Episode LXXXV: Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving 2010 means my fifth annual Thanksgiving Road Trip. Seeing as how this should be my last such trip, I am reflecting on where Thanksgiving has taken me in the past: first it was Oklahoma, to see the world's largest praying hand sculpture , then Dallas, Texas the second year. Year three I adopted two co-pilots (Rafael & father) and went to Branson, Missouri for the most Christmas-y Thanksgiving ever. Year four was a trip down to Nahleans for some warmth, and this year we made up for that by going to bitterly-cold Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. We left Wednesday for Omaha, where we encountered our first bison sculpture: This turned out to be a theme of the trip, encountering homages to bison everywhere we went. It was as if the bison was the official state animal of Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming (actually it is the state animal of Wyoming, which is the only state where we came across live bison- in the middle of a highway no less! [real bison not pictured]) (...