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What is Twine Tour? Have you ever been to a new city and asked the concierge at the hotel what is interesting to see in town and then been directed to a Planet Hollywood. Does that make you sick? Does it freak you out that the shopping mall down your street is identical to one 3,000 miles away?
Then welcome to Twine Tour. Our mission: to search out and report on what is still unique different in this strip mall society that we live in.
A trip to Georgia should be a trip to Georgia and it should be wholly different than a trip to Connecticut, which should be different than visiting California. This is the Twine Tour mentality. Welcome brothers and sisters.
Well, why not? In 1999 I was 28 years old, not getting any younger and had never leisurely driven across the country. If I waited to do this any longer it wouldn't be a crazy youthful lark, no friends, it would be a mid life crisis (and then I'd have to do the trip on a motor scooter). John Dicker & I (David Melito) decided to pack our bags, jump into my '95 Saturn SL-1 and hit the road in search of the strangest road side attractions we could find.
Is there a point in traveling 10,000 miles to see the World's Largest Ball Of Twine? Is there really a reason to visit a 24' talking concrete penguin? Was it worth almost getting killed in a blizzard in order to view 4 gigantic metal sculptures in the middle of a highway 50 miles from nowhere?
The answer is: YES! YES! YES! SWEET MERCIFUL GOD YES. This was, in short, the best trip ever.