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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I got a pin at last weekend’s Pride parade—yes, Pride is in July in San Diego; don’t worry about it. —qxz

Quixley (a stuffed zebra) wearing rainbow earrings and a rainbow smiley-face pin.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Murray is excited for the last day of the Tour de France today!

Murray (a plush anteater) sitting on a toy bicycle on a table, watching the Tour de France on television.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Now that we're back from the #WildRepublicRoadTrip, we can introduce the newest member of our office team! Meet Ruth "Archy" Archibald, joining us from the department of the Interior!

Ruth (a plush meadowlark) sitting on a threadbare tan pillow

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Back home in San Diego at last! (Well, a week ago, but we've been too busy unpacking to post about it.) It was a wild #WildRepublicRoadTrip, but it's great to be back!

A bunch of plush animals on a bed, with a black and white duvet, a pillow with a Steven Universe pillowcase, and a rainbow neck pillow. On top of the rainbow pillow, Pascale (a wolverine) and Marietta (a platypus); in front of the rainbow pillow, Odoacer (a round narwhal) and Tritica (a jaguar), and on the bed, Trudy (a shark), Rochester (a bison), the fox, Quixley (a zebra), and Barry (an elephant).

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

On Friday, Rochester and Tritica admired the Sierra Nevada in Tuolumne County... #WildRepublicRoadTrip

Rochester (a plush bison) and Tritica (a plush jaguar) sitting on a rock, looking out at trees and snowy mountains in the distance

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

More busy times on the #WildRepublicRoadTrip! On Thursday, Rochester admired the rock formations at Kolob Canyon at Zion National Park...

Rochester (a plush bison) in the foreground, looking across a parking lot and a vegetation-covered hillside to a mountain of reddish rock beyond

Rochester sitting on a National Park Service placard, looking at reddish mountains beyond some trees in the distance

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Rochester had an amazing time at Arches National Park today! #WildRepublicRoadTrip

Rochester (a plush bison) sitting on a fence in the foreground, looking at Balanced Rock in the background—a giant rock formation that looks like a boulder balanced precariously on top of a pillar.

Rochester looking at the Double Arch: a rock formation in which two huge stone arches meet on the left, one closer to the camera and one extending back away from it.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

At our hotel in Utah last night, we were invited to stay in the King Executive Suite! #WildRepublicRoadTrip

Stuffed animals lined up in front of the pillows on the head of a king-size hotel bed in front of a row of pillows: Barry (an elephant), Quixley (a zebra), Tritica (a jaguar), Rochester (a bison), Pascale (a wolverine), Trudy (a shark), Marietta (a platypus), and Odoacer (a round blue narwhal). The fox sits on the middle pillow above Rochester.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It's been a busy few days on the #WildRepublicRoadTrip, especially for Rochester! On Sunday, he got to visit the Union Pacific Railroad Museum. Here he is admiring the Golden Spike and the Dale Creek Bridge, and operating a 19th-century telegraph and a modern train.

Rochester (a plush bison) sits on a table looking at a transparent plastic case containing replicas of a golden railroad spike and a gold and silver railroad spike.

Rochester in front of a diorama of a trestle bridge extending from a canyon wall

Rochester on a shelf with his left hood on the switch of a telegraph signal

Rochester in a train operator's chair, facing a bank of switches and instruments, with the track visible through the train's front window

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

We made a side trip today so I could visit the Voyage Home Museum in Riverside, Iowa—the future birthplace of Captain Kirk! I sat in the captain's chair, worked at Data's desk, used the transporter, and wrestled the Gorn! #WildRepublicRoadTrip —qxz

Quixley (a plush zebra) sits in a replica of a Star Trek captain's chair, with various Star Trek magazines and cardboard cutouts visible in the background

Quixley sits on a plastic table with a plaque saying "Data's Desk: Used in Next Generation and Voyager series. Also in theatre show with William Shatner / Donated by Ed & Rachel Harrigan / 2018". Also on the desk is a framed still from Star Trek: The Next Generation showing Data sitting at the desk, with part of a note written on the photo visible: "...The Riverside Museum / ...s for taking care / ...my desk! / Data".

Quixley stands in a mockup of a Star Trek transporter pad. Also on the pad are life-size cardboard cutouts of Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy, and Spock.

A standing costume of the Gorn from the Star Trek episode "Arena", holding Quixley in the crook of his arm.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Marietta was excited to stop for lunch at the World's Largest Truck Stop, home of the Trucking Museum! She played the world's largest Pac-Man game, but couldn't find a novelty license plate with her name on it. #WildRepublicRoadTrip

Marietta sitting on the sideboard of an old-fashioned red pickup truck, on whose door are the words "Iowa 80 Trucking Museum"

Marietta at the controls of a game of Pac-Man; the screen is several feet high and takes up most of the wall behind the controls. At the top is a sign saying "World's Largest Pac-Man".

Marietta in a gift shop looking at a rack of novelty Iowa license plate, which have names such as Maria, Mariah, Marissa, Mark, Martin, Mary, Matt, and Mason on them.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Barry got to visit his second candy store in two days—this morning, the Confectionary in DeKalb, Illinois! #WildRepublicRoadTrip

Barry (a plush elephant) looking at a carved wooden sign saying “THE DEKALB CONFECTIONARY, est. March 24, 1982”

Barry diving face-first into a bucket labeled “Oreo 2-Pack (milk chocolate) $2.50” on a candy shop shelf

Barry lying on a pile of miscellaneous wrapped chocolates

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This morning in Cleveland, we visited North America’s biggest candy store! Barry was in heaven #WildRepublicRoadTrip

Barry (a plush elephant) sitting on a bag of Tootsie Pops, Dots, and other such candies on a candy store shelf

Barry standing among a display of large lollipops on a candy store shelf

Barry standing in front of a mural for the B.A. Sweetie Candy Company

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

On the first day of the second leg of this year’s #WildRepublicRoadTrip, we stopped in Buffalo to meet the Shark Girl—and we have a buffalo and shark girl of our own!

Shark Girl—a statue of a girl in a blue dress with the head of a shark sitting on a boulder, on a walkway overlooking a canal. On the boulder next to her sit Trudy (a plush shark) and Rochester (a plush bison).

Trudy and Rochester next to Shark Girl, seen from closer to the level of the stuffed animals, looking up at Shark Girl.

Now Trudy is sitting in Shark Girl’s lap.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Yesterday Barry and I visited the City Museum of St. Louis… #WRRoadTrip

The front of the City Museum—and old brick buildings with a huge climbing structure for kids, including an entire airplane. Quixley (a plush zebra) looks on from the corner of the frame.

Barry (a plush elephant) sits on the wheel of an old fire engine.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Yesterday Odoacer met one of his personal heroes: the Blue Whale of Catoosa! #WRRoadTrip

The Blue Whale of Catoosa: a big blue cartoonish statue of a whale, in a pond in a park, seen from the side. On the right side of the frame, Odoacer (a Squishable blue plush narwhal) looks on.

Odoacer poses in front of the Blue Whale of Catoosa, both facing the camera. The footpath leading from the park into the Blue Whale’s mouth is visible.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We visited Cadillac Ranch today on the #WRRoadTrip and Marietta was very excited!

Cadillac Ranch—a row of old cars half-buried in the soil, sticking up at an angle, and covered in graffiti; and Marietta (a plush platypus) in the foreground at the same angle.

Marietta looking at graffiti on a car reading “in omnia paratus” with a pink heart.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Today #WRRoadTrip was in Albuquerque, and Rochester visited the Pueblo Cultural Center and the Piedras Marcadas petroglyphs!

Rochester (a plush bison) in the parking lot in front of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Rochester in front of a cliffside of boulders, some of which have inscriptions on them of geometric shapes and figures of animals.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In Phoenix this morning, Rochester explored the S’eḏav Va’aki Museum, showcasing the remains of a prehistoric indigenous O’odham village!

Rochester (a plush bison) at the door of a replica ancient O'odham house. Visible in the house are adobe walls; wooden roof beams and a wooden pole supporting them, tall and short woven baskets, a fire pit, stones, a bench, and a tapestry and a gourd hanging on the wall.

Rochester on a railing with a sign saying "the northwest compound", overlooking a prehistoric platform mound on which the remnants of building walls can be seen.

Rochester sitting on a bench in the sun; behind him are the remnants of walls of a prehistoric platform mound.

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Day 1 of #WRRoadTrip 2025! Marietta was excited to visit the exact center of the world. There was a granite monument about her family, and a replica of the Liberty Bell!

Marietta (a plush platypus) in front of a granite slab engraved with facts about platypuses and a large picture of one.

Marietta standing on top of a half-scale replica of the Liberty Bell in the desert.

Marietta on the floor next to a brass plaque labeled “official center of the world”

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Quixley the Zebra @wildrepublicsd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Here’s Rochester packing for #WRRoadTrip 2: the sequel! Some members of our team are spending the spring in Pittsburgh, and driving there over the coming week.