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Review: Meow Wolf’s The Real Unreal (No Spoilers)
Just outside of Dallas in the city of Grapevine there’s an absurdly large mall known as Grapevine Mills. They say everything is bigger in Texas, but nothing quite prepared me for a mall that’s so big it somehow has three separate Auntie Anne’s Pretzels locations within. Okay so I know the title says “no spoilers”…
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Thanks-Giving Square
Thanks-Giving Square is a public/private park featuring a shell-shaped non-denominational worship room with an incredible series of stained glass skylights. The square itself could almost be mistaken for any other public plaza, were it not for this odd building in the corner. After walking up a spiral ramp there’s a doorway into the chapel-like space…
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Eye, aka “the giant eyeball” in downtown Dallas
After my trip to Santa Fe, I hopped on a plane and then a DART light rail train to downtown Dallas. After dropping off my bags at my Airbnb I walked down the street to see it: the giant eye sculpture at 1601 Main Street. This mixed media sculpture was created by American artist Tony…
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Santa Fe wrap up and stray observations
I have a lot of thoughts on Santa Fe but I’ll start with the basic info you need to know. The basics Santa Fe is at an extremely high elevation — higher than Denver — and as such you will get winded from the thin atmosphere, even just from a long walk. It takes some…
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Spoilers: Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return
Previously I reviewed Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return without any spoilers. Well now it’s time for the deep dive with plenty of spoilers. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Entry Once you’ve entered and received a wrist band, you can head to the bathrooms in the back, an art room mostly aimed at kids,…
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Hot air balloon ride
I have a bad habit of keeping a bucket list in my head… a bucket list that grows longer and longer by the day. But there’s one thing I’ve always kept near the top of that bucket list: riding in a hot air balloon. Well here’s the thing: thanks to Santa Fe Balloons I was…
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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
While in downtown Santa Fe, I visited the small yet well put together Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Georgia O’Keeffe is often described as the “mother of American Modernism” as she was an important 20th century American artist. Best remembered for her abstract oil paintings of flowers and animal skulls, her works encompassed far more: charcoal drawings,…
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Review: Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return (No Spoilers)
If you read my previous posts about Omega Mart, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that I had to travel to Santa Fe to check out Meow Wolf’s original permanent installation: The House of Eternal Return. As you may have heard, this installation was built in a defunct bowling alley building and was sponsored initially…
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Las Vegas wrap up and stray observations
With the pandemic slowly on the wane I decided to make a trip to see Omega Mart. It’s fair to say I planned the Las Vegas parts around it. While there’s a lot to like about Las Vegas, to be honest there’s a lot more to dislike. All things considered I think I made the…
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Spoilers: What is Omega Mart, really?
In my previous post about Omega Mart I talked about it in general without any spoilers. Well now it’s time to dig in and discuss everything down to the last detail about Omega Mart with spoilers. So if you want to avoid spoilers, STOP READING NOW. Yes, the above photo is of an actual sign…
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