Find This Place -- Northeast

Somewhere in western Massachusetts, close by to the post below (that was a hint) is a great place to tire out the kids, and shoot panorama photos of three states.
As always, If you email me with the location of this mystery spot, I'll send you a custom FamilyRoadTrippers barf bag!

Find This Place: Mississippi!

The ongoing Family Road Trippers geographical scavenger hunt!

Find this ruin somewhere in Mississippi. A little off the beaten path, but near the Mississippi River.

As always, if you can identify this place, we'll send you a free barf bag!

This Gas Staion "Doesn't Have a Bathroom"

View Gas Stations that won't let kids use the bathroom in a larger map

Gas stations that won't let little kids use the bathroom have always irritated me. Especially after I fill up the tank with $45 worth of gas. It just seems like a basic hospitality issue.

"Restrooms are for customers only" is fine. But after you fill the tank, and unstrap your three year old from the kid seat, and they walk in having to pee really bad and the man (or lady as in the most recent case) says something like "No, we don't have a bathroom." Right. Like the employees pee out back. Can't they just let one little girl pee?

That bothers me.

Doesn't it always work out that when one tank is empty, the other is full? So it seems like common decency that "service" providers recognize this and accommodate their customers with full-service. Please let us pee!

We at Familyroadtrippers.com have started a Google map of these types of gas stations. I think anyone can contribute to the map (at least I checked a box that seemed to allow it), let's, as a family of family travelers, revolt against these un-feeling hoarders of relief. It's in the name of our kids, not us; heck, we can hold it, right? At least till we get out back.


So here's the first entry on the map of shame: Mort's Grocery in Spofford, New Hampshire:


If you're unable to add to this map, add your stations of shame to the comments section, and I'll add them to the map.

Barf Bag from Family Road Trippers

Name the place in the Find this Place posts and you can win a custom made barf bag from FamilyRoadTrippers. They're sure to become collector's items.

If you'd like to win a custom Ralf Pack, just identify the location of one of the Find This Place photos. Stephen, from airsicknessbags.com, asked for a sample barf bag even though he didn't know where the monster rock is, nor did he even vote in any of my polls at left. I'm sending the bag in the photo at right to Steve for his collection, but I'm a little disappointed that he couldn't find the answer. After all, it's somewhere on this blog.

And I must say, I'm a little disappointed in Steve and the other viewers of this blog for not voting in the polls. About 10 - 20 people visit each day and only 5 have voted in two of the polls and eight voted in another. I even added the first poll as an ice-breaker...


Please vote early and often!

Find This Place! Deep South

The ongoing Family Road Trippers geographical scavenger hunt!

Find this ruin somewhere in the deep south, either Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana. A little off the beaten path, but near the alma matter of "Air McNair".

As always, if you can identify this place, we'll send you a free barf bag!

(Please don't play too closely to the columns -- they may fall over)

Find This Place! New England

The Family Road Trippers Scavenger Hunt! (Part 1)

This cattle pen is somewhere in New England. It was build in 1828 for $28.

The granite river rock walls are seven feet tall and 2-1/2 feet thick at the base. The circumference is 40 feet.

If you can find this place, email us a photo o0f your family standing in front of it and we'll mail you an official Family Road Tripper Barf Bag!