First, I wish to apologize for the way lengthy Josh and I’ve been offline from the weblog. We had COVID-19 undergo our family twice prior to now 6 months. Coping with that type of threw a wrench into our engaged on the weblog. It’s now springtime in Tucson although and issues are starting to open again up, so we must always hopefully be capable to publish repeatedly once more. We do publish extra typically on our Facebook blog page with completely different on a regular basis happenings, like what foolish factor our son’s cat, Mitzi, did that day or photos of the birds that go to our yard.
Now, on to the enjoyable a part of the weblog publish!
On Sundays, we drive 40 minutes to get to church in Tucson. As a result of it’s a lengthy drive to return house after which return once more for Sunday Faculty courses at 5 PM, we now have been utilizing Sunday afternoons as a time to discover completely different areas in and round Tucson.
When Josh and I drove cross-country in 2008 throughout a transfer from coast to coast, he took me to see The Thing. I had by no means visited The Thing earlier than and had no concept what to anticipate. He instructed me how superb it might be.
Superb is just not the phrase I might use.
However I used to be now inducted right into a household custom. I had visited The Thing.
The Factor billboards are all over the place on the I-10 to and from Tucson.
Of our six youngsters, solely our second oldest has seen The Thing. One of many caveats for visiting The Thing in Josh’s household is that you just don’t discuss what The Thing is to anybody who hasn’t seen The Thing. So in fact, at any time when Josh and I might discuss The Thing, the youngsters (minus our second oldest) by no means discovered what it’s. I instructed Josh a number of weeks in the past that we must always take the remainder of the youngsters to see The Thing in order that they too might be inducted into the household The Factor membership. And so, one in all our Sunday afternoon household outings was determined!
The Thing is positioned about an hour east of Tucson, between Benson and Willcox. When Josh and I visited in 2008 and even when our second oldest visited a number of years in the past, the museum round The Thing was full of wierd curiosities that you might examine in your approach to see The Thing. My second oldest remembers solely that he discovered a dime on the bottom and that The Thing was not that tremendous.
The Thing museum has now acquired an overhaul and could be very completely different from what we keep in mind!
The admission value to the museum has gone up fairly a bit from $1.00 an individual to $5.00 an individual or $10.00 for a household. The $10.00 admission was nice for us although since there are eight of us.
The museum now has an alien versus dinosaur theme. We have been greeted upon coming into the museum by an alien driving a dinosaur. Luckily, not one of the figures are animatronic, which I’m certain would have scared my youngest, who’s 3 years outdated.
The next corridors have indicators depicting an alternate historical past of the world. Whoever wrote these indicators had quite a lot of enjoyable! We had quite a lot of enjoyable studying them. In reality, we frequently felt that we have been in the course of a Physician Who episode!
The dinosaurs might be an enormous hit with youngsters.
Jackalopes are actual!
This gave me vibes of the Physician Who episodes with The Silence… My 3 12 months outdated didn’t just like the alien driving the automotive.
That’s quite a lot of conspiracy theories!
Sorry, no spoilers!
I’ve photos of The Factor and the youngsters standing by The Factor, however I received’t be posting them right here, as a result of that will spoil the enjoyable!
-Lynn
If you need to learn extra about The Factor, Roadside America has a spoiler-free article in regards to the new The Factor museum in addition to an article about The Thing before 2018.
There may be additionally a present store at The Factor; in case you are on the lookout for Arizona souvenirs throughout a visit by, this is able to be one place to get them! Josh is a big fan of quirky T-shirts, so in fact, he needed to get a The Factor t-shirt.
D it’s essential to console a member of the family after seeing The Factor? Purchase them some ice cream on the Dairy Queen that’s in the identical constructing!
There may be additionally a Shell gasoline station right here if it’s essential to refill your automotive earlier than driving by Benson or Willcox.
The Thing
Location:
2631 N. Johnson Street
Benson, AZ 85602
Hours:
6 AM to eight PM
Masks really helpful
Social Media:
Bowlin’s The Thing on Facebook
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Now, on to the enjoyable a part of the weblog publish!
On Sundays, we drive 40 minutes to get to church in Tucson. As a result of it’s a lengthy drive to return house after which return once more for Sunday Faculty courses at 5 PM, we now have been utilizing Sunday afternoons as a time to discover completely different areas in and round Tucson.
When Josh and I drove cross-country in 2008 throughout a transfer from coast to coast, he took me to see The Thing. I had by no means visited The Thing earlier than and had no concept what to anticipate. He instructed me how superb it might be.
Superb is just not the phrase I might use.
However I used to be now inducted right into a household custom. I had visited The Thing.
The Factor billboards are all over the place on the I-10 to and from Tucson.
Of our six youngsters, solely our second oldest has seen The Thing. One of many caveats for visiting The Thing in Josh’s household is that you just don’t discuss what The Thing is to anybody who hasn’t seen The Thing. So in fact, at any time when Josh and I might discuss The Thing, the youngsters (minus our second oldest) by no means discovered what it’s. I instructed Josh a number of weeks in the past that we must always take the remainder of the youngsters to see The Thing in order that they too might be inducted into the household The Factor membership. And so, one in all our Sunday afternoon household outings was determined!
The Thing is positioned about an hour east of Tucson, between Benson and Willcox. When Josh and I visited in 2008 and even when our second oldest visited a number of years in the past, the museum round The Thing was full of wierd curiosities that you might examine in your approach to see The Thing. My second oldest remembers solely that he discovered a dime on the bottom and that The Thing was not that tremendous.
The Thing museum has now acquired an overhaul and could be very completely different from what we keep in mind!
The admission value to the museum has gone up fairly a bit from $1.00 an individual to $5.00 an individual or $10.00 for a household. The $10.00 admission was nice for us although since there are eight of us.
The museum now has an alien versus dinosaur theme. We have been greeted upon coming into the museum by an alien driving a dinosaur. Luckily, not one of the figures are animatronic, which I’m certain would have scared my youngest, who’s 3 years outdated.
The next corridors have indicators depicting an alternate historical past of the world. Whoever wrote these indicators had quite a lot of enjoyable! We had quite a lot of enjoyable studying them. In reality, we frequently felt that we have been in the course of a Physician Who episode!
The dinosaurs might be an enormous hit with youngsters.
Jackalopes are actual!
This gave me vibes of the Physician Who episodes with The Silence… My 3 12 months outdated didn’t just like the alien driving the automotive.
That’s quite a lot of conspiracy theories!
Sorry, no spoilers!
I’ve photos of The Factor and the youngsters standing by The Factor, however I received’t be posting them right here, as a result of that will spoil the enjoyable!
-Lynn
If you need to learn extra about The Factor, Roadside America has a spoiler-free article in regards to the new The Factor museum in addition to an article about The Thing before 2018.
There may be additionally a present store at The Factor; in case you are on the lookout for Arizona souvenirs throughout a visit by, this is able to be one place to get them! Josh is a big fan of quirky T-shirts, so in fact, he needed to get a The Factor t-shirt.
D it’s essential to console a member of the family after seeing The Factor? Purchase them some ice cream on the Dairy Queen that’s in the identical constructing!
There may be additionally a Shell gasoline station right here if it’s essential to refill your automotive earlier than driving by Benson or Willcox.
The Thing
Location:
2631 N. Johnson Street
Benson, AZ 85602
Hours:
6 AM to eight PM
Masks really helpful
Social Media:
Bowlin’s The Thing on Facebook
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