Optimism is true moral courage
Sunday, August 12th
Start: Tulsa, OK
Finish: Fulton, MO
Distance: 430 miles
Time: 14 hours
We started out by driving to the Woolaroc Museum in northern Oklahoma. It's located on Oklahoma oilman Frank Phillips' ranch and it contains his and his family's various collections of Native American artifacts, stuffed animal heads, guns, and porcelain collectibles. It's all contained in this enormous vault-like building.
This was the most interesting thing I saw in the museum.
And I thought this was mildly funny. The book titled "The Peacemaker" is actually a gun case.
We then drove north to Bartlesville, where Frank Phillips' home is located, as well as this Frank Lloyd Wright building that's been converted into a hotel and restaurant.
After a mediocre lunch in a small town just across the Kansas border, we drove up to Chanute, where the Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum is located. I've been there before with my Mom (years ago), but it was fun to go again. We watched a decent pair of documentaries about Martin & Osa, and I found out some more about the surreal chain of clothing stores recently opened by American Eagle called "Martin & Osa's". I also gained a newfound appreciation for Martin's photography: both in his movies and in his still photographs. (Though I still wouldn't second the over-the-top comments about his photographic skills that the museum curators made in the documentaries we watched.) I should probably watch some more of their movies. The only problem is that you have to buy them from the museum in order to watch them. I think it would be possible to make a really interesting documentary about Martin & Osa. As it is, the one's we saw didn't really deal with the complexities of Martin & Osa's relationships with their subjects.
We then drove to Kansas City and went directly to a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Toronto Blue Jays. It was disgustingly hot out the entire time, but I've always found baseball games relaxing so I enjoyed it nonetheless. The coolest part about the stadium was that behind the back fence there was an enormous water fountain.
Throughout the drive today we listened to Caroline Alexander's account of Shackleton's adventures down south. Both me and my Dad were struck by Shackleton's statement that "optimism is true moral courage".
We were planning to try and drive all the way to St. Louis after the game, but as we drove across Missouri we found ourselves in the middle of a pretty rough windstorm (with winds up to 60 mph), so we pulled over mid-state and found a hotel.
Start: Tulsa, OK
Finish: Fulton, MO
Distance: 430 miles
Time: 14 hours
We started out by driving to the Woolaroc Museum in northern Oklahoma. It's located on Oklahoma oilman Frank Phillips' ranch and it contains his and his family's various collections of Native American artifacts, stuffed animal heads, guns, and porcelain collectibles. It's all contained in this enormous vault-like building.
This was the most interesting thing I saw in the museum.
And I thought this was mildly funny. The book titled "The Peacemaker" is actually a gun case.
We then drove north to Bartlesville, where Frank Phillips' home is located, as well as this Frank Lloyd Wright building that's been converted into a hotel and restaurant.
After a mediocre lunch in a small town just across the Kansas border, we drove up to Chanute, where the Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum is located. I've been there before with my Mom (years ago), but it was fun to go again. We watched a decent pair of documentaries about Martin & Osa, and I found out some more about the surreal chain of clothing stores recently opened by American Eagle called "Martin & Osa's". I also gained a newfound appreciation for Martin's photography: both in his movies and in his still photographs. (Though I still wouldn't second the over-the-top comments about his photographic skills that the museum curators made in the documentaries we watched.) I should probably watch some more of their movies. The only problem is that you have to buy them from the museum in order to watch them. I think it would be possible to make a really interesting documentary about Martin & Osa. As it is, the one's we saw didn't really deal with the complexities of Martin & Osa's relationships with their subjects.
We then drove to Kansas City and went directly to a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Toronto Blue Jays. It was disgustingly hot out the entire time, but I've always found baseball games relaxing so I enjoyed it nonetheless. The coolest part about the stadium was that behind the back fence there was an enormous water fountain.
Throughout the drive today we listened to Caroline Alexander's account of Shackleton's adventures down south. Both me and my Dad were struck by Shackleton's statement that "optimism is true moral courage".
We were planning to try and drive all the way to St. Louis after the game, but as we drove across Missouri we found ourselves in the middle of a pretty rough windstorm (with winds up to 60 mph), so we pulled over mid-state and found a hotel.
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