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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:23 pm
My wife's best friend just moved to Thailand so we're probably going there next summer. I'll have to see if I can get a non-stop flight out of Cheyenne.
The Swamp
It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:59 pm
Is the state the destination for the foreigners, or is the foreign country the destination of the state's residents? If it is the former, then Germany makes sense for Colorado. I've visited National Parks all over the western U.S. and Canada, and one truism has been that you see Germans on the trails and Japanese in the gift shops.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:01 pm
sancarlos wrote:Is the state the destination for the foreigners, or is the foreign country the destination of the state's residents? If it is the former, then Germany makes sense for Colorado. I've visited National Parks all over the western U.S. and Canada, and one truism has been that you see Germans on the trails and Japanese in the gift shops.
I understood as the state's residents visiting the foreign country. Otherwise the Wyoming thing is super legit weird.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:02 pm
Could have just been one large family's vacation.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:06 pm
P.D.X. wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/sunday-review/summer-vacation-travel-destinations.html
See if you read the story and look at the top 5 for each state, if you remove Canada as an option for those states and Mexico for those states, it becomes a lot more interesting (Lebanon is #2 for Michigan for example, which makes sense given the huge Middle Eastern population there).
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:37 am
Everything about this map is appealing to me -- the premise, the execution, etc.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:04 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:08 pm
Though as a lot of Tigers fans have pointed out, it inexplicably includes the Brewers in parts of Western Michigan that would require taking a car ferry across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin (which does exist), but even if you acknowledge that it's still a 2.5 hour boat ride which would make either the two Chicago teams or Detroit much closer by time.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:11 pm
It's pretty accurate that the 38th Parallel between Yankees and Red Sox is Hartford.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:15 pm
Other tiny favorite things. Despite playing only about 20 miles apart, there's still enormous swarths of real estate for both the Dodgers and the Angels.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:24 pm
Yeah, if you're driving from Grand Rapids to Miller Park, you would go right past Comiskey.brian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:08 pm Though as a lot of Tigers fans have pointed out, it inexplicably includes the Brewers in parts of Western Michigan that would require taking a car ferry across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin (which does exist), but even if you acknowledge that it's still a 2.5 hour boat ride which would make either the two Chicago teams or Detroit much closer by time.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:30 pm
I do this kind of thing for towns to figure out where to put new fire stations. The first thing they want to know is how the travel time radius changes when traffic congestion is introduced. I'd like to see it for this map too, where the Diamondbacks come all the way over to about 3 miles east of Anaheim.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:34 pm
Ha ha. Sounds like somebody remembers a trip to Disneyland!Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:30 pmI do this kind of thing for towns to figure out where to put new fire stations. The first thing they want to know is how the travel time radius changes when traffic congestion is introduced. I'd like to see it for this map too, where the Diamondbacks come all the way over to about 3 miles east of Anaheim.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:35 pm
Unless you're taking these guys from Muskegon to Milwaukee in 2.5 hours. But the bullshit part of it is that you can (if you're timing it just right) literally drive from Grand Rapids to Milwaukee and only put about 50 miles on your car, but it's still going to take about 3.5 hours (at best) including the time on the ferry. Meanwhile, you can drive from Grand Rapids to Detroit or Chicago in about 2.5 to 3 hours depending on traffic.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:24 pmYeah, if you're driving from Grand Rapids to Miller Park, you would go right past Comiskey.brian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:08 pm Though as a lot of Tigers fans have pointed out, it inexplicably includes the Brewers in parts of Western Michigan that would require taking a car ferry across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin (which does exist), but even if you acknowledge that it's still a 2.5 hour boat ride which would make either the two Chicago teams or Detroit much closer by time.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:33 pm
Map of every pub in the UK.
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 2:25 pm
Map of rude place names.
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 2:31 pm
Ra-Shawbard's Butthole, OR
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 6:47 pm
Not sure if this has been shared yet. I have two more pages if people are interested.
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 7:01 pm
All correct but Tenn
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 7:22 pm
yes
close (I wrote full answer in spoiler)
wrong meat
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 7:35 am
I don't know why I'm correcting every response. You can check your own work and see the photos in much better detail along with a few more states I chose not to show my students here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/foodiggity/ ... 6749216753
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:41 am
Reading this book for the second time. A look at the most remote islands on earth with one page stories based on real events that occurred on the islands.
A remarkable book.
A remarkable book.
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:54 am
That is cool!
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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:18 am
Long Chile? That awesome.
Of course Quebec is untouched, like in real life.
Of course Quebec is untouched, like in real life.
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