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Travel with Rick Steves · Saturday, August 15, 2026

Ball of Twine: A Competitive Category

The conversation humorously touches on the "largest ball of twine" as a competitive category among roadside attractions. Dylan Thuras notes that the distinction often depends on whether the twine was rolled by one person or a group.

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I like the you've got a chapter about the largest ball of twine.
Rick Steves
Oh, sure. That's a very competitive category actually.
Dylan Thuras
There are multiple large balls of twine and it depends on whether you qualify this one rolled by one person.
Dylan Thuras
Heard on Travel with Rick Steves — “837 America Obscura; This Land Is Your Land, published Saturday, August 15, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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