The Land of Tack
Saturday, September 24th, 2005Well, before the trip around the US a bunch of our friends in Houston were giving us a hard time asking if we were going to visit the world’s largest ball of twine, etc. Up until we hit North Dakota we hadn’t visited any dodgy tourist attractions. I guess the Midwest is where you need to come for giant cows and museums dedicated to canned meat.
Don’t get me wrong, we’ve seen some nice things too, but how many over-sized statues can you look at before it just gets boring?
Click below to see the attractions from Eastern North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, both tacky and nice.
We also visited Voyaguers National Park and canoed in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota but I don’t have any photos to put up as it was pretty rainy the whole time. It was still really beautiful but I kept waiting for a nice day to take photos…
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