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Oct. 19th, 2022

You know what treat I have for you today? The final pictures of our afternoon at Niagara Falls and, thus, of the Lake Ontario Loop! What's coming up next? See if you can guess!

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The train back in the station. It's got a fun coffin-y theme to it.


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And there's the train ready for the next load of passengers.


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The corner of the building has a Frankenstein head and arms reaching out and, of course, there's a burger in his hand, to evoke how Burger King serves you food assembled out of many corpses stitched together.


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Another look out over Clifton Hill. There's a lot of miniature golf here that we didn't get to play.


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Peeking out between Frankenstein's head and hamburger at the street.


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The roller coaster going along a turn that hides half the cars, which is why it looks like the train's so much shorter this picture than others.


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And a last look back at the roof as we reenter the building for the walk down.


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There's some nice skeletons out to acknowledge us as we leave!


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And here's a look up at the House of Frankenstein that somehow misses the whole Frankenstein Holding A Burger that's huge and un-missabe. You can see the coaster peeking out over the roof, though it doesn't actually go out past the roofline.


Trivia: There were twelve sites on the inaugural, 1978, UNESCO World Heritage Site list. There are now over 900. Source: Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe after World War II, Paul Betts. 900 as of the book's writing; the book was published in 2020 so let's say that represents a 2018 figure. (I guess I could get a better range by figuring out when numbers 900 and 1000 were added.) Wikipedia claims there are, as I write this, 1,154 sites: 897 cultural, 218 natural, and 39 mixed.

Currently Reading: Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age, Lori Garver.

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