To amuse myself when it rains (and when I can wrest connectivity from the kids), I’ve been looking for interesting places to visit on our trip back home. The Roadside America link that Alice Yucht wrote about in a comment here has been extremely helpful in finding the most unusual spots.
I also just finished reading the amazing book American Gods by Neil Gaiman, in which the roadside attraction House on the Rock in Wisconsin figures prominently. I was delighted to find that it’s not out of our way, so that’s a definite stop on the tour. We’ll also be making stops at the Corn Palace in South Dakota, and the Spam Museum in Minnesota. While in Minnesota we’ll also pay a visit to the Mall of America.
That’s in addition to the national parks and monuments we’ve already tagged for visits…North Cascades NP on our way out of the state, followed by Yellowstone NP , Mount Rushmore, Wind Cave NP, and Badlands NP. Alex will get new stamps for his passport, and we’ll get to see some beautiful areas that none of us have visited before.
I suspect that I’ll be in less of a funk when we’re moving than I am here—it won’t feel so much like we’re pretending to be at home while we’re on the road.
If TypeKey (and TypePad!) had to go down for several hours, it would have been nice if it was’t during the one block of time I’d set aside this week for downloading current versions of MovableType to upgrade my various course weblog servers.
The lack of information provided on the status site is frustrating, as are the inaccurate promises (at 3pm, there’s still a note from 1:30pm saying it should be up within the hour).
Come on, SixApart. If you want people to buy into your centralized authentication (and blogging) services, you can’t have outages of four or more hours at a time.
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