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Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    LebamDawg said:

    Stopped by this lovely place this AM

    https://www.nps.gov/places/dismal-nitch.htm

    my favorite name

    Were you undaunted in your courage?
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,748 Founders Club

    The Plains of Abraham

    Didn't you meet a pretty French Canuck when you were in Montreal?
    I did. A girl named Gagan.
  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031
    edited May 2019
    great thread.

    my favorite historical visits were to

    - Pere La Chaise cematary in Paris...Jim Morrison's grave is very cool, but the entire place is fascinating - a fucking full on forest full of graves of famous people.
    - there's this church in Stonetown, Zanzibar that is the site of the former slave market...you can tour inside and go into the concrete chambers where slaves were kept until sold...it's absolutely heart breaking.
    - the Taj Mahal absolutely the most overrated shithole ever. The river behind it is always pictured beautifully with little kids and camels, but it's a fucking toxic, garbage filled sewage line...that said, I stayed in the Lake Palace Hotel in Udaipur which is where James Bond stayed in Octopussy. That is a fucking great hotel.
    - Stonehenge is okay, but not really worth the effort required to get to it
    - the book depository museum in Dallas is riveting. I loved it.
    - Ngorogoro Crater was amazing too


    on my wish list is to visit the former site of Stalag Luft III where my grandfather was a prisoner during WWII. he dug tunnels and shit after getting shot down in his P-51A Mustang
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    Poor guy, the P-51A was the shit version with the underpowered Allison engine
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    Poor guy, the P-51A was the shit version with the underpowered Allison engine

    Oh but when they went to the Packard Merlin...talking some fucking high efficiency muscle.




  • USMChawk
    USMChawk Member Posts: 1,800
    Agree on Stonehenge; plan to be fascinated for about a half hour. The city of Bath was more intriguing.

    9/11 Memorial is a must see.

    Custer’s Last Stand, Dallas book depository, and the Grand Canyon (from the overlooks) are worth seeing but not places to spend a day. I took the helicopter tour down into the Grand Canyon and did the boat tour as well; highly recommend. One day I’m going to get to Havasu Falls.

    Yosemite and Yellowstone are spectacular and I will visit again.

    The Great Barrier Reef is fantastic.

  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031
    BearsWiin said:

    Poor guy, the P-51A was the shit version with the underpowered Allison engine

    my grandfather actually loved his A. said you could just feel the plane better and flew so fucking low that you knew you were in a fucking war both in the air and on the ground.

    he gifted me his Ray Bans on his deathbed and wrote telling me that through those lenses his eyes had seen some awful shit as he flew over the beaches of Dieppe.
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    My middle son got seasick during our Channel crossing



    that's all I got
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,748 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    My middle son got seasick during our Channel crossing



    that's all I got

    Did you pay for his health care with a sack of Euros?