[HN Gopher] Cadillac Ranch over 50 years is 'both interesting an...
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       Cadillac Ranch over 50 years is 'both interesting and odd' to Ant
       Farm artist
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-10-29 05:03 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | Cadillac Ranch is (I think?) pretty well known. Nonetheless,
       | these are the kind of road-side attractions I sought when I
       | started gently introducing my kids to long road trips when they
       | were young.
       | 
       | Our home base being the Bay Area, we never made it as far as
       | Texas in our minivan. Nonetheless, using an app like "Roadside
       | America", we checked off all manner of quirky things on our week-
       | long drives around the western U.S.
       | 
       | As a kid, road tripping to "historical places", like the site of
       | the Battle of Little Bighorn for example, made little impression
       | on me. Life-size dinosaurs you could run around were more
       | interesting. That's one reason I sought these roadside
       | attractions out when I had kids of my own.
       | 
       | But more generally, I took the kids on road trips because I had
       | hoped it might inspire, like it seems to have done for me,
       | something of the _breadth_ of the world. And even so we were not
       | even traversing half of the U.S. And I suppose these quirky
       | exhibits added something about the breadth of people 's ...
       | creativity?
       | 
       | Tangent: lesser known, but similar to the Cadillac Ranch is
       | Nebraska's _Carhenge_.
        
         | Loughla wrote:
         | We did the same with our kids. Road trips are cheap vacations
         | and having chosen to work in education, that was important to
         | my spouse and I.
         | 
         | It's also an AMAZING way to really get to know your kids when
         | they're getting older. Teens pull away, so being trapped
         | together for a week or two _in places where it doesn 't matter
         | if they're cool or not_ is nice.
         | 
         | That was some years ago, so maybe it's different now that
         | you're probably being filmed everywhere if you do anything
         | goofy.
        
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