Home State Pride

[Eagle3]

The wife and I like to travel. It would be nice to know what everyone considers a favorite place in their home state (province, territory, etc...) to visit. It can be a town, city, natural landmark, whatever. Use the tag if you want to show us a picture. Give a reason why you think it's so great.

I'll start off. I really love Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula. It's not crowded, great camping and hiking trails, and the night skies are amazing. Excellent place to get away from it all and relax. Perfect nerve tonic. ;)
[IMG]http://www.michiganhotels.org/gallery2/tahquamenon.jpg

[JDub]

I'd have to say one of my favorite visits down here is Guadalupe Peak in far West Texas. It's an easy hike, and once you reach the summit, you feel like you are the only person on the planet.

http://www.semyan.com/PostThree/Images/DSCN1299.JPG

It's a long drive out that far, though, so I like to make a pit stop at the McDonald Observatory...

http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/images/news/gallery/d_domes.jpg

And when I'm done with all that solitude, it's nice to hit South Padre Island for a few margaritas and some fishing...;)

http://www.nasdme.org/S%20Padre%20Island%20Skyline.jpg

[STIBROKER]

don't forget toobing the guadalupe..........

http://www.rockinr.com/images/guadalupe/guadalupe.jpg

[Freak]

Well, here in Nebraska we have corn:

http://www.nctc.net/~hazard/photo/cornfield/cornfield.JPG


and dirtroads:

http://www.nctc.net/counties/nehomepage/dirtroad.jpg

soybeans and grasshoppers:

http://www.nctc.net/counties/soybean/grasshoppersoy.jpg

and of course lots of rednecks:

http://erikfoto.com/redneck.jpeg

[Rguess21]

Palo Duro Canyon


http://www.palodurocanyon.com/

[Laurie]

Wisconsin Dells. Make reservations early (and typically during the week is best to avoid HUGE crowds of people) and bring lots of money!! I guarantee you'll love it. Summer is best, as they have some really fun water parks (Noah's Ark being the biggest and best.)

Here's one link out of about 100 (http://www.wisdells.com/business/business.cfm?divisiontypecode=ATTR)

[STIBROKER]

laurie .....ya sold me......me and the family and the coondog are coming up.......got enough room........damn...they even have a winery......

[Laurie]

Stib, they have everything. Your kids would have the time of their lives.

Don't live in WI anymore, but they have great hotels/cabins/lodges/suites.

[JDub]

Originally posted by Laurie
Stib, they have everything. Your kids would have the time of their lives.

Don't live in WI anymore, but they have great hotels/cabins/lodges/suites.

Plus nobody likes having coonass visitors. ;) :p

[STIBROKER]

Originally posted by JDub
Plus nobody likes having coonass visitors. ;) :p


nawwww....yous got dat all wrong cuzzz....every one like de coonass vist.......yous always end ups drunk ...full.....and pissed off at a family member......one time I saw my grandma throw a chistmas tree at an aunt of mine one year......too funny....

[Laurie]

Hey! I know a few coonasses from WI! LOL

[Shade]

Originally posted by STIBROKER
nawwww....yous got dat all wrong cuzzz....every one like de coonass vist.......yous always end ups drunk ...full.....and pissed off at a family member......one time I saw my grandma throw a chistmas tree at an aunt of mine one year......too funny....

ouhhhhwwhhuuaaattttt?????

[Barb101]

I'm so proud... :nuts: http://www.horrorseek.com/haunted/devilhimself/JB/0georgia0.gif

[JDub]

Originally posted by Barb101
I'm so proud... :nuts:

:laugh: :laugh: Looks like you're in good company there, Barb. ;) :p

[Eagle3]

Remind me to fly AROUND Georgia on the way to Florida. :nuts:

OBTW - I bet that dog has more teeth than all the guys in that photoshop put together!

[JBMoney]

My favorite place in California is pretty much anyplace in the middle of a Redwood forest, by a running river, a long ways away from any people. We have literally thousands of those places though.

There is one place in particular that I always visit if I'm in town and that's Fort Point in San Francisco. I believe it was the very last of the Civil War Forts, finished I think in 1861.

It was designed to mount over 120 cannons and protect the entrance of the San Francisco Bay. It was pretty much obsolete though by the time it was finished. There are still a few cannons there, and the huge cannon mounts on the top.

It's also the home of only the second lighthouse built in California, attached to the top of the fort. They ended up building the Golden Gate Bridge pretty much right over it.

Anyhow, it's my kind of place. At the top it's always freezing cold and windy as hell, is one of the best views of San Francisco Bay and you can always hear the waves crashing against the rocks there.

Almost everytime I go to SF, I take a cigar, a powerful lighter, a flagon of whiskey, and a jacket, and head to the top (hardly anybody else ever stays up there for more than 30 seconds).

http://www.pickatrail.com/sun/f/america/images/fort_point/fort_point_8.jpg

[Sister Zombie]

My favorite place is anywhere along the Gulf Coast, but especially between Pensacola Beach and Apalachicola. I love the beach along the Gulf of Mexico. If you need to be around lots of people, you can always find them. At the same time if you want to find stretches of white sandy beach where you can be all by yourself, you can still find that too.

http://www.fishpensacolabeachpier.com/beach/pictures.htm

[Pistol Pete]

My favorite place in California is pretty much anyplace in the middle of a Redwood forest, by a running river, a long ways away from any people. We have literally thousands of those places though.

There is one place in particular that I always visit if I'm in town and that's Fort Point in San Francisco. I believe it was the very last of the Civil War Forts, finished I think in 1861.

It was designed to mount over 120 cannons and protect the entrance of the San Francisco Bay. It was pretty much obsolete though by the time it was finished. There are still a few cannons there, and the huge cannon mounts on the top.

It's also the home of only the second lighthouse built in California, attached to the top of the fort. They ended up building the Golden Gate Bridge pretty much right over it.

Ok, so I was perusing the archives.

California wasn't involved during The Civil War and the war started in 1861. Supposedly, as California goes, so goes the rest of the country. If that were true, we could have saved ourselves 500K lives and four years of chest beating. Loads of people went there to get away from the fighting (and to find same-sex companionship, $10 coffees, and no personal freedom). Through recently unfound documents, those guns were to be used against the Japanese, should they mount a surprise balloon-borne attack on the west coast on a Sunday morning, which they did. The cannons equaled the same number of red lights the Japanese would lock onto in the Castro District to line up the fort. Fortunately, there was a whale oil shortage which squelched most of the lights, so the attack was never noticed. The Devine Wind horde was blown out over the Mohave Desert where they were hit by owls, plummeted to the ground, and were covered by the worst sand storm in unrecorded American history. The hilly area has since been used for countless western movies.

The lighthouse was actually a PR gimmick for a new sailors mall opening at The Presidio.

[Spotter]

Pete and JB, the plural for cannon is cannon. :Poke:

It pisses me of because The History Channel and The Discovery Channel get it wrong every time!

[Pistol Pete]

Pete and JB, the plural for cannon is cannon. :Poke:

It pisses me of because The History Channel and The Discovery Channel get it wrong every time!

The plural of deer is deer. The plural of moose is moose. You can have lots of cannons. "The British cannons opened up across the entire front." "German cannons pounded the American lines, day and night." "General Longstreet's cannons laid out a fusilade upon the Confederate assault."

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The History Channel gets lots of things wrong, but not that one. They show American SBDs diving on our battleships at Pearl Harbor. They show German Mark III tanks bursting into France while talking about Tigers in Russia. They show the 15th Air Force bombing Ploesti while talking about the 8th Air Force bombing Germany. Barb's dad was with the 15th Air Force and made the Ploesti raids. They have that fat, pointy-headed sucker on who thinks he's the absolute authority on military history, though he's full of shit many times. They even showed an F-86 Sabre Jet over Korea while talking about the German ME-262 in WWII. They really have no one who knows what should be, just college boys in need of a job. I am no expert, but I pay attention to those shows.

[smutman]

My favorite place in California is pretty much anyplace in the middle of a Redwood forest, by a running river, a long ways away from any people. We have literally thousands of those places though.

There is one place in particular that I always visit if I'm in town and that's Fort Point in San Francisco. I believe it was the very last of the Civil War Forts, finished I think in 1861.

It was designed to mount over 120 cannons and protect the entrance of the San Francisco Bay. It was pretty much obsolete though by the time it was finished. There are still a few cannons there, and the huge cannon mounts on the top.

It's also the home of only the second lighthouse built in California, attached to the top of the fort. They ended up building the Golden Gate Bridge pretty much right over it.

Anyhow, it's my kind of place. At the top it's always freezing cold and windy as hell, is one of the best views of San Francisco Bay and you can always hear the waves crashing against the rocks there.

Almost everytime I go to SF, I take a cigar, a powerful lighter, a flagon of whiskey, and a jacket, and head to the top (hardly anybody else ever stays up there for more than 30 seconds).

http://www.pickatrail.com/sun/f/america/images/fort_point/fort_point_8.jpg

When I was stationed at Moffett Field,We used to go up there a lot.GREAT views,and a nice hike.Kind of a ways to carry beer,so I understand the need for whiskey.Much lighter to carry.