This is usually just a happy-go-lucky travel blog but we're feeling very sad about the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. Sherry and I grew up in Connecticut and my mom was an elementary school teacher, so we feel like this hit close to home. Our deepest sympathies to the people of Newtown.
This blog is devoted to old fashioned American roadside attractions... the wonderfully big, bizarre, crazy, wacky, quirky, weird, funny, unique and mundane sites you see travelling cross-country by car in the USA, where getting there really is all the fun!
Website Updating: Eateries (Part 1)
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2024 in Review: A Few More Murals
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One final post about murals. There were a couple of places with a large
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St. Augustine's Gilded Age Tourist Amusements
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Roadside Texas
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Good Luck Oil station, 2631 Ross Avenue, Dallas.
Photo taken in 1982 by Leta Patterson.
Holiday Inn, 10319 South Main Street, Houston.
Seahorse Motel, Galv...
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PASS-A-GRILLE
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Old Florida is mostly alive and well in the little historic district of St.
Petersburg known as Pass-a-Grille. Pass-a-Grille begins …
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2 comments:
Our hearts are broken also for these families.
I simply can't imagine what those families (and that community) are going through.
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