Album Road trip and Lyons Kansas 20 May to 31 May 2015 from Kris Lockyear

lunar module

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:43:35 +0000

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Apollo lunar lander. Hutchison, Kansas.

moon buggy

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:49:54 +0000

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Moon buggy seen in the Cosmosphere, Hutchison, Kansas.

Pentax K-3, SMC Pentax-DA 12-24mm lens.

Nikon Fs

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:02:22 +0000

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These three Nikon F cameras were on various Apollo missions.

Cosmosphere, Hutchison, Kansas.

sphere

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:09:48 +0000

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One of several spheres covered in Soviet logos designed to be crashed onto the moon and disperse in order to claim the first moon landing.

Hutchison Cosmosphere, Kansas.

lovely weather

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:10:00 +0000

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On the road to Lyons, Kansas.

St Louis

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:38:46 +0000

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St Louis seen through the haze from Monk's Mound, Cahokia.

Pentax K-3, SMC Pentax-DA* 50-135mm lens.

Twin mound (2)

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:30:33 +0000

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The western of the two Twin Mounds to the south of Monk's Mound at Cahokia.

The photograph was taken from Monk's Mound using a SMC Pentax-DA* 50-135mm lens on a K-3.

Twin mound (1)

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:30:32 +0000

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The eastern of the two Twin Mounds to the south of Monk's Mound at Cahokia.

The photograph was taken from Monk's Mound using a SMC Pentax-DA* 50-135mm lens on a K-3.

Monk's mound, Cahokia

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:24:20 +0000

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I took this photograph as the two people on the edge of the mound give a sense of scale to this amazing monument.

Pentax K-3.

Monk's Mound, Cahokia

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:18:38 +0000

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This is a panorama of 13 images stitched together. Monk's Mound is the largest mound at the amazing Native American site of Cahokia, just outside of St Louis.

Pentax K-3.

Giant cross, Effingham, Illinois

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:27:20 +0000

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Funny what you see from I70...

Apparently it is 198 feet tall and 113 feet wide, forged out of over 180 tons of steel. One would have thought the money would be better spent helping the poor...

Pentax K-3.

Spaceship?

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:13:46 +0000

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Originally a gas station, then a taco stand, the ultra-modern Googie-style saucer-shaped building is now a coffee shop.

Pentax K-3.

The road

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:55:16 +0000

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Taken through the windscreen of the truck. And I thought Roman roads were straight...

Pentax K-3.

Lyons Inn (2)

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:47:59 +0000

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The best moment at the Lyons Inn. Leaving! If you have the choice, stay at the Celebration Suites at the other end of town.

Lyons Inn (1)

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:47:58 +0000

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If the rooms were updated, I'd hate to have stayed before. Ugh.

minimum maintenance

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 07:14:10 +0000

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I'm glad to say most of the roads were in better condition than this one!

Rice County near Lyons, Kansas.

The last night

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:09:48 +0000

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The survivors of the NPS course gather for a Mexican meal in Lyons, Kansas.

Newark circular green

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:43:53 +0000

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This green is located inside a circular native American earthwork, part of the Newark earthworks in Ohio, USA. It lies just outside the Octagon earthwork in and around which is a gold course.

This is a stitched panorama of 12 images.

Big old tree

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:43:50 +0000

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Jarrod Burks (Ohio Valley Archaeology Inc.) demonstrates the size of a tree stump which is inside one of the circular earthworks at Newark, Ohio.

The world's largest golf tee

nobody@ipernity.com (Kris Lockyear) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:00:34 +0000

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I'm not certain you'd be able to hit a ball from this.

One of the attractions in Casey, IL.