The Mother Load of Travel Sites

This is it THE JACKPOT the Travel GEEK website extraordinary.
This web site is certainly a homage to that great patron saint of the American Road Trip, Clark W. Griswald himself!!

ROADSIDE AMERICA....... This site has to list every roadside tourist trap in the country! You name it it is here [I had no idea that Indiana was home to the largest ball of paint in the world]. While many of the things listed are just curiosities I am sure with little purpose other than to draw tourists and tourist dollars, some are legitimate. 

I have spent some time exploring the route we will take this summer and there are some sites here that certainly deserve to be visited on an epic journey of this nature. If it was not for this site, we might have missed Chester, Illinois and what it has to offer.


After stopping at Metropolis and visiting Superman, there is no way that we can avoid visiting Popeye the Sailor Man!!!!  I looks like the Popeye Park might be a good place to call a stop to grab a bite on the trip between Cairo and St Louis.... And while Popeye might not be as well know by today's youth as he was for us older kids, my kids know him well and the little one loves his cartoons.


My kids were introduced to him through a $5 video with something like 300 of the old cartoons on it during our trip to Florida in the Spring of 2008.


There are lots of things listed on Roadside America. Granted some are just unusual yard sculptures or commercial gimicks but hey, that's what makes a road trip intersting!!!