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Cheaper than the Golden Gate Bridge, slated to bump to $6.00 to cross its 1.7 miles.
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I assume that toll bridges are in a different category, which is why the 91 express lanes are reputed to be the most expensive toll roads in the nation.
Why does Cleveland get such a bad rap? It’s in the same state as Columbus and Cincinnati, and yet it gets more ridicule. I would much rather visit Cleveland than any of its Rust Belt neighbors.
And while I’m at it, I won’t stand by and watch as Ohio gets lumped in with states like Delaware, Idaho and North Dakota. It may not be the most exciting state in the country, but it certainly doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as those rejects.
North Dakota gets my vote too.
I’ve been a tourist in South Dakota, Ohio, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming and found stuff to like, even to go back for.
Iowa – the Field of Dreams near Dyersville gets a lot of visitors. Also the Amana Colonies, the Pella Tulip Festival, and there’s a covered bridge festival thing in Madison County.
Not to mention Corn Days in Dows, the Raspberry Festival in Webster City, Watermelon Days in Stanhope, an old-timer’s festival and art show in Belmond, teddy bear conventions in Clarion, River Days in Lehigh, and Fort Dodge does something – Frontier Days, I think. And the state fair in Des Moines.
You just don’t want to visit in winter. Especially not today.
[QUOTE=friedo]
I hear they have a nice screen door factory.
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Look at me. I’m in Delaware.
I always quite liked Delaware. I’m from southwest of Philly, and we used to go there to camp on the Chesapeake Bay.
And as already noted, half the area does their major and/or cigarette shopping down there.
For you Idaho bashers, I work at a major ski resort in Idaho. Lots of people come here. Trust me. I book their hotel rooms and condos.
Southern Idaho, now, I’m not a fan of either (at least, in general, though I hear Craters of the Moon is really neat). But once you get into the mountains it’s gorgeous, if you like that sort of thing.
Ohio actually gets tons of tourists because of Cedar Point, the rollercoaster capital of the world. And not one of those fake capitals either, this place has almost 20 coasters.
Oh yeah. 
Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska would be my guesses.
Uh, you were in Maryland hun. But we love you anyway!
Delaware Is the nation’s capitol for non profit organizations. There are some peculiarities to its laws that make it very attractive to establish corporations there. So it is a mecca for certain kinds of lawyers.
BURN IT!!!
[QUOTE=Giles]
Ohio gets a lot of visitors from Indiana looking for some excitement.
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One of my co-workers goes there from Florida–to go to Cedar Point (?) or some amusement park. Of course, he has family there, too, but I think it’s the rides that gets him there. 
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington]
I know lots of (old) people who go to Iowa to gamble. My grandparents used to go to the dog track in Dubuque all the time, but stopped for a reason I can’t remember.
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Yep, people come to Iowa for three reasons:
- Gambling
- RAGBRAI
- The caucus
Why does North Dakota have such a worse rep than South Dakota? They both seem like equal opportunity hellholes to me.
[QUOTE=whiterabbit]
. . . I work at a major ski resort in Idaho. . . . . I book their hotel rooms and condos.
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You do realize that now every ski bum on the continent will be hounding you for a closet to crash in in Sun Valley.
I envy your location. 
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]
Ah, but the thing about Ohio is that it’s boring in so many different ways. It’s a rich, diverse tapestry of meh, punctuated by the grim, the bleak, the tragicomic, and the just plain tragic.
And then there’s Cleveland!
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My parents actually left Chicago to honeymoon in Cincinnati. To this day I can’t wrap my brain around that.
[QUOTE=Shagnasty]
Much of Mississippi is beautiful but they believed that floating large casino buildings were much more moral than stationary casinos because they technically floated on water and therefore were not really part of the state. That bitch Katrina sure knew how to toss them around a few miles inland though.
One of my favorite places in the world is Natchez, MS. That place is really pretty and very rich. If you want to see the Old South, that is the place. We got invited to a Confederate Ball weekend there that must have cost millions in total. Nice.
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I was kinda sorta kidding; I’m from Oxford and, now that I’m an adult and have lived in the inner city for many years, realize it’s a beautiful state and I was somewhat lucky to grow up on the thousands of natural country acres my family owns.
You’re right, oh, how Katrina did blow but it missed the casinos of Tunica.
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig]
The Dakotas (especially the Northern one) don’t get a lot of tourist visits because they’re isolated, not because they’re boring. ND has Roosevelt National Park, and SD has the heavily touristed Black Hills, with Mount Rushmore, Wind Cave, the Badlands, the Crazy Horse Monument, and historic Deadwood.
Delaware, on the other hand, gets a fair number of tourist visits, because it’s easy to get to and a ton of people live nearby. But it’s boring. I’ve been in all 50 states, and Delaware held the least fascination. One tme I had to testify in a lawsuit in Wilmington, because my employer was incorporated there–that was probably the quintessential Delaware experience.
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I grew up in ND…I went to college in ND…spent the first 21 years of my life there.
ND doesn’t have much for tourism and is isolated/expensive to get there (I once priced tickets and it was almost as expensive to fly to Bismarck from Minneapolis as to fly to London, England.
There is hunting. There is fishing…but better is to be had in Montana or Canada.
There is Roosevelt National Park…which I really do like
There is Medora the ‘old western town’ which used to be great but they loosened up the old west codes (must look old west - wooden sidewalks etc.) so much that it doesn’t look old west anymore.
SD has the Black Hills and more than ND.
I like ND…but a tourist destination? Some hunting/fishing…Roosevelt National Park (not a main destination)…not much.
Probably more than Delaware though…
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
Why does North Dakota have such a worse rep than South Dakota? They both seem like equal opportunity hellholes to me.
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South Dakota has Mt. Rushmore. That’s about it.
[QUOTE=lieu]
Nobody goes to Kansas. Fer chrissakes, it’s smack dab in the middle of “the plains.”
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Hey, I understand that Kansas had a thriving tourist season last year, and I’ve heard all three of those people who visited Kansas are planning on returning this year to see their grandparents again.
[QUOTE=Mongo Ponton]
Uh, you were in Maryland hun. But we love you anyway!
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Sorry to break this to you…
But thanks for the love anyway! 