Traveling When You Can’t Go Anywhere
I was not aware that Maryland had the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere. I have been on this escalator numerous times. Our Metro system has a lot of long escalators, and this one didn’t strike me as any different from the other ones.
Anyway, I have looped back to a point I was at earlier in the pandemic; willing to click on articles like that and mentally plan out trips for when we can travel again. I’ve bookmarked places in the US, Canada, or Mexico, assuming we’ll be able to drive before we’ll be able to fly. (I also spent an evening trying to figure out whether a person could drive all the way from Maryland to Chile. Some sites claimed you could drive the whole way. Other sites stated that you’d hit a point in Panama that was not passable by car, so you’d have to fly for a portion of it.)
The only other place I’ve been to on this list is the Mustard Museum in Wisconsin. I even took Josh there once early in our relationship when we were visiting Madison. It’s awesome. Thumbs up to its inclusion on the list.
Have you been to the weird tourist attraction in your state? And what do you think of their choice?
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I would LOVE to travel to Slovenia and meet Klara from The Next 15000 Days. 🙂
I would also like to be able to just gather with my family to say Hello safely.
I had surgery last week and was asked this screener question multiple times, “Have you traveled out of the country in the last week/month?” I did not simply say no. I said, “Of course not. Nobody wants us. We can’t go anywhere.” I got a variety of responses, but, overall, I’m not wrong so there’s not much anyone can say.
I have not been to the one in my state, but it’s less than an hour from our house. I should take my sons there.
This is pretty awesome! I’ve been to the one from my home state, and my family (minus me) to the one in our current state…some of these actually look pretty damn cool. I read a book with CarHenge in it and was so intrigued!
I may have been to the one in Seattle and I may have been to the one in Massachusetts. But I’ve never been to the one in my state – who needs other giant things when you are moments away from the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle?
Ew, I don’t like long escalators – especially not long steep ones. Is it steep?
I’m a bit too scared to think about planning overseas travel. What if it never gets back to normal? Argh! Though I do need to plan a local trip we want to go on in October (once the current school holidays are all over). And there’s a possibility we’ll get a travel bubble with Australia in the next few months too.
I’ve been to the one in my state – it’s only two miles from my house. But, the property is for sale and it’s in a prime location, so once it sells, I don’t think the attraction will be there much longer.
I went to one in Vermont while visiting my husband’s mom, so it was SORT of like going to one in our own state, because it was like being out of things to do while we were “home” … folks in the Burlington VT area should go see the world’s tallest filing cabinet. It was … weird.
I don’t know what the Canadian equivalent of this list would contain. I have not been on your escalator, but I HAVE been on the escalator at the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto, which is one of the longest in Canada if not North America (– five storeys or 75 steps high, I think — it was finally replaced a few years ago after being constantly out of service — yikes!). I don’t think of myself as being particularly afraid of heights, but I was hanging on for dear life the whole way up.