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- From: bechtler@asdg.enet.dec.com (Laurie Bechtler)
- Subject: Re: Strange and Unusual stops in the U.S.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.230556.22487@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- References: <lorange.722032623@spot.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:02:27 GMT
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- In article <lorange.722032623@spot.Colorado.EDU>, lorange@spot.Colorado.EDU (Hans L'Orange) writes...
- >I'm in the process of putting together a surprise (read gag) travel folder
- >for some friends about to drive cross-country. I want to include any
- >unusual stops that I can come up with so please forward any ideas you might
- >have on to me. I'm looking for things like the largest ball of string or
- >the Museum of Unusual, Nocturnal and Ugly Insects.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Hans
- >
- >--
- >******************************************************************************
- >* "I have always imagined that Paradise * "Let there be songs, *
- >* will be a kind of library" * to fill the air" *
- >* Jorge Luis Borges * Garcia - Hunter *
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- Kokomo, IN has a large stuffed longhorn steer encased in glass under
- a pavilion in a city park. I can't for the life of me remember why
- it's there.
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- Near Mansfield, Ohio, at Malabar Farm, former home of author Louis
- Bromfield, you can visit the site where Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
- Bacall got married.
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- In Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, KY, you can see one of only
- 2 moonbows in the world. This is a whitish rainbow over a waterfall
- seen only under a full moon.
-