# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/161 "2007-08-22T13:23:14Z")
[QUOTE=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. [/QUOTE] I’ve not only drove by, stopped many times for gas or the McDonalds. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/162 "2007-08-22T13:26:53Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] I think I’ve been through there, on the way to La Crosse, if you’re talking about the one in Vernon County. I know for sure I’ve been to Viola, Viroqua and Coon Valley, though. My brother used to have Little League games in Viroqua. My nominations: Tower Junction Bowling Alley, Montfort, Wisconsin. Or Beetown, Wisconsin. If anybody else has been to Beetown, I will be very surprised. Blink and you’ll miss it. [/QUOTE] Been through there a couple times (My mom’s relatives are from Superior, WI). ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/163 "2007-08-22T13:28:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] During my freshman year of college, I spent two weeks on a tour of the island, staying in Havana and Cienfuegos. I’m pretty sure **lalenin** never set foot in some of the Cuban buildings I entered. My maternal grandparents lived for a time in [Mayville, North Dakota.](http://www.mayvilleportland.com/) It’s a county seat and home to a college, so it’s certainly possible (but still not that likely) that a Doper other than me has been there. [/QUOTE] You are probably right, most tourist specific places are out of bounds for ordinary Cubans. For instance I lived for years in Havana but could never get beyond the main entrance to the Hotel Nacional. Then again, I went to places in Cuba no tourist would ever think of visiting. In the southern coast of Cuba, almost directly south of Havana the Mayabeque river empties into the Gulf of Mexico. There you will find Playa Caimito, or Caimito Beach. It is muddy, because of the river, and is full of commercial fishing boats. But where the river connects with the sea there is a spot where you can stand with one foot on the cold river water and one foot on the warm gulf water. You can also catch both salt and fresh water fish, and cook them on a wood fire by the shore. Tourists would never go there, but when I dream of being in the beach that’s what I dream about. ---
**Author:** ![papaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@papaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papaw)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/164 "2007-08-22T13:38:37Z")
```auto Bukoba, Tanzania? ``` - Been there, but did you get to Miembe Saba ( Seven Mangoes), just north of Bagamoyo, Tanzania? More local- how about Gun Barrel City, Texas? And I must mention Hankamer, Texas, where my father was born and is named after the family( my last name). ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/165 "2007-08-22T13:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] Top of Mount Sinai, 3am. Cold. [/QUOTE] And you came back without any tablets? ---
**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, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/166 "2007-08-22T14:06:36Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] I think I’ve been through there, on the way to La Crosse, if you’re talking about the one in Vernon County. I know for sure I’ve been to Viola, Viroqua and Coon Valley, though. My brother used to have Little League games in Viroqua. My nominations: Tower Junction Bowling Alley, Montfort, Wisconsin. Or Beetown, Wisconsin. If anybody else has been to Beetown, I will be very surprised. Blink and you’ll miss it. [/QUOTE] I was referring to the one in Burnett Country, northeast of Minneapolis-St. Paul and straight south of Duluth-Superior. But I did learn something. I didn’t know there are two Webster, WI’s. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/167 "2007-08-22T14:20:08Z")
How about on top of Sugar Loaf Mountain looking out over Lake Superior? Or Stannard Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior? Or just off Stannard Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior, in a 25-foot Bayliner Saratoga cruiser, having just landed a 19.5 lb forktail trout? That was one recalcitrant fish. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/168 "2007-08-22T14:56:52Z")
Only one I can think of at he moment - anybody been to Isfahan, Iran? Lived there for 1.5 years. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/169 "2007-08-22T15:24:25Z")
Who has been to House on the Rock in WI? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/170 "2007-08-22T15:36:50Z")
Anyone else ever been to Liberia? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/171 "2007-08-22T15:51:13Z")
Smoke Hole Campground, West Virginia Yanceyville, Virginia (maybe this isn’t fair, it’s really just a few homes, a church or two, and an old out of business store.) Pin Oak, West Virginia (another tiny named place on the map.) And how about Dinosaur Land near Winchester, Virginia? ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/172 "2007-08-22T16:31:41Z")
I would have said Aurelia, Iowa, but I know that \*\*David Simmons \*\*has been there. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/173 "2007-08-22T16:40:30Z")
On the uppermost outdoor observatory level of the CN Tower in Toronto? Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/174 "2007-08-22T16:44:06Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] I’m currently in Azerbaijan. I’ve also been to Turkmenistan. [/QUOTE] Curses, I was just coming here to say those two places. I spent two happy(?) years in those two places. How is Turkmenistan now Turkmenbashi has popped his clogs, do they still have his rotating gold statue? Has Azeri driving improved any and DYP? Add Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Balikpapan and Miri in Indonesia and Seria in Brunei. Salta and some assorted small vilages in northern Argentina Tapioca, I would rather recommend getting up to Almaty in Kazakhstan, great place, good skiing and nice city. The airlines kind of suck though ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/175 "2007-08-22T16:44:46Z")
I’d have to say [Umiat, Alaska](http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=umiat,+alaska&ie=UTF8&ll=69.349339,-152.248535&spn=5.849216,15.424805&t=h&z=6&iwloc=addr&om=1), which certainly qualifies as middle of nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/176 "2007-08-22T16:52:27Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] 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). [/QUOTE] been to all of these except Parsonsburg. ---
**Author:** ![Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/das_glasperlenspiel/32/2944_2.png) [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Das_Glasperlenspiel)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/177 "2007-08-22T16:57:45Z")
Iqaluit, Baffin Island in Nunavut. In April. In a blizzard. For a week. I didn’t know a thermometer could go that low. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/178 "2007-08-22T16:57:47Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] Top of Mount Sinai, 3am. Cold. [/QUOTE] Been there, too, though not at 3:00AM. Our 3:00AM mountain climbing excursion was to the top of [Masada](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada), via the ancient Snake Path – with a guitar. We watched the sun rise over the mountain range and sang “Here Comes the Sun”. 🙂 [QUOTE=Martha] I’ve been to the top of Mt Sinai, to Ras Mohammed and to the place mentioned in the OP, Nuweiba, in about 1978, when it was still in Israel. [/QUOTE] You wouldn’t happen to have been there in June/July 1978, with a program called “Israel Summer Happening,” would you? If so, not only have we both been to all those places, but were actually there at the same time. Now that would be freaky cool. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/179 "2007-08-22T17:20:52Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] I dunno - Sigonella, Sicily? I was there for 6 months in 1983. [/QUOTE] 2 years in the mid-1990s. 😉 Were you with a VP squadron? I worked at the ASWOC there. I have a list of fairly obscure places I’ve been, but at the rate this is going someone has been there already and is here now. ---
**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, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390/180 "2007-08-22T17:32:30Z")
[QUOTE=Epimetheus] Who has been to House on the Rock in WI? [/QUOTE] Me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-one-place-youve-been-to-that-no-other-doper-has-visited/416390.md?page=10)