Road side stops

We've done a lot of driving across I-40 the past couple of years. Like most interstates, it has those little road side stops that we've always wondered about. Have you? Usually, I'm trying to go 12 hours a day so we barely have time to go to the bathroom, let alone stop at one of these places.

But this trip we decided to stop at a few and check them out. The first one was SCARY. It was not the one above, but it had tons of odd mannequins and dinosaurs out front. And why do so many of these places have dinosaurs? They don't sell dinosaurs. There's nothing about dinosaurs inside. There is no relationship with dinosaurs and the SW. Strange. In any case, we stopped and saw some crazy looking ostriches penned up outside. They seemed like they could be featured in the next Mad Max movie. We lost our nerve and moved on.

The second place was actually quite nice inside. Lots of trinkets. If I was single, I probably would have spent $10 on some worthless souvenir like my boys wanted to do. Andrew was dying to buy a wood gun that shoots rubber bands by pushing on a clothes pin. High quality engineering. You know what else is surprising? These places are very busy. There were quite a few people stopping by and looking. I guess we're all a little bit curious.