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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2012, 10:56:22 AM »
Wall Drug.....

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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2012, 12:24:47 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 26, 2012, 06:28:24 PM
On a lighter side of general topics....

Where have you been in the continental US that you think most folks haven't (places that most folks have probably at least heard of).

Bath, Maine.

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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #27 on: March 27, 2012, 12:28:06 PM »
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #28 on: March 27, 2012, 01:04:58 PM »
Ding Dong, Texas
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2012, 01:22:58 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on March 27, 2012, 01:04:58 PM
Ding Dong, Texas

I left my heart in Ding dong......just doesn't sound the same  :lmao:
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2012, 01:43:27 PM »
Quote from: Gina on March 27, 2012, 01:22:58 PM
I left my heart in Ding dong......just doesn't sound the same  :lmao:

Ding dong is just a couple buildings and a few people. I used to stop in at a little gas station/Cafe and have a Burger and beer with this old boy who ran the place with his wife. Chew the fat and get stories of lore about the area. This old boy met his future bride when she was on a date with a fellow named Elvis Presley. Never know what you will learn talking to older folks.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #31 on: March 27, 2012, 01:49:40 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on March 27, 2012, 09:22:45 AM
Gosh, some great places listed in this thread.  I guess the most recognizable ones for me would be:

Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty on the same trip)
Boulder Dam
Chicago Museum of Science & Industry, and the Aquarium
New Orleans streetcars
Library of Congress, National Archives, the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials and Washington Monument in DC
Boston Common
Fort Sumter and USS Yorktown (CV 18) in Charleston
US Air Force Museum in Ohio
Gettysburg battlefield, several times
Annual Christmas Day 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' reenactment in NJ
Fredericksburg-Chancellorsville Campaign battlefield
St. Louis Gateway Arch (Didn't go up in it, though)
The Alamo
Independence Hall in Philly
Zeppelin hangars at Lakehurst (formerly NAS, some other alphabet soup now)
...and a bunch of others.



Hey DAT, when did the USS Wasp replace the USS Yorktown CV-10??
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2012, 02:22:09 PM »
Quote from: Gina on March 27, 2012, 01:22:58 PM
I left my heart in Ding dong......just doesn't sound the same  :lmao:

Shouldn't you be saying "I heart Ding Dong"?
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2012, 02:25:37 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on March 27, 2012, 01:43:27 PM
Ding dong is just a couple buildings and a few people. I used to stop in at a little gas station/Cafe and have a Burger and beer with this old boy who ran the place with his wife. Chew the fat and get stories of lore about the area. This old boy met his future bride when she was on a date with a fellow named Elvis Presley. Never know what you will learn talking to older folks.

no chewing of the ding dong?
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #34 on: March 27, 2012, 02:26:28 PM »
Quote from: wasp69 on March 27, 2012, 02:22:09 PM
Shouldn't you be saying "I heart Ding Dong"?

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Ding Dong, Texas
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Ding Dong, Texas

Ding Dong is an unincorporated community in Central Texas. It is situated on the Lampasas River, eight miles south of Killeen in southwestern Bell County. Ding Dong was named because of two early settlers in the town, Zulis Bell and Bert Bell, who opened a store and hired an artist, Cohn Cohen Hoover, to make a sign for it. The Bells instructed the sign painter to make a sign. Hoover painted a sign with two bells on it. Inside the bells, Hoover painted the initials of the Bell brothers. Underneath one bell he painted the word "Ding" and the word "Dong" under the other bell. Over the years, because of this sign, this community became known as Ding Dong.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #35 on: March 27, 2012, 02:27:43 PM »
A college classmate and roommate of mine and I spent spring break my senior year in college, at Anaconda, Montana.

We went there because we didn't want to go where "everybody else" was going, and besides, it boasted the world's tallest smokestack.

It was great.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #36 on: March 27, 2012, 02:34:30 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on March 27, 2012, 01:49:40 PM
Hey DAT, when did the USS Wasp replace the USS Yorktown CV-10??


Actually I'm ****ed up on my recollection, I nadined it and it's indeed the Yorktown, CV10 at Patriot's Point.  
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #37 on: March 27, 2012, 03:07:53 PM »
Statue of Liberty
Museum of Natural History
Radio City
Yankee Stadium
Medowlands stadium
Wild Hill, Vermont
Gloucester, Mass
Groton, Conn
Cape Cod
Tioga, Pa.
Blowing Cave, Kennebunkport Maine
Deep in the woods Patton, Maine
Every inch of the Catskill and Adirondack Mts
Niagara Falls
Surf City, and all the coast of N.J.
Englishtown Drags
Entire OBX
Fishing the Everglades
Ricks bar, Key Largo
MC ride all the Keys to Key West
Blew up a RR trestle in Columbus, Ga
Land Between the lakes, Ky
2 years at Ft Campbell Ky
Gallup, NM
Stood on a corner in Winslow Az
Hags Place on the Kern River, Ca.
Sequoia National Pk
Monterey
Hollyweird
Santa Barbara
Hwy 1
March meet drags
Mohave Desert
Anchorage, Alaska
Floated Alaska's Talachulitna river
lots of other places I can't think of right now
and all over Canada fishing of course

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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #38 on: March 27, 2012, 04:47:30 PM »
Ft. Wilkins State Park, Copper Harbor, MI (way up on the top of the Keweenaw Peninsula)
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Olympic National Park, Washington
Saugus Iron Works, Saugus, Mass.
Port of Miami, Flarda (yeah, just like whatshername pronounced it)
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland
Boston Common
Pacific Coast Highway, Oregon stretch
Ft. Bridger, Wyoming
Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
Falmouth, Cape Cod, Mass.
Old North Bridge, Concord, Mass.
Grand Canyon, AZ
Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats, UT
Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel, VA and MD (eastern shore)
Kitty Hawk, NC
Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
Soo Locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Niagara Falls, NY
Old Man of the Mountain, NH (before his face fell off the mountain, of course)
The Alamo, TX
Padre Island, TX

And who can forget Boys' Town in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico (just outside of Laredo, TX?)  :-)




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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2012, 04:57:37 PM »
Oh Canada....

Finger , Manitoba
Bastard , Ontario
Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan
Chicken , Saskatchewan
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #40 on: March 27, 2012, 04:58:33 PM »
Quote from: wasp69 on March 27, 2012, 02:22:09 PM
Shouldn't you be saying "I heart Ding Dong"?

Long Duk Dong: You beat up my face.

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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #41 on: March 27, 2012, 05:17:42 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on March 27, 2012, 04:57:37 PM
Oh Canada....

Finger , Manitoba
Bastard , Ontario
Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan
Chicken , Saskatchewan
I seem to recall OP specifying CONUS.
I forgot...
Eureka springs
Branson Mo.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #42 on: March 27, 2012, 05:27:54 PM »
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #43 on: March 27, 2012, 06:08:28 PM »
I got to a few places while I was over there :

Grand Canyon
Bryce Canyon
Zion Canyon
Monument Valley
Lake Powell / Glen Canyon
USS Intrepid Museum
Empire State Building
Museum of Natural History, Air and space museum, Lincoln Memorial and several other things in the immediate area of the DC Mall.
Niagra Falls (from the CN Side).

More next time.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #44 on: March 27, 2012, 06:20:29 PM »
Hot Springs
Saratoga Springs

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Queen Mary & Spruce Goose
and The Arch
Trivia Question:
What percent of people who visit the Grand Canyon ever hike it ?
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #45 on: March 27, 2012, 06:54:57 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on March 27, 2012, 06:20:29 PM
Hot Springs
Saratoga Springs

DefiantSix reminded me about
Queen Mary & Spruce Goose
and The Arch
Trivia Question:
What percent of people who visit the Grand Canyon ever hike it ?

I'd guess less than 5%.  Most of the fat tourists (my in-laws run a B-n-B in the area) prefer to go to the rim, look over the edge, say "Yep, that's a damned big ditch", and then head over to the El Tovar Hotel for cocktails.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #46 on: March 27, 2012, 07:09:46 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on March 27, 2012, 06:54:57 PM
I'd guess less than 5%.  Most of the fat tourists (my in-laws run a B-n-B in the area) prefer to go to the rim, look over the edge, say "Yep, that's a damned big ditch", and then head over to the El Tovar Hotel for cocktails.
I think your accuracy is 99% or better on that guess.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #47 on: March 27, 2012, 07:10:06 PM »
I love this topic and it's really interesting to see where everyone's been.  Been to several of those listed, how about these?

Devils Tower SD
Denali

Drove the Alaska Hwy in 2000, cross-country from Chas SC...amazing trip.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #48 on: March 27, 2012, 07:10:33 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on March 27, 2012, 06:54:57 PM
I'd guess less than 5%.  Most of the fat tourists (my in-laws run a B-n-B in the area) prefer to go to the rim, look over the edge, say "Yep, that's a damned big ditch", and then head over to the El Tovar Hotel for cocktails.
You say that like it's a bad thing. :p
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #49 on: March 27, 2012, 07:11:22 PM »
Lincoln's Tomb
Lincoln's House
Bryant Cottage~(Where Lincoln and Douglas met to discuss and plan their debates)
The Gateway Arch
The St. Louis Zoo

The original hometown  of the Chicago Bears, when they were known as the Staley Bears.
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