# 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:** 7
**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, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/121 "2007-08-22T02:35:27Z")
One more: the Members’ dining room at Parliament in London. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/122 "2007-08-22T02:40:21Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] I certainly couldn’t have be the only one that’s been to [Dell City, Texas](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=dell+city,+tx&ie=UTF8&ll=31.93815,-105.20121&spn=0.441102,0.389328&z=11&om=1). How about Swarmsville, NY? or Franklinville, NY Yes to both. 😃 [/QUOTE] Really! Are you from around Elmwood or is that just your user name? Have you eaten Bacci Pizza? Had wings at Duff’s? Did you go to Camp Lakeland, too? cool. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/123 "2007-08-22T03:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=Ultraviolet] What about 108 Mile Ranch in British Columbia, Canada ([http://www.108ranch.com/](http://www.108ranch.com/) ) It’s a small, rural residential area in the Cariboo region of BC. [/QUOTE] Been there. Family in Williams Lake. [QUOTE=RTFirefly] Whitefish, MT. [/QUOTE] Been there. Bierstube. [QUOTE=Captain Socks] Anybody else been to Germantown, Maryland? The Montgomery County one. [/QUOTE] Yep. We live in Baltimore-or-less. [QUOTE=BiblioCat] I can think of a few tiny Maryland burgs: Perryville, Port Deposit and Chesapeake City (Cecil County), Accident (Garrett County) and Parsonsburg (Dorcester). [/QUOTE] I’ve been to the first three, Dave has been to Accident. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/124 "2007-08-22T03:27:43Z")
I’ll bet, but not money, that no one else has been in Webster, WI. This thread reminds me of a tale of one of my nephews. He is a whiz on California geography as a hobby. When he was going to college his roommate kept trying to stump him of place names and locations without any success. Finally, one day, he came into the room with a big grin and said that he had found one that would stump my nephew. “OK, shoot.” “Ridgecrest, gotcha.” “I was born there.” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/125 "2007-08-22T03:45:25Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] The bottom of Grand Gulch, UT? Undisturbed Anasazi ruins all over, but a little hard to get to (or out of). [/QUOTE] Oops, I’ve been there. As long as we’re in Utah, how about the Great Gallery in Canyonlands? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/126 "2007-08-22T03:52:51Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] I stood in the middle of the old RCA recording studio in Hollywood, in the same room where The Rolling Stones recorded “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and Harry Nilsson made albums, and hundreds of other records that we all know were made. [/QUOTE] I was in a former RCA studio in Hollywood a few years ago - I’ll have to ask my husband who recorded there. I can’t entirely remember. It may very well have been the same one. [This](http://www.winslowct.com/index5.htm) is the one he recorded at. I do remember that the portable acoustic panels were used by Jimi Hendrix. Anyone for Sego Canyon, Utah? [QUOTE=blondebear] Oops, I’ve been there. As long as we’re in Utah, how about the Great Gallery in Canyonlands? [/QUOTE] No, but it is planned for next year. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/127 "2007-08-22T03:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] Oops, I’ve been there. As long as we’re in Utah, how about the Great Gallery in Canyonlands? [/QUOTE] Been there 3 times. Druid Arch, Canyonlands? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/128 "2007-08-22T04:09:21Z")
[QUOTE=Faruiza] Hmmm…maybe mundane, but worth a shot: Garnet Hill, Ely, Nevada. I have some cool natural garnets I found all by myself there! [/QUOTE] I’ve been through Ely on my way to visit relatives in Elko, but I didn’t stop longer than it took to look at the GPS on my Blackberry to make sure I was going the right way. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/129 "2007-08-22T04:21:11Z")
I don’t know about now, but in the early 90’s I was either the first, or one of the first Americans to set foot in, or at least land in a plane without crashing it, in places like Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, in Kamchatka Russia, as well as Vladisvostok, and areas around their submarine bases Americans would not normally have been allowed. Been lots of places out in the country with the locals, as well as other areas across Siberia. Anyone here have to spend the night in Khabarovsk, north of Vladivostok? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/130 "2007-08-22T04:24:03Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] Really! Are you from around Elmwood or is that just your user name? Have you eaten Bacci Pizza? Had wings at Duff’s? Did you go to amp Lakeland, too? [/QUOTE] Went to high school and college on Elmwood Avenue. Eaten more than my share of Bocce Club pizza, from both the Eggertsville and East Amherst locations. My parents actually met at Duff’s, long before they were known for wings. Never went to Camp Lakeland, though. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/131 "2007-08-22T04:24:24Z")
How about the island of [San Andres, Colombia](http://groups.msn.com/BigJuicesSanAndresIsland/)? It’s off the coast of Nicaragua, but it’s owned by Colombia. I was there in 1977. The top of the Great Pyramid at [Chichen Itza](http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/mayan/TourEntrance.html). I’ve touched the Hollywood sign. > [@A. R. Cane](#): > > OK, I’ll try again. The Midway Islands. I’d be interested in swapping stories w/ anyone who’s been there, pretty neat place. Hubby’s old boss was there for a month. I’ve got some cool pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/132 "2007-08-22T04:33:21Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Yup, Greater Cleveland. I’m pretty sure that the river the canoe base itself was on was the Tinnerman River, but it was long enough ago that I’m not certain that that river fed directly into the bay, and not into some other river first. But yeah, you might (for all either of us know) have been there, too. I may have another one, though. From what I’ve heard, the triple divide point for the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Atlantic Ocean lies in the middle of the farm of a family friend in Pennsylvania, and I think I’ve been to that farm. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Wombats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Wombats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Wombats)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/133 "2007-08-22T04:48:39Z")
How about way out in the Kimberely in West Australia? Anyone who likes “Man vs. Wild” may have seen it, although he was there during the wet season. I’m going to have to go with either that or Thiès Senegal. Those are probably the most remote / obscure places I’ve been to. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/134 "2007-08-22T05:03:21Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] Hubby’s old boss was there for a month. I’ve got some cool pictures. [/QUOTE] Closest to paradise I’ve ever been. You might enjoy this site. ---
**Author:** ![Schuyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Schuyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schuyler)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/135 "2007-08-22T06:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=Schuyler] I’ll throw out the Selway River in Alaska; that’s the best I can think of now. [/QUOTE] Dummy - it’s the Kobuk River in Alaska (the Selway is in Idaho). Now back to your regularly scheduled programming … ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/136 "2007-08-22T06:40:09Z")
White Sulphur Springs, Montana? But that is directly on Route 12, so probably someone else has driven through there on their way to somewhere else. How about the waterfall on Granite Creek near Lake Chelan, in Washington? I’m not even sure if visiting it is legal, but I’ve been there, and I don’t think anyone that I know to have been there is on the boards. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/137 "2007-08-22T06:43:56Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] Closest to paradise I’ve ever been. You might enjoy this site. [/QUOTE] Ahhh… What site is that? 😕 When were you there? It’s pretty restricted now. The only reason old boss was there, was because the company had an obligation to provide support. I don’t think they’re even doing that any more. The only people allowed there now are a few biologists that monitor the bird populations. They only allow landings once or twice a month. Oh, I have another. The ice caves in the Mt Baker wilderness. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/138 "2007-08-22T06:56:42Z")
> [@Faruiza](#): > > Garnet Hill, Ely, Nevada. Been there. Ever stop by the Green Lantern? Have you gone down to Rachel and visited the [Little Al’Le’Inn?](http://www.littlealeinn.com/) > [@dnooman](#): > > La Bufadora in Mexico (more of a tourist attraction than a place per se). Been there also. Here in California has anyone been to [Murphys?](http://www.visitmurphys.com/) or [Inskip](http://www.paradisedirect.com/paradise/inskip.html) and seen Charlie? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/139 "2007-08-22T07:00:22Z")
Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad? or Kabul, Afghanistan? Kosovo? Norilsk, Siberia? I lead a charmed life. ---
**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, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/140 "2007-08-22T07:06:02Z")
Never been down to Rachel, but I go to Ely ON PURPOSE. Hehe…that never fails to get a chuckle out of most people. Is the Green Lantern that chinese joint? I’m totally serious here. I guess by extension I’ll add the Lehmann Caves. If you have a chance to go see it, do. It’s beautiful in there. Even to a claustrophobic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390.md?page=8)