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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,268 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?
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,391 Founders Club
    YellowSnow said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    The Plains of Abraham

    Didn't you meet a pretty French Canuck when you were in Montreal?
    I did. A girl named Gagan.
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  • 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
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  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    Poor guy, the P-51A was the shit version with the underpowered Allison engine
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,268 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.




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  • 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.

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  • 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.
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  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    My middle son got seasick during our Channel crossing



    that's all I got
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,391 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?



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

    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?



    I believe you just go to the hospital and it’s covered. None of our American style make you bankrupt stuff
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,391 Founders Club
    Meek said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    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?



    I believe you just go to the hospital and it’s covered. None of our American style make you bankrupt stuff
    Not so in France
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    1. Maltby
    2. Gorst
    3. Quilcene
    4. Woodinville
    5. Aptos
    6. Hillsboro
    7. Liberty Lake
    8. Temecula
    9. Elko
    10. Cal
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  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    where's East Queen Anne
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    BearsWiin said:

    where's East Queen Anne

    FUCK! HARVEYROAD HE'S AN IDIOT.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    DerekJohnson said:

    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?



    What are those? Like pesos?
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,787 Swaye's Wigwam
    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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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,072
    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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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    LebamDawg 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.



    CSB, TYFYS
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  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    PurpleThrobber said:

    I tell you what - the WWII museum in NOLA is mind-blowing.

    The Civil Rights Museum/Lorraine Hotel is pretty sobering, too.

    It's a must visit if you come to Memphis

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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    West Lake, Hangzhou

    #1 now and forever
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  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    Gladstone said:

    West Lake, Hangzhou

    #1 now and forever

    We're just lucky Larry Scott poasts here at all.
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,898
    Culloden

    Gettysburg

    Versailles

    Old Courthouse Museum, St Louis (Dred Scott trial court)
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