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Originally Posted by WiltsAKGirl17

I'm about to go on Spring Break (we have break early for some odd reason), so I'm putting out the list of the states I have left and what I have planned for each one (sort of-- I want it all to be a surprise) and I'll work on collecting pics over break, since that's the most time-consuming part of the project:

• North Dakota?need help
• Ohio?covered
• Oklahoma?need help
• Oregon?need help
• Pennsylvania?covered
• Rhode Island?need help
• South Carolina?covered. Trust me?I got this one covered
• South Dakota?semi-covered; I?m very opened to suggestions here
• Tennessee?semi-covered; again, opened to suggestions
• Texas?need help
• Utah?need help
• Vermont?need help
• Virginia?need help
• Washington?Covered
• West Virginia?need help
• Wisconsin?covered, but open to suggestions
• Wyoming?need help
• Washington DC?covered

I'd very greatly appreciate he help here. Thank you all so much for the ideas and for sticking with me this long!
~ WAKG17

Marmath is the "Dinosaur Capital of North Dakota", where many important fossil finds have been discovered, including some of the most-intact Tyranasaurus rex skeletons. There is a Dakota Dinosaur Museum in Dickenson. There's also a lot of Native American sites.

Oklahoma also has a lot of Native American sites and activities, and the National Wrestling Museum and Hall of Fame is located in Stillwater. They also have an awful lot of tornadoes.

Oregon has Crater Lake National Monument; the capital, Portland, is the birthplace of the U-Haul. There's a town called Aloha, which has a statue of an Imaginary Friend, "Harvey the Rabbit", a sort of "relative" of Mr. Herriman. There is the infamous "Oregon Vortex" near Gold Hill, where gravity seems to work backwards, and water flows UPhill, and there's even a town called "Boring", though I'd bet once Bloo showed up, it would be anything BUT!

Rhode Island has even ME stumped; I know there is an Art Museum in Newport because they keep sending me field trip stuff, and there is a bunch of Colonial era buildings and sites, and old light houses, but that's it.

South Dakota-Hopefully this will involve lots of Harleys and a town called Sturgis, or I will be disappointed!

Tennessee-Dollywood, Memphis and Beale Street Blues and the Peabody Hotel, and of course, Graceland; Nashville, the Country Music Capital of the World and the Grand Ole' Opry

Texas-the Alamo(who would NOT appreciate Bloo's impersonation of Ozzy Osbourne, lol), San Antonio's massive bat population, which lives under a bridge, Big Bend National Park, Houston and NASA(Mac would SO be geeking out over that), and my favorite thing to do, if I'm ever in New Braunfels: http://www.savvycenter.com/explorer/.../snakefarm.htm ! This is the same place that was featured on an episode of "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery Channel, by the way.

Utah-Great Salt Lake, skiing, the beautiful Zion and Bryce Canyons National Parks

Vermont-Vermont Cheddar, as in CHEESE(need I say more?)

Virginia-George Washington's home, Thomas Jefferson's beautiful Monticello, the courthouse at Appomatox, where Gen. Lee surrendered, Chesapeake Bay and its fishing and crab cakes, Arlington National Cemetary and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, lots of Civil War and Revolutionary War sites

West Virginia-coal mines, Point Pleasant, home of the infamous monster, "Mothman", who was featured in the movie, The Mothman Chronicles, Harper's Ferry, where abolitionist John Brown was arrested and hanged for plotting to blow up the US arsenal there, made famous in the song, "John Brown's Body"

Wisconsin-Green Bay, home of crazed football fans who take off their shirts and paint themselves green during games played in sub-zero blizzards; Ed Gein, on whom the movie, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based, was actually from Plainfield, WI, and is buried there, and Paul Bunyan is supposed to have been from WI; Eu Claire has a famous statue of him and Babe, the Blue Ox.

Wyoming has a museum devoted to the Jackolope, their official mythical creature(Imaginary Friend?), in Thermopolis. Jackson Hole is famous for its scenic mountain beauty and wildlife, including elk and grizzly bears. There are lots of dude ranches for those cowboy types, and most of Yellowstone National Park is actually in Wyoming.

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