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Riffraft

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3724 on: June 08, 2026, 12:07:34 PM »
View from my condo.  Well mine in couple weeks barring problems.

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« Reply #3725 on: June 12, 2026, 03:40:50 PM »
2 months in maine is over.  Heading out tomorrow on another cross country trip. Niagara Falls by tomorrow evening 

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« Reply #3726 on: June 12, 2026, 03:51:40 PM »
Maine to Niagara is a pretty good haul.

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« Reply #3727 on: June 12, 2026, 04:54:11 PM »
Maine to Niagara is a pretty good haul.
8.5 hours from where I am.  Plan for all our drives to be only in the daylight

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« Reply #3728 on: June 12, 2026, 06:40:59 PM »
My wife wants to see Bruges, so I booked a tour.   

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« Reply #3729 on: June 13, 2026, 07:30:32 AM »
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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« Reply #3730 on: June 13, 2026, 06:13:02 PM »
View from hotel room and dinner



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« Reply #3731 on: June 14, 2026, 01:21:44 AM »
Canadian side, eh? 

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« Reply #3732 on: June 14, 2026, 02:58:07 PM »
Good thing we arrived at niagara before it became dark yesterday, because it has been raining and thunderstorms all day today. I have been here a number of times, but wife hasn't.  Leaving tomorrow morning to head towards Mt. Rushmore.  Stopping in Napierville tomorrow. 

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« Reply #3733 on: June 14, 2026, 04:51:33 PM »
Places I have visited where I have no desire to return, ever:

New Orleans - As noted before, I may have missed something, but my wife feels the same way.  It was dirty and uninteresting, to me, the FQ.  We had one decent meal at lunch when we were away from our French friend, but it wasn't anything notable.

Mrytle Beach - I don't play golf any more.  The beach part is decent, the "tourists" are, well, anyway, it's the Redneck Riviera.  Not my cup of tea.

Pigeon Forge - Even worse, IMHO, massive traffic,  touristy gimmicks, I guess it would appeal some to smaller kids.  My wife loathes the place.  I recall what it was like in the early 60s, not much there except corn.

Sedona, AZ - The town itself is a collection of T shirt and magic rock stores and over priced food.  The terrain around it is a "see once" kind of thing, to me.  We dined twice at a nice Italian restaurant Badge suggested.  We drove around a good bit, which was OK, saw Meteor Crater.

Cherokee, NC - The place makes me sad, but the only way to get into the main part of the Smoky Mountains.  You can bypass it on the Parkway a bit.

Napa Valley - Seems a bit odd for a wine drinker, but been there, seen that, it's now over priced overly touristy wine busses galore and not fun, to me.  Sonoma seems headed in the same direction.

Temecula, CA - I'll throw this in, a Napa wannabe that isn't, really not that interesting, to me.

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« Reply #3734 on: June 15, 2026, 09:32:47 AM »
Don't forget Austin, Texas.  Horrible place with no good food, beer and wine are illegal, all the women are ugly, there's a noxious floating gas that will turn you inside-out, and roving bands of ex state employees that will roofie you in order to steal your kidneys and then leave you in a bathtub full of ice.

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« Reply #3735 on: June 15, 2026, 09:38:17 AM »
It's why I left, really.  

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« Reply #3736 on: June 15, 2026, 09:44:25 AM »
Places I have visited where I have no desire to return, ever:

New Orleans - As noted before, I may have missed something, but my wife feels the same way.  It was dirty and uninteresting, to me, the FQ.  We had one decent meal at lunch when we were away from our French friend, but it wasn't anything notable.

Pigeon Forge - Even worse, IMHO, massive traffic,  touristy gimmicks, I guess it would appeal some to smaller kids.  My wife loathes the place.  I recall what it was like in the early 60s, not much there except corn.

Sedona, AZ - The town itself is a collection of T shirt and magic rock stores and over priced food.  The terrain around it is a "see once" kind of thing, to me.  We dined twice at a nice Italian restaurant Badge suggested.  We drove around a good bit, which was OK, saw Meteor Crater.


Mostly with you on NOLA.  Never much cared for the place.  Though I scratch my head at your food claims, and think you'd just about have to intentionally try really hard to miss some great food.  

Probably agree with Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg.  Insanely fun as a kid.  Would happily take kids there if I had them.  Not why we visited recently, but there are a few things there still interesting.  Mostly I'd prefer to hide out in the mountains.  Well, I used to, anyway.  

Sedona--nope, can't agree.  Sedona was spectacular for sightseeing.  Would definitely go again and we plan to at some point.  I only wish I were healthy enough to do some of the more interesting hikes.  We went out to Devil's Bridge, which is one of the lesser treks, and that was really over the limit of what I should've been biting off.  Not likely to try that again, but I am glad I did it last time, no matter how foolish. 

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3737 on: June 15, 2026, 09:46:36 AM »
View from hotel room and dinner




Makes me think of the old song, "they paved paradise, and put up a parking lot."  

My folks took me there when I was about 8, but my memories of it are not that vivid.  We did some boat ride....Maid of the Mist, I think it was called.  I remember enjoying it and thinking the Falls were very pretty.  

 

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