What is 'Historic' in the USA?

Today was a non riding day and we planned to explore 'Historic' Harrisonburg. First though was the small matter of an overnight tyre deflation - otherwise referred to as a puncture. The Mechanic sorted out a new tube and put everything bak together, then discovered that both tubes of glue for patching tyres were empty - the glue having apparently evaporated. Added to the shopping list for our trip - historic glue perhaps?  Before we had a chance to leave it started to rain, heavily, having been cloudy all morning. We decided to wait until the shower was over, but at 12.30 were so bored that we set off anyway in steady drizzle. We had only gone about half a mile, dodging our way across parking lots in front of big car showrooms (no footpath on the road) when the heavens opened. We eventually took refuge under the canopy of one of these auto places, looking like a couple of drowned rats and attracting the usual incredulous stares which follow anyone moving around on foot over here.

The 'historic' downtown district possibly has a couple of buildings which pre-date the twentieth century but that would be about it - there were buildings proudly proclaiming they were built in 1939, so newer than our house if we wanted to be picky. We tried to visit the Fire Museum (shut) and were even desperate enough to go and investigate the Quilt Museum - it was celebrating 20 years of quilting!!  Natural History Museum, London - eat your heart out.......  Pictures below of an unusual University Course (Suzy you might like to suggest this for A&F) and a sign outside a shop that I really couldn't fathom - what is an ornament party when it is at home?????  We did pass a sign to one shop which proclaimed it sold 'Needful Things', the mind boggles as to what these might be and sadly we didn't get the chance to find out.

Something for you to ponder next time you go out to dinner - when asked what side order you want to go with your meal, will you choose Hush Puppies or Baconator fries?  Whichever you go for can I suggest deep fried ice cream to follow - unless of course you are too full after your battered and deep fried Twinkie Bar (cream filled sponge cake). Yeugh!!!

It was raining again tonight so we hopped across a couple of parking lots to a Mexican fast(ish) food place (the truckers stop last night wasn't that great). The food was excellent provided you didn't put any of the accompanying sauce on it..............I think the burns on my lips will be healed by the time we get home.

On a more cheerful note, I will never again complain about how long our election campaigns seem to last for - the next US Presidential election is Nov 2016, but is headline news every day already :(