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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,724 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    That’s near the top for me. There’s a few other battlefields in Montana and Wyoming that we visited but I can’t rememer names now so there’s that.

    Had a few historical walks around Philadelphia that were awesome. Ellis Island was more impactful than I had expected. The Alamo.

    Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial is unforgettable.

    Close to home, Fort Warden and Fort Casey.

    Never been to the Arizona Memorial but have been on BB 63 and the view from it looking at the Arizona is amazing. IFL love Battleships. They were the coolest capital ships we? ever built. No offense to @Swaye .


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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,724 Founders Club
    I used to Mt Bike a ton on the Mormon trail over the Wasatch Mts in Utah (hi @89ute ). This was the Donner Party got stuck cutting a trail over the mts which led to them getting to the Sierras too late.


    It was August 20 by the time that they reached a point in the mountains where they could look down and see the Great Salt Lake. It took almost another two weeks to travel out of the Wasatch Mountains. The men began to argue, and doubts were expressed about the wisdom of those who had chosen this route, in particular James Reed. Food and supplies began to run out for some of the less affluent families. Stanton and Pike had ridden out with Reed but had become lost on their way back; by the time that the party found them, they were a day away from eating their horses.[43]


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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,621 Founders Club
    YellowSnow said:

    I used to Mt Bike a ton on the Mormon trail over the Wasatch Mts in Utah (hi @89ute ). This was the Donner Party got stuck cutting a trail over the mts which led to them getting to the Sierras too late.


    It was August 20 by the time that they reached a point in the mountains where they could look down and see the Great Salt Lake. It took almost another two weeks to travel out of the Wasatch Mountains. The men began to argue, and doubts were expressed about the wisdom of those who had chosen this route, in particular James Reed. Food and supplies began to run out for some of the less affluent families. Stanton and Pike had ridden out with Reed but had become lost on their way back; by the time that the party found them, they were a day away from eating their horses.[43]


    My wife and I took photos in front of the Donner Pass sign on the 80

    She's as bad as I am
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  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    LebamDawg said:

    the memorable ones:

    • Arlington National Cemetery and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier changing of the guard. (Mrs. Lebam called me a wuss for crying)
    • Punchbowl and USS Arizona in Hawaii
    • Fort McHenry + the National Museum with the Flag
    • Mt. Rushmore
    • Gettysburg and I have been to numerous Civil War sites
    • Monticello - Jefferson be my favorite
    Rushmore is pretty cool. Been there and Crazy Horse.

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  • 89ute
    89ute Member Posts: 2,486
    YellowSnow said:

    I made the pilgrimage to see this in London last year...


    Couldn't you wait for that guy to finish his piss?
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,621 Founders Club
    My wife and I did London and Paris in 1989. We're driving by Buckingham Palace as I am asking "Where is Buckingham Palace?"

    That's it? That's pretty much London in a nutshell. Paris was REAL man.
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