Cadillac Ranch is (I think?) pretty well known. Nonetheless, these are the kind of road-side attractions I sought when I started gently introducing my kids to long road trips when they were young.
Our home base being the Bay Area, we never made it as far as Texas in our minivan. Nonetheless, using an app like "Roadside America", we checked off all manner of quirky things on our week-long drives around the western U.S.
As a kid, road tripping to "historical places", like the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn for example, made little impression on me. Life-size dinosaurs you could run around were more interesting. That's one reason I sought these roadside attractions out when I had kids of my own.
But more generally, I took the kids on road trips because I had hoped it might inspire, like it seems to have done for me, something of the breadth of the world. And even so we were not even traversing half of the U.S. And I suppose these quirky exhibits added something about the breadth of people's ... creativity?
Tangent: lesser known, but similar to the Cadillac Ranch is Nebraska's Carhenge.
We did the same with our kids. Road trips are cheap vacations and having chosen to work in education, that was important to my spouse and I.
It's also an AMAZING way to really get to know your kids when they're getting older. Teens pull away, so being trapped together for a week or two in places where it doesn't matter if they're cool or not is nice.
That was some years ago, so maybe it's different now that you're probably being filmed everywhere if you do anything goofy.
Our home base being the Bay Area, we never made it as far as Texas in our minivan. Nonetheless, using an app like "Roadside America", we checked off all manner of quirky things on our week-long drives around the western U.S.
As a kid, road tripping to "historical places", like the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn for example, made little impression on me. Life-size dinosaurs you could run around were more interesting. That's one reason I sought these roadside attractions out when I had kids of my own.
But more generally, I took the kids on road trips because I had hoped it might inspire, like it seems to have done for me, something of the breadth of the world. And even so we were not even traversing half of the U.S. And I suppose these quirky exhibits added something about the breadth of people's ... creativity?
Tangent: lesser known, but similar to the Cadillac Ranch is Nebraska's Carhenge.