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The Trip to DogCon 3: Day 12, Part 1, In which we do a whole bunch of stuff and don’t get much closer to the con.
(Note: All comments in italics are by non-humans)
Oy vey, was yesterday packed with activity! I shall list it all below.
1: We at the KOA’s free pancake breakfast. Yum!
(Everybody:Mmmmmm…pancakes!)
2: Visited the Bicycle Ranch. It looks sorta like the famous Cadillac Ranch, but with nearly 100 bicycles. About a 3 on the Roadside Cool-O-Meter, but free to look at.
3: Stopped at a Target store to pick up some items. Miranda helped me walk the animals in the parking lot while everyone else shopped. We attracted a fairly large crowd of onlookers.
(Abby:We be walkin’, they be lovin’!)
(Winker:There were lots of nice people petting us!)
(Flash:One guy smelled like old socks.)
4: Went to The (you guessed it) World Famous Tulsa Zombie Cartoon World. Now, this actually started in 1948 as just plain old Cartoon World, with the founders, Pete & Muriel Ginswaker, just making 6 foot tall chicken wire and plaster versions of famous cartoon characters. Apparently, from about 1952 until the mid 1980’s the place was a must see roadside attraction. Then the new highway alignment moved over about 5 miles and business plummeted. A few years later, the Ginswakers moved to Florida and the place sat unattended until 2005 when Jeff & Karen Zbrowski bought it.
(Lucy:We stayed on the bus and played The Beatles Rock Band)
The Zbrowskis are both horror movie fans, so they could not help but notice hoe the 126 cartoon characters, now in varying stages of disrepair, looked like zombies. A bit of paint, some resin coating and Bada Bing Bada Boom: Zombie Cartoon World was born. It’s kinda sick, kinda funny and very cool. We spent an hour there. Favorite character: Betty Boop with a 2X4 stuck through her chest (thanks to a tornado in 1993).
5: Visited the Tulsa Zoo, which is a very nice zoo indeed.
(Flash:Great Ceiling Cat above, there were some scary smells coming out of that place! Bears and wolves and bigass cats and shit!)
(Abby:I’m SO glad we were safe on the bus!)
6: Stopped by The Skinny House. This place is only 10 feet wide, but 90 feet long and 40 feet tall. How it has resisted being flattened by a twister over the last 47 years is beyond me.
7: We ate lunch at Happy Hank’s Tulsa Barbecue, which was mighty tasty and had a small sculpture garden with sculptures made of beef & pork ribs.
(Flash, Lucy & Winker:MMMMMMMMmmmmm…rib bones!)
(Abby:MMMmmmmm…leftover salad bar stuff!)
8: Found a pretty great used book store that specialized in science fiction & fantasy. After an hour, we had to force Spike & Grace back on the bus at gunpoint.
(Flash:Man, they bought about 200 pounds of books each!)
9: We finally got out of the Tulsa area and all the way (just over 100 miles) to Oklahoma City before we did our next tourist trap stop. This one was The Bar J Miniature Cattle Ranch. Sure enough, it’s a 250 acre cattle ranching operation that specializes in miniature cattle. The vast majority of these little bovines barely stood waist high to me. I felt kinda giantlike.
(Flash & Lucy:Beef on the hoof! We could take one of those cows! Rawr! Woof!
10: Being as how it was hot and humid, we finished our day at a waterpark near the South Oklahoma City KOA. A splendid and refreshing time was had by all of us humans.
(Winker:We played WoW on the bus computers. Our guild kicks ass!)
We all sacked out around 10:00 last night, but I was up at 5:00 AM to get us down the road and into Texas. We still have about 450 miles to go and a few more stops to make before we hit Wilted Springs late this afternoon.
More bloggage in a few hours.
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