Today was just supposed to be a driving day, getting a few hundred miles from Utah down to Arizona, but as we pulled off the freeway just outside Phoenix we spotted a fenced off piece of scrub land full of metal animal sculptures. So we went to check it out. In the middle of all [...]

Everything is going to plan, so we had a day off (which was also part of the plan). After leaving Jerry at the Wonder Tower we headed west, past Denver and through the Rockies to a place called Glenwood Springs. It’s just next door to Aspen so it’s all jolly nice. We went up to [...]

This is Jerry Chubbuck and he has a tower full of wonderful things in Genoa, Colorado - so many wonderful things the tower is called the Wonder Tower. Some would call these things junk, and they may well be right, but when you see so much of this ‘junk’ in one place, and [...]

Here we are Alliance, Nebraska at the wonderful Car Henge. It’s a henge made of cars, simple as that. Had a steak in a nice little restaurant in Alliance. Asked the guy serving us what there is to do in Alliance; he just said “no” and shook his head. The town’s main purpose seems to [...]

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It’s not all sunshine over here, our late night dash through South Dakota was a tad inclement.

We needed to make up some millage so we spend a whole day speeding through South Dakota, stopping for a breather at a town called Huron - which proudly boasts as being the home to the world’s largest pheasant. As far as we know there’s no real story behind why it’s there other than shooting [...]

OK, we had to see it, it’s the Biggest Ball of Twine, well not really, the biggest one is somewhere else and is a tiny bit bigger, but that one was rolled by any passing joe, the ball we visited (in Darwin, Minnesota) was all rolled by one person, a guy called Francis Johnson, [...]

It seems the more middle America we get, the cheaper the hotels are. Last night we scored a hotel room (in Darwin, Minnesota) with wi-fi, a pool, continental breakfast and stunning views of the mcDonalds drive-through for only 60 bucks, which works out to about 8 good old British Pounds each. The breakfast was of [...]

Today we visited Dr. Evermore and Lady Eleanor and had a tour of the Doctor’s massive machine; The Forevertron, which (once complete) will blast him into space in a glass egg within a copper frame to live forever on a beam of light. There are many other machines and characters to help him on his [...]