The Green Lantern wasn’t exactly known as a purveyor of Chinese food.*
I visited Ely on purpose several times. In fact when leaving Ely I have been known to travel 90 miles of highway 318 in 36 minutes.*
*The Green Lantern Brothel was one of the sponsors of the Nevada Open Road Race. The night before the race, it was tradition for the racers to go have a beer at the GL. At 9PM all the girls that weren’t occupied would go out and look at the assembled race cars parked in the street. They would pick the one they liked the best and at the awards banquet in Vegas that driver would be awarded the “Hookers Choice Award”. Their car would also be featured on a limited edition silked screened GL t-shirt. My car never won the HC award, but I do still have a couple of the shirts. My wife hates those shirts.
I’ve been there a few times. There’s a nice used book store there on the main street and a few other stores I’ve stopped at as well. And if I recall correctly there’s a mall at the edge of town that has an old-fashioned shooting gallery with BB guns.
:smack: This site: http://www.fws.gov/midway/past/tour.html
They’re supposed to be working on a visitor program. They have the occasional cruise ship stop off, but I’m skeptical about regular air traffic, it causes too many bird deaths and I doubt they’ll allow it. I’d love to go back, but I doubt it will happen. I was there in '63/'64.
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.
Lattuna (pdf). About 1050 km north from Helsinki, about 70 km from the Russian border. We spent New Year 1999-2000 there; travelling took 23 hours, 14 by night train to Kemijärvi with German tourists who sang drinking songs and played poker through the night. My friend’s mother insisted on packing iodine tablets with us “just in case the Russian nuclear power plants blow up when the millennium changes”.
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.
San Andres Island, Colombia - 1988
Dominican Republic places mentioned - ditto (I live there).
My work often takes me off the tourist trail. I wonder if anyone else has been to Siuna, Bonanza or Rosita in Nicaragua, Mare Rouge in northwestern Haiti, or to Ayacucho in Peru?
I’ve been to Gitmo several times. Of course, my father has me beat - he was stationed there during the time frame when they closed the base off from the island.
I believe I’ve been there - I was travelling sales for an upstate NY boiler water treatment chemical company. I’ve been in more schools and small town DPW barns than you can shake a stick at.
Yes. There was a tire retreader off of old Rt. 17 that had a small boiler we treated. You could see the old hospital on the hill from their boiler room.
Has anyone else been to Industry, NY?
And I’d wager long odds that I’m the only Doper who’s been inside the reactor compartments of both reactor plants aboard the USS Virginia CGN 38.
No I mean the top. We climbed the stairs, inside the room at the top of the stairs there was a half wall that lead to a little cubby. It was only about 5 feet high, maybe 4 feet square.
My friend left a 9.5 gram, heart shaped piece of moldavite way back in the darkest corner. That was in 1990. I wonder if it’s still there… Martha, on San Andres, did they still have a parade with all the cars on the island every evening? In '77 all five cars would drive all the way around the island Playing loud music.
Good times.
I visited Srinagar and nearby areas in Kashmir in 2002. Most beautiful place I’ve ever been, especially the houseboat on Dal Lake. Not the most prudent travel decision I’ve ever made, perhaps: the State Department and Lonely Planet were both advising against it at the time. Fortunately I’d left a few weeks later when Pakistan did a long range missile test, which really heated up Indian/Pakistan relations.
