Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited
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Both a GREAT cities in their own way. I think got more emotional in London, however, because this is the mother-ship. I'm 100% Victoria Country Club WASP you know.RaceBannon said: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.
I did see this outside of Paris back in 1994 which was phenomenal to check out...
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Didn't you meet a pretty French Canuck when you were in Montreal?DerekJohnson said:The Plains of Abraham
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Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.
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The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.ApostleofGrief said:Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.
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National Parks are my wheelhouse.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Grand Canyon was cool but I found it kinda sorta ever so mildly disappointing? Maybe I've just seen it too many times in pics/vids. Definitely amazing but I guess I expected a tiny bit more somehow?
Glacier is badass. Going to the Sun Highway is an adventure everyone needs to experience at some point.
Yellowstone stands alone, nothing like it. Grand Tetons (or Tittytons, as my little brother and I called it as kids) are the shit.
Not a NP but coming northeast bound out of Yellowstone there's a road called Beartooth Highway that is some spectacular mountain scenery and scary af switchbacks.
Olympic, Rainier are obviously legendary but I don't need to tell this bored about them. North Cascades is massively underrated though.
Rocky Mountain is very worth it. Great Smoky Mountains is really cool but you have to set aside your west coast mountain elitism to be able to appreciate it.
Arches is one of my favorites, really unique landscapes. It's the only one of the Utah parks I've been to yet though, I definitely need to see the rest.
Badlands is eery. Wind Cave is fun if you have time for a tour.
I've barely been to the edges of Theodore Roosevelt, Petrified Forest, Mesa Verde and Everglades. Really want to do the full Everglades sometime.
Gateway Arch is a NP now which is ridiculous but it's still cool to visit.
Never been to any of the California or Alaska NPs which is a blackeye for me, IMO.
US nature stuff
Sequoia, John Muir(also see Redwoods), & Yosemite are world beaters. The Olympics can come too. Yellowstone I love but there's less wow factor imo. Maybe that's because my family owns lands in the Wyoming Rockies and I grew up running around there.
I reserve my judgment of the Grand Canyon as I've only ever gotten to visit the lookouts. Still waiting on hitting the lotto for a permit to white water raft it. I have rafted the Snake River in Hell's Canyon which is technically bigger than the Grand Canyon. One of my favorite rafting rivers of all tim and it's amazing to be able to just go and do it without any restrictions.
Arches and the surrounding areas are tits if you are a JEEP fanboy. Hint hint @Swaye
The petrified forest was kind of meh. The painted desert was cool to drive through once. Meteor Crater was actually probably the most impactful.
The Black Rock Dessert anytim there isn't burning man is fucking amazing. Total fucking moonscape and nothing but the sound of the wind and dust blowing. You can drive 100+ on the open playa for hours and not hit a god damn thing. Surreal.
Joshua tree also seems like it would be a good place to do a lot of peyote.
You pretty much can't throw a rock and hit something amazing and beautiful in Hawaii. Too many people spend all of their tim at the Beaches. The volcanoes, waterfalls, and forests aren't appreciated enough.
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When I went there, a sign claimed that the gas chamber wasn't used. Riiiiiiiight... I think it is hard to put even ball park figures on what went on, other than to say, a lot.YellowSnow said:
The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.ApostleofGrief said:Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.
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Mauthausen is pretty sobering, tooYellowSnow said:
The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.ApostleofGrief said:Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.
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count me out thenBearsWiin said:
Mauthausen is pretty sobering, tooYellowSnow said:
The mind boggling thing is that Dachau paled in comparison to the other German death factories further to the East.ApostleofGrief said:Standing inside the gas chamber at Dachau on a freezing day. You don't understand humanity until you do this. Not good... in order to really understand life, though, you have to do this! I'm not anti-semitic. It is just that it's the only way to get the man-inhumanity-to-man issue.
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We couldn't swing Devil's Tower on either Black Hills trip so I've only seen it from a distance off I90. Definitely a place I'd like to visit. Similar experience with Capulin Volcano NM (though it was the highway not the interstate).GrundleStiltzkin said:
#MeToo. I thought Devil's Tower was more impressive than Rushmore.HillsboroDuck said:
Rushmore is pretty cool. Been there and Crazy Horse.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
Have been to Sunset Crater and Wupatki NMs, both were pretty cool, especially Sunset. - Arlington National Cemetery and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier changing of the guard. (Mrs. Lebam called me a wuss for crying)
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