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Split Rock Lighthouse near Duluth, Minnesota in Lake Superior.
More information on this lighthouse can be found on Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_Rock_Lighthouse
When we arrived in Split, Croatia by bus, we were swarmed by a herd of little old ladies trying to get us to stay in their homes. While I had all intentions of contributing to the little-old-lady economy of Croatia, I was overwhelmed by their flying hands and waving papers and instead opted to go with the cute, 20-something tall Croatian guy. What can I say. (Meanwhile Bryan was extracting our bags from the bowels of the bus.)
When we arrived at the advertised "apartman," we were both very happy to see three adorable rooms, clean sheets and towels, and a picture-perfect view. Oh and also, a TV from 1982. It was ideal, and only $33 a night.
The only weird thing was that we gave the young guy two nights' "rent," then never saw anyone again. Allegedly the owner of the apartment lived right next door (this brown door here) but when we knocked to say goodbye, no one answered.
Weirdness.
One of the few peaks in California above fourteen thousand feet, Split Mountain sits over eight thousand feet above the Owens Valley.
Split is one of Croatia's bigger cities and has an interesting old town. We were able to see the majority of the sights in three quarters of a day's relaxed exploration and spent the remaining quarter drinking excellent Croatian coffee and beer.
self - i have a horrible scream face, so this is disturbing in two ways. Shows the condition of split personality and then the disturbance of my face :D
"Jeff Koons, Split-Rocker (Orange/Red), 1999. Polychromed aluminum; 13 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 13 in. (34.3 × 36.8 × 33 cm). Collection of B. Z. and Michael Schwartz. ©Jeff Koons
Split-Rocker is a disjointed combination of two children’s rocking toys in the shapes of a horse and a dinosaur. The work is a very personal one for Koons, since the toy pony had belonged to his son Ludwig. The sculpture’s fractured nature contrasts with the bilateral symmetry of the Easyfun mirrors and can be interpreted in relation to the split Koons experienced from his child, and to his own tense psychological state at the time of its production. Additionally, the form evokes the constructions of Pablo Picasso, one of Koons’s artistic heroes. In 2000, Koons replicated Split-Rocker at enormous scale as a topiary sculpture reminiscent of his well-known floral Puppy from 1992." - Whitney Museum of American Art
Jeff Koons Exhibit: A Retrospective