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Bessie The Traveling Cow

@bessiethecow.bsky.social

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I'm a stuffed cow that has been traveling the globe since 1999. I will share one new adventure every day. Follow along!

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · Nov 22

Here's a few things to know about me: I've been to 17 countries, 33 states, the District of Columbia, and several U.S. territories. I post one new adventure every day - old ones can be found on my timeline. Please REPOST and LIKE to help others find me. No photoshop here - all pictures are real!

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 8h

Jesse James was an American outlaw, bank and train robber who was gunned down in his home in St. Joseph, Missouri in April of 1882. His body was relocated to the cemetery here in Kearney, MO after laying at his family's farm nearby until 1902.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 19h

Hahaha

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Another dose of the macabre for you on this October Friday night. This bust is of Edgar Allan Poe at his museum in Richmond, Virginia.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 2d

Same, actually.

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Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia from my visit in 2010.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a very cool museum! The buildings are as interesting as the cars they display.

Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 3d

Got to hang out in the back of a giant 70's station wagon last summer at the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan. This place is so cool! It exhibits over 400 vintage and collector vehicles in several vintage buildings and period specific replica car dealerships located on a 90-acre campus.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the tip! I will add it to my travel list.

Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 3d

I would love to!

Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 4d

Fair enough! I live in corn field country too and it holds a special place in my heart. I just like to tease Ohio occasionally!

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This is the Lewis and Clark Trailhead Plaza in Jefferson City, Missouri. The city’s namesake, Thomas Jefferson, instigated the expedition, and the explorers were likely the first citizens to cite and map the land that became Jefferson City. I visited in August.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 5d

This beautiful waterfall is in the Hocking Hills State Park in southern Ohio where I visited in 2023. If all you know of Ohio is the northern part, you would be shocked to see how pretty it is near the southern border! That's my take as a stuffed cow from Michigan.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting colored rocks in Death Valley National Park from my visit last June. It was much more blue in person!

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 7d

Here's another Halloween themed photo! This is from the Indianapolis Zoo last weekend. It's a Day of the Dead Rhino. I'm pretty small up there on its back!

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 7d

I was worried for a minute!

Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 8d

Here's another "spooky" adventure to celebrate the month of October. This is from Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. This 10 foot tall sculpture is called Eternal Silence and was created in 1909. Legend says that if a person looks into its eyes, they will see their own death. I'll pass!

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 9d

A couple of them!

Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 9d

This past summer I had a good fright while visiting the Toledo Zoo in Ohio. I was just minding my own business, getting my picture taken when this huge, beastly, bulging creature creeped up behind me! I was so startled I nearly lost my lunch!

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 10d

Behold! The world's largest pistachio! I found this beaut in Alamogordo, New Mexico on a road trip through the state last year.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 11d

This is the Berlin Wall behind me, from my visit to Berlin, Germany in 2019. There is a small section that remains to remind people of the horrors of the past. This section shows all traces of destruction from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and is protected as a historical monument.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 11d

I love that!

Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 11d

Agreed!

Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 12d

In 2015 I got to take a tour inside Alcatraz Prison. This federal penitentiary was in operation from 1934 to 1963. Most of the prisoners were notorious bank robbers and murderers. The most famous inmate was notorious gangster Al Capone.

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Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social · 12d

I'm blushing!

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Last month I visited the Pony Express museum in St. Joseph, Missouri. This is the original stable building and marked the eastern terminus of the Pony Express. I asked if I could join these guys on their ride but they just ignored me!

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