# Places you've been. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879 "2019-09-08T14:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/161 "2019-09-11T21:35:44Z")
In the right hand seat of a Cessna Citation jet, flying it for a bit. I was used to airplanes that were open cockpit and cruised at about 70 MPH, and this puppy was zooming along at 370. Before I even knew where I was, I was past it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/162 "2019-09-11T22:39:30Z")
> [@Limmin](#): > > - Tower of London > - Meteor Crater, Arizona > - South Point (southernmost point in USA, is on south side of the island of Hawaii) Been there. And backstage (and performing onstage) at Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra. Have I mentioned that I stayed at the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, AZ? The creepy proprietor was an amateur taxidermist who showed me his collection. Reminded me VERY MUCH of Norman Bates. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/163 "2019-09-11T23:51:27Z")
An anniversary of sorts. On 9/12/01 my wife and I kayaked to [Bartoo Islan](https://www.google.com/maps/search/bartoo+island/@48.671787,-117.1529042,78626m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en)d on Priest Lake and camped for two nights. It was late in the season and coupled with the attacks the day before, it was deserted. Not a plane in the sky, not a boat on the water. A little eerie. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/164 "2019-09-12T06:12:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Winner, I think. I’m curious as to whether you had to decompress coming up out of it? No. AFAIK, in open air you’d need to go at least 6km BSL before it became an issue. And the surface at the mine is already +1km ASL. [See this earlier thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=741204) with links to papers ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/165 "2019-09-12T07:52:56Z")
I’ve been to Meteor Crater! They have an excellent little museum. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/166 "2019-09-12T10:15:59Z")
Been to Jimmy Morrisons grave and Auschwitz which I know other members have also visited. Maybe not so common was a disused ex Communist era nuclear bunker in Prague. Most of the gear was still there- what was interesting was that the people were expected to stand in the time they were there. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/167 "2019-09-12T14:31:32Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Been to Jimmy Morrisons grave and Auschwitz which I know other members have also visited. > > Maybe not so common was a disused ex Communist era nuclear bunker in Prague. Most of the gear was still there- what was interesting was that the people were expected to stand in the time they were there. I’ve been to Morrison’s grave, which has been vandalized over the years. He’s in some good company in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, including Bizet, Chopin, Balzac, Proust, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, and others. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/168 "2019-09-12T14:45:55Z")
I thought of another one. The glass dome/ball atop the Smith Tower in Seattle. Not just the apartment in the pyramid section, but on top of that is a 10 foot glass ball. It’s an interesting climb and a fantastic view. My ex and I went up there on New Years Eve in the mid 1990s, and joined the dome club. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/169 "2019-09-12T15:02:37Z")
At Stourhead, a stately English country home at which scenes from _Pride & Prejudice_ (2005) were later filmed. At Winston Churchill’s country house, Chartwell. On set for the filming of a scene from _The Avengers_ in the atrium of the Old Courthouse in Cleveland. At a private home in Northeast Ohio to meet the President and Mrs. Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/170 "2019-09-12T15:05:32Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’ve been to Point Roberts, WA Been there. Once because I forgot to turn and mistakenly found myself at the border. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/171 "2019-09-12T15:11:20Z")
I have been in the tunnels under the Panama Canal. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/172 "2019-09-12T15:14:24Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I have been in the tunnels under the Panama Canal. THAT sounds very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/173 "2019-09-12T15:38:35Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I’ve been to Meteor Crater! They have an excellent little museum. Yes. Interesting that most of the museum is about manned U.S. space flight. > [@Chefguy](#): > > I’ve been to Morrison’s grave, which has been vandalized over the years. He’s in some good company in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, including Bizet, Chopin, Balzac, Proust, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, and others. My favorite cemetery!. Oscar Wilde’s tomb is covered with lipstick kisses. And when I was there, there were three school buses from Poland, filled with kids to visit Chopin’s grave. They were weeping and wailing as if they had personally known him. And I loved the head-to-head graves of Gertrude and Alice, sharing a single headstone. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/174 "2019-09-12T16:33:41Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I have been in the tunnels under the Panama Canal. Been there (post #105). I’ve also been in the old military bunkers that riddle the islands at the end of the Causeway at the end of the Panama Canal. During my first stint in Panama in 1977-1979 my girlfriend was a native Zonian (born in the Panama Canal Zone). One of her friends was an engineer on the Panama Railroad. He once let use ride in the cabin of the locomotive he was driving and I got to sound the horn as we went through crossings. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/175 "2019-09-12T17:01:19Z")
Tunnels beneath the Panama Canal sound very interesting. I’ve been inside the top secret Blue Cube, the former USAF installation for flying all their satellites. I used to work in there. Perhaps other Dopers have been inside, and fewer still who worked there daily, but it can’t be many. Wiki: [Onizuka Air Force Station - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onizuka_Air_Force_Station) Web images: [https://www.google.com/search?q=blue+cube+onizuka+afb+sunnyvale&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=minv&sxsrf=ACYBGNRqV2udy8ktI6QRNG5dc-yfUmgnjA:1568307206314&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn-bjP38vkAhURlawKHQoWBSUQ\_AUoAnoECBAQAg&biw=768&bih=922](https://www.google.com/search?q=blue+cube+onizuka+afb+sunnyvale&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=minv&sxsrf=ACYBGNRqV2udy8ktI6QRNG5dc-yfUmgnjA:1568307206314&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn-bjP38vkAhURlawKHQoWBSUQ_AUoAnoECBAQAg&biw=768&bih=922) It was demolished, beginning in 2014. Today it is completely gone. In 2007, more than 10 years after I left, they held a closure ceremony and I attended. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/176 "2019-09-12T17:06:03Z")
Oh, just thought of another one. I’ve been to Xavier Mansion, as seen in X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) It’s actually Hatley Castle, originally the home of a rich bastard, now the administration building for a university. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/177 "2019-09-12T17:15:06Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > - In the middle of slums outside San Jose, Costa Rica :eek: I was deep in a few Brazilian Favelas. Terrifying, actually. Lots of people, but I imagine not many Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/178 "2019-09-12T17:32:27Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > :eek: I was deep in a few Brazilian Favelas. Terrifying, actually. Lots of people, but I imagine not many Dopers. Very dangerous place, for sure. I’ve been to the Alfama District in Lisbon, which is the oldest neighborhood, and one of the few to sort-of survive the earthquake and fire of 1755. The steep, winding streets and steps are very old-world, and its location in the shadow of Sao Jorge castle is very picturesque. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/179 "2019-09-12T17:59:54Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > :eek: I was deep in a few Brazilian Favelas. Terrifying, actually. Lots of people, but I imagine not many Dopers. I never went into the favelas, but I regularly drive through some of the dicier neighborhoods in Panama City, and years ago was in some of the hinkier parts of Lagos, Nigeria. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/180 "2019-09-12T18:30:42Z")
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