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Hot Wheels display at the Petersen. Yes, they're mounted on that awesome orange plastic track! Of course, Los Angeles is a car-guy’s paradise. The weather’s friendly to old vehicles, and there are twisty mountain roads and speedy freeways and slow-n-low cruising spots within an hour of one another. The streets are filled with equal numbers [...] Venturing outside of Las Vegas’ environs, you’ll find a lot of boring suburbs and a lot of desert. The glamorous inner city seems to have pushed all of the normal working parts of the city–fast-food restaurants, real-world retail, industrial complexes and housing–out into a wide halo of sprawl, and beyond that there’s naught but desert. The historic part of downtown Rapid City is home to one obvious sight, and two you’ll have to go looking for. As soon as you enter downtown, with its strip of antique stores and coffee shops lining Main and St. Joseph streets, you’ll see the “City of Presidents” exhibit, or at least some of it. Life-size [...] The twin cities of Deadwood and Lead (pronounced like the verb, not the element) are about seventy miles from Custer. Deadwood has a rowdy history (you’ve seen the HBO series, right?), and these days it’s heavy on the casino-and-tourist-trap side. This surprisingly small city is tucked away in the Black Hills, and if you blink [...] Our first stop was the big one, of course: Mt. Rushmore. Rushmore is one of those tourist attractions that somehow doesn’t seem real, because it’s so frequently featured in movies. It’s got the same sense of quiet unreality that visiting, say, the Death Star might have. We kept having to tap ourselves on the shoulder [...] Past trips to Chicago have been rush-in, rush-out affairs for me; this year we took the opportunity to spend a bit of extra time in town. If you visit on the right day you can sign up for a ride in a Tatra, a Citroen 2CV, or whatever the museum staff feels like having out that day. |
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