I've been toying with the idea of creating a public blog for a little while now, so I figured I'd finally give it a shot. Worse case, I never update and it gets deleted... or I get freaked out by the fact that this is public so I dance around every subject a write about leaving the entry completely cryptic and everyone who reads it completely confused and thinking I'm nuts.

I don't really have anything to talk about so today is random thought day. 

I don't understand why people go to visit places like Mount Rushmore and the Hoover Dam. As far as I'm concerned, you see a picture of it, you get it. They're manmade and ugly. Why spend the money to go see them life-sized? So you can say "oh, that's kinda cool" and then leave? Maybe it's just me, but my idea of a vacation is not going to look at some giant hunk of concrete wedged between two walls of rock. I'll admit, Mount Rushmore is a tribute to some of the country's greatest presidents and it's pretty nuts that someone could make it. But you look at it once and that's it! You've got the full effect. People used to go see the Man in the Mountain in New Hampshire and look what happened to that. Yeah, erosion is a bitch. 

Why are the Washington Monument and the Bunker Hill Monument the same thing? When we went to DC in the 8th grade to go see that, I was like "what the hell? I could have stayed in Boston to see that!" But I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. I was in government nerd heaven, even if that portion of the trip was deja-vous. 

Has anyone guessed that I'm watching the Travel Channel yet?