We routed Tulsa today, including visiting a couple of old Route 66 roadside attractions, The Blue Whale Of Catoosa, and Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curios. I purchased a couple of wonderful “sculpture / art” items at Buck Atom’s …
We then headed into the city of Tulsa, and toured the “art deco” district with many splendid buildings – both outside and inside!
Back in 2017 we traveled to South Carolina to see the Total Eclipse; and for this years Total Eclipse we once again went traveling, though this time a longer drive of over 1100 miles in Arkansas. We’d originally planned to catch it in north Texas / Oklahoma but cloudy weather sent us further north eventually to a little town of Plainview that was having a little Eclipse event including live music! Here we had clear skies and a perfect view of the four minute totality …
I used my same Nikon high-zoom camera and solar eclipse filter, hand-held, and again I’m very pleased with the results!
For the next Total Eclipse, we might not need to travel – an eclipse predicted for 2045 will go right across central Florida!
Unexpectedly we were back in England recently, and spent a few days in London. We did lots of touristy stuff, starting with an evening walk along the River Thames past the Houses of Parliament and as far as the London Eye, when we first arrived …
The next morning we took the same walk back to the London Eye, and rode it for great views over London:
We also walked to Buckingham Palace (it’s not open for visiting at this time of year!):
In the evening we toured Regent Street and nearby, checking out the Christmas lights (we also took of tour bus but the views from that were not great) …
Our last day in London, we visited the recently converted Battersea Power Station, now a big indoor shopping mall, with a lift ride up one of the chimneys for another set of great views over the city! Growing up about ten miles away this building was iconic – fascinating to learn that for the early years it had only two chimneys!
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