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Football Rivalry Travel: Heading To Forrest Gump's Alma Mater

October 29, 2009 at 1:04 PM | by kjb | 0 Comments

Professional football has arrived and the World Series is pretty cool, but more importantly for some, college football is going strong. Here’s the scoop on just one of the country’s best rivalries to help your sports travel planning.

· Rivalry Match-Up: LSU at Alabama on November 7
Alabama’s coach used to be the big dog tiger over at LSU, but now he’s calling the plays for the Crimson Tide. Last year he was warmly welcomed with a chorus of boos and name-calling, and we’re pretty much expecting the same thing this year. These two teams have played against each other over seventy times so there’s lots of bad blood. Alabama leads the all time series, but before last year, LSU was cruising with a winning streak.

Stadium Info and tips on where to sleep and party, after the jump.

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Where Unclaimed Baggage Goes to Die (And Live Again)

Where: 509 West Willow Street [map], Scottsboro, AL, United States, 35768
April 28, 2009 at 8:46 AM | by BS | 0 Comments

Ever lose your luggage on a flight and wonder what happens to bags that never get reunited with their woeful owners?

Well, a good deal of it ends up in Scottsboro, Alabama at a massive thrift store called the Unclaimed Baggage Center. UBC buys unclaimed luggage from airlines in bulk, to the tune of 7,000 new items a day (that's a lot of lost bags!) Then everything is sold to the public out of their Alabama warehouse, and we do mean everything. Clothes, cameras, iPods, exotic souvenirs, prescription eyeglasses, and of course the bags themselves.

They've also got a museum where they put aside the stuff found in lost bags that's just too good to sell—for example, a life-size version of the creepy Hoggle puppet from the movie Labyrinth and a slew of 3,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts. Seems like those could have been reunited with their rightful owners, but oh well, finders keepers.

Related Stories:
· Unclaimed Baggage Center [Official Site]
· US Air Eats Luggage For Breakfast [Jaunted]
· Shopping coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: J-Rad]

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Spookiest Small Towns: Zombies on the March in Alabama

Where: 629 Broad St. [map], Gadsden, AL, United States
October 16, 2008 at 3:31 PM | by egw | 1 Comment

They kill for food, and they're coming for us: Zombie parades are the new pirate parties, and the ghouls lurch among the good folk of Gadsden, Alabama on Saturday, October 18.

The Gadsden Public Library takes on larger and better-made-up parades in San Francisco and Helsinki with the 4th Annual Zombie Parade, to be followed by a marathon of zombie movies from the family-friendly ("Fido") to the cutting-edge consumerist critique ("Dawn of the Dead"). Don't go into that mall!

Get your head together before Halloween by devising the perfect costume and amassing at 3:30 pm in the parking lot of the Pitman Theatre, which will spend all the proceeds from the zombieathon on restoration. Ah, small towns: Even their brain-eating is for a good cause.

Related Stories:
· Gadsden Zombie Parade 2008 [MySpace]
· ZombieCon: Now with Microblogging [Jaunted]

[Photo of a Lego zombie uprising: dunechaser]

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Almost as Good as the Playboy Grotto

Where: 1600 St. Bernard Dr. S.E. [map], Cullman, AL, United States, 35055
October 20, 2006 at 9:09 AM | by Zulkey | 2 Comments


If you happen to be passing through the Birgmingham area on your inevitable Alabama road trip and you're looking for amazing roadside attractions, be sure to stop at the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman, AL.

Especially lovely in the summer, "Jerusalem in Miniature" is a bunch of holy shrines hand-crafted by Brother Joseph Zoettl, from the neighboring St. Bernard Abbey, who seemed to have a lot of time on his hands. Enjoy sites from the Bible, Roman landmarks and some things that don't make any sense at all, like scenes from fairy tales and a "lizard condo." Don't forget to pick up a mood ring in the gift shop on the way home. We're sure it's Vatican-approved.

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· Television Travel: MTV's Two-A-Days [Jaunted]
· Tara Reid is a Gerbil Pig [Jaunted]

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Television Travel: MTV's Two-A-Days

Where: 1000 Buccaneer Drive [map], Hoover, AL, United States, 35244
October 3, 2006 at 3:14 PM | by markj | 0 Comments

Admit it--you have been watching MTV's Two-A-Days. It is ok, so have we. Did you know the Hoover Bucs jack ass of a coach Rush Propst has a $94,000 salary? Yeah. But he delivers state championships, and that is what Hoover Alabama wants to see.

What to do?
So what exactly is there to do if you find yourself in Hoover Alabama? Well, the Riverchase Galleria, which sounds like a fine place to fly a DeLorean at 1:00 AM, boasts over 30 eating establishments in its food court, including Ruby Tuesday. Furthermore, the SEC baseball tournament is held in Hoover every May.  

Where to stay?
For $28.00 you can stay at the Hoover RV Park, which boasts 136 pull-through sites. We are guessing it is a tailgaters dream during the SEC tourney or right before a Hoover game.

C'mon, you know you want to check out Coach Propst and the gang live and in person one of these Friday nights, we know we do.

Related Stories:
· Hoover High School [maps.google.com]
· Two-A-Days [MTV.com]
· SPOILER ALERT:Official Site [Hooverbuc.com]