A combination truck stop/RV park/and campgrounds in Arizona is so big it has its own zip code.

In Nevada, great big busses haul you out to your job in the gold mines in the morning and bring you back home again at night.

 

 

 

When Brigham Young helped himself to Utah, he picked up one beautiful piece of real estate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

America is at her beautiful best the second week of June.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most interesting rock formation in the country is at Vedauwoo between Cheyenne and Laramie Wyoming. Go see for yourself.


 

 

 

 

That big volcanic ash valley in Idaho is potato paradise.

 

 

 

The Buckaroo is alive and well, stylin' it mostly in Nevada, Idaho and Eastern Oregon.

 

 

 

At Yuma, Arizona where the temperature reaches 120 degrees, you can visit the old territorial prison know as "The Hell Hole." Did anybody bring marshmallows?

In Washington Park in Laramie, Wyoming the big 4th of July celebration is called "Freedom has a birthday."

 

Once a year, the hundreds of members of the Studebaker Drivers International Club gather for a car show at South Bend, Indiana where Studebakers were built.

 

 

 

 

 

Near Alliance, Nebraska, is a display of individual, separate vehicles arranged sitting up on end called "Carhenge."

Photo: Layne Kennedy

 

The Amish people of America get up very early.

 

 

 

In east Texas, if you don't drive a tall, shiny pickup truck, you ain't nobody.

 

 

 

 

The Mexican people have effectively repossessed the Southwest United States. [Since it was stolen from them in the first place, it must feel real good.]

Every American you’ve ever heard of has a street or highway named after them somewhere.

 

 

All the Saints in Heaven have a town or river named after them in the southwestern U.S.

New Mexico has decided it wants to be known as the heebie jeebie state.

 

 

 

 

If you ever meet someone who was born and raised in Indiana, be sure to ask them what a "Hoosier" is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only place you can escape slot machines in Nevada is in the rest room. They're probably next.

 

 

 

 

Indians on the "Big Rez" in the Four Corners can walk further in a morning than most Americans do all year.

 

Not all bicycle riders should wear those shiny, tight spandex shorts.

Americans are overweight from sea to shining sea.

 

 

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