{"id":14972,"date":"2024-04-18T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2024-04-18T07:35:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:35:58","slug":"to-space-and-then-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14972","title":{"rendered":"To Space and then Back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Earlier this week I headed out to the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow to find a specialized geocache. It was a space based Adventure Lab Cache. No container to find, just information you need to look up. It was at the Voyage Solar System Walkway. A collection of displays set up along a street showing the relative sizes and distances of the planets to the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the sun, looks like an overgrown basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just a few feet away is Earth. Barely bigger than a pin prick and its even smaller moon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And 2000 feet down the street, all by itself, is Pluto. Stripped of planet status recently but still proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I got a virtual postcard proving that I found it. If only virtual anything proves anything. The installation starts at an elementary school which I think is great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I went hiking recently on Turkey Mountain. This flyover are still scary to me. They are not for hikers, they are for bicyclists. They really do fly over them. I think all that steel would hurt if you fell off your bike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My sister and her husband came to town. We had a fun time. One day we went Woolaroc<\/a>, wildlife preserve and art museum started by Oklahoma oilman Frank Phillips who started Phillips 66 Petroleum way back when. We saw some bison and other critters. My sister is a former Park Ranger at Yellowstone so it is kind of hard to impress her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The liked the art a lot. Lots of western artists works are hanging at Woolaroc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love this stained glass window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We went to the nearby town of Bartlesville to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower. Built for a pipeline construction company, H.C. Price who did a lot of work for Phillips 66. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIL Irv got his photo with a big 66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sister Ellen did as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I did several years ago when I turned 66 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a few years before that I got my brother Bob’s photo on his 66th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of birthdays, I had one early this month. You can tell I am getting kind of old. I just started my 70th year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a treat Heather and Logan took me to see the the Van Gogh Immersion<\/a> exhibit here in Tulsa. It was very cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I got a cornhole game. Stop by if you are in town we’ll have some beverages and play a few games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I end with yet another Lego animal from the Tulsa Botanic Garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am linking with Skywatch Friday <\/a>and My Corner of the World<\/a>. Thank you for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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