- – – – -Links:- – – – – Pig organs are so similar to ours we may have heart transplants from pigs some day. Okie-Dokie comes in second at the Iowa State Fair. Egypt slaughtered up to 400,000 pigs. If you’re interested, it’s safe to eat pork. Past Travel Animals: The Walrus and Prairie Dogs.
Travel talk is a lot like the “Price Is Right Game” Plinko. You drop little chips that bounce on metal pegs unexpectedly left and right (like chatting between funny souvenirs, stolen wallets, great banana pancakes, taxi scams, mountains climbed, dandruff). Eventually on the gameshow, the chip lands in one of the side-by-side buckets that offer prizes ($5000, $1000, $0). For travel talk it … Read on
Links: Wikipedia reports on the Prairie Dog Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Charles M Russell National Wildlife Preserve has tons to spot, incl two-mile tunnels So does Lawton, Oklahoma’s Museum of the Great Plains, plus a controversy Meanwhile Environmental Chemistry asks if p-dogs are a nuisance Everyone wins, however, by using prairie dog coffee mugs –> Revisit June’s travel animal of the month, … Read on
Us ’80s-Tulsans grew up with a huge, decade-long sigh of satisfaction. We didn’t have mountains, oceans or particularly good taffy, but we knew what we did have: a) We weren’t Oklahoma City. Meaning, we did have some hills, green grass, trees and (due to all the left-over oil money kicking around) art-house films. OKC may have the Flaming Lips, but we had the … Read on
Twenty years ago, I was a quarter way through my first Eurail check-the-country-off-the-list trip across Europe — London to Rome in 20 days. I don’t regret it, but sometimes I think twice about how I spent that July 14 — the 200th anniversary of Paris’ Bastille Day. I was time-killing a day a few hours north in Bruges, leisurely walking by canals, sitting … Read on
