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!
After the fossils, we switched to off-road vehicles for the drive to SPECTACULAR sand dunes at Erg Chebbi, repeatedly referred to as the Sahara by our tour group, but in fact not. However who cares, this was surely the most beautiful night of our trip and I rather wish we’d had more time there (though I suppose after a while it’s all just sand).
Here’s a collection of photos of the drive to our overnight camp:
Once we got to the camp (which offered tent accommodation, with shower and bathroom facilities but no heat – and it got cool overnight!), the sand dune beauty was just a few feet away and we quickly took photos and explored the dunes:
In the evening, we rode camels out on to the sand dunes, and watched the sun set …
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