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May 3, 2008
Eccentric roadside attractions make for a funky travel blog

Superspud.
Eccentric Roadside is my colleague Gunnar Johnson's roadtrips blog:
One thing you notice after a lot of cross-country driving is how much there is out there that's mundane. We've grown to love the mundane in America — the beautifully melancholy, unnoticed, unloved landscapes across this great land of ours.
Gunnar has designed features section fronts for a couple of decades. His "attractions" are not commercial tourist traps. He has a fine eye for detail, and seems not to miss a single sign, shoe-shaped building or bit of local whimsy while tooling down the road:

This oasis is near Carhenge -- yup, what it sounds like -- in Alliance, Nebraska.
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