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The Polk County Safety Rest Area on US-59, about 100 miles from where I started in Sugar Land, is a pretty nice spot, renovated in 2007. This is a mosaic of one of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians who once inhabited East and Central Texas.
A rest area sculpture on Route 89 in Vermont.
There is a story to these sculptures, I just don't know it yet. Or know all of it. I found a picture of one of them online with this caption:
"One of 18 sculptures designed and fabricated during the International Sculpture Symposium held in Vermont in 1968 and 1971. Matching grant funding was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts."
From another source I learned the sculpture symposiums were organized by a much-loved and now deceased UVM professor. The sculptors came from all over the world, and the output was set at rest areas on Routes 89 and 91.
Arizona built a rest area on I-40 around a couple of piles of odd red rock with lots of pits and odd breaks to please the eye.
This chair was secured to the tree, there is an actual sign on the right side of the tree, but I didn't see it until I drove on by. This was taken on old ST RD 135. It is a very narrow road going up the side of big hill and there's a drop off behind the trees. So, even though there was nobody else was on the road, I thought it best to not try and get one of the "REST AREA" sign.
Reads:
"HISTORIC NEW YORK
SCHROON LAKE
Schroon Lake, approximately nine miles long with a maximum width of 1 1/2 miles, was formed by glacial rubble damming an ancient valley. The lake is a wide part of the Schroon River which flows from the Adirondacks to join the Hudson at Warrensburg. The name's origin is hidden in local legends. Several attribute it to Indian words, and one claims it was inspired by Madam Scarron, a beautiful young French widow, who became the wife of Louis XIV.
Settlers from New England came into the mountain-rimmed region in 1797. Impressed by the grandeur of massive pine trees, they thought it "a most wonderful lumbering country." Log drivers originated on the Schroon River in 1813, and great stands of timber were floated down the Schroon and Hudson to mills at Glens Falls and Hudson Falls. Local mills and tanneries exploited the vast forest. Lumbering reached its peak in the 1870's. Iron works used mountain ores.
The "semi-wilderness" was a popular vacation retreat in the 19th century. Visitors traveled by railroad, stagecoach, and steamboat to stay at spacious hostelries near the lake shore. Mountains, lakes, and ponds still make the Schroon Lake regin a paradise for pleasure-seekers."
Small print:
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
STATE OF NEW YORK 1967
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
leaving aside the novelty of an entire vending machine devoted to ice cream (in illinois, no less! i would -- and will -- expect that kind of thing in tokyo, but not here), the method of delivery is pretty rad. that vertical thing in the center is a vacuum tube that suctions your ice cream of choice and moves it over into the retrieval slot. i wish i'd had some cash.
also note that i said i WILL be expecting to see this kind of thing in tokyo. the purpose of the road trip was to meet up with the other two guys who are going with me and bryan to tokyo in october, and to reserve the hotels.
A rest area sculpture on Route 89 in Vermont.
There is a story to these sculptures, I just don't know it yet. Or know all of it. I found a picture of one of them online with this caption:
"One of 18 sculptures designed and fabricated during the International Sculpture Symposium held in Vermont in 1968 and 1971. Matching grant funding was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts."
From another source I learned the sculpture symposiums were organized by a much-loved and now deceased UVM professor. The sculptors came from all over the world, and the output was set at rest areas on Routes 89 and 91.
In Tennessee.
What's the point here -- that the people you see in those places are flat? Two-dimensional at most?
But, I must say ... it is nice to come across something besides vending machines, picnic tables and signs pointing to the restrooms.
Wesley Chapel, FL- I-75 N Bound at a Rest Area between both Wesley Chapel exits serving the needs of travelers along the Miami to Saulte Ste. Marie interstate.
St. Lucie County, FL- I-95 N Bound encounters a rest area north of Fort Pierce with its exit 3/4 mile ahead.