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JAN FRIEDMAN, "ECCENTRIC AMERICA"
Bradt
When I graduated college I embarked on a cross-country road trip,
stopping at numerous well-known sites that numerous people from all
over the world experience: The Grand Canyon, Graceland, the Hoover Dam,
Niagara Falls, Devil's Mountain, Mount Rushmore, etc,... In retrospect,
yeah, that was an awesome experience but now my taste buds yearn for
something more, something compltely off the wall, some things I've
heard of and some that I've never even dreamed of. Take Carhenge for
example, located in nowheresville Nebraska, replicating Stonehenge but
with cars. The Corn Palace, with a new design every year made entirely
out of corn. I want to swim with dolphins in Florida, I want to go
potato wrestling in South Dakota, I want to visit the 24-hour Elvis
Museum in Portland, Oregon and NOW I HAVE MY GUIDE!!! Lookout, because
the next summer when I have a video camera, money saved and can
convince Rob Devlin to jump in the car with me and two more unnamed
travellers, this will be our book. From the Central Maine Egg Festival
to Cow Pasture Golf in Arizona and oodles of weird places and festivals
in between, this book provides an amazing beginner's list of some of
the most bizarre places and events completely unimaginable. If
anything, at least this book provides some interesting factoids about
this weird country for the Nordic wanderer or armchair traveller in all
of us.
When I graduated college I embarked on a cross-country road trip,
stopping at numerous well-known sites that numerous people from all
over the world experience: The Grand Canyon, Graceland, the Hoover Dam,
Niagara Falls, Devil's Mountain, Mount Rushmore, etc,... In retrospect,
yeah, that was an awesome experience but now my taste buds yearn for
something more, something compltely off the wall, some things I've
heard of and some that I've never even dreamed of. Take Carhenge for
example, located in nowheresville Nebraska, replicating Stonehenge but
with cars. The Corn Palace, with a new design every year made entirely
out of corn. I want to swim with dolphins in Florida, I want to go
potato wrestling in South Dakota, I want to visit the 24-hour Elvis
Museum in Portland, Oregon and NOW I HAVE MY GUIDE!!! Lookout, because
the next summer when I have a video camera, money saved and can
convince Rob Devlin to jump in the car with me and two more unnamed
travellers, this will be our book. From the Central Maine Egg Festival
to Cow Pasture Golf in Arizona and oodles of weird places and festivals
in between, this book provides an amazing beginner's list of some of
the most bizarre places and events completely unimaginable. If
anything, at least this book provides some interesting factoids about
this weird country for the Nordic wanderer or armchair traveller in all
of us.
