Big John the Muffler Man Cowboy – Prescott, Arizona
Arizona is home to a handful of muffler men. This one, called Big John, is found in the town of Prescott. When I visited him in the fall of ’23 he was in really...
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Arizona is home to a handful of muffler men. This one, called Big John, is found in the town of Prescott. When I visited him in the fall of ’23 he was in really...
The first time I visited the Greensburg, Pennsylvania muffler man, it was a cold winters day in 2009. Objectively, he was looking a bit worse for wear. The most noticeable flaw being, that he...
Now, I know that spiders aren’t everyone’s favorite critter, but you have to admit that this 17-foot metal beast is pretty awesome. There are lights lining it’s eight spindly legs. Utah license plates cover...
There is something that just strikes me funny about being labeled as the world’s second largest watermelon slice. That’s the fate of this big guy that sits behind the John Wesley Powell River History...
With decades of photos tucked away for someday, as I previously mentioned, on occasion I have a little difficulty remembering where I might have snapped a photo of something. Generally speaking, I have fairly...
Mail Pouch Tobacco barns and ghost signs stay firmly in my top 10 must-see or favorite sights while I’m out bumming around. Because part of their enduring appeal is directly correlated to familiarity and...
Looking for some place to road trip to? Why not pick a place that combines two magical options – ice cream and a muffler man? Say hello to Chip, the ice cream scoop wielding...
With the heat supposed to come on like gangbusters, on Saturday morning I zipped out from Lock Haven before the rest of the world was stirring. There was still a coolness hanging on the...
In my last post where I rambled on about daydreams, I did have a specific daydream that was the catalyst. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Blue Whale of Catoosa, Oklahoma. Whale? Meet these fine people....
Like a dumbbell, I brought my (3rd partially broken) point-n-shoot camera with its nifty 30x zoom with me… but failed to charge the battery. One day I’ll get this all right, but this? This...
It’s been a while since I posted any news from the front lines of the Giant Chicken Army. But that is about to change, my friend. On Route 6 in the town of Wyalusing,...
When I first passed this guy on the bench I thought, wow, what a beautiful view by that little fishin’ hole. But the deep recesses of my brain must’ve recognized that something wasn’t quite...
On a chilly day, what better way to warm your heart than with some roadside Americana? I present to you… Balancing Yugos. Pretty nifty, aren’t they? When I was a teenager, I worked in a...
This morning when I saw the Daily Page prompt: What’s the quirkiest thing about you? I had to smirk. Personally, I don’t think I’m exceptionally quirky but then, who does? It’s other people who...
The World’s Largest Bottle of Ketchup is a roadside icon! When I pulled into the parking lot below the world’s largest ketchup bottle there was a man talking on his cellphone. I snapped a...
Does anyone ever wake up in the morning, rub the sleep from their eyes, stretch and think… “I bet I’ll see Bigfoot today”? I’ve got 5-bucks on probably not. But that’s the funny thing about...
There was a time when visiting the Bedford Coffee Pot was one of those things that just nagged and nagged me. Way over on the western half of Pennsylvania, it seemed lightyears away. In truth it...
At first glance, you might think that the Uniontown, Pennsylvania muffler man is your run of the mill handsome Bunyan. But, upon closer inspection? Oh, no, he is not. Check out the come hither...
Tucked within the “stick” of West Virginia, that wee sliver of land between Pennsylvania and Ohio is the town of Chester. Why is this important? Well, pally – Chester is the home of the World’s...