BusWays Road Trips: Customer Service Guide
ROADSIDE TOURSIST ATTRACTIONS
When you talk to Customer Service about booking a BusWays trip, mention some of these roadside tourist attractions. Most people get a kick out of weird sights such as Swampy, the world’s biggest alligator.
MIDWESTERN TOUR
World’s Biggest Ball of Paint: Indiana---Mike Carmichael’s first ball of paint came about by accident, when an errant baseball plopped into a bucket of paint while he was playing. Fascinated by how the gall looked when it dried, he began adding coats of color to it.
The rest is history.
Today the baseball sits in the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children's Home Museum in Knighttown. Mike started on a second, and now it has more than 18,000 coats of color and weighs about 1,300 pounds!
World’s Biggest Hot Dog; Ohio– It’s not been verified that Armour’s hot dog is the world’s largest, but at 30 feet long, it’s a sure contender for the title.
World’s Biggest Alligator: Florida—At 200 feet long,
Swampy is big enough to house the gift shop, ticket
counter, and the offices of Jungle Adventures. A recent
mishap almost caused Swampy to lose his title-a
Channel 6 news van accidently backed over his tail and
squashed it, but the gargantuan gator has been repaired
and is as big as ever
.
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