My circuitous route into the Sandhills left me with few choices for the night and I wound up at a ridiculously over-priced Holiday Inn Express in Alliance. Alliance has become a major transportation hub, what with all those coal trains getting re-shuffled, re-crewed, and re-dispatched.
But the real transportation hub in Alliance is a few miles north and best seen as the June sun is rising in the eastern sky. Carhenge is a testament to the american worship of cars and of idiosyncratic roadside attractions (Cadillac Ranch, in Texas, is another fine example). It's also for sale, so if you want to mow the grass around the sculptures and restore the souvenir shop at America's Second Wackiest Attraction (TripAdvisor), this your chance.
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