twist to the exhausting routine that is life on the NBA road.

Kosmicki is in his 11th season as an announcer/producer for the Nuggets radio broadcasts. Koz will be the first to admit that he's been traveling with the team for years and has never actually taken the time do any sight-seeing while on the road. Friia is in his fourth season with the Nuggets and currently holds the title Assistant Athletic Trainer/Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach. The nickname Bravo derives from the cartoon Johnny Bravo, which according to Friia was given to him by a player during his first season because he spikes his hair up similar to the main character. Eduardo Najera needs no introduction. In his third season with the Nuggets, the Mexico native will be joining Koz and Bravo for a first-hand look at what America is all about.

Listed below are the scheduled stops on the Koz & Bravo U.S. Tour for the 2007-08 season. If you see that they're coming to your town, click here to send them a suggestion of which tourist attractions they should consider visiting on their day off.

Click here to view photos from our tour of the Gibson Guitar Factory in Memphis.

The third stop on the Koz & Bravo U.S. Tour was in Memphis, Tennessee, a city known for two things: 1.) Barbeque, and 2.) Music. So what better place to visit while in Memphis than the Gibson Guitar Factory. Although travel plans changed, forcing Koz and Bravo to rearrange their schedule and visit the factory on the same day as the Nuggets/Grizzlies game, the trip to the factory was well worth it.

Koz: First of all, let me say that Eddie wanted me to pass along to our readers that he didn’t make this tour stop because it was on a gameday. We actually traveled to Memphis on our off day, but because of thunderstorms we didn’t arrive until much later in the day and all the tourist places were closed. So he needed to stick with his normal gameday routine, and he will be sure to join us again on the next one. The Gibson Guitar Factory was pretty impressive. They show you how they basically take a couple of pieces of wood and turn them into $4,000 - $6,000 guitars. You actually walk in the factory and stop at each station and watch the people work. You can see the slow progression into the final product, which takes about 4 weeks per guitar. You always hear the term “handcrafted” or “handmade,” I now have a better understanding on what that means. It's not machines creating these axes, it is people. The last stage is pretty cool: Gibson hires professional musicians to string the guitars and play them, because as the tour guide says, they are the only ones qualified to make a decision if a guitar passes the test or not.

Bravo: When our plans to add another chapter to the tour had been denied due to bad weather and long flight delays, we pretty much figured Memphis would go un-toured this year. But then we pulled into our hotel and noticed the Gibson Guitar Factory right across the street. Committed to providing our avid readers with yet another stop on the tour, we decided to take some of our game-day time to see the factory. Not knowing quite what to expect, this turned out to be a great experience. We were guided through the factory where each and every Gibson guitar is hand made. It was pretty interesting to be shown a couple pieces of wood, and then walk through station by station and watch how that wood is turned into an amazing piece of equipment. From the shaping of the guitar to the spray painting finish to the actual testing of each guitar, everything is done by hand; and every worker in the factory goes through training that lasts anywhere from eight months to two years. These people are dedicated.

General Info: Courtesy of Gibson.com - This memorable tour of Gibson’s Memphis guitar factory consists of an intimate viewing of the facility as Gibson’s skilled luthiers craft some of the finest guitars in the world. It offers an opportunity to witness the intricate process of binding, neck-fitting, painting, buffing, and tuning that creates these incredible musical instruments. For more info on the factory or to schedule a tour, click here.

There's us with our two lovely tour guides at the Old Sacramento Schoolhouse. More Photos

After over a month, Koz and Bravo joined Eduardo and finally made the second stop on their U.S. Tour, this time in Sacramento, California - the capitol city of the Golden State. While the Nuggets were in town to take on the Kings on the 23rd, the guys visited the Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum on the day off to see what schools in the 1800s were really like.

Koz: Quick, name a tourist attraction in Sacramento . . . tough isn't it. Next to the California State Capitol building there really isn’t much. We did, however, find the Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum. It's located in Old Town Sacramento and has been there since the 1800s. Although it has been refurbished, the bones are still the ones from back in the day. Thousands of school children tour this old schoolhouse every year to see for themselves how schools used to run. On this day they had a gingerbread house building contest. We thought it was a timely visit since we were there right around the holidays. The two women in the photo are teachers for the schoolhouse, or rather the tour guides that educate the children on what things were like back in the 1800s.

Bravo: In an effort to find something resembling a tourist attraction in Sacramento, and after deciding that the world's largest sewing needle was too far from the hotel to visit; we found ourselves in Old Town. There, we made our way to an old schoolhouse that was built over 100 years ago. Still going strong, the school acts as a tourist attraction for young school children to come get a feel for how the schoolhouse used to run. When we found out there was a gingerbread house making competition we decided to check it out. The houses were great; it was a lot of fun to see the creativity that kids can put into a gingerbread house. We had a great time.

General Info: Courtesy of the Sacramento County Office of Education - The Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum is a learning center that allows students of all ages to explore California's early days of education. The museum is a living replica of traditional one-room schoolhouses found throughout America in the late 1800s. Costumed schoolmarms and school masters are available to tell about school life in 19th century California, and sometimes even lead visitors in a lesson. For more info on the museum, click here.

There's us listening to the accounts of a Holocaust survivor in his own words.

The Koz & Bravo U.S. Tour fittingly launched in our nation's capitol of Washington, D.C. on Nov. 8th as the Nuggets were in town to face the Wizards on the 9th. The guys decided to kick off their tour by embarking on a trip to the Holocaust Museum.

Koz: I grew up in Germany as a child, so I’ve always had an interest in the Holocaust and thought I was pretty well educated on the subject. After going through the museum, I now understand the scale of it. In books you read about numbers, but you get a different perspective when you can visualize those numbers at the museum -- you can basically reach out and touch them. It's mind boggling how horrible one human can treat another. It's an experience I will never forget.

Bravo: Going to the Holocaust Museum was definitely an eye-opening experience. It is a place I have always been interested in visiting and now that I finally have, I am glad that I did. It’s one thing reading about the Holocaust, but being at the museum is much more fulfilling. We were able to see actual items that were taken from people when they entered the camps, and there were videos of people who had survived the camps telling their stories; it all felt so real. I will not forget my trip to the museum, and it is something I would encourage everyone to see.

General Info: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a national institution that is dedicated to documenting, studying, and interpreting the history of the Holocaust. It also serves as the United States' official memorial to the millions of European Jews and others killed during the Holocaust under directives of Nazi Germany. The facilities house a number of exhibitions, artworks, publications, and artifacts relating to the Holocaust. The museum collects and preserves material evidence, distributes educational materials, and produces public programming. For more info on the museum, click here.