100 Days: October 2015

Once back from our L.A. babysitting gig, I drove west to pick up Karin at Cincinnati, with stops at museums and attractions along the way.

Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh has Art and Dinos for one ticket

Andrew Carnegie funded much of the paleontology at Dinosaur National Monument

I finally got to the Air Force Museum in Dayton. This space-sled came in second to the backpack EVA units chosen by NASA

Just before I met Karin at CVG, I visited the Creation Museum down the road in Kentucky.  It's very well done -- no money spared -- explaining natural evidence in a manner consistent with scripture. For example, if you have fossil evidence of dinosaurs, they must have co-existed with Adam and Eve, as depicted below:

The Grand Canyon must have been created by the Flood. Mount Saint Helens made huge changes to the landscape in minutes, so the 40-day flood could have done amazing things.

The flood also explains evidence for continental movement:

There's a nice free zoo, with camel rides:

But dinosaurs remain the key to the story!

Karin and I started back toward SoCal, with a stop in Kansas to see some unusual rock formations:

In Kansas, I finally saw sorghum growing.  This has been a mystery for me since we were taught about it (and bauxite) in fifth grade Geography,

Sorghum is a relative to corn and they just stack it in huge piles at railheads:

We crossed over into northeast New Mexico and stayed overnight in Raton.  Something lit up in dim memory and I googled to find out that it's a good place to view the iridium layer deposited worldwide by the asteroid strike 65+ million years ago:

We visited the Natural History Museum and Petroglyph site in Albuquerque:

Karin reads about the K/T extinction caused by the asteroid strike.

We met a friendly kitty guarding ice caves near the Bandera Volcano west of Albuquerque

Nice stop at the Petrified Forest:

And we closed out the month in Holbrook, AZ on Halloween: