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Road Trip: Ellensburg, Washington

05/13/22

Far off adventures don’t really need to be that far away from home. Our road trip team spent the afternoon in Ellensburg, WA, just about two hours from Stuck at The Airport headquarters in Seattle. And while we didn’t get to do everything on our list, we revisited two favorite places with fresh, post-pandemic (we →

Museum Monday: World’s Largest Cast Iron Skillet

01/23/22

Stuck at the Airport’s correspondent for Museums and Roadside Attractions is planning a summer trip to South Pittsburg, Tennessee for the planned opening of the Lodge Cast Iron Museum. We’re already intrigued to learn that South Pittsburg, TN has been home to Lodge Cast Iron since 1896. And we’re looking forward to seeing rare cast-iron →

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The (Not So) Impossible Road Trip

12/26/21

Icy snow is covering our town. So we spent the holiday weekend just dreaming of places we want to go and making a list of new and old favorite sights we want to see in the new year. “The Impossible Road Trip – An Unforgettable Journey to Past and Present Roadside Attractions in all 50 →

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Pull over for these really big things

04/03/17

Who can resist pulling over when a sign for a "World's Largest..." pops up on the side of the highway. Not me. And, hopefully, not you. Check out some of these really big things. →

Fun Stuff

Greetings from Wall Drug

09/23/15

If you’re driving west and your route takes you through South Dakota on I-90, a stop at Wall Drug is a must. For the free ice water, of course: But also for the jackalope: And the 5-cent coffee: →

Roadside replicas: better than the real thing?

05/11/14

Roadside replicas: better than the real thing? →

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In search of Paul Bunyan

06/29/12

American folklore hero and lumberjack Paul Bunyan was said to be so loud that fellow lumberjacks had to wear earmuffs year round. When he sneezed, legend has it that he blew the roof off the loggers’ bunkhouse. “When he was a baby, it took five giant storks to deliver him,” Carol Olson, manager of 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 →

Oregon Curiosities: The Bomber in Milwaukie, OR

03/13/10

I love hanging around airports, of course, but I also find bliss when let loose in small museums filled with odd and unusual artifacts or if there’s a wacky roadside distraction somewhere and I’ve got the keys to the car. So I’m fortunate to be able to produce radio features and write books about my →

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