Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited
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Was just there two months ago. Nothing special, reminded me of Cal Memorial before the renovation, only smallerUWhuskytskeet said:Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but the Colosseum was pretty fucking cool. We were one of the last to get in before it closed for the night, and it was rainy, so it wasn't too crowded. Was able to chill in a corner and soak everything in, including the ruins just outside.
Rome is dirty and you feel like you are going to get stabbed, but God there is a lot of cool shit there. -
Oh Doc Holiday grave in Glennwood Springs CO
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All the hot girls at CSU are from Glennwood lol.huskyhooligan said:Oh Doc Holiday grave in Glennwood Springs CO
I assume because it’s near Aspen it’s milf hunting country -
D.C. has so many great sites to visit, but my favorites were the National Archives with the original Freedom Documents, Smithsonian American History Museum, and Arlington. While watching the changing of the guard I heard the distinct clip clop of horses. Turn around and a caisson carrying a flag draped coffin was headed down the road. Very poignant and powerful image
CSB we scored White House tour tix and one of the security checks is to stand in front of a fan while an explosives sniffing dog behind a metal barrier makes sure your clean. I greased a SBD to see if the dog would react.....nope, but the Secret Service agent shot me a dirty look. I'm not sure how the hell I was able to keep a straight face during the process, but once we got into the main part of the tour I started laughing like a hyena. -
Girls from Rifle as well. It must be the west side of the state.backthepack said:
All the hot girls at CSU are from Glennwood lol.huskyhooligan said:Oh Doc Holiday grave in Glennwood Springs CO
I assume because it’s near Aspen it’s milf hunting country -
Bunch of slutty blonde country chicks.huskyhooligan said:
Girls from Rifle as well. It must be the west side of the state.backthepack said:
All the hot girls at CSU are from Glennwood lol.huskyhooligan said:Oh Doc Holiday grave in Glennwood Springs CO
I assume because it’s near Aspen it’s milf hunting country
Highlands ranch which is basically the Bellevue of the Denver area is the best though. Lots of daddy issues and smokeshow blondes with big tits ( Hi @PurpleThrobber!) -
agree on Orsay > LouvreYellowSnow said:
Humans didn’t build the pyramids. Aliens did. HTH.whlinder said:Most impactful for me without question is Auschwitz. Both Auschwitz 1 and Birkenau. It is really indescribable.
I've been to Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, all the DC monuments including the Vietnam Wall, the Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow (which is a different type of sadness) and the last remaining piece of the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto but there is nothing that approaches the level of Auschwitz.
Nairobi National Park in Kenya was pretty impactful from the perspective of how incredible those creatures are in the wild and how we're in the process of destroying their planet and habitat.
The Great Pyramids of Giza. How the fuck did humans build those things with the technology at the time?
The Acropolis & Parthenon in Athens.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Krakow is amazing as well.
The Great Wall of China is pretty amazing but I wish I had more of a chance to explore it.
Tiannamen Square was interesting from the perspective of the tour "rebranding" the history there.
Krakow Wawel Castle and old square are awesome.
Similarly Plaza Mayor in Madrid, along with the Prado.
I liked the Musee du Orsay in Paris more than the Louvre, but the Louvre is still pretty special.
The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is a great museum.
The Auckland Maritime Museum was a really cool display of the history of ocean travel and navigation.
I did the other big Paris sites when I was there, Arc, Eiffle Tower, etc, and while they're amazing they don't crack the top 5. Same with London; Buckingham palace and Big Ben are cool but not top 5.
An amazing museum and I take it for granted for being right down the street is the Udvar-Hazy center near Dulles Airport. The fucking Enola Gay is there! Plus a space shuttle, a Concorde, an SR-71 blackbird and Gemini space capsule.
Agree on Orsay being better than Louvre.
I really need to see Gettysburg soon. Really want to look down from Little Round Top to see where Chamberlain ordered the bayonet charge and saved the Republic. -
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Elle, the body, is mine @PurpleThrobber . You may be in the tall people society here, but you ain't tall enuff for a 6 footer like that.PurpleThrobber said:BennyBeaver said:
#metooYellowSnow said:
I’ve crashed at a condo next to the Coke sign in the Cross. IFL Sydney.BennyBeaver said:
this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...89ute said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
You guys are fags.
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The Throbber is pretty fuckingYellowSnow said:
Elle, the body, is mine @PurpleThrobber . You may be in the tall people society here, but you ain't tall enuff for a 6 footer like that.PurpleThrobber said:BennyBeaver said:
#metooYellowSnow said:
I’ve crashed at a condo next to the Coke sign in the Cross. IFL Sydney.BennyBeaver said:
this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...89ute said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
You guys are fags.
There's more in Australia than coke signs.longtall.
I'll take the Kiwi Rachel Hunter instead. Fair enough?
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My mom's family on her dad's side left Germany in the 1880's to come here because of the militarization of the recently remodeled empire
My uncle flew bombers over Germany in WW2
My first boss was a German Jew who had emigrated here and whose family had been taken by the Soviets. He talked about being bombed as a child
I asked if he had met my uncle oveYellowSnow said:I've always wanted to visited the @RaceBannon birthplace National Historic Site.
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NOCRaceBannon said:My mom's family on her dad's side left Germany in the 1880's to come here because of the militarization of the recently remodeled empire
My uncle flew bombers over Germany in WW2
My first boss was a German Jew who had emigrated here and whose family had been taken by the Soviets. He talked about being bombed as a child
I asked if he had met my uncle oveYellowSnow said:I've always wanted to visited the @RaceBannon birthplace National Historic Site.
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My mother wouldn't let any cuckoo clocks in our house because when she was a child growing up in Vienna during the war, that was the sound the radio would use to warn people that a bombing raid was incoming and that everyone should get to a bomb shelter. My dad once bought her one when they were younger, thinking it would remind her of her homeland, and she pretty much had a panic attack and destroyed it.RaceBannon said:My mom's family on her dad's side left Germany in the 1880's to come here because of the militarization of the recently remodeled empire
My uncle flew bombers over Germany in WW2
My first boss was a German Jew who had emigrated here and whose family had been taken by the Soviets. He talked about being bombed as a child
I asked if he had met my uncle ove -
I didn't realize that other quote was with my photo
It hadn't been vetted by the committee -
Deal! Speaking of Rod Stewart (hi @RaceBannon ) did you know that Neil Young is dating Daryl Hannah. Still WOOD.PurpleThrobber said:
The Throbber is pretty fuckingYellowSnow said:
Elle, the body, is mine @PurpleThrobber . You may be in the tall people society here, but you ain't tall enuff for a 6 footer like that.PurpleThrobber said:BennyBeaver said:
#metooYellowSnow said:
I’ve crashed at a condo next to the Coke sign in the Cross. IFL Sydney.BennyBeaver said:
this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...89ute said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
You guys are fags.
There's more in Australia than coke signs.longtall.
I'll take the Kiwi Rachel Hunter instead. Fair enough?
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You always have to wood celebrity.
Hell, the Throbber wood Neil Young even though that is disgusting as fuck. Celebrity, you know. Makes for a good drunk @swaye story
The Throbber likes how John Mellancamp is banging Meg Ryan, too.
The Throbber should have learned how to play guitar.
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I learned how to play the guitar...just not very well.PurpleThrobber said:You always have to wood celebrity.
Hell, the Throbber wood Neil Young even though that is disgusting as fuck. Celebrity, you know. Makes for a good drunk @swaye story
The Throbber likes how John Mellancamp is banging Meg Ryan, too.
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YellowSnow said:
I learned how to play the guitar...just not very well.PurpleThrobber said:You always have to wood celebrity.
Hell, the Throbber wood Neil Young even though that is disgusting as fuck. Celebrity, you know. Makes for a good drunk @swaye story
The Throbber likes how John Mellancamp is banging Meg Ryan, too.
The Throbber should have learned how to play guitar.
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Neil has always gone for the starlets
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The Collosseum and Forum in Rome. Nothing in Florence or anywhere else in Tuscany touched it for me. To stand in the very spot from which one guy ruled an area as large as the Roman empire once stretched, at a time when people were still wiping their asses with their hands, was, to say the least, unique and impressive. Assissi was cool ... very cool, but St. Francis doesn't compete well with Julius Ceasar in my book. Still, I recommend the hell out of Assissi. Worth the trip, as it's a bit out of the way.
Southern Italy is coming up next and Paestum looms large as a great experience ... to see truly intact Greek temples. Fuck. And of course Athens. While the Parthenon and Acropolis are not in great shape relative to other Greek ruins (like southern Italy and southern France), that's where it began and should also be pretty fucking killer.
The grand daddy of them all is later ... Egypt. Gotta time that one right for obvious reasons. I'm still a little shaky about going right now. -
That's a good one. Lots of history there Yella. Don't have to tell you.YellowSnow said:The old ASUW shellhouse on the shores of the Montlake Cut.
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I was there. Didn't cry. Too tuff I guess. But it was somber. Still, didn't cry. I want to be clear about that.PurpleThrobber said:The Throbber did visit the 9-11 site about two years hence....that was a terk jerker, for sure. Too soon. Too fucking soon.
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Jimminy Yella. Come on.YellowSnow said:Graceland, Memphis, TN is cheesy Americana but totally awesome. Elvis’s gun collection alone is worth it.
Shout out to our dear departed brother @dnc . -
Listen @creepycoug i know you only listen to Tito Puente and other mambo music, but Elvis is a god.creepycoug said:
Jimminy Yella. Come on.YellowSnow said:Graceland, Memphis, TN is cheesy Americana but totally awesome. Elvis’s gun collection alone is worth it.
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Don't climb the Pyramids. I got about 50 feet up one and stumbled on the sign in four languages telling me to get the hell offcreepycoug said:The Collosseum and Forum in Rome. Nothing in Florence or anywhere else in Tuscany touched it for me. To stand in the very spot from which one guy ruled an area as large as the Roman empire once stretched, at a time when people were still wiping their asses with their hands, was, to say the least, unique and impressive. Assissi was cool ... very cool, but St. Francis doesn't compete well with Julius Ceasar in my book. Still, I recommend the hell out of Assissi. Worth the trip, as it's a bit out of the way.
Southern Italy is coming up next and Paestum looms large as a great experience ... to see truly intact Greek temples. Fuck. And of course Athens. While the Parthenon and Acropolis are not in great shape relative to other Greek ruins (like southern Italy and southern France), that's where it began and should also be pretty fucking killer.
The grand daddy of them all is later ... Egypt. Gotta time that one right for obvious reasons. I'm still a little shaky about going right now.
I invite you to read Gore Vidal's Creation before scheduling your trip to Greece -
Good tip. I shall.BearsWiin said:
Don't climb the Pyramids. I got about 50 feet up one and stumbled on the sign in four languages telling me to get the hell offcreepycoug said:The Collosseum and Forum in Rome. Nothing in Florence or anywhere else in Tuscany touched it for me. To stand in the very spot from which one guy ruled an area as large as the Roman empire once stretched, at a time when people were still wiping their asses with their hands, was, to say the least, unique and impressive. Assissi was cool ... very cool, but St. Francis doesn't compete well with Julius Ceasar in my book. Still, I recommend the hell out of Assissi. Worth the trip, as it's a bit out of the way.
Southern Italy is coming up next and Paestum looms large as a great experience ... to see truly intact Greek temples. Fuck. And of course Athens. While the Parthenon and Acropolis are not in great shape relative to other Greek ruins (like southern Italy and southern France), that's where it began and should also be pretty fucking killer.
The grand daddy of them all is later ... Egypt. Gotta time that one right for obvious reasons. I'm still a little shaky about going right now.
I invite you to read Gore Vidal's Creation before scheduling your trip to Greece
You actually tried to climb one? I guess that was a thing once right? Not surprised someone thought to put a stop to it. It's made of sandstone for Peterman's sake. -
Does it have as much pegging as Myra Breckinridge ?BearsWiin said:
Don't climb the Pyramids. I got about 50 feet up one and stumbled on the sign in four languages telling me to get the hell offcreepycoug said:The Collosseum and Forum in Rome. Nothing in Florence or anywhere else in Tuscany touched it for me. To stand in the very spot from which one guy ruled an area as large as the Roman empire once stretched, at a time when people were still wiping their asses with their hands, was, to say the least, unique and impressive. Assissi was cool ... very cool, but St. Francis doesn't compete well with Julius Ceasar in my book. Still, I recommend the hell out of Assissi. Worth the trip, as it's a bit out of the way.
Southern Italy is coming up next and Paestum looms large as a great experience ... to see truly intact Greek temples. Fuck. And of course Athens. While the Parthenon and Acropolis are not in great shape relative to other Greek ruins (like southern Italy and southern France), that's where it began and should also be pretty fucking killer.
The grand daddy of them all is later ... Egypt. Gotta time that one right for obvious reasons. I'm still a little shaky about going right now.
I invite you to read Gore Vidal's Creation before scheduling your trip to Greece -
creepycoug said:
Good tip. I shall.BearsWiin said:
Don't climb the Pyramids. I got about 50 feet up one and stumbled on the sign in four languages telling me to get the hell offcreepycoug said:The Collosseum and Forum in Rome. Nothing in Florence or anywhere else in Tuscany touched it for me. To stand in the very spot from which one guy ruled an area as large as the Roman empire once stretched, at a time when people were still wiping their asses with their hands, was, to say the least, unique and impressive. Assissi was cool ... very cool, but St. Francis doesn't compete well with Julius Ceasar in my book. Still, I recommend the hell out of Assissi. Worth the trip, as it's a bit out of the way.
Southern Italy is coming up next and Paestum looms large as a great experience ... to see truly intact Greek temples. Fuck. And of course Athens. While the Parthenon and Acropolis are not in great shape relative to other Greek ruins (like southern Italy and southern France), that's where it began and should also be pretty fucking killer.
The grand daddy of them all is later ... Egypt. Gotta time that one right for obvious reasons. I'm still a little shaky about going right now.
I invite you to read Gore Vidal's Creation before scheduling your trip to Greece
You actually tried to climb one? I guess that was a thing once right? Not surprised someone thought to put a stop to it. It's made of sandstone for Peterman's sake.
For some reason I thought it was four languages. Probably confusing it with some other sign telling me not to do whatever the fuck I was doing
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Cairo is cheap as fuck right now. For obvious reasons. In September stayed at the Ritz for like $150 a night. Ubers super cheap.creepycoug said:
The grand daddy of them all is later ... Egypt. Gotta time that one right for obvious reasons. I'm still a little shaky about going right now.
I climbed like 3 blocks worth. It’s not easy (I’m not a climber) and while I’m sure it could be done they’re not in great shape. -
