Notes from the Road, #3

Giant roadside things we saw between Columbus and Boise:

A giant cross, in front of a church.

A giant candle, by a candle shop.

A giant hand holding a giant wrench, God only knows where, my notes aren't that good.

A giant coffeepot, advertising Sapp Bros. gas station and diner.

A giant Virgin Mary, surrounded by smaller religious statues. Again, God only knows where, although he or she is probably more attuned to this one than to the giant wrench. I can tell you, though, there wasn't a church in sight.

A giant white tepee. It had smaller, one level wooden structures on each side. It was somebody's home. How does that happen? When you're contemplating building a new home, at what point does giant tepee seem like a good idea?

A giant Abraham Lincoln head on top of a tall stone monument at a roadside rest. I-80 is known as the Lincoln Highway. The monument was originally built to honor Henry Joy, one of the driving forces (ba dum dum) behind the Lincoln Highway. It was built on some family property, but nobody much saw it there and those who did vandalized it, so the Joy family thought it would be a good idea to move it.

To a rest stop.

I think that family perhaps lives in a giant white tepee.

I nicknamed the monument Lincoln Jesus, God only knows why.