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This years summer vacation

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    89th
    wrote on 6 Jul 2024, 22:35 last edited by
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    You’ll enjoy the evening drives as the sun is behind you… good luck!

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      89th
      wrote on 6 Jul 2024, 22:47 last edited by
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      Scott’s Bluff. Love the pilgrimage reason, school reports stick with you. I still recall my Magellan report from 3rd grade clearly.

      Anyway I think Chimney Rock is nearby. If you like golf, on the east end of the state near Souix City is a new course called Landmand.

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        LuFins Dad
        wrote on 7 Jul 2024, 01:30 last edited by
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        Are you looking for specific small towns to stay in?

        The Brad

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          LuFins Dad
          wrote on 7 Jul 2024, 01:34 last edited by
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          If you want to cut south just a little bit, there’s Winchester, VA. It’s an old Appalachian coal town that’s been revitalized. You’ll see a great downtown with some very nice restaurants and likely some excellent B&Bs, and in a 10 minute drive you are in rolling hills farm/orchard country. There’s also an excellent music conservatory in town that might have a summer series, but if not, you ought to be able to find some bluegrass in the area…

          The Brad

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            LuFins Dad
            wrote on 7 Jul 2024, 01:45 last edited by
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            And if you cut anywhere in the SW PA, Western MD, or Winchester areas, I am sure that @Aqua-Letifer and I would be willing to make a drive out to meet you and the the Mrs. Bach.

            Oh, and an interesting side note… Between SW PA, through Winchester is about the only place in the US where you will find still running Drive In Theaters…

            The Brad

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              Mik
              wrote on 7 Jul 2024, 02:18 last edited by
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              We have some.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              • M Mik
                7 Jul 2024, 02:18

                We have some.

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                LuFins Dad
                wrote on 7 Jul 2024, 02:26 last edited by
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                @Mik said in This years summer vacation:

                We have some.

                Yeah, but they have all those XXX s over the signs, so I don’t count those.

                The Brad

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                  Mik
                  wrote on 7 Jul 2024, 03:49 last edited by
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                  Nope. Family entertainment.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  • B bachophile
                    6 Jul 2024, 19:16

                    Thanks! All scenic recommendations welcomed. Only the plains will be done by interstate ( fucking spell checker wrote interstellar and I managed to edit that out before posting ) highway. At the two bookends I’d like to stay away from the I’s.

                    I’ve gone east to west driving many years ago. Along a southern route parallel to I 40. Now it’s going to be a bit more northern to avoid the heat. (Yeah Vegas. I know. That’s the only hot spot I’ll tolerate. Sin city and all that jazz).

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                    taiwan_girl
                    wrote on 8 Jul 2024, 01:01 last edited by
                    #19

                    @bachophile Sounds like a fun trip!!! Enjoy!!

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                      bachophile
                      wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 00:22 last edited by bachophile
                      #20

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                      I’m not going to bombard you with endless pictures but I’ll post occasionally as we make our way across to the east.

                      The w/e was spent with family in SF and today was the first real traveling day. So you have the classic pic up Yosemite valley.

                      Snake ID anyone? Crossed our path while hiking under half dome. It looked like it had a rattler tail, but didn’t seem to me to have the classic viper triangular head so I have no idea what it was.

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                      • B bachophile
                        16 Jul 2024, 00:22

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                        I’m not going to bombard you with endless pictures but I’ll post occasionally as we make our way across to the east.

                        The w/e was spent with family in SF and today was the first real traveling day. So you have the classic pic up Yosemite valley.

                        Snake ID anyone? Crossed our path while hiking under half dome. It looked like it had a rattler tail, but didn’t seem to me to have the classic viper triangular head so I have no idea what it was.

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                        George K
                        wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 00:26 last edited by
                        #21

                        @bachophile said in This years summer vacation:

                        bombard you with endless pictures

                        Please do!

                        We love them!

                        My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.

                        However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.

                        Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.

                        More pics, please?

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • George KG George K
                          16 Jul 2024, 00:26

                          @bachophile said in This years summer vacation:

                          bombard you with endless pictures

                          Please do!

                          We love them!

                          My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.

                          However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.

                          Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.

                          More pics, please?

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                          taiwan_girl
                          wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:27 last edited by
                          #22

                          @George-K said in This years summer vacation:

                          Please do!

                          We love them!

                          +1

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                            bachophile
                            wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:44 last edited by
                            #23

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                            Yosemite falls

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                            El Capitan

                            Gives new meaning to Alex Honold’s free solo climb

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                              bachophile
                              wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 02:45 last edited by
                              #24

                              Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID

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                              • B bachophile
                                16 Jul 2024, 02:45

                                Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID

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                                Renauda
                                wrote on 16 Jul 2024, 04:02 last edited by Renauda
                                #25

                                @bachophile

                                To me it looks like a gopher snake. Non venomous. Fairly common here in southern Alberta around Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Often mistaken for a rattler.

                                Elbows up!

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                                  bachophile
                                  wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 03:20 last edited by
                                  #26

                                  Today was sequoia national forest day.

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                                  I bet u didn’t know that sequoia has 5 vowels

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                                    LuFins Dad
                                    wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 04:07 last edited by
                                    #27

                                    Beautiful.

                                    The Brad

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                                      jon-nyc
                                      wrote on 17 Jul 2024, 07:40 last edited by
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                                      Nice. I considered making my way there in August, it would even give me an excuse to get some meth in Bakersfield, but decided against it. We will see some Redwoods somewhere.

                                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                                        bachophile
                                        wrote on 18 Jul 2024, 23:38 last edited by
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                                        Coming to you from Mexican Hat Utah

                                        This is the view from the motel room overlooking the San Juan River just outside of monument valley

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                                        Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?

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                                        Glen canyon dam

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                                        And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon

                                        Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.

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                                          bachophile
                                          wrote on 18 Jul 2024, 23:49 last edited by
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                                          Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.

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