# What's the one place you've been to that no other Doper has visited? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390 "2007-08-21T16:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/341 "2007-09-06T23:44:21Z")
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario Salaspils, Latvia Trakai, Lithuania Slightly less exotic: Wigan Pier ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/342 "2007-09-06T23:49:08Z")
[QUOTE=ThisSpaceForRent] Ever been in the sonar dome, lowest most forward point of the ship? or the SPQ9 radar dome somewhere around the o7-8 level…used to hang out up there cause i could…and the ASROC rover would never find you if’n you wanted to have an exotic smoke… 😃 [/QUOTE] Whoops, missed this posted here. Nope - I was a snipe. Snipes don’t go above the 05 level. They get nosebleeds if they go higher than that. We’re sea-level type people. As for the sonar dome, well, if I’d wanted to be going _that_ deep I’d have volunteered for subs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/343 "2007-09-07T00:35:26Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] 2 km under the earth, anyone? [/QUOTE] I have been in several mines. Gold, silver, and salt. I’m sure at least one of them was at least that deep. [QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD] How about [Iron Bridge, Ontario](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Bridge,_Ontario)? [/QUOTE] Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/344 "2007-09-07T04:16:08Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] Anyone else actually stopped to visit Harmony, California? [/QUOTE] I’ve been to the winery right next to it. [QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] Kampala, Uganda (we had great pizza at the Speke Hotel!) Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tanzania [/QUOTE] Got my wallet lifted in Kampala, I got it returned to me in the mail about 5 years later. [QUOTE=Desert Nomad] Kigali, Rwanda [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sitnam] Mandalay, Myanmar [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Micro Dot] Malawi, a country in central africa, poor as dirt but overcrowded as can be. [/QUOTE] Been to all the above. My spots: Bagan, Myanmar Luang Prabang, Laos Kuressaare, Estonia Cill Ghobnait, Inis Oirr, Ireland Lesotho Swaziland Leticia, Colombia Angel Falls, Venezuela Amantaní Island on Lake Titicaca, Peru Torres Del Paine, Chile El Chalten, Argentina Colonia, Uruguay Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/345 "2007-09-07T05:16:22Z")
[QUOTE=Lok] Yeah, been there going from Sault Ste. Marie to Sudbury. In that vein, Britt, Ontario anyone? Was just at the Tundra Communities walk off of the Trail Ridge Road in the Rocky Mountain NP. Anyone else? [/QUOTE] The first part of this was in response to this: > [@ASAKMOTSD](#): > > How about Iron Bridge, Ontario? Don’t know how I forgot the quote. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/346 "2007-09-07T05:55:39Z")
Bornholm – an island in the Baltic off the coast of Poland. There may be a slash through either of the two o’s in Bornholm. I think it is Scandanavian – probably Swedish. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/347 "2007-09-07T10:02:20Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] Bornholm – an island in the Baltic off the coast of Poland. There may be a slash through either of the two o’s in Bornholm. I think it is Scandanavian – probably Swedish. [/QUOTE] Bornholm is Danish - though it is closer to Sweden than it is to the rest of Denmark. It is a popular place for school camps & such, so I suspect most Danish dopers have been there. And they do the most amazing smoked herring there. My Og! ---
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/348 "2007-09-07T17:38:06Z")
I have never been to any of the spots posted at least not that I remember. My spot is Bedford, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/349 "2007-09-07T23:35:14Z")
[QUOTE=SomeUserName] I have never been to any of the spots posted at least not that I remember. My spot is Bedford, Ohio [/QUOTE] Yeah- oodles of time - I’m from Chagrin Falls. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/350 "2007-09-08T00:47:08Z")
I have two: **Mattapoisett, Massachusetts** **Malabar Farm State Park** in Lucas, OH ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/351 "2007-09-08T17:37:17Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] Gitmo? just the base, or the actual detention center that’s so controversial? [/QUOTE] Both ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/352 "2007-09-09T19:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] Cill Ghobnait, Inis Oirr, Ireland [/QUOTE] I’ve not been there, but my saints name is from St. Ghobnait. We still have family in Ballyvourney, and my father is buried at St. Gobnait (varient spelling) shrine. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/353 "2007-09-09T19:48:27Z")
I have been in the quarry where the granite blocks for Fort Winnebago came from. I’ve been in the Fort Winnebago Cemetery too. I’ve been on the land surrounding John Muir Park and swam in Fountain Lake many times as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/354 "2007-09-10T06:18:32Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] On a similar note, I’ve eaten several times in the Delegates Dining Room in the UN. I also did research for a high school paper in the UN library. I’ve also eaten in the Secretariat cafeteria, where I had my one and only encounter with liverwurst. :eek: [/QUOTE] I’ll see your delegate dining room and raise you the floor of the General Assembly. More specifically, seated in the \*\*delegate’s chair for what was then known as Upper Volta. \*\*(And I have the photo to prove it). Of course, this was in 1966, when our tour group from the United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth were allowed to sit in those seats for presentations by officials on the UN staff. By the way, I saved the menu from the Delegates Dining Room, and things were pretty inexpensive by the standards of 41 years later. IIRC the most expensive thing on the menu was $6.95. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/355 "2007-09-10T08:42:20Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Williamsville, VA. > > Whitefish, MT. > > Arkansas City, KS. > > Allendale, SC. I was in Whitefish, Montana in the winter of 1979. Spent some time hanging out with a bunch of friends working at the lodge on Big Mountain, good times back in the Rocky Mountain High days. Washington State The Peninsula: Crescent Lake Neah Bay Ruby Beach Western Washington: The summit of Mt. Pilchuck Fort Casey on Whidbey Island Skagit Valley in the Spring when the bulb farms are in full bloom Eastern Washington: Camping next to the Cle Elum River off Bullfrog Road Soap Lake I have been living on Kodiak Island for the last eighteen years. I have been everywhere in Kodiak that the road system covers, and have done a lot of off road exploring. My first five years here were spent living in Larsen Bay and what I didn’t cover by 4-wheeler and foot I explored by skiff. Amook Island, Bird Rock, Uyak Bay, Zacher Bay, Spiridon Bay, and I skiffed with my husband from Larsen Bay via the Shelikoff Strait to beach seine the Karluk River and spend some time with my in-laws in Karluk. I have spent time in or around all the villages. I have also done a road trip from Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula, passing glaciers and the Kenai River, and spent time with some friends in Nikiski. ---
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/356 "2007-09-10T12:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=Kilvert’s Pagan] Yeah- oodles of time - I’m from Chagrin Falls. [/QUOTE] Wow, I didn’t think anyone would have been there but me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390.md?page=17)