Why is it that every small town in America is required to have a water tower? Specifically a water tower with "Welcome to [insert town name here], [insert kitschy pointless town fact here]" printed on it in large block letters. For instance "Welcome to Metropolis, IL, home of Superman" (with a large picture of superman painted on). Why do no large cities have decorative water towers? Don't they need water too? Why don't I see "Welcome to Atlanta. If you can read this, you haven't been gunned down yet" or "Welcome to East St. Louis, Bling Bling!"

Some other observations from the road:

-The city of Atlanta has the most traffic, but St. Louis definitely wins the award for most dangerous highways. That intersection right before the bridge where every highway in the midwest merges together then comes out on the opposite side so that every car has to cross 5 lanes of traffic to get where they're going is absolutely brutal.

-Is there anyone with a southern accent who sounds intelligent?

-Is every town in the country the something capital of the world? Do they really need to advertise this fact on their water towers?

-Does anyone actually see the sign for "National Quilt Museum" and think, "wow, I really don't actually want to get where I'm going, I'm going to stop here for awhile."?

It's a crazy world we live in, one you can only see from the road during an 18 hour marathon.