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South of the Border

  • 06/28/2012

Photos from June 2011 For a few years during my childhood, my family would drive down to Florida every February, and my brother and I always anticipated the stop at South of the Border.  If you have never heard of South of the Border, then you haven’t done...

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Journey Behind the Falls

  • 12/27/2011

On the Canada side of Niagara Falls you can quite literally walk behind them, after an admission fee, of course.  A manmade tunnel was blasted behind the falls and has 2 observation areas.  Observation is used loosely here; all you’re going to be seeing is rushing water.  Visitors...

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Desert of Maine

  • 12/27/2008

A desert in Maine is just about as out of place as a palace in West Virginia. The Desert of Maine technically isn’t a true desert; it’s made up of glacial silt rather than sand. The silt was deposited here during the last Ice Age, and over the...

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Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Flavor Graveyard

  • 12/27/2008

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory is quite a popular tourist destination in Vermont. But while most people go there to sample flavors, see ice cream being made, or to check out the gift shop, I had a different agenda. Up on a hill a bit to the...

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Bushkill Falls

  • 05/21/2006

Stopped here while checking out potential towns to move to in PA. 9 bucks to hike around waterfalls….and they card you if you pay by credit. I’m not even sure why I’m including this on the site, but if I have The Flume on here, I guess this’ll...

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Lucy the Elephant

  • 04/20/2004

Most people look at you funny if you tell them there’s a 6 story elephant near Atlantic City. Lucy was built in 1881 to attract people to Margate (South A.C. at the time) and to hopefully buy property there. Over the years, she’s been a real estate office,...

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America’s Stonehenge

  • 10/20/2003

Quick rundown: In North Salem, NH, is a megalithic structure that has been a subject of controversy for years. Some claim it’s 4000+ years old and like the Stonehenge of England, the rocks line up with certain celestial events. Others claim the site is a fake, or at...

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