Vacation Planning of the Doomed

[kz_blogorambling]

When we traveled home and back, I relied on several guidebooks with titles like "Iowa Oddities" and "Off the Beaten Path in Illinois" and of course my trusty iPhone app from Roadside America. I like to find us interesting stuff to look at (like the large pitchfork). Many times we're near things in which we are interested, but we don't have time to stop (or we're passing through after closing time). For those attractions, we vow to stop on some future trip. Like, next time we'll swing by and see Algona (IA)'s huge cheeto. And we'll definitely go to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa.

Then there are other attractions. Attraction which hold no appeal. Here's a place we passed where we are not stopping and WILL NEVER STOP:

http://www.klowndollmuseum.com/

Comments

[betawriter.livejournal.com]

There is a Roadside America app? I wish I had known that before! However, my Mark will probably not be thrilled with it when we road trip to WY at the end of August. He's already giving me grumbles about my fervid desire to see that rock from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[gundy.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about that app. That'll come in handy at the end of this month, when we go to visit Camp Fancy Lad.

[jdoh.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's not a museum, that is a level of hell.

[100ofme.livejournal.com]

When I take road trips I never make side trips, unless the whole point of the road trip is the side trips (did that even make sense?). My goal is to get from point a to point b in the shortest time possible.

Although this last time we drove out to Colorado I did have to stop in Iowa at The World's Largest Truck Stop just to say I've been there...

Has a clown ever made you smile?

[katiekilldare.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thumbs down in the Klown Doll Museum. I am looking at their hundreds of clown dolls, but I'm only seeing the one clown doll that dragged that kid under the bed in "Poltergeist".

[haardvark.livejournal.com]

Is that the Doll museum next to the corn palace in Mitchell IA? Went through THAT one on my honeymoon. Gave me nightmares for WEEKS.

[democritus.livejournal.com]

Klowns with a k are 10x scarier than clowns with a c.