I had no idea!
About 90 million pounds of lobsters are still harvested from the Maine oceans:
And a lot of those are shipped locally, to Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, where they are held in “lobster pounds” until they are sold.
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, where you can see the “ruins” of the Presidio: actually, just rocks arranged in a rectangular outline of where the Presidio used to be. Forgive the long link:
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That’s even more underwhelming than the Alamo
Wow. We have a tough-to-please crowd here. I love about 95% of the stuff mentioned. The only thing I could think of that I was really underwhelmed by was Mount Rushmore, already mentioned. As a kid, I had imagined it to be much, much larger than it actually is in reality. I mean, it’s still pretty cool and all, but it fell quite short of my expectations when I visited it as a teenager.
Medium-sized cities tend to bore more very quickly, unless they have some architectural and/or natural charm to them. Like medium-sized European cities I tend to enjoy, but American cities I tend to run out of things to do quickly in them. Meanwhile, I love big cities, and they are not all the same by any stretch of the imagination. Manhattan, Chicago, and LA are just all completely different worlds to me.
Underwhelmed? I saw Wicked this past weekend.
I hate to admit it, but that site made me laugh out loud. I hope like hell they don’t charge admission to that “attraction”.
Very similar to Fort Churchill in Nevada. Lot’s of, “Well, there used to be a building here, but there’s no trace anymore”
Remember in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, when he goes in search of the Alamo’s “basement”?
Well, about the only thing the Presidio has that the Alamo doesn’t, is a “basement” (of sorts)…on the Permanent Exhibits page, see “Stairway to the Past” (you can’t click on it the thumbnail… if you could, you wouldn’t drive all the way to Tubac to see old coins and buttons behind glass):
I’m glad you got a laugh out of it… that’s much more than I got by actually going there. 
But, ya know… it kinda makes me wonder if there ever really was a Presidio there, or if they just chose a random area in the desert and lined up a bunch of rocks! 
I love Japanese castles but there are a few which are have reinforced concrete interiors. Blah.
There are also many sites of former castles, such as this one.
Yup, it’s some rocks outlining where the castle used to be.
OMG yes! Kobe beef was SUCH a letdown. That mouthful of tallow, UGH! I had to fight my gag reflex. And if I wanted a mouthful of tallow, I can get that for about $3 a pound.
I like a well-marbled steak as much as the next person, but from now on I insist that my steak have a positive ratio of protein to fat.
I have learned that seeing an honest-to-goodness DC traffic jam is actually a draw to European visitors. I like to take them down 395 to DC on a weekday morning. The rolling hills, lined with four lanes of cars as far as the eye can see - it’s just amazing to them. That and the really big Wegman’s grocery store.
24 years later and still waiting for one. On my bucket list.
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And my contribution, The NS Savannah, nuclear cargo ship. It was anchored beside the USS Yorktown in MT Pleasant SC for a while in the late 1980s. I don’t know what I was expecting, but my memories of the tour were like, “Well here’s a big, empty cargo hold. And here’s another big, empty cargo hold.” Should have known better.
Sea World, Tampa. My wife (of a year) and I went in 1998 and I loved it; the whole place was mostly interactive. We went back the next year and the joint had been “Disney-fied”; the animal shows were now little plays with talking critters and the rest of the exhibits were similarly anthropomorphic. It is to puke. Seriously underwhelmed - haven’t been back.
Golden Gate Bridge, really? Of course, if you only drove across it I can understand. You have to walk it to really appreciate the engineering, not to mention the views of the bay and ocean.
I did. I walked across and back.
I must have missed Velocity’s post last month. I agree with Spectre here.
The first time I visited San Francisco, I first viewed the bridge first from Fisherman’s Wharf, then drove across it and viewed it from the viewpoint on Slacker’s Hill. The awesomeness of the structure totally blew me away.
I just got an e-mail from the online glasses place that’s working on a new pair I ordered, letting me know the order is almost completed and asking me to rate my excitement on a scale of 1-10.
Fellas, it’s another pair of glasses. I’m not working myself up into a frenzy awaiting the shipment.
It actually has nice lines for a cargo ship. I wonder if it would make the basis for a good yacht?
Reminds me of this sculpture by the great H. C. Westerman:
