The Gipper's Guide to America
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Wow, somehow I missed this thread. My family loves to travel, camping in particular as we've been camping in 38 states.
A lot of good choices Bob. A couple of things;
I have been around Whitefish Bay and Keeweenaw Bay in the UP, but I don't know where Union Bay is.
I have not been to Long Beach NC, Kalispell, Dolly Sods, or the Capital in Montpelier. Since I am going to Vermont this summer I will try to pop in there.
You also get a big check mark from me on your choices of Acadia....I suspect the sunset/sunrise on Cadillac Mtn. would be awesome. Also on Dead Horse Pt, Mono Lake and Bryce and Arches.
A lot of good choices Bob. A couple of things;
I have been around Whitefish Bay and Keeweenaw Bay in the UP, but I don't know where Union Bay is.
I have not been to Long Beach NC, Kalispell, Dolly Sods, or the Capital in Montpelier. Since I am going to Vermont this summer I will try to pop in there.
You also get a big check mark from me on your choices of Acadia....I suspect the sunset/sunrise on Cadillac Mtn. would be awesome. Also on Dead Horse Pt, Mono Lake and Bryce and Arches.
I saw you were at Quoddy Head, and I've been there too its amazing (I think it's the most eastern point in the USA).
Union Bay is the name of a campground ( suppose the nearest city would be Ontonagon, MI). It's also funny to me that the best gnocchi I ever ate was in the U.P. Another cool spot in the U.P. is the ski jump at Copper Head- you can climb to the top and see just how high those ski jumpers take off from, it is amazing.
So many beautiful things to see in the USA, but not enough time or money I suppose to see it all (mega millions would cure that lol). I really want to see the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon/Washington someday, along with Big Bend National Park.
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A lot of good choices Bob. A couple of things;
I have been around Whitefish Bay and Keeweenaw Bay in the UP, but I don't know where Union Bay is.
I have not been to Long Beach NC, Kalispell, Dolly Sods, or the Capital in Montpelier. Since I am going to Vermont this summer I will try to pop in there.
You also get a big check mark from me on your choices of Acadia....I suspect the sunset/sunrise on Cadillac Mtn. would be awesome. Also on Dead Horse Pt, Mono Lake and Bryce and Arches.
I saw you were at Quoddy Head, and I've been there too its amazing (I think it's the most eastern point in the USA).
Union Bay is the name of a campground ( suppose the nearest city would be Ontonagon, MI). It's also funny to me that the best gnocchi I ever ate was in the U.P. Another cool spot in the U.P. is the ski jump at Copper Head- you can climb to the top and see just how high those ski jumpers take off from, it is amazing.
So many beautiful things to see in the USA, but not enough time or money I suppose to see it all (mega millions would cure that lol). I really want to see the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon/Washington someday, along with Big Bend National Park.
I saw you were at Quoddy Head, and I've been there too its amazing (I think it's the most eastern point in the USA).
It is.
Union Bay is the name of a campground ( suppose the nearest city would be Ontonagon, MI). It's also funny to me that the best gnocchi I ever ate was in the U.P. Another cool spot in the U.P. is the ski jump at Copper Head- you can climb to the top and see just how high those ski jumpers take off from, it is amazing.
The one night I stayed in the UP I stayed in Paradise on Whitefish Bay, more toward the Sault.
I only got as far up the Keewenaw as far as Calumet City. For time reasons I couldn't get all the way up.
But that small peninsula once put out over 50% of the world's copper production.
So many beautiful things to see in the USA, but not enough time or money I suppose to see it all (mega millions would cure that lol). I really want to see the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon/Washington someday, along with Big Bend National Park.
I have not been to the Columbia River Gorge though I have been in Portland a couple of times.
I took my son to a 3 day trip to Big Bend. Winter is the best time to go there. Temperatures are more tolerable. Summer would be unbearable.
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As far as a sunrise or sunset, they are all pretty much the same.....be it high on a mountain where you might see rise or set a hundered miles away or at sea level where the horizon might be 3 miles away....they are all the same....conditions dictate....the best I have seen all hand some cloud cover. It's a time, moment, and place thing.
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As far as a sunrise or sunset, they are all pretty much the same.....be it high on a mountain where you might see rise or set a hundered miles away or at sea level where the horizon might be 3 miles away....they are all the same....conditions dictate....the best I have seen all hand some cloud cover. It's a time, moment, and place thing.
As far as a sunrise or sunset, they are all pretty much the same.....be it high on a mountain where you might see rise or set a hundered miles away or at sea level where the horizon might be 3 miles away....they are all the same....conditions dictate....the best I have seen all hand some cloud cover. It's a time, moment, and place thing.
While that is true, I think the thing that can set them apart is the setting. In my choice it was really all about the setting. I was on the tip of a peninsula, fairly high above cliffs below me, and with an Island with a lighthouse on it just adjacent to where the sun set.
(Cape Flattery, Wash. with Tatoosh Island just offshore)
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As far as a sunrise or sunset, they are all pretty much the same.....be it high on a mountain where you might see rise or set a hundered miles away or at sea level where the horizon might be 3 miles away....they are all the same....conditions dictate....the best I have seen all hand some cloud cover. It's a time, moment, and place thing.
While that is true, I think the thing that can set them apart is the setting. In my choice it was really all about the setting. I was on the tip of a peninsula, fairly high above cliffs below me, and with an Island with a lighthouse on it just adjacent to where the sun set.
(Cape Flattery, Wash. with Tatoosh Island just offshore)
While that is true, I think the thing that can set them apart is the setting. In my choice it was really all about the setting. I was on the tip of a peninsula, fairly high above cliffs below me, and with an Island with a lighthouse on it just adjacent to where the sun set.
(Cape Flattery, Wash. with Tatoosh Island just offshore)
Atmospheric conditions as well - you can get some truly spectacular sunsets if the conditions are right like:
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Yea, pollution helps with some great sunsets
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The most dramatic one is Mount Haleakula on Maui, Hawaii. You get up way early, start driving
about 3:30- am, and an hour to two hrs later, you get to the top.
The crater is amazing to see when the sun gets high enough. It's pretty chilly, but an amazing place to see,
as well as many, many places in Hawaii. Take at least two weeks...::
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The most dramatic one is Mount Haleakula on Maui, Hawaii. You get up way early, start driving
about 3:30- am, and an hour to two hrs later, you get to the top.
The crater is amazing to see when the sun gets high enough. It's pretty chilly, but an amazing place to see,
as well as many, many places in Hawaii. Take at least two weeks...::
The most dramatic one is Mount Haleakula on Maui, Hawaii. You get up way early, start driving
about 3:30- am, and an hour to two hrs later, you get to the top.
The crater is amazing to see when the sun gets high enough. It's pretty chilly, but an amazing place to see,
as well as many, many places in Hawaii. Take at least two weeks...::
Yes. See my list. I put Haleakala as my favorite sunrise.
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Here was a line from my original list:
Best Small Town: Woodstock, Vermont. (honorable mentions: Chatham, Mass. Seaside Fla)
I spent my 30th anniversary trip with my wife in Vermont this summer....and we stayed not too far from Woodstock...and I can confirm my original vote whole heartedly that this is my choice for best small town in America.
Top 5 in that category are: Woodstock VT, Chagrin Falls, OH, Seaside Fla., Wellsboro PA, Cooperstown NY. (Chatham falls off, I was there fairly recently and it didn't have that "it" for me that the others did.
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War of 1812 Battlesites I have been to:
Lake Erie//Put-In-Bay
Ft. McHenry
Mackinaw Island
Washington DC and environs
War of 1812 Battlesites I have been to:
Lake Erie//Put-In-Bay
Ft. McHenry
Mackinaw Island
Washington DC and environs
I have since been also to the River Raisin Battlefield in Monroe, Mich. Sackett's Harbor in New York state.
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French and Indian War Battlefields I have visited:
Braddock Expedition, Wester PA
Fort Necessity
Fort Carillon/Fort Ticonderoga (Carillon was the French name for the same fort)
Ft. William Henry
Lake George Battlefield
Louisbourg (Nova Scotia)
The Plains of Abraham (Quebec)
Mexican-American War Battlefields I have visited:
Palo Alto (outside Brownsville TX)
French and Indian War Battlefields I have visited:
Braddock Expedition, Wester PA
Fort Necessity
Fort Carillon/Fort Ticonderoga (Carillon was the French name for the same fort)
Ft. William Henry
Lake George Battlefield
Louisbourg (Nova Scotia)
The Plains of Abraham (Quebec)
I have since been to Fort Niagra at the mouth of the Niagra River, and saw a reenactment of the siege of that fort by the British that was being held by the French.
Also, I have been to Ogdensburg NY, site of either a French/Indian battle, or War of 1812, perhaps the latter.
Mexican-American War Battlefields I have visited:
Palo Alto (outside Brownsville TX)
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Revolutionary War Battlefields I have visited:
Lexington and Concord
Ft. Stanwix/Oriskany
Brandywine
Saratoga
Kings Mountain
The Cowpens
Guilford Courthouse
The Siege of 96
Germantown (Philadelphia)
Yorktown
Valley Forge (not strictly a battle)
Revolutionary War Battlefields I have visited:
Lexington and Concord
Ft. Stanwix/Oriskany
Brandywine
Saratoga
Kings Mountain
The Cowpens
Guilford Courthouse
The Siege of 96
Germantown (Philadelphia)
Yorktown
Valley Forge (not strictly a battle)
Also have been to the Battle of Bennington site. Plus Morristown
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Civil War Battlefields I have visited:
Ft. Sumter
Bull Run/Manassas I and II
Wilson Creek
Ft. Donelson
Yorktown (yes, a Civil War battle was fought at Yorktown)
Shiloh
Ft. Pulaski
Corinth
Murfreesboro/Stone's River
Harper's Ferry
Antietem/Sharpsburg
Arkansas Post
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Morgan's Surrender/Salineville
Charleston Harbor
The Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Brice Crossroad's
Tupelo
Monocacy
Siege of Columbia SC.
I am going to be visiting Richmond/Petersburg/Appamattox/Cedar Creek in June
When I was a little kid I may have visited Chattanooga, but I was so young I barely remember it, so I don't count it.
Civil War Battlefields I have visited:
Ft. Sumter
Bull Run/Manassas I and II
Wilson Creek
Ft. Donelson
Yorktown (yes, a Civil War battle was fought at Yorktown)
Shiloh
Ft. Pulaski
Corinth
Murfreesboro/Stone's River
Harper's Ferry
Antietem/Sharpsburg
Arkansas Post
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Morgan's Surrender/Salineville
Charleston Harbor
The Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Brice Crossroad's
Tupelo
Monocacy
Siege of Columbia SC.
I am going to be visiting Richmond/Petersburg/Appamattox/Cedar Creek in June
When I was a little kid I may have visited Chattanooga, but I was so young I barely remember it, so I don't count it.
Now add the Chickamauga/Chattanooga Battlefield, plus Kennesaw Mountain
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In checking I see that I still have quite a number of "battlefield" or at least "war related" National Parks units which I have not been to. Here is a list of some I would like to visit at some point:
Revolutionary War related sites: Boston NHP (Bunker Hill, Old North Church). George Rogers Clark (Indiana)
War of 1812: Horseshoe Bend (really a battle with Creek Indians, but 1812 related)
Civil War: Pea Ridge, Ark. Andersonville Ga. Ft. Scott Kan., Peco, New Mex.
Indian Wars: Fort Smith Ark. Sand Creek Massacre, Colo. Fort Larned, Kan., Big Hole Battlefield, Mont., Washita Battlefield, Okla., Knife River, North Dak.
WWII: Tuskeegee Airmen Ala, Port Chicago Cal. Rosie the Riveter Cal., War in the Pacific, Guam.. Minidoka, Idaho (Japanese Internment camp)
Cold War: Minuteman Missile NHP, South Dakota.
I will be visiting the Big Hole battlefield in a couple of weeks....plus I may make a return trip to The Little Bighorn.
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There's a WWII museum near the Akron-Canton airport.
Pretty cool. I wonder how the Air Force Museum in Dayton has changed over
nearly 40 years....
There's another military museum in Branson Mo. .... has all the names of WWII lost soldiers on
a long room's three walls. Pretty amazing, albeit sad and somber, display.
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In checking I see that I still have quite a number of "battlefield" or at least "war related" National Parks units which I have not been to. Here is a list of some I would like to visit at some point:
Revolutionary War related sites: Boston NHP (Bunker Hill, Old North Church). George Rogers Clark (Indiana)
War of 1812: Horseshoe Bend (really a battle with Creek Indians, but 1812 related)
Civil War: Pea Ridge, Ark. Andersonville Ga. Ft. Scott Kan., Peco, New Mex.
Indian Wars: Fort Smith Ark. Sand Creek Massacre, Colo. Fort Larned, Kan., Big Hole Battlefield, Mont., Washita Battlefield, Okla., Knife River, North Dak.
WWII: Tuskeegee Airmen Ala, Port Chicago Cal. Rosie the Riveter Cal., War in the Pacific, Guam.. Minidoka, Idaho (Japanese Internment camp)
Cold War: Minuteman Missile NHP, South Dakota.
I will be visiting the Big Hole battlefield in a couple of weeks....plus I may make a return trip to The Little Bighorn.
There's an Indian wars battlefield in ohio not far from Toledo. I see the signs for it every now and again when I'm up that way. Been meaning to check it out. Since I'm here I'm fixing to add fort Sumter to my list of civil war battlefields visited over the next few daysIn checking I see that I still have quite a number of "battlefield" or at least "war related" National Parks units which I have not been to. Here is a list of some I would like to visit at some point:
Revolutionary War related sites: Boston NHP (Bunker Hill, Old North Church). George Rogers Clark (Indiana)
War of 1812: Horseshoe Bend (really a battle with Creek Indians, but 1812 related)
Civil War: Pea Ridge, Ark. Andersonville Ga. Ft. Scott Kan., Peco, New Mex.
Indian Wars: Fort Smith Ark. Sand Creek Massacre, Colo. Fort Larned, Kan., Big Hole Battlefield, Mont., Washita Battlefield, Okla., Knife River, North Dak.
WWII: Tuskeegee Airmen Ala, Port Chicago Cal. Rosie the Riveter Cal., War in the Pacific, Guam.. Minidoka, Idaho (Japanese Internment camp)
Cold War: Minuteman Missile NHP, South Dakota.
I will be visiting the Big Hole battlefield in a couple of weeks....plus I may make a return trip to The Little Bighorn.
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
If you ever get round abouts dc again gip check out balls bluff battlefield. It's a small relatively hidden civil war battlefield. What's interesting about it is that it's the only place to date where a u.s. senator has fallen in battle.
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
There's a WWII museum near the Akron-Canton airport.
Pretty cool. I wonder how the Air Force Museum in Dayton has changed over
nearly 40 years....
There's another military museum in Branson Mo. .... has all the names of WWII lost soldiers on
a long room's three walls. Pretty amazing, albeit sad and somber, display.
There's a WWII museum near the Akron-Canton airport.
Pretty cool. I wonder how the Air Force Museum in Dayton has changed over
nearly 40 years....
There's another military museum in Branson Mo. .... has all the names of WWII lost soldiers on
a long room's three walls. Pretty amazing, albeit sad and somber, display.
Are you talking about the MAPS Museum Cal? I thought that was a aviation museum...not strictly limited to WWII....unless we are thinking of something else? The old 356th Fighter Group restaurant is closed up now, no? Always liked that place.
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There's an Indian wars battlefield in ohio not far from Toledo. I see the signs for it every now and again when I'm up that way. Been meaning to check it out. Since I'm here I'm fixing to add fort Sumter to my list of civil war battlefields visited over the next few daysIn checking I see that I still have quite a number of "battlefield" or at least "war related" National Parks units which I have not been to. Here is a list of some I would like to visit at some point:
Revolutionary War related sites: Boston NHP (Bunker Hill, Old North Church). George Rogers Clark (Indiana)
War of 1812: Horseshoe Bend (really a battle with Creek Indians, but 1812 related)
Civil War: Pea Ridge, Ark. Andersonville Ga. Ft. Scott Kan., Peco, New Mex.
Indian Wars: Fort Smith Ark. Sand Creek Massacre, Colo. Fort Larned, Kan., Big Hole Battlefield, Mont., Washita Battlefield, Okla., Knife River, North Dak.
WWII: Tuskeegee Airmen Ala, Port Chicago Cal. Rosie the Riveter Cal., War in the Pacific, Guam.. Minidoka, Idaho (Japanese Internment camp)
Cold War: Minuteman Missile NHP, South Dakota.
I will be visiting the Big Hole battlefield in a couple of weeks....plus I may make a return trip to The Little Bighorn.
There's an Indian wars battlefield in ohio not far from Toledo. I see the signs for it every now and again when I'm up that way. Been meaning to check it out. Since I'm here I'm fixing to add fort Sumter to my list of civil war battlefields visited over the next few days
I think you are talking about the Fallen Timbers/Fort Miami sites:
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If you ever get round abouts dc again gip check out balls bluff battlefield. It's a small relatively hidden civil war battlefield. What's interesting about it is that it's the only place to date where a u.s. senator has fallen in battle.
If you ever get round abouts dc again gip check out balls bluff battlefield. It's a small relatively hidden civil war battlefield. What's interesting about it is that it's the only place to date where a u.s. senator has fallen in battle.
I know about it, but have not been there. It is not a National Park Battlefield, perhaps a state park? It is up the Potomac toward Harpers Ferry from DC, no?
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