Obviously, there were a million other reasons, but that was, legit, one of them.
My parents and my sister went in 1963 before I was born. And they also visited the very cool Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. On that 2011 trip, so did I and took a picture of the bizarre structure from the exact corner my dad had done 48 years earlier.
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Another landmark they visited before I got here was the Natural Bridge on the other side of Lexington in Slade, Kentucky. I ve seen those slides so many times and yet I ve never gone. And I don t have a really good reason, I guess. It s not like Slade, Kentucky is Tibet. But I ve never been, nonetheless.