# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/101 "2007-08-22T00:40:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sunshine and Smiles] Wellsville, New York? I’d actually be really interested to swap stories with anyone who’s been there. It’s where all my family grew up and lives (but none of them are on the Dope). [/QUOTE] I’ve driven nearby, on the old Route 17, now I-86, dozens of times, but never stopped in, sorry to say. Website makes it look charming, though. Speaking of Upstate New York, how about the villages of Van Etten, Spencer, Newfield, or Halsey Valley? ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/102 "2007-08-22T00:42:18Z")
Probably the most out-of-the-way place I’ve been is the [Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary](http://www.gwtc.net/~iram/) near Hot Springs, SD. Anyone else ever made it over there while on a trip to see Mt. Rushmore? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/103 "2007-08-22T00:45:26Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Socks] Anybody else been to Germantown, Maryland? The Montgomery County one. [/QUOTE] Oh, sure. I grew up in Silver Spring. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/104 "2007-08-22T00:56:01Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Socks] Anybody else been to Germantown, Maryland? The Montgomery County one. [/QUOTE] Yep. A friend of mine lives right off of 27 there. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/105 "2007-08-22T00:59:00Z")
Hmmm…maybe mundane, but worth a shot: Garnet Hill, Ely, Nevada. I have some cool natural garnets I found all by myself there! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/106 "2007-08-22T01:09:16Z")
Leh, Ladakh, in the far northern state of Kashmir and Jammu, in India. Also known as little Tibet, about 4 miles from the cease fire line. And it was an awesome place. Atlin, British Columbia, Canada. It’s in BC but it’s only accessible, by road, from the Yukon. Very small town, within site of the glacier, beautiful indeed. San Agustine, Columbia. Again, very small backwater place. Charming, not very well touristed and the site of numerous interesting ruins. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/107 "2007-08-22T01:16:27Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Socks] Anybody else been to Germantown, Maryland? The Montgomery County one. [/QUOTE] I have. I can think of a few tiny Maryland burgs: Perryville, Port Deposit and Chesapeake City (Cecil County), Accident (Garrett County) and Parsonsburg (Dorcester). ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/108 "2007-08-22T01:18:57Z")
I’ve been to “Baffetto’s” a killer, killer, pizza joint off the SW corner of Piazza Navona, in Rome. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/109 "2007-08-22T01:30:20Z")
Iquique, Chile. It’s a fairly large town on the Pacific coast of Chile, so if another Doper has been there, I’ll also say: Pachica, Chile - a village in Chile’s Atacama desert. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/110 "2007-08-22T01:37:09Z")
I have been to [Trinity Site](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_test#Site_today),where the first atomic bomb was detonated. I believe it is still open to visitors two days a year. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/111 "2007-08-22T01:40:22Z")
how about Goshen AR, Boxley AR, Kimberling city MO, Ducktrap ME, Sopchoppy FL, Golconda NV, Shubuta MS? I was going to say Slippery Rock PA but I am pretty sure there are some dopers who have been there. I have been to Mt LeConte but didn’t spend the night in the trail shelter, I did however spend the night in a privately owned cabin (grandfathered in from when the park was formed) up the fire road from Elkmont campground. and while I haven’t been to any dopers houses in Arkansas and Tennessee I don’t think there is a town in either of those states I haven’t at least driven through. Been just about everywhere in Mississippi as well. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/112 "2007-08-22T01:44:24Z")
No other doper has been in my bedroom, a situation which I’m doggedly trying to make untrue. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/113 "2007-08-22T01:45:33Z")
Possibly the [Chatham Islands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands) (about 800km east of New Zealand)? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/114 "2007-08-22T01:48:26Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] There’s a little island in Georgian Bay, near the mouth of the Tinnerman River, which wasn’t labelled on any of the (many, extensive) maps my scout troop had. We spent a night there, and of course promptly named it Troop 515 Island. Of course, unless there are any of my old troopmates on the board, none of you would know which specific island I’m talking about, so you can’t really tell if you were ever there. [/QUOTE] OK, I’ll bite. Were you a Greater Cleveland Council scout by any chance? I did 63 miles at Tinnerman canoe base around age 14, including a jaunt out into the Georgian bay to an island. But (a) as you note I have no idea if it’s the same one and (b) I thought those were the French and Pickerel Rivers up there, so we may not even be talking about the same place. I was with Troop 448, not 515. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/115 "2007-08-22T01:53:49Z")
To answer seriously now, I doubt any of our dopers residing in Japan have been to Isehara. It’s in Kanagawa-ken off the Odakyu line I believe, and there is really no reason to go there what-so-ever. A small city filled with sleazy joints and Yakuza wannabes, it’s nothing special. Other than that part of downtown, it’s all rural. I only know it because of my girlfriend at the time living there. ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/116 "2007-08-22T01:55:31Z")
[Dutch Island, RI](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=dutch+island,+rhode+island&sll=41.498807,-71.398258&sspn=0.089741,0.160675&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1) anyone? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/117 "2007-08-22T01:56:05Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Socks] Anybody else been to Germantown, Maryland? The Montgomery County one. [/QUOTE] sure - I worked for Pulte in the 80’s - we built half of it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/118 "2007-08-22T02:06:19Z")
Anyone but me been to Red Bay or L’Anse Amour, Labrador? How about Tacna, Arizona? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/119 "2007-08-22T02:12:44Z")
I’ll throw out a few of my own: On top of Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef Sphinx Park, Colorado ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/120 "2007-08-22T02:17:32Z")
When I was in Boy Scouts we went to Lost Valley Scout Camp, a camp right next to Camp Pendleton, and La Bufadora in Mexico (more of a tourist attraction than a place per se). I’ve eaten in the Congressional Dining room, it was more like a restaurant though. I guess they’re famous for their chili. That was courtesy of Chalmers Wylie, our late congressman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390.md?page=7)