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Inspiration for a road trip

03/17/25
(Teapot Dome gas station, Zillah, Washington)] Road trip season is around the corner. And for inspiration we often turn to the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive at the Library of Congress. Between 1969 and 2008, Margolies traveled around the country taking photos of roadside attractions and classic – and often offbeat – commercial structures around →

Tumbleweed invasion

01/02/20
Here’s a crazy travel story for the New Year that’s not about flying, but about driving. On Tuesday night – New Year’s Eve – at least five cars and an eighteen-wheeler truck got trapped in a bizarre, giant pile-up of tumbleweeds on a rural, central Washington State highway. According to the Washington State Patrol, the →

Really big things you can’t – and shouldn’t – miss!

10/07/10
(Courtesy Linda Clover) The World’s Largest Ball of Twine. (Cawker City, Kansas) The World’s Largest Catsup Bottle. (Collinsville, Illinois) And the World’s Largest Penny. (Woodruff, Wisconsin) Who can resist making a detour to see this stuff? Not me.  And you shouldn’t either. Especially when 14 (possibly 15th by now…) of some of the biggest “can’t →