“Mystical Horizons” – The Stonehenge of the Prairie
I recently discovered the SF Gate’s running series Tourist Trapped. The column’s writer travels to the heavily tourist-ed destinations in the San Francisco area and reports back on the highs and lows. I am in love it. I want to take a weekend and go nuts eating Jelly Bellies and taking ghost tours with hundreds of other people in the Bay Area. Tourist Trapped made me realize that a place…
International Peace Garden, ND – Throwback Thursday
The other day my prized “Why Not Minot” shot glass, a funny parody of the North Dakota city sold to me be the Minot Scandinavian center, broke in a tragic cleaning accident. I doubt the shot glass in still available in the Minot Scandinavian center, of which my mind has concocted a story of a witty scandinavian making (in good humor) the shot glass only to be lectured by the Minot chamber…
Bismark, ND to Butte, MT: Day 2 of road trip to CA
Basil was so upset to get back on the road again today, although he was probably most upset because we made him sleep in the motel 6 bathroom, and nobody would like that. We continued onward anyhow into the rainy gray day that continued though all of North Dakota and Montana. It wasn’t a good day for photos, although the herd of vacationers at the Theodore Roosevelt national park rest…
Enchanted Highway
In southern North Dakota some guy had an awesome idea, creating a series of giant scrap metal sculptures to put in the farm fields. Like all good north dakota things these sculptures would fixate on the key things that are a fixation in the state, including fishing, insects, wild turkey, farming, Theodore Roosevelt, deer, and geese, rust and new paint. [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157624067478818″]
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