Clearly one of the world's true wonders, one cannot help but be struck by the sheer grandeur of the moment.
Though photographers may try, they are doomed to fail in efforts to capture the true immensity of the spectacle. This being said, even with more than a thousand words one would be frustrated when faced with the task of attempting to describe this wonder.
Though I have driven by and even under this miracle of engineering for more than twenty years, I am still amazed each time I see it. It is no wonder that people come in droves paying good money and risking their lives to partake of that which this marvel imparts to the world.
Those to whom has been given the task of representing this phenomenon and of acting as ambassadors seem almost jaded by the experience, sadly. Then again, perhaps this is the only way to survive in the realm of greatness. To truly understand might be to reduce one to disappointment with the rest of the world. Perhaps less than professional behavior is the only way they have found to cope. Perhaps a departure from good taste and even cleanliness would be the destiny of anyone who tried to touch the sky. Maybe the strain is just too great. Whatever, the reason, I wouldn't bother stopping at the "World's Largest McDonalds" in Vinita, Oklahoma.
Pictured from the eastbound side, Interstate 44 actually travels under this suspension structure. Guests on the day of our visit enthusiastically described the experience as "icky."
Though photographers may try, they are doomed to fail in efforts to capture the true immensity of the spectacle. This being said, even with more than a thousand words one would be frustrated when faced with the task of attempting to describe this wonder.
Though I have driven by and even under this miracle of engineering for more than twenty years, I am still amazed each time I see it. It is no wonder that people come in droves paying good money and risking their lives to partake of that which this marvel imparts to the world.
Those to whom has been given the task of representing this phenomenon and of acting as ambassadors seem almost jaded by the experience, sadly. Then again, perhaps this is the only way to survive in the realm of greatness. To truly understand might be to reduce one to disappointment with the rest of the world. Perhaps less than professional behavior is the only way they have found to cope. Perhaps a departure from good taste and even cleanliness would be the destiny of anyone who tried to touch the sky. Maybe the strain is just too great. Whatever, the reason, I wouldn't bother stopping at the "World's Largest McDonalds" in Vinita, Oklahoma.
Pictured from the eastbound side, Interstate 44 actually travels under this suspension structure. Guests on the day of our visit enthusiastically described the experience as "icky."
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"Icky" don't cover it. When I visited there a few years back with my wife and (then-)small children, there was a McDonald's Gift Shoppe within the accursed structure.
Oh, for the days when we would stop there en route to Abilene from Indiana to deliver my older sister to college at ACC. Back then, it was a delightful Host Restaurant, with real food and modern aqua-and-beige furnishings and neat little cloth-like napkins with the gold-and-teal crown logo ....
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