A Bucket Full Of Lists

Some time ago, a publication I receive – one dedicated to camping and recreational vehicles – invited me, and any other subscriber with internet access, to participate in a survey.  Now they say those results have been compiled and can be seen (for a price) in a new book they’re publishing. 

I’m not going to recommend it; I won’t even buy it.  I will tell you that it is a book listing the top 100 in a wide variety of categories, most of them having at least something to do with travel.

For example, the article promoting the book lists the Top Five from several of the lists. 

The Five Best Travelling Songs:

On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)

Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)

Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf)

Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)

King of the Road (Roger Miller)

And the Top Five Movies Featuring RV’s:

RV (2006)

Lost in America (1985)

The Long, Long Trailer (1953)

Independence Day (1996)

Stripes (1981)

They also list the Country’s Most Scenic Drives:

Big Sur Coast Highway (Hwy 1, California)

San Juan Skyway (Hwy 550/145/62, Colorado)

Blue Ridge Parkway (Virginia/North Carolina)

Columbia River Highway (Hwy 84, Oregon)

Beartooth Highway (Hwy 212, Wyoming/Montana)

And the Five Best Small Town Slogans:

Hooker, Okla.: It’s a location, not a vocation

Linesville, Pa.: Where the ducks walk on the fish

Jewell, Iowa: A gem in a friendly setting

Livonia, N.Y.: Some bigger, none better (How did that one make the top five?)

Gettysburg, S.D.: Where the battle wasn’t

They cheated a bit on their list of the Five Quirkiest Museums. 

They listed the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (Minneapolis, Minn.) which hasn’t existed for years.  Its founder and curator Bob McCoy died last May.

They  listed the Barbed Wire Museum (La Crosse, Kan.) while ignoring the other barbed wire museum  on Route 66 in McLean, Texas.

They rounded out the top Five with

Museum of Bad Art (Dedham, Mass.)

Frog Fantasies Museum (Eureka Springs, Ark.)

And a local favorite,  a former customer of mine,

National Museum of Funeral History (Houston)