Tromaville

[camrogers]

I call this shot "Big Rigs and Dinosaurs on Guntown Mountain."

It is that stretch of road in a nutshell.

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[greylock.livejournal.com]

Dinosaur World: serious fun park or whacky Christian nutjobbery?

Do you check out the Olde West Stylings of Guntown? If not, why not?

Because there is no better way to see American than cheesy roadside hijinx that combine the awesome majesty of the prehistoric with cowboys.

Possibly with some sort of deep-friend lardy snack.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

By this point I think we'd all developed thousand-yard-stare and the idea of delaying getting off the highway for half an hour or more was probably intolerable.

In hindsight, though, I shoulda asked.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I would have voted with you on that one. I really wish I had stopped at the Corvette museum, too.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Next year: guns and cars!

[kalinichta.livejournal.com]

I, too, regret that we didn't stop. The Wigwam Village #2 (motel where each room is its own, individual, cement teepee) is down the road-ish from Mr. T-Rex there. But I am not confident I would have been able to find it again without a map.

Cave City is kitsch heaven.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Totally.
Because Dinosaur World here is lame.

[kalinichta.livejournal.com]

Dinosaur World: serious fun park or whacky Christian nutjobbery?

First. No Christian indicators that I recall (have been twice with the Monkeyboi).

We have never visited Guntown Mountain. I think it has amusement park rides.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I'll assume it's just dinosaurific then.

Did you show Cambo the wigwams?

[kalinichta.livejournal.com]

I'll assume it's just dinosaurific then.

I have described it to podle, and she now has a huge hankering to visit.

Did you show Cambo the wigwams?

Cambo? And, no, if you scroll through comments, you'll see I let the opportunity pass by.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I have described it to [info]podle, and she now has a huge hankering to visit.

Giant Dinos? Who wouldn't?

Cambo? And, no, if you scroll through comments, you'll see I let the opportunity pass by.

Lame. Not even a drive-by?

[the-replicant.livejournal.com]

"Dinosaur World: serious fun park or whacky Christian nutjobbery?"

True story: Driving back to Melbourne from Brisbane last year I stopped off in Coonabarabran to have a look around, there is a gem and fossil museum with a large-ish dinosaur sculpture outside, inside they all sorts of gem and fossil related things including a big room where if you walk around the outside edge of it they have displays showing the evolution of life on earth in fossils from all sorts of periods along the way. Once you get to the end of this walk there is a huge rack with heaps of pamphlets and fliers about creationism. Turns out that the place is owned and run by a couple of really odd hardcore creationists into some kind of weird numerology/creationism hybrid, everything happens in cycles of 7 from memory.

This is in a place billed as the astronomy capital of Australia where they also have the Warrambungle/Siding Spring Observatory with the 2 biggest optical telescopes in the country, something like 11 other major telescopes, programmes run by huge universities and research facilities all over the world including the University of South Korea, the University of Arizona, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, the Australian National Universities robotic Skymapper telescope and all sorts of other cool stuff so it's not like it's some backwards place that's never seen grown up science, then they have this creationist fossil museum in the main street.

Very odd. Also, very long story for a kind of pointless tangent.

Also, rural NSW has an incredible amount of really cool space stuff, Warrumbungle/Siding Springs at Coonabarabran, the radio telescope at Parkes (complete with major Elvis festival), Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station, Mt Stromlo (both ACT rather than NSW but close enough...), the Australia Telescope compact array at Narrabri, Ryder Homestead at Bathurst, Dubbo Observatory, Darby Falls Observatory at Cowra and a whole bunch more on top of that, all sorts of cool stuff out there.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

That is pretty cool. I want to see more of Oz when I get back.

[the-replicant.livejournal.com]

My last few holidays have been pack the car up and drive to see where we end up kind of things, so much cool stuff to discover.

[the-replicant.livejournal.com]

Did you go to the Troma studios while you were over there?

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Troma Studios are in Kentucky?

[the-replicant.livejournal.com]

No, I think it's in New York, just asking as the title of the post suggested you had some interest in Troma and I know you spent a while in NY.