10 on Tuesday: Places to Go
Today’s 10 on Tuesday topic is 10 Places You’d Love to Travel To (That You Haven’t Gone to Yet)
As I told Brigid a minute ago: I’ve got reeeeeeeal refined tastes. Her list is full of places like Russia and Egypt and Ireland. Mine revolves around the Seven Wonders of Roadside America and various other oddities:
1. Dillon, S.C. (home of South of the Border — one of the Seven Wonders of Roadside America)
2. Spring Hill, Fla. (home of the Weeki Wachee Mermaids — a suitable replacement for the late Aquarena Springs, which was one of the Seven Wonders until it fired Ralph the Diving Pig and turned into some uppity research lab)
3. St. Petersburg, Fla. (home of the Salvador Dali Museum)
4. Alliance, Neb. (home of Carhenge)
5. Wall, S.D. (home of Wall Drug — another of the Seven Wonders)
6. Bethel, N.Y. (home of Max Yasgur’s farm)
7. Boston, Mass. (home of the Mapparium, among many other things)
8. Cabazon, Calif. (home of the Cabazon Dinosaurs)
9. The Lincoln Highway (all of it)
10. Bisbee, Ariz. (home of the Shady Dell and its collection of fabulous vintage Airstreams)
Where would you like to go?
Emily
May 7, 2008 at 5:15 am
Ireland, Egypt, Israel, and Okinawa, I reckon.
May 7, 2008 at 7:49 am
I’d love to go to St. Petersburg, Florida, because it’s the oldest city in America. I didn’t even know it was home to the Dali Museum — that’s another incentive.
And I’d like to visit Boston again, but since I’ve been before (when I was 9), I couldn’t put it on my list. I’m telling you, though, I could easily make a list of places in the US I’d still like to visit — maybe not so much to see Roadside America attractions, but for other silly reasons. A literary tour of the South would be awesome.
May 7, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Yellowstone, New Zealand and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
May 8, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I’m with you on the Shady Dell, it has been on my vacation list for a long time…how awesome is it? I’d like to make one here
May 8, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I’m told that somebody in Stroud has turned a trailer park into a B&B … which is funny, because I’ve been daydreaming about that exact concept for two years. House trailers would make the greatest little B&B cabins, and the decorating possibilities are endless — to say nothing of the fabulous names you could come up with and the gorgeous neon sign you could put out front. (I’m seeing either a neon lawn gnome or a giant neon flamingo with animated whirligig wings.)
May 9, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Dude…I’m digging your vision! Right smack dab in the middle of downtown district…
May 9, 2008 at 2:32 pm
This is a cool place too…we passed through it a few years back on our road trip to Tuscon. I have some cooler photos of the kiddos there but they’re struck on a computer that isn’t working now.
http://www.doney.net/aroundaz/route66/dinosaurpark.htm
May 9, 2008 at 8:09 pm
hmmm…
my heart is my compass I guess…
1. Hermanus South Africa (my daughter is there)
2. Evergreen CO (where my mother and sisters live)…but I’ve been there…so…some town nearby
3. Buena Vista CO (where my heart land if dropped from heaven and allowed to float to its home) HMMM..I’ve been here too, but it’s new every time for me…so does that count
4. San Francisco (where my daughter, her partner and my sister and niece live) I’ve never been there with our daughter…seeing it through her eyes would be NEW
5. Limerick County Ireland…I think I’ve been here in my dreams…my ancestors were all from here and County Cork
6. Jackson Hole Wyoming
7. Mill Valley California
8. Nantucket MA
9. Prince Edward Island
10. Did I say Hermanus South Africa…again…my heart is living there right now…I am aching to get back “home” to where she is.
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