I’m In Chester Illinois |
Popeye the Sailor ManI'm at the Popeye the Sailor Man StatuePopeye the Sailor Man was once roughed up in Chester, Illinois. Vandals lassoed the six-foot bronze statue, chained it to a pickup truck, an...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST |
Im In Tupelo Mississippi |
The Birthplace of ElvisThe most significant landmark of Tupelo's modern history is a modest, two-room house where the King of Rock & Roll was born on January 8, 1935. From this humble beginning, Elvis...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:06:00 PST |
I'm at the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum, Cave City, KY |
I'm at the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum, Cave City, KY In this era of atoms to bits, when the images and recollections of our past are transformed into zeros and ones, residing encoded on plastic strips an...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:27:00 PST |
I'm In Virginia City, Montana |
Virginia City is a small tourist attraction town in southwestern Montana, preserving the frontier atmosphere of the wild west, with original-appearing buildings, stage coach tours, even an old opera h...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Mon, 21 May 2007 10:40:00 PST |
I'm In Vegas Baby!!!!!!! |
For get the casinos and show I'm at the Liberace Museum."Mr. Showmanship" left the earthly stage decades ago, but he still draws the curious and faithful to a museum that anchors two ends of a strip m...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:27:00 PST |
I'm In Vegas Baby!!!!!!! |
Forget the casinos and shows I'm at the Liberace Museum."Mr. Showmanship" left the earthly stage decades ago, but he still draws the curious and faithful to a museum that anchors two ends of a strip m...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:28:00 PST |
I'm In Laramie, Wyoming |
Visiting The Ames Brothers PyramidTowering and bulky on a windswept, empty plateau; only accessible by a lonely dirt road; a stark and scary rock pyramid stands in tribute to the Ames Brothers -- the ...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:52:00 PST |
The Shoe Tree |
I stumbled onto this interesting bit of scenery while traveling down Highway 50 in Nevada. It a giant tree with hundreds of pairs of shoes hanging from it and hundreds more in a ditch that runs behind...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:20:00 PST |
I'm Here In Winlock, Washington Home Of The World's Largest Egg. |
I'm Here In Winlock, WashingtonHome of the big egg in Winlock, south of Tacoma, it is twelve feet long and weighs 1,200 lbs. It sits on a pedestal on a ten-foot steel pole in the wide, grassy median r...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:58:00 PST |
All About Metropolis |
Metropolis, IllinoisMetropolis is the the self-proclaimed "Hometown of Superman," celebrating its local hero every possible way it can. The local bank is "home of super financial services." The town n...
Posted by Tito The Turtle on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:57:00 PST |
