What Historic & Nature Places do you want to (or have) visit(ed)?
There are long standing jokes about NYC'r (of which I'm one) not visiting our tourist places.
Maybe bc my folks were both -first gen- Americans they took us as kids to the Statue of Liberty. We trudged up the spiral staircase in the statue itself after the typical zig zag stairs through the base. What was cool about the spiral was every turn or so would be a cantilevered seat with a guardrail to rest. We got to look out the small windows and see the Harbor. I think we went back down by stair, though there was an elevator. I was around ?5 - 6. Cool experience.
Suddenly blanked out on visits w patents.
I remember one more - driving down to Coney Island Amusement Park when the Steeple Chase was still there!
I've often visited Ft Tryon Park (The Cloisters is there). The top part of the Fort (Birtish Colonial) is a lovely area to sit in with beautiful tall trees.
I've worked right near The Stock Exchange.
Ridden the Staten Island Ferry for fun.
Visited Windows on the World, and Observatory.
(worked at the South Tower, too)
I went by Frances Tavern (read the Plaque) when I worked near by.
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On to other places -
Been to DC many times. I love 💖 The National Mall. Been in most of the ❤️ Smithsonian Museums. Took the Capitol tour.
The best was visiting the WH the Xmas season that The Clinton's declared The Year of The American Craftsman!
Each of the trees were dedicated a single material:
Metal, Wood, Fiber, and more! Glorious!
The most sobering were visiting The American History Museum after they had the installed the Lunch Counter (? Woolworths) where one of the first Sit-ins occurred. I tingled with *History* in the air!
Also on the same day (or maybe different trip?) a gorgeous dry low 80s sunny day. I visited ❤️ both JFK's and RFK's graves. Sigh. (I actually saw JFK's white picket fence one in '64 when my parents wanted to visit).
I took a tour around The Black Hills (and Mt Rushmore) '80.
Visited (swoon) The Grand Canyon.
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And a gifted vacation I saw The Efil Tower, The Lourvre,
The museum where Monet's Waterlilies are displayed Paris in general. More swoon.
What do I still want to see?
Oh, The Pyramids (swoon) but unless I'm amazingly lucky, that's probably not happening.
And to stay somewhere where I will be able to see the Northern Lights! (more swoon)
I've ended up being quite in this area of my life.
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So - tell me, us... of your dreams came true!!! stories and
your your traveling hopes for the future l!.
I'd love to hear your tales... 🙂
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Hope it was good.
I would prefer a ful mudamus.
My one time there my husband was not well so the trip was rather flat. When things reopen I will book a trip with all the bells and whistles. Wish I could have a friendly insider to show me around - you were so fortunate!
I was intrigued by the “tourist police” stationed outside the main entrance and wandering about.
We ate at a fabulous restaurant there. Had a never ending feast. Wish I had been hungrier. That is the main place I need to find when I get back.
The tourism was all about glorifying this vicious murdering whackjob who literally hacked hapless farmers to death, though apparently the local slaves he provided arms to and thought would fight with him weren't enamored of him either. Their takes on him were not discussed. But the place itself was definitely worth it. George Washington thought so too when he was there. Would have liked to stay where you did, that's definitely cool to this nerd.
Loved everything and everywhere!
My top places: Antarctica, Mongolia, Okavango Delta, in that order.
Just had to reschedule my booked trip to Kenya and Ethiopia for February next year. 
Hope things open up soon. I don’t have that many years left to see what I want to see.
Sailed out of Ushuaia to the Falklands, South Georgia Island (largest penguin rookery in the world), through the Ross Sea and touching the continent. Got to see a Chilean/Russian research station.
IT WAS FREAKING FABULOUS!
My dad worked for the government and we got overseas a few times.
My first memories are in Saipan. Lived outside DC a lot when I was a kid and went on field trips to all the museums. Dad had the credentials, so I have been inside the Pentagon and the CIA building in Langley. Also been in the Capital Building (and rode on the Senate Subway!) and the FBI building. Never made it to the White House.
Lived in Athens, Greece in the 60's and saw a lot of that country and a good portion of Europe. The Acropolis was visible from my bedroom. (NOT a pic taken from my bedroom! LOL.. )
Went to the Corinth Canal,
Traveled all over Greece.
Edit to add: On the way over to Athens we flew from JFK Airport (It had only had that name for a year or so when we left) to Rome. Took a couple days there for a look about and saw the Coliseum;
On the way back to the states we took a ferry over to Italy (the days before the "Iron Curtain" came down, so Greece was isolated by land) and traveled up to Venice
and then over the Alps, up through Germany, took a side trip to Stockholm and then the SS United States back to New York in September of 1967.
Moved to Alice Springs, NT Aus. in the early 70's. Dad worked at Pine Gap
Climbed this;
The spot nearest the camera is where the climb is made. You can make out the path worn in by hundreds of thousands of climbers over the years.
I understand the Aborigines have an outpost at the base there where the cars are parked these days, and try and convince people not to climb it, but there was no such activity when we were there. It is sacred to them. Drove over to the Olgas as well;
Got back to Aus several times in the 90's for the Indy Car Race at Surfers Paradise. Surfers is gorgeous and a lot of fun, but just like any other beach city in the world, really;
I've been to every state in this country, having just gotten Alaska under my belt a year ago.
I've driven a vehicle in all of them, including 2 Hawaiian Islands. I've driven a tractor trailer in 47 of the lower 48 (Never had to drive into Vermont in a truck. Drove my car into it a couple years ago, but never a truck!), 4 Canadian Provinces (ON, QC, BC and YT)
Been to Mount Rushmore
And the Crazy Horse Monument;
Bobtailed a Pete up through the Sequoia National Park
And drove past the Very Large Array several times;
Boated on Lake Powell twice (1996 & 1997) and visited the Rainbow Bridge
That shot is roughly what the water level was when I visited. It is considerably lower these days, such that the dock is well down the canyon, giving at least a quarter mile walk to the point where the arch comes into view.
Lake Powell is spectacular;
Saw the Grand Canyon for the first time last year. Also amazing. Here's a vid I shot at the Mather Point overlook at the South Rim village;
vimeo.com/492699712
While I'm not as well traveled as some, I feel I've been very fortunate to have been able to travel so much at a young age, and still continue to do so. My next big outing will be a 2 week foray onto the Continent for the first time since the 60's! I've been to England a few times in the 90's, but I have not set foot in Continental Europe since we left in 1967.
Cool Thread!
Final edit;
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads
So I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me weed, whites, and wine
And you show me a sign
I'll be willin'... to be movin'
I have actually been to Tucson, Tucumcari, Tehachapi and Tonapah! I haven't driven every rig that's ever been made, but I've driven a shitload! And if you know what "Whites" are, you are well rounded!
I say "We" as it was my oldest brother and I in my '16 Corvette. We had moved one of my nephews personal effects from Florida to Phoenix, and put my car on a trailer behind the UHaul. I wanted to take the opportunity to drive back across the country and visit the Canyon as well as a few other spots, avoiding the Interstates as much as possible.
We were able to do that rather well, driving on freeways only about 100 miles of the entire 2500 mile trip.
I took these of Monument Valley;
We went across the southern tier of Colorado and Kansas. Went up through Durango and over Wolf Creek Pass on US Rte. 160;
Here's my fat ass near the top of the pass;
And my brother, my travel companion for this jaunt, looking up toward the top of the pass;
Southern Colorado, at the junction of US Rte. 160 and Colorado 109, near Kim, CO. I think the open prairie is starkly beautiful.
Here's a pic of me at the Yukon line a year ago October. "Florida Man visits the far north!"
Yes, "Little White Crosses" are Dexadrine, an Amphetamine, and they were very easy to find in the days before the trucking industry began random drug testing.
As far as my planned trip to Europe, I'll not likely do that until the summer of 2022
That's enough of this silliness!
It looks absolutely stunning!
