Every year, I publish a list of things I want to do and places I want to see before I cease to exist. The list continues to grow and I continue to sit and wish that I could be there. Here’s a bunch of weird random trips/museums that I would like to visit to add to that list:
1. I want to rent/lease/purchase/mod an R.V. and take a few summer long astrophysics trips with my son (when he’s old enough to care) and visit a bunch of the observatories, Space Centers, and astronomy exhibits:
U.S. Naval Observatory (Washington, D.C.,)
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA),
Goddard Institute of Space (New York)
Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL)
Stennis Space Center (Pearlington, MS)
Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
White Sands Test Facility (Cruces, NM)
Herrett (Twin Falls, ID)
Kitt Peak (Tucson, AZ)
Sierra Nevada Observatory (Sierra, NV)
Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles, CA)
Chabot Space and Science Center (Oakland, CA)
Monterey Observatory (Monterey, CA)
Palomar (Palomar Mountain, CA)
Mauna Kea Observatory (Big Island, HI)
2. The SPAM Museum (Austin, MN.) Man, I remember this stuff being really really big when we were in Hawaii. My Mom, Aunties, and Uncles get so stoked about canned luncheon meat/heart-attack-in-a-can.
3. The PEZ Memorabilia Museum (Decatur, AL) I LOVE Vintage and modern Pez dispensers, although I could never afford to collect them. I’d love to make the homage to the Pez museum. Maybe it’ll help me quit smoking…. At least that’s what the original marketing plan for pez was.
4. The Barbed Wire Museum (McLean, TX) otherwise known as The Devil’s Rope Museum because it’s random.
5. The Sixth Floor Museum (Dallas, TX) For obvious historical reasons (It’s Laden with JFK History)
6. The Museum of Bad Art (Boston, MA) I’ve seen pictures of work from here and this museum has to be full of hilarious art work. I wanna hang some of my idiotically conceptualized artwork here (Is there a digital media exhibit?)
7. The Ventriloquist Museum (Fort Mitchell, KY) Remember that Goosebumps book about the ventriloquist dummy (Night of the Living Dummy)? I’m sure this museum would be both creepy and hysterically funny to walk through. Add a little Jeff Dunham and I’d quit my job to be there.
8. The San Diego Automotive Museum – Mainly for the MotoX exhibit.
Can’t wait until next year so I can take some time off work.
