Tat’s Bizarre Travels

Uniontown, PA - I’m really beginning to dig the muffler men. They’re an easy attraction to spot, which is just fantastic. All you have to do is turn a bend that there they are, larger than life and with a steely grin. This time the muffler man I sought stood guard at a tire store. Seems kinka apropos…too bad they weren’t a muffler shop.

The Paul Bunyan style giant hangs out in front of Import Export Tire and is dressed in a burly red and blue. It doesn’t appear to phase the tire guys that there’s somebody outside snapping pictures, they just continue on with their work. I don’t think they’re rude, just used to it. I imagine they get that everyday.

The best part of the tire shop is the sign above the office door:

The Men Who Know Tires Best

I’m fairly certain that the muffler man knows tires best of all.

CHESTER, WV - At first I wasn’t going to post about Blue Lake. I was so disappointed in the experience. But after some thought I decided my righteous indignation needed an outlet, so here it is.

Okay, this is going to be a bit more indignation than righteous considering what gives the lake that lovely blue glow you see in the Google snapshot is due to chemical runoff, and chemical runoff is never righteous.

So, I wandered down to Chester, WV primarily to see the Blue Lake because I had heard so much about it. I even work with a kid who lives just across the state line and he insisted that that it’s chemically induced liquid was truly majestic. He also said that going at night was the best, it’s when you see the lake glowing.

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