Bays & Roadside Attractions - Big/Wierd/Funny Stuff

[pjalau]

This was taken outside of the "shoe tree" on Hwy 50 in Nevada. It was cut down by vandals a few years back - which is why we can't have nice things. So, for posterity:

[TweedLinn]

Random lighthouse in the middle of nowhere between Omaha and Lincoln, NE

Largest Dutch windmill in the US (124+-ft.) - Pella, IA

House from Grant Wood's "American Gothic" painting - Eldon, IA

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76 Sportsmobile

[TweedLinn]

Mark Twain memorial lighthouse, Hannibal, MO

Big ass root beer - Hannibal, MO

Mark Twain's boyhood home, many other buildings (and fence) that were the inspiration for Tom Sawyer - Hannibal, MO

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76 Sportsmobile

[TweedLinn]

St Louis planetarium - St Louis, MO

Turtle Park - St Louis, MO

My favorite shot from my trip to St Louis

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76 Sportsmobile

[TweedLinn]

I'm on a pretty incredible road trip currently.. here's a few of the ones I've collected so far..

Iowa's largest frying pan - Brandon, Iowa

World's largest ketchup bottle - Collinsville, Illinois

World's largest peanut - Ashburn, Georgia

Big ass Manatee - Crystal River, Florida

Southernmost point in the US - Key West, Florida

World's largest queen angel fish - Marathon, Florida

World's largest spiny lobster - Islamorada, Florida

Rockets at Kennedy space center

Smallest church in America - Townsend, Georgia

Only kazoo factory in the US.... Beaufort, South Carolina

A picture that does no justice to the Angel Oak Tree - John's Island, South Carolina

World's largest fire hydrant - Columbia, South Carolina

And this one I drove by in Sylva, North Carolina, ironically on the way to the graves of the world's fastest twins... Yeah I'm that guy.

Not home yet, I'm sure there will be more to come
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76 Sportsmobile

[xyzzy]

Surprised not to see one of these yet! Big, but not so much weird and funny anyways..

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1973 VW Westfalia 2L hydraulic, dual Solex PDSIT
1987 VW Vanagon Westfalia

[TDCTDI]

World’s largest Tobacco Worm, Wendell NC.

Which is funny because I got a pic of it a few months ago before someone gave it bunny ears.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TweedLinn]

Sylva, NC

Gatlinburg, TN

Bush's baked beans museum - Chestnut Hill, TN

Col Snaders museum, first KFC - Corbin, KY

30 ft David - Louisville, KY

World's largest baseball bat - Louisville, KY

Giant Kraft Mac & Cheese noodle (located inside a gated and security protected parking lot, a bus will help you get through for a picture ) - Champaign, IL

Big fancy chicken - Peoria, IL

One of several twistee treats we've been to, this one in Peoria, IL, as opposed to the ones we usually go to in Florida..

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76 Sportsmobile

[Hikelite]

@TweedLin

Those are awesome. I can't wait to start collecting some of these pics.
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~Kevin

My 1968 Campmobile

[andrewtf]

Damn - You stopped at Kraft and we didn't know you were coming thru.
I'd have sprung for beer !
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'75 Riviera - 'BIG EMMA' (Pan American highway trip paused for a make over)
'77 Riviera - Murphy' (being reborn.... slowly)
'63 Austin Healey

[SGKent]

where is the giant peach in Gaffney SC? Gotta get a picture of that next time you pass Gaffney. There is a great peach stand we stop at in summer around July 1 - they have the best peaches.
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“Most people don’t know what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” - George Carlin

[TDCTDI]

[SGKent]

[JimmyJagged]

Driving from So Cal to Lake Havasu, AZ, in the middle of nowhere in the Arizona desert (I think highway 62) there is fence that is covered with shoes. Thousands of shoes! In the middle of nowhere!

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Current:
1971 Tin Top Weekender Bus
1973 Squareback
1985 Pop Top Weekender Vanagon (my 19yo son's first car. father/son project)
1985 Pop Top Weekender Vanagon w/ 2.5 Subaru

Past:
1976 Rabbit diesel (my first car). RIP. totaled by drunk driver (not me!)
1973 Pop Top Westfalia Weekender Bus. RIP. Blown engine due to 25yo ignorant of VW maintenance (me).
1986 Vanagon Transporter. RIP. totaled by drunk driver (not me!)
1987 Vanagon Syncro. I never should have sold.

[sethpat]

This thread is awesome.

Here's Curly's coffee down in Marathon, FL. It's a tiny coffee shop that managed to survive Irma. I used to visit this place regularly when I lived down there; the coffee is great! Definitely have to stop if you're in town.

Here's this awesome gigantic drive through convenience store in Okeechobee, FL. They have about everything you need. Thought it was awesome so I had to stop. It cost $5.82 for two tall boy Buds and two bags of chips

Highly recommend stopping if you're passing through.
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Unnamed 1986 Syncro

Frankenbus (sold)

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=674133&highlight=

1975 Westfalia
914 IV 1.7
93mm pistons
Weber 34 ICT's
Cam 264* .402 lift

[airschooled]

[vwwestyman]

Is the name of that place, "Drink and Drive?"
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Dave Cook

President, Wild Westerner Club

1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
My Thing

[Hikelite]

I recall going through a place like that when I was a kid, but haven't seen one for many many years.

I'm actually surprised there are any left. I'd think the mix of exhaust fumes inside a building, especially with food, would get some sort of government agency's panties all twisted.

Cool pics
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~Kevin

My 1968 Campmobile

[camit34]

The sign to the entrance to the UFO Watchtower in the San Luis Valley

The entrance to Fort Union. It was closed but what I could see was pretty cool

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In search of a Vanagon
1971 Westy (SOLD)
1971 Deluxe (SOLD)
1967 Freedom Camper (SOLD)

[camit34]

The cool little town of Ravenden AR

First time seeing a piggly wiggly in person...

Entering the Ozarks

Driving over the mighty Mississippi

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In search of a Vanagon
1971 Westy (SOLD)
1971 Deluxe (SOLD)
1967 Freedom Camper (SOLD)