Comments on: Viva la Gem State

By: Megan Okimoto

Megan Okimoto — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:34:03 +0000

If it’s anything like the Natural Bridge in Virginia, it’s probably pretty amazing.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:25:34 +0000

Rebekah, thank you for the good reading! You are very talented at creating word pictures and bringing laughs to my day.

I can thoroughly sympathize with repeatedly driving by the signs and wondering whether it’s really worth stopping to see what it’s all about. There’s a “Natural Bridge” somewhere between Knoxville and Wheaton that I’ll finally have to visit sometime, but who knows what it actually is or how far it is off the interstate. I’ve fogotten all the “interesting” places we must pass between Knoxville and Kansas.

Missy, your story’s great too!

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:44:23 +0000

This is so enjoyable to read. And although you may feel you wasted time, think of all the time you would have wasted just daydreaming about WHAT that Historic Site could have offered, had you not gone.

Unlike me, who still wonders what “MYSTERY SPOT AHEAD” holds for those adventurous enough to visit, in Michigan’s U.P. It promised “WORLD FAMOUS, MILLION VISITORS, FUN, FUN, FUN”, but we just kept on driving.

By: loisn

loisn — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:41:34 +0000

Bekah, You should write for a sit-com. Thanks for another ‘laugh til you cry’. BTW there is a funny sitcom on WGN called “Corner Gas”. Y’all may want to check it out sometime. Cheers!

By: Brittany Martin

Brittany Martin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:55:52 +0000

Thank you for checking that out, Bekah! During my numerous Moscow to Boise and back pilgrimages I had always wondered what that was. Of course, it sounded cool, but cool enough to take a 10-mile detour across gravel roads? Boy am I now glad I never ventured out during that one time in a blizzard…

Of course our family’s homestead is only a few miles away from that sight, which although it’s deserted now, holds a little more historical significance for me!

By: Valerie (Kyriosity)

Valerie (Kyriosity) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:15:33 +0000

An object lesson in the futility of political correctness!

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:14:39 +0000

There is some great truth in there about how our government works, but I’m too foggy this morning to pin it down. I’m going to be laughing about that all day – what a story!

By: Mandi

Mandi — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:46:00 +0000

Ha! I love all our historical markers. They kill me…

By: Missy

Missy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:02:30 +0000

My husband laughed all through breakfast over this.
Something faintly similar happened with us just north, maybe a bit west?, of the Grand Canyon. We were zipping past all these tantalizing historical markers, and I finally persuaded my husband to stop so we could all be enlightened.
He pulled over and the marker told us that somewhere out on the horizon some Spaniards had traded with some native Americans and there had been a brown horse involved which was depicted in the diary of the Spaniard.
Our six year old daughter at the time said, “maybe the rest of it is carved on the back.” But the back was of course bolted to a post, so we’ll never know.
Now whenever we come upon such a marker, Jon winks at me and asks if I want to stop…

By: Franci

Franci — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:33:25 +0000

Hang on, I should clarify that. I love NZ and all that, but sometimes we tend to make a big deal over nothing (like your fish example). Though I have to add that I don’t think they’ll ever allow the backfilling of a cave! I think the Maori must be a lot more vocal about such things than the Nez Perce people.