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Oddities in Rockport, Texas

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Here are a few of the weird, wacky, and wonderful oddities found in and around Rockport, Texas.

A Big Tree? So big it gets a sign of it’s own? This is Texas – the tree must be really big!

Huh. Somehow I thought it would be bigger. (That’s what she said.)

Maybe it’s the angle? (That’s what he said.) Let’s try another view… (Baby, get closer to it…)

Nope, it’s not the angle. I mean, yes it is a ‘big tree’, but worthy of a sign and a fence? I don’t know.

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“The Thing” in Dragoon, Arizona? It’s a dead thing.

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First, Tombstones in Tombstone and now a Dead Thing in Dragoon. (SPOILER ALERT: If you plan to see “The Thing?”, as advertised on the many signs along Highway 10 in Arizona, don’t read any further. They make an effort to keep The Thing? a secret until you get inside the … But, wait! There’s more…

From the Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge to the Bridge to Nowhere, and shaking your dates in between.

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The Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge was the only way to go coast to coast back in the day. The Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Bridge has spanned the Colorado River in Yuma, Arizona since 1915. If you were heading from coast to coast at that time, the Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge was the only place to cross … But, wait! There’s more…

Flying saucers, people living in a giant golf ball, praying to the God of Golf, and giant animal statues. Also? Beware of donkeys.

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A bit of randomness from western Arizona… The infamous Area 51 is in Arizona, a state where many people claim to have seen UFOs. I’ve met some of them. The people, not the UFOs. One told me there is a local support group for alien abductees. Huh? (I looked, but … But, wait! There’s more…

Birthplace of Route 66, the Mother Road. And I saw Pandora’s Box in the men’s room.

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Seligman, Arizona, a small rural town, is known as the birthplace of Route 66. It’s full of Route 66 memorabilia. Along with a few themed restaurants and shops, there is the old Territorial Jail House from 1860. At one time it housed notorious outlaws such as Seligman Slim, Four-fingered Frank, … But, wait! There’s more…