Dino Diorama
Today’s Roadside America is called Steel Dinosaurs and is just inside the New Jersey border from Pennsylvania in Phillipsburg. Miss Google directed me down this sketchy road into an industrial park and into the side yard through a half-opened gate. I could see my prey on a nicely manicured lawn. There was a “life-size” brontosaurus with a T-Rex, mouth open, coming at the bronto from behind. There was also a time traveling caveman looking back at the T-Rex to the side of the brontosaurus.
When I got out of the car, I noticed a couple of dogs coming my way, neither in a menacing way. One came about 50 yards away and stopped, just kind of watched me. The other came a bit closer and was barking, but he seemed like he just liked the sound. Roadside America said there were 3 dinosaurs, but there were only two. Surely they weren’t counting the Neanderthal-like figure. I exited via a slightly different side of the field, and there, right behind a fully closed gate, was the 3rd, a brightly colored stegosaurus.
Up until Asheville, NC, where I got tricked into being on one for 3-5 miles, I had never been on an interstate highway. Until today, because here in the Northeast it becomes nearly impossible to not take one, so I spent a significant time on the Eisenhower Interstate System. To sum up how I feel about interstates, at one time I created a bumper sticker and sold it on CafePress that read “INTERSTATES SUCK!”