it’s such a crazy story how I ended up here

so before I even left the island, Ashanti and I had a conversation about the Indo Expo being in Chicago in September of 2020. After confirming that they did indeed have a the world’s most complete T-Rex on display at the Field Museum it was agreed we would meet up in the fall and check out one of my favorite mysteries- who killed the dinosaurs?

that was well before a global pandemic canceled everybody’s best intentions.

then one day someone said

“we should go to Washinton DC”

So we did.

we ended up on a crazy cross country mission which took us not only to DC but to NYC and Philadelphia! oh what a trippy trip it was. anyways after we left Ashanti in Philly, the Ninjaneer pointed us towards the setting 🌞 sun.

then one morning I woke up in the front seat and Ryan asked

“HOW FAR TO CHICAGO?”

here’s the crazy plot twist though

the museum closed at 5pm but the last admissions are at 4pm according to the google maps we were scheduled to arrive at 3:40 – if nothing went wrong between us and Chicago.

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I had no idea what I was in for. We had already had a perfect day visiting Kealakekua Bay and Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park.

Also known as the City of Refuge, the sanctuary boasts 17 foot thick walls and fresh water pools.

Then we found out about the 1871 trail

one of those days where you feel like an urbansurvivorman

with a dip in Pele’s hot tub

and then finish the day with some rombutons!

5000g

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The Flintstones were my life when I was a kid with only like 4 clicker channels to choose from. Obviously Fred and Barney were nowhere close to the style of cartoons anyone was particularly “into”, especially because the number of people punched in the face per episode was so low. Somehow even a mediocre cartoon is better than no cartoon at all.

The way the Flintstones creep into your DNA is the same way Charles Ingalls became your imaginary step-dad-you-wish-you-had : attrition. No lie, I’ve easily seen every episode of The Flintstones a hundred times. I routinely refer to the misguided mentorship I’ve gotten from Fred and Barney as an example of ‘how not to play myself’.

But the houses. The appliances. The technology. That’s the world I alternately lived in. That’s the stuff that brought out the best in me. A prehistoric world where you could also go bowling. A utopia that mirrored ours- but simpler – with clean air and water. Where the gap between problem and solution was as close as minor labor exploitation of prehistoric animal friends.

Imagine my shock when I discovered that shit was real. Like REALLY REAL. Like here check it out.

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wait… what???

yo it’s in wikipedia.

thousands of these things.

as usual Ancient Origins does it justice.

so far no evidence to support the octupus dishwasher theory

or the record player

the sabre-tooth tiger housecat makes more sense now

5000g

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Hawaiian culture has zero problem embracing their origins among the stars. Conversations of the original inhabitants of these South Pacific paradises always eventually lead back to the space gods who came. It’s not hard to imagine a huge spaceship showing up at Kealakekua like Captain Cook did, or at South Point where the first wave of inner-island brown colonizers arrived.

“just because white people couldn’t do it doesn’t mean it was aliens”

everyone who didn’t actually do the math

many of these rocks are of tremendous size

and the walls go on forever

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I’ll post more episodes as I come across them

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I pulled out this particular one because it’s heartbreaking

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“I’ve been calling this one the Rosetta stone for armor,”

Donald Henderson, curator of dinosaurs at the Tyrrell Museum tells Greshko.

the ankylosaur fossil in the very top photo was taken by me at the Field Museum in Chicago Illinois.

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I stumbled upon this on Reddit.

always remember to treat people how you want to be treated.

even if you are the president.

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