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Offline rich_t

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Where have you been?
« 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).

For me, off of the top of my head...

The Jelly Belly factory.

Niagra Falls.

Stone Mountain.

Baseball Hall of Fame.

Football Hall of Fame.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Statue of Liberty.

Pier 39.

Coke-a-Cola Museum.

Disney World.

Disney Land.

Hersey PA. (yes, the candy factory).





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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2012, 06:34:13 PM »
Your mom's house.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2012, 06:50:46 PM »
Wow, unfortunately I haven't been around this beautiful country enough yet.

But for starters,
 Alcatraz
Muir Forest
Kinsu Dam in Pa
Mount Washington
Bar Harbor Arcadia
Walt Disney World
Antietam Field Williamsburg Md
South Beach Florida

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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2012, 07:12:41 PM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on March 26, 2012, 06:34:13 PM
Your mom's house.

Oh, no--most people have DEFINITELY been to her house.  The original question is places most people HAVEN'T been.

But as for me:

Lake Powell
Four Corners Nat'l Monument (don't ask me why)
Canyon de Chelly, AZ
Chaco Canyon, NM
Acoma Pueblo, NM
Yellowstone (EAST side, coming in from Cody)
Mount Rushmore
Jerome/Sedona
Death Valley
Astoria, OR
Craters of the Moon
Pittsburg, NH
The English-speaking parts of Los Angeles
Pissing in the geyser in Soda Springs, ID

And yes, I have indeed, "Seen Rock City".
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 07:29:49 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on March 26, 2012, 07:12:41 PM
Oh, no--most people have DEFINITELY been to her house.  The original question is places most people HAVEN'T been.

But as for me:

Lake Powell
Four Corners Nat'l Monument (don't ask me why)
Canyon de Chelly, AZ
Chaco Canyon, NM
Acoma Pueblo, NM
Yellowstone (EAST side, coming in from Cody)
Mount Rushmore
Jerome/Sedona
Death Valley
Astoria, OR
Craters of the Moon
Pittsburg, NH
The English-speaking parts of Los Angeles
Pissing in the geyser in Soda Springs, ID

And yes, I have indeed, "Seen Rock City".
showoff!!! :-)
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2012, 07:34:23 PM »
I went up in the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, and saw the World Trade Center and Madison Square Gardens.  The memory is hazy about all of those though. It was during a weekend party trip to NYC.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2012, 08:34:53 PM »
The Alamo
Texas Rangers Museum
International Peace Gardens
Mission San Juan Capistrano
USP  Leavenworth
Santa Catalina Island
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
Deadwood south Dakota
Mt. Rushmore

I'm sure there are a few more but memory fails at the moment. Strange as it may seem I've probably been to more places in Europe than in the States.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2012, 08:35:20 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).


Memorable motorcycle trips and interesting places:

The Mississippi River- both ends (Same trip)
Sturgis, SD (Rally-twice)
The Tail of the Dragon (Deal's Gap, NC)
The Cumberland Gap (Daniel Boone)
Roswell, NM (International UFO Convention)
Lincoln, NM (The Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid)
Big Bone Lick, IN (Just for fun. I have pictures)
The Spam Museum, Austin, MN
Manitou Springs, CO (at the foot of Pikes Peak)
Royal Gorge, CO
Ft Bliss, TX (El Paso)
Ft Sill, OK (Lawton)
Ft McCoy, WI (Sparta)
Ft Carson, CO (Colorado Springs)
Camp Atterbury, IN (Franklin)
White Sands National Monument, NM (Alamagordo)
The World's Largest Cross- Groom, TX
The World's Largest Cross- Edmond, OK
The World's Largest Cross- Effingham, IL

Riding to Tennessee this week for the 150th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Shiloh.


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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2012, 08:57:41 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on March 26, 2012, 07:29:49 PM
showoff!!! :-)

You will note most of the places I mentioned were in the West, where I was born and raised.  Here in NE?  Not so much.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2012, 09:19:51 PM »
I have been from one end to the other of I-95.  Been to all but 4 of the lower 48, I am missing Oregon, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2012, 09:23:16 PM »
I've been to Jerome/Sedona/Prescott, AZ.  So beautiful in those areas.  Jerome is my favorite and can't wait to go back again sometime soon.... if gas prices ever go down.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2012, 09:42:16 PM »
Ohhhhhhhhhhh, I am pea green envious. I would love to visit all those places everyone has mentioned. I hope I will in this life time....maybe rent an RV , or a small convo van and a pop up tent. I like the RV idea better, then I can bring Jingles with me...
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2012, 09:44:39 PM »
Quote from: Evil_Conservative on March 26, 2012, 09:23:16 PM
I've been to Jerome/Sedona/Prescott, AZ.  So beautiful in those areas.  Jerome is my favorite and can't wait to go back again sometime soon.... if gas prices ever go down.

Never been to Jerome, but I have been to Sedona.  Flagstaff smells like cocoa to me, must be all the trees.  Absolutely beautiful.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2012, 11:10:59 PM »
Meteor Crater
Dodge City
SMO pier
Salton Sea
Great Salt Lake
Hoover Dam
Lakehurst NJ (Hindenburg memorial)
Bar Harbor
Schlitterbahn
Six Flags SAT
Padre Island
Kittyhawk
Everglades
Plains Georgia
Boll Weevil Monument
Richmond National Battlefield
Kennesaw Battlefield
Underground Atlanta
Cotton Bowl Texas State fair
Colonial Williamsburg
Busch Gardens
Hearst Castle
Golden Gate Bridge
Father Junípero Serra Monastery
Cannery row
Carmel
Alamo
Naval Aviation Museum
Army Aviation Museum
Cooperstown
Howe Caverns
Mammoth Cave
Notre Dame
Lancaster PA
Thatcher Park
Lake George
USAFA
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2012, 07:48:03 AM »
Vera Cruz NC (only place a dog can be on the sand without a leash, just go at low tide)
Shell Castle Island
Portsmouth village, NC
Dungeness Spit
Lake Crescent
Fort Pickens
Middle of BT-11 (piney island) lost
Stones River battlefield
South of the Border
Where John Wilkes Booth was killed, US 301 right outside Port Royal Va
Boone Hall
Angel Oak
Old Sheldon Church
Frogmore SC

and many places I've forgotten
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2012, 08:13:40 AM »
Hatteras Island (more times than I can recall)
Edisto Beach, SC
Hunting Island, SC
Islamorada and Key West, FL
Sanibel Island and Captiva Island, FL
Pine Island, FL
St. Simon's Island, GA
Tybee Island, GA
Cape Cod
Cape May, NJ  . . . really all the beaches in NJ from Island Beach State Park, Long Beach Island and south
Jane's Island, MD
Assateague, MD
Long Island, ME

(sensing a theme here . . .  :-))

farthest west I've been would be 4 Corners and Vegas (I was 5)
Grand Canyon
Mammoth Cave, KY
Smokey Mountains
Dyersburg, TN (my oldest brother was married there and we drove down from Jersey when I was 6)
Stone Mountain, GA
Chicago, a couple of times
Lake George, NY
Adirondacks
Plattsburgh, NY
Pocono Mountains
Mount Washington (my dad drove it and was white as a sheet by the time we got back down to the bottom!)
Killington
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2012, 08:57:09 AM »
I haven't been anywhere unique and don't travel as much as I used to.  I love the Outer Banks and it's hardly an exclusive locale these days, but the only interesting place was Alaska (Anchorage, Homer, Soldotna, Soldovia, and Ekwok).  Unless you count the flight to Anchorage, I have never been more than 50 miles west of the Mississippi River.

I need to get out more.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #17 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.

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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2012, 09:42:47 AM »
In The past there were a few days when I swam in the Ocean , rode dirt bike in the desert, skied on a mountain and water skied on the Colorado river all on the same day. One of the few benefits of living in So. Cal.
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2012, 09:48:41 AM »
Niagara Falls, NY & ONT
Muir Woods, CA   
Bar Harbor, ME
Lake Powell, AZ
Four Corners Nat'l Monument
Canyon de Chelly, AZ
Chaco Canyon, NM
Acoma Pueblo, NM
Yellowstone (EAST side, coming in from Cody)
Grand Tetons, WY
Mount Rushmore, SD
Jerome/Sedona, AZ
Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island
World Trade Center
Chrysler Building
Empire State Building
Alamo
Lincoln, NM
Roswell, NM
Flagstaff, AZ
Painted Desert
Meteor Crater
Great Salt Lake
Hoover Dam
Great Salt Lake
Petrified Forest
Saguaro National Monument
Cape May, NJ (CG Boot camp)
Groton, CT
Mammoth Cave
Carsbad Caverns
Adirondacks
Mt. Lemmon
Old Tucson Movie Set
Arizona/Sonora Desert Museum
Smokies
Myrtle Beach
Anchorage, AK
Fairbanks, AK
Arizona Ghost Towns along the Mexican Border
Big Bend, NP
Glacier NP
Theodore Roosevelt NP
Devils Tower
Cahokia Mounds, IL
Natchez Trace
Bourbon Street
Everglades
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
Abraham Lincoln Home
Ronald Reagan Childhood Home
Whitefish Point, WI, Edmund Fitzgerald Museum


Many, many other associated and non-associated sites....
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2012, 09:58:27 AM »
Quote from: chris_ on March 27, 2012, 08:57:09 AM
I haven't been anywhere unique and don't travel as much as I used to.  I love the Outer Banks and it's hardly an exclusive locale these days, but the only interesting place was Alaska (Anchorage, Homer, Soldotna, Soldovia, and Ekwok).  Unless you count the flight to Anchorage, I have never been more than 50 miles west of the Mississippi River.

I need to get out more.
So do i. Of course money is an issue and time  and of course a good travel buddy. Those of us, who have been stationed on military bases have an edge. On leave, they would grab a few buddies, get a car and take off, and go anywhere within a four hour driving period, and see all kinds of stuff. I would have done that anyway...
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2012, 10:01:41 AM »
Seahorse, where's that lighthouse in your avatar?
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2012, 10:15:29 AM »
Quote from: CG6468 on March 27, 2012, 10:01:41 AM
Seahorse, where's that lighthouse in your avatar?
That is Cape Elizabeth
http://www.capeelizabeth.com/visitors/attractions/fort_williams_park/home.html
It is beautiful...
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #23 on: March 27, 2012, 10:48:13 AM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on March 27, 2012, 10:15:29 AM
That is Cape Elizabeth
http://www.capeelizabeth.com/visitors/attractions/fort_williams_park/home.html
It is beautiful...

I love lighthouses!! That's a beautiful one!

Here's one closest to where I live:
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Re: Where have you been?
« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2012, 10:55:43 AM »
We do too. Thanks for the information!
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