Headstone Reading

Above, Rodney Dangerfield's headstone at Westwood Cemetery. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Here's an idea. 

During your travels or even within your city or town, visit a cemetery and just wander around and read the headstones. 

That is the topic in RV Travel.

They start with:

I like to visit cemeteries when I travel. How about you? Here’s an idea: This weekend, stop by a cemetery — any cemetery. Just walk around. Take your time. Read the headstones. Soak up the history.

You can learn about the people buried there from their headstones, and often about the hardships of life in times more challenging than ours today. For example, you see many children’s graves or those of adults who died young. In many Old West ghost towns, it seems every other grave is a child’s.

Sometimes you come across a headstone that makes you laugh — like the one of Douglas Kiss, pictured here. Whether he wrote the epitaph himself or someone else did after he was gone, the message is a good one. I think I would have liked him.

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