Oatmeal, devotions, prayer, walk (Don), new internet connection (yeah!), on the road with Dave & Darlene.
We pile in the truck and take off for a place called Oracle, AZ, where Biosphere 2 is located. On the walk to the actual Biosphere 2 location, we passed many building like this which is called the Student Village where everyone from Columbia Univ. stayed when CU owned the property a few years ago.
It's quite a futuristic looking place. These domes that look like big golf balls cut in half are called the south and west lungs. The lung that we toured was quite awesome. This is the tunnel we had to go through to get to the Lung. 
Darlene was a bit nervous about being "locked" in this big glass building. It was rather daunting if you thought about it.... I didn't.
It's quite a futuristic looking place. These domes that look like big golf balls cut in half are called the south and west lungs. The lung that we toured was quite awesome. This is the tunnel we had to go through to get to the Lung. Darlene was a bit nervous about being "locked" in this big glass building. It was rather daunting if you thought about it.... I didn't. Inside there was a frankincense tree growing. I didn't realize frankincense was a tree. 
There were also several of the Boojam trees like the one I saw in Casa Grande and was so fascinated by. These were growing the the arrid desert area of the Biosphere 2.
There were also several of the Boojam trees like the one I saw in Casa Grande and was so fascinated by. These were growing the the arrid desert area of the Biosphere 2.The original Biosphere 2 experiment failed, but a lot of really interesting things have happened because of it, like MILLION$ OF DOLLAR$ have been $pent. The experiment was flawed in that BioSphere2 could not produce enough oxygen to sustain life. It was an amazing experiment and place, but who really thinks what God has created can be duplicated successfully? I mean, really.
Leaving the Biosphere 2, we turned right toward a different route back to Arizona City. There was a beautiful, vivid rainbow in the sky which these pictures do no to justice to.
Lucy, the Sutton's GPS, suggested the fastest, shortest route would be the Florence-Kelvin Highway, so we took it. You guessed it, the pavement ended in less than a mile and we drove over 20 miles on this over the mountains. It was awesome!! 
We saw wild pigs, a big roadrunner, and cows on the open range.
Want to buy a ranch way out in the Arizona mountains?....
...where the sunsets are breathtaking. 
Had Taco Bell for dinner in Coolidge. First burrito supreme I've had in months. Yummmm.
We saw wild pigs, a big roadrunner, and cows on the open range. Want to buy a ranch way out in the Arizona mountains?.... ...where the sunsets are breathtaking. Had Taco Bell for dinner in Coolidge. First burrito supreme I've had in months. Yummmm.
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