Places Missed

March 25

With a few days to rest up and wait for the weather to improve up north, I have had some time to reflect on the trip. We’ve seen a lot. We’ve missed so much more. Important and historic sites like West Point, Fort McHenry, Appomattox, Chicago, the Cumberland Gap, eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, the land of Lincoln, St. Louis, and many others will have to wait till next time. A list below is some of the tourist sites that we chose not to see. All were listed on tourist web sites. One is listed for each state in order to which we traveled:

Idaho – Dugout Dick’s Ice Cave Ranch, Elk Bend
Montana – The Testicle Festival, Clinton
North Dakota - Largest Stack of Empty Oil Cans, Casselton
Minnesota – Spam Museum, Austin
South Dakota - World’s Largest Hairball, Webster
Wisconsin – Site of Sputnik’s Crash, Manitowoc
Illinois – Hippy Memorial, Arcola
Indiana – James Dean Grave, Fairmount
Ohio – Duct Tape Capital of the World, Avon
New York – The Stuffed Rex, World Famous Diving Horse, Lake George
Vermont – Ben and Jerry’s First Store
New Hampshire – Mohammed Ali’s Broken Jaw X-Ray, Hooksett
Maine – Three Story Outhouse, Bryant Pond
Massachusetts – Museum of Bad Art, Dedham
Rhode Island – World’s Largest Termite, Providence
Connecticut – Giant Frog on Thread Spools Collection, Willimantic
New Jersey – Elsie the Cow’s grave, Plainsboro
Pennsylvania - A chance to eat the world’s largest hamburger (15 lbs), Clearfield
DC - The stuffed Martha, world’s last passenger pigeon
Maryland – World’s Largest Rubber Band Ball, Chevy Chase
West Virginia – International Mothers’ Day Shrine, Grafton
Virginia – Grave of Stonewall Jackson’s Arm, Fredericksburg
North Carolina – Untidy Museum, Durham
Georgia – Babyland General Hospital, birthplace of the Cabbage Patch Kids, Cleveland
Florida – Burt Reynolds’s Museum, Jupiter
Alabama - Coon Dog Cemetery, Cherokee
Mississippi – International Checker Hall of Fame, Petal
Louisiana - Britney Spears Museum, Kentwood
Texas – Toilet Seat Museum, San Antonio
New Mexico – International UFO Museum, Roswell
Arizona – Heart Attack Grill, Phoenix
Utah – World’s largest pit, Coppertown
Nevada - Bugsy Siegel Memorial, Las Vegas
Oregon – Good Riddance Rajneesh Memorial, Antelope

And when we get to Washington, we may even stop by the Codger Pole in Colfax.