National Parks
John Steinbeck Novels
Presidents
North American Cities David Has Strong Opinions About
100

The only National Park with a middlingly rockin Bruce Springsteen Song

Badlands National Park

100

Novel about traveling to California that David read while traveling to California 

Grapes of Wrath

100

While in the military, this President committed literal big G Genocide of the Seminole peoples in Florida and all anyone ever gets mad at him for is the*checks notes* Trail of Tears.

Andrew Jackson

100

This City is stupid because you shouldn't need a car to get anywhere you need to go and also my new sister in laws much cooler family lives there

Los Angeles 

200

The only National Park with a pretty freaking sweet rockin U2 album

Joshua Tree National Park

200

Novel that David wrote an essay about in 10th grade that his classmates read and accused him of not knowing anything about alcohol because his inability to understand the famous party scene at Doc's house

Cannery Row

200

David doesn't feel like people talk enough about how bad this President who allowed the KKK to rise after the Civil War was

Andrew Johnson

200

This City is stupid because when I got there the Harry Truman library was closed and I ate barbecue alone

Kansas City

300

Located primarily on an island in Lake Superior where David got charged by a freakin moose

Isle Royale National Park

300

Cain and Abel story about the similar strife through American generations that David read while driving on a road trip and hoping it would speak to him. It did not.

East of Eden

300

This President appointed the first female cabinet member, who is also the longest serving Secretary of Labor.

Franklin "FDR" Delano Roosevelt

300

This city is stupid because I got turned off of Route 40 in a rainstorm and almost drove into the Mississippi River

Memphis

400
National Park in South Dakota near Mt. Rushmore where Keith and David got sort of lost but had a sweet photoshoot

Wind Cave National Park

400

Novel that David read in 10th grade two roaming farmworkers in Great Depression California that I promise freaking holds up

Of Mice and Men

400

This President freakin lived with his inlaws near Kansas City like a nerd before becoming David's favorite President 

Harry "The Big S" S Truman

400

This City is Stupid because Keith got our uber driver super freaking hyped about yggdrasil when we were there

Rapid City

500

Where David watched a wild horse charge a lady in North Dakota

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

500

Novel sited in Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize, titled after a quote from Shakespeare's Richard III

The Winter of Our Discontent

500

This President had his memoirs published by Mark freakin Twain

Ulysses S. Grant

500

This city is stupid because this freakin guy had the audacity to think I knew French like the moment I got there with Jennifer and poutine is trash

Quebec City

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