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  • More on doing a Lake Erie Circle tour. I have not done this completely myself, but perhaps would like to some day.

    http://www.great-lakes.net/tourism/circletour/erie/

  • I would love to go to Cleveland and hang out with the freaks. See the town.

    https://www.facebook.com/Mike-Black-Sunday-Stories-1780988822148720/?ref=bookmarks
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  • Im in cleveland day in and day out for work and you couldn't drag me there for anything extracurricular that wasn't sport related with one exception. I do love the museums and the university area. One of my favorite cleveland restraunts is in university and the other is on nearby coventry. As for the rest of cleveland...Fuck that place.

    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...
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  • Thanks gip. I had toyed with the idea of a lake erie tour, I think if I go from one end to the other (detroit to niagara), and have to drive back again, I might as well go the other way around.

    DieHardBrownsFanD The GipperT 2 Replies
  • gftChrisG gftChris

    Thanks gip. I had toyed with the idea of a lake erie tour, I think if I go from one end to the other (detroit to niagara), and have to drive back again, I might as well go the other way around.

    @gftchris said:

    Thanks gip. I had toyed with the idea of a lake erie tour, I think if I go from one end to the other (detroit to niagara), and have to drive back again, I might as well go the other way around.

    Lake Erie, where Perry defeated Barclay.

    http://www.nps.gov/pevi/learn/historyculture/battle_erie_detail.htm

    "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
  • T The Cysko Kid

    Im in cleveland day in and day out for work and you couldn't drag me there for anything extracurricular that wasn't sport related with one exception. I do love the museums and the university area. One of my favorite cleveland restraunts is in university and the other is on nearby coventry. As for the rest of cleveland...Fuck that place.

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    Im in cleveland day in and day out for work and you couldn't drag me there for anything extracurricular that wasn't sport related with one exception. I do love the museums and the university area. One of my favorite cleveland restraunts is in university and the other is on nearby coventry. As for the rest of cleveland...Fuck that place.

    Im considering my vacation in Aug. I get three weeks but wont take that much but have time to play with. Cleveland seems to be one of the stopping points.
    https://www.facebook.com/Mike-Black-Sunday-Stories-1780988822148720/?ref=bookmarks

  • Cuyahoga Valley National Park will disappoint you. It used to be a National Recreation area until some politician used his influence to have to become a National Park. Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, etc. are national parks. This is at best a State park. Some hiking trails, very small falls and hills. Mostly fields and trees. Not something I would travel far to see.

    "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
  • DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan

    Cuyahoga Valley National Park will disappoint you. It used to be a National Recreation area until some politician used his influence to have to become a National Park. Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, etc. are national parks. This is at best a State park. Some hiking trails, very small falls and hills. Mostly fields and trees. Not something I would travel far to see.

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Cuyahoga Valley National Park will disappoint you. It used to be a National Recreation area until some politician used his influence to have to become a National Park. Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, etc. are national parks. This is at best a State park. Some hiking trails, very small falls and hills. Mostly fields and trees. Not something I would travel far to see.

    I have been to 52 of the 59 National Parks.

    Of the 7 I have not been to, 5 are in Alaska accessible only by float plane. 1 is in Samoa. And there is a new one in California

    They come in all shapes and sizes and variances.

    There are 409 National Park Units. I have been to about 300 of those. I will be traveling to Alabama and Georgia to see 7 more before this month is up.

    Those too are of all types and sizes, ranging from a single house in a city to vast grasslands/deserts/mountains.

    I can tell you all about them if you like.

    I have gone to all kinds of lengths and distances to get to some of them....including a 70 mile one way trip in a catamaran, plus another in a boat that went only 8 mph that took 3 hours one way to make 22 miles.

    So I guess it is up to each individual to determine how far and to what lengths he would go to see them.

    For gft......he doesn't have to worry about that. To get to the CVNP he just has to drive down the road a bit. It is the only National Park that sits between two major metropolitan areas.

  • gftChrisG gftChris

    Thanks gip. I had toyed with the idea of a lake erie tour, I think if I go from one end to the other (detroit to niagara), and have to drive back again, I might as well go the other way around.

    @gftchris said:

    Thanks gip. I had toyed with the idea of a lake erie tour, I think if I go from one end to the other (detroit to niagara), and have to drive back again, I might as well go the other way around.

    That would be OK too. You probably get better, cheaper flights from the UK to Toronto.

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @gftchris said:

    Thanks gip. I had toyed with the idea of a lake erie tour, I think if I go from one end to the other (detroit to niagara), and have to drive back again, I might as well go the other way around.

    That would be OK too. You probably get better, cheaper flights from the UK to Toronto.

    @the-gipper said:

    That would be OK too. You probably get better, cheaper flights from the UK to Toronto.

    Potentially. At the moment, London to Detroit is around £450. Haven't checked Toronto.

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  • The GipperT The Gipper

    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.

    @the-gipper said:

    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)

    Going here in few weeks.

    Civil War: Pea Ridge, Ark. Andersonville Ga. Ft. Scott Kan., Peco, New Mex.

    Going to Andersonville as well at end of Feb.

    Indian Wars: Fort Smith Ark. Sand Creek Massacre, Colo. Fort Larned, Kan., Big Hole Battlefield, Mont., Washita Battlefield, Okla., Knife River, North Dak.

    I have since been to both the Big Hole and Washita.

    WWII: Tuskeegee Airmen Ala, Port Chicago Cal. Rosie the Riveter Cal., War in the Pacific, Guam.. Minidoka, Idaho (Japanese Internment camp)

    Also going to the Tuskeegee Airmen site.

    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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    I would love to go to Cleveland and hang out with the freaks. See the town.

    One Post From the Truth said:

    I would love to go to Cleveland and hang out with the freaks. See the town.

    I resemble that remark!

  • gftChrisG gftChris

    @the-gipper said:

    That would be OK too. You probably get better, cheaper flights from the UK to Toronto.

    Potentially. At the moment, London to Detroit is around £450. Haven't checked Toronto.

    @gftchris said:

    Potentially. At the moment, London to Detroit is around £450. Haven't checked Toronto.

    That sounds pretty damned reasonable. Looking at the conversion, that is only about $650.00. Damned reasonable.

    For that I should go the other direction.

  • For sure. London's not cheap though!

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  • I'm going to Yosemite in may

    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...
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  • I hope you're planning to grow a suitable moustache in that time.

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  • gftChrisG gftChris

    For sure. London's not cheap though!

    @gftchris said:

    For sure. London's not cheap though!

    I could stay with relatives. I have several cousins near there. Croydon for sure. Northhampton. An aunt by marriage still lives near Liverpool. My Gillingham and Chatham connections are gone though.

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  • T The Cysko Kid

    I'm going to Yosemite in may

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    I'm going to Yosemite in may

    Enjoy the view.

    1280px-Yosemite_Valley_from_Wawona_Tunne

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @gftchris said:

    For sure. London's not cheap though!

    I could stay with relatives. I have several cousins near there. Croydon for sure. Northhampton. An aunt by marriage still lives near Liverpool. My Gillingham and Chatham connections are gone though.

    @the-gipper said:

    I could stay with relatives. I have several cousins near there. Croydon for sure. Northhampton. An aunt by marriage still lives near Liverpool. My Gillingham and Chatham connections are gone though.

    Well, Croydon's almost London I suppose 😉

    By american standards the rest are definitely not. If you're around, give me a shout and I'll buy you some cold fizzy tasteless piss, or a real beer.

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  • gftChrisG gftChris

    I hope you're planning to grow a suitable moustache in that time.

    @gftchris said:

    I hope you're planning to grow a suitable moustache in that time.

    Plus, he has to have the right color.

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