On another board, a bunch of fellow bloggers are writing about their weirdest vacations.
So, here's mine:
When I was ten, my dad, mom and I went to the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, TN. Not the first place you'd think of as, oh, family-friendly, but you know, it was pretty cool. The people were very nice and I wasn't the only kid there. It was just weird because at the time, neither my mom or I drank. (Well, obviously I didn't---I was ten.) What I do remember, though, was this ginormous iron safe in the office. Seems ol'Jack had himself a bit of a temper and kicked it hard one day. Broke his toe and died of gangrene not too long afterwards. Ouch. :-O
On that same trip, we went to Twitty City. Conway Twitty (the country western singer) had set this place up as, I suspect, a giant tax writeoff. It was a park built along the theme of "How Great I Am." You could see a replica of Twitty's house, the obligatory gift shop, and lots and lots of ephemera about the guy's life. Except that I had no idea who he was (and being ten, being interested would have just been so uncool.) C'est la vie. :)
So, broken toes, iron safes and Twitty City. That's my weirdest vacation. :-)
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7 comments:
Interesting combination...
LOL, wasn't it, though? I remember thinking we'd be seeing the world's largest ball of twine next (yes, my family were huge fans of "National Lampoon's Vacation" :)
Heh...interesting story about the safe(and what a silly way to die).
Yeah, it was pretty silly. But for some reason, that's what stuck with me...
See I wanna take my hypothetical future kids to do things like that. I want to take them cool places too but I think it'd be funny as hell for them to write their report on "What I did on summer vacation" to be things like seeing the Olive Pit and a corn museum, and a distillery
I hear ya. We also went to a former plantation on that same trip, but that wasn't weird, just historical. :)
I think the randomness of vacations is what makes them fun---everyone can go see the Giant Rat at Disney, but the iron safe that bested Jack Daniels? :) Now, that's entertainment. :-P
We went to the Jack Daniel's distillary, too. We only went because of the billboards saying 'nearby.' We were young and dumb. That place is in the middle of nowhere!
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