"Just five different blue-ribbon trout fishing rivers within a 30-minute drive," according to Mr. Leavens, who bought a tired roadside motel a decade ago and remodeled the six cabins and built a restaurant.
The story goes that in 2002 the owners of a now-defunct convenience-souvenir store at the highway interchange wanted to attract customers, so they built the roadside attraction in parody of the classic Cadillac Ranch.
Members of Congress are carefully watching to see how the Pentagon deals with the MRAP troop carriers in Afghanistan, part of a $45 billion urgent effort to build a fleet of armored transports to deflect lethal roadside bombs.
Built in 1948 as a roadside attraction, it almost disappeared, but was luckily purchased by a couple who have been slowly restoring the three-acre miniature world built from mortar and stone.
WHAT -- 4-bedroom house HOW MUCH -- $199,000 Midway between Albany and Syracuse, this house was built in 1790 as a roadside inn.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 — The Bush administration plans to increase its 2008 financing request for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by almost $50 billion, with about a quarter of the additional money going toward armored trucks built to withstand roadside bombs, Pentagon officials said Saturday.
An American Avocet as well as Piping Plover are large statues built by the roadside commemorating the world famous bird sanctuary at Chaplin, Saskatchewan.
Outside Tawang's district headquarters a roadside memorial, built in the local Buddhist style, commemorates these dead.
A court has served a Hindu god with a summons for illegally encroaching on government land in eastern India after a roadside temple was built in his honour, officials have said.
In August 1994 there were strong monsoon winds and Kuldip, my middle son, who was living with me, went to check on his new venture – a roadside restaurant being built near our house.
