Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited
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Were you undaunted in your courage?LebamDawg said:Stopped by this lovely place this AM
https://www.nps.gov/places/dismal-nitch.htm
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I did. A girl named Gagan.YellowSnow said:
Didn't you meet a pretty French Canuck when you were in Montreal? -
is this a euphemism for sex with a German gal?BearsWiin said:I chiseled a hole in the Berlin Wall, does that count?
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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 -
Poor guy, the P-51A was the shit version with the underpowered Allison engine
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Oh but when they went to the Packard Merlin...talking some fucking high efficiency muscle.BearsWiin said:Poor guy, the P-51A was the shit version with the underpowered Allison engine
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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.
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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.BearsWiin said:Poor guy, the P-51A was the shit version with the underpowered Allison engine
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. -
My middle son got seasick during our Channel crossing
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Did you pay for his health care with a sack of Euros?BearsWiin said:My middle son got seasick during our Channel crossing
that's all I got
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I believe you just go to the hospital and it’s covered. None of our American style make you bankrupt stuffDerekJohnson said: -
Not so in FranceMeek said:
I believe you just go to the hospital and it’s covered. None of our American style make you bankrupt stuff -
- Maltby
- Gorst
- Quilcene
- Woodinville
- Aptos
- Hillsboro
- Liberty Lake
- Temecula
- Elko
- Cal
- Maltby
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where's East Queen Anne
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FUCK! HARVEYROAD HE'S AN IDIOT.BearsWiin said:where's East Queen Anne
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What are those? Like pesos?DerekJohnson said: -
I was talking with a friend of mine about our both being stationed in Germany when in the USArmy (protecting you scoundrels) and it reminded me of being at Grafenwoehr. Hitler used that place for God knows what but there are bombed out bunkers everywhere, but me and my driver (I was special) were making deliveries at our battalions posts out in the boonies and we stopped and explored caves that are all over that place. The oldest I remember was dated in the 1300's. We had to stop because we didn't know where the landing zones were for the test firing.
I was able to track this article down describing the area a little. https://www.stripes.com/news/relics-of-germany-s-past-dot-army-s-grafenwoehr-training-area-1.486291
Drove around a clump of trees and one of these puppies was fired off about 150 yds from us, that was when we decided to curtail the adventures.
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I tell you what - the WWII museum in NOLA is mind-blowing.
The Civil Rights Museum/Lorraine Hotel is pretty sobering, too.
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CSB, TYFYSLebamDawg said:I was talking with a friend of mine about our both being stationed in Germany when in the USArmy (protecting you scoundrels) and it reminded me of being at Grafenwoehr. Hitler used that place for God knows what but there are bombed out bunkers everywhere, but me and my driver (I was special) were making deliveries at our battalions posts out in the boonies and we stopped and explored caves that are all over that place. The oldest I remember was dated in the 1300's. We had to stop because we didn't know where the landing zones were for the test firing.
I was able to track this article down describing the area a little. https://www.stripes.com/news/relics-of-germany-s-past-dot-army-s-grafenwoehr-training-area-1.486291
Drove around a clump of trees and one of these puppies was fired off about 150 yds from us, that was when we decided to curtail the adventures. -
It's a must visit if you come to MemphisPurpleThrobber said:I tell you what - the WWII museum in NOLA is mind-blowing.
The Civil Rights Museum/Lorraine Hotel is pretty sobering, too.
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West Lake, Hangzhou
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We're just lucky Larry Scott poasts here at all.Gladstone said:West Lake, Hangzhou
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They also had their own bowl game for a time.minion_doog said:
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Culloden
Gettysburg
Versailles
Old Courthouse Museum, St Louis (Dred Scott trial court)
