Category: (ODD)yssey

Sweetums is 6-foot-7 so when we were driving through Alton, Illinois, home of the World’s Tallest Man, we had no choice but to stop and see how Sweetums’ measured up. Robert Pershing Wadlow was born in Alton on February 22, 1918, and lived there until his death on July 15, 1940, at just 22 years… Continue reading How tall was the World’s Tallest Man? And how does Sweetums measure up?

Sweetums and I love beautiful cemetery monuments. We walk through at least one cemetery on every road trip to see if we can find hidden works of art or interesting epitaphs. Here are a few of our many, many favorites. Napoleon's Tomb replica, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville TN Vernon King Stevenson, a railroad magnate and founder… Continue reading 7 of the south’s most photographed cemetery monuments