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Mitchell Dvoskin
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From: West Milford, NJ, USA
Registered: Jan 2001

posted 09-10-2006 01:09 PM

Hey Michael,

Did you make it to Cooperstown NY? They are raising money for the restoration of Doubleday field, and for a few hundred dollars you can have your name chisled into a plaque in the stadium, which is located behind the former Smiley's Theatre.

You are aware that you are going to have to come back to NYC in '09 when the new Yankee Stadium opens...

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-10-2006 01:51 PM

quote: Michael Coate
For the others, I guess I should've been more straight forward and stated that my goal concerned the 48 contiguous states. I thought the funny Hawaii comment followed with a smiley with the "I'm in on the joke" wink would've gotten that across.

You put the smiley in the wrong spot. If you'd have put the smiley AFTER the comment about crossing every state line, it would've been clear it was a joke.

FWIW, I wasn't being a naysayer.....hency MY smiley after my comment. I think it's cool you are able to do this. (Although some of the midwest must be awful boring....I drove across eastern Wyoming a couple of weeks ago -- what a bleak landscape that is.)

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Jon Miller
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From: San Diego, CA, USA
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posted 09-10-2006 02:16 PM

quote:
Me? For many years I had two travel goals: (1) visit every U.S. state by automobile (even Hawaii [Wink] )

Joke or no joke, it would be theoretically possible in an Amphicar or a “Duck”. There's a slight problem...1600 or so miles of ocean, and not a single gas station or roadside motel in sight. And forget about free tows from the AAA. [Smile]

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Michael Coate
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From: Los Angeles, California
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posted 09-10-2006 09:46 PM

quote: Mitchell Dvoskin
Did you make it to Cooperstown NY?

Yes! I made it to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown during Tour #6 in 2004. Trip included games in Boston, Montreal, Toronto, New York, and a return visit to Philadelphia.

quote: Mitchell Dvoskin
You are aware that you are going to have to come back to NYC in '09 when the new Yankee Stadium opens...

Yep, I can't wait; my calendar's already marked! Of course, by '09 I wouldn't be surprised if gas is up to 4 or 5 dollars per gallon, so I better start saving.

Okay, folks, we're up to nearly twenty posts here and no one has posted any details about their road trips. This discussion isn't supposed to be just about me. Surely some of you have gone somewhere at some point (or at least aspire to go somewhere). Or do you live in your projection booths 24/7. Doesn't Adam Martin drive around the country to see old theaters and take photos for CinemaTour?

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 09-10-2006 10:38 PM

Last weekend I drove to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion at Rollag, MN. WMSTR link 570 miles each way from here.

Mark G., you need to go to this show sometime.

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Mitchell Dvoskin
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posted 09-11-2006 02:07 PM

As someone who does not like to fly, or more specifically, does not like airports, and did not even before they implemented flyer harassment procedures in the name of faux security, most of my trips are road trips.

I just returned from Cape May, NJ. Cape May is the southern most tip of New Jersey, and is one of 5 cities in the USA listed in it's entirety as a National Historic Landmark. This seaside resort has the largest collection of surviving original Victorian houses and hotels (over 600) in the country, many of which are now bed & breakfasts.

By car, I have been to Ohio, Pennsylvania (I still need to get to Kennywood Amusement Park near Pittsburg), NY (Cooperstown, Lake George & Lake Placid in the Adirondacks), Vermont, Maryland Annopolis & (Baltimore inner harbor, Camden Yards where the Yankee's beat the Baltimore, as they should), MA (Boston did not get to see Fenway Park, but then nobody important plays there anyway).

What was really fun was that as a child, my mother took me to Los Angeles by train. This was before Amtrack, when train travel was still an experience. We took the Pennsylvania Railroad to Chicago, and then the Santa Fe Railroad to LA.

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Sam Graham
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From: Waukee, IA
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posted 09-11-2006 07:36 PM

I love to drive. There were points in my life where I'd take off on the spur of the moment and drive hundreds of miles just to relax. I was especially fond of driving at night when I was younger. I'd get off work at midnight in North Dakota and end up watching the sun rise in Duluth.

The first time I set foot in Iowa was completely by accident...I had no idea the road ended up there. I didn't even know I was anywhere CLOSE to Iowa. Moments like that were always fun.

Let's see...I've driven to or through: Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, that little sliver of Arizona speed trap between Nevada and Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan (both peninsulas), Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. And Alaska, but that doesn't count because I was living there against my will. Although that is were I got my license...

At this point, my car could probably drive itself from here to Denver.

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Phil Hill
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posted 09-11-2006 08:25 PM

I love driving too! Over the years, been to all of the "lower 48 states" via car and/or in a motor home with my ex and kids...or just diving for some event. YES Jason, BEFORE I got divorced... (..and SHE got the motor home too!) HA!

Took my family and my (now) "ex" parents and my parents on a plane to Hawaii and then a cruise ship back across the Pacific to the mainland...FUN!

Only was in Alaska one time in a stop-over on a flight to Japan but never got out of the plane. [Smile]

As far as ball parks, used to have season tickets to Tiger Stadium and later, for many years, Dodger Stadium. [Wink]

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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
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posted 09-11-2006 10:13 PM

For the most part I enjoy road trips. The high price of gas these days is one of the few downers. Although many hate it, I enjoy driving through a number of big cities -mainly when their superhighway systems are nice and big.

The long road trip I make most often these days is driving between Lawton and Colorado Springs, around 600 miles. Sometimes I'll drive 450 miles out to New Mexico to visit other family members. The longest drives I've made have been between New York City and Lawton, around 1700 miles. Longest drive without stopping, Albany, GA to Dallas (with a quick trip through New Orleans to check out where I lived) -I think that's close to 800 miles.

Growing up a Marine Corps brat, our family covered a great deal of the country. Some states are a little more fun to cover than others. I-40 across Tennesse, I-81 up the west side of Virginia and I-10 across West Texas all seem to take forever to cross.

I drive to Oklahoma City, Dallas and Tulsa more often. But 100 or 200 miles seems like nothing once you get used to road trips of 400 or 600 miles.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 09-11-2006 10:23 PM

I guess my longest trip ever was with 2 friends in 1979. We drove from here to the west coast, then down to Tijuana, Mexico, then to Las Vegas and back home via Yellowstone Park. 2 weeks, about 6,000 miles driven in a crappy Oldsmobile with no air conditioning.

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Chris Hipp
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From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas)
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posted 09-12-2006 12:15 AM

Warning: extremely cliche response!

How was the donkey show?

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Mike Heenan
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posted 09-12-2006 12:39 AM

You must get pretty kick ass mileage to drive 800 miles without stopping

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Joe Redifer
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From: Denver, Colorado
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posted 09-12-2006 12:49 AM

quote: Michael Coate
Also, I'm surprised no one pointed out that there is Major League Baseball in Canada and asked whether or not I included Canada in my travels.

Well it's not because nobody cares about Canada, it's because nobody cares about baseball and thus is not aware of that. Only baseball could make golf seem action-packed and/or brisk.

As for me, I pretty much hate driving. Going somewhere isn't too bad, but it's the coming back that absolutely kills ya. It takes ffooreevveerr. I remember going to that one city once. I came back through the mountains (same way I went). After each turn around a mountain, there would be more god damn mountains. Again and again. Finally I came around a mountain and I could see the city. About god damn time! I wish I had a flying car that exceeded the speed of sound or at least a teleportation device. I am nowhere near patient enough to sit on my ass that long, and I can't stand stopping because that just delays my arrival.

I did Dallas to Denver in 11 hours once, stopping once for gas and that's it!

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Chris Hipp
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From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas)
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posted 09-12-2006 02:07 AM

I've always felt the opposite. Coming back home seems to go by really fast for me.

My family did Dallas to Buffalo, NY twice only stopping for gas and bathroom breaks. 24 hours straight, when you do finally get to sleep in a bed it would still feel like you are moving in the car. We did that once in '89 and again in '94, of course I wasnt old enough to drive then.

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William T. Parr
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From: Cedar Park, TX
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posted 09-12-2006 01:03 PM

Michael Coate a friend of mine and I have planned to do the same thing. Visit each ballpark sometime in the next few years. Out of your expirience which Ballpark was the best and the worst in your travel and is there anything we should expect out of the ordinary at any particular one?

My road trips that included hobbies on the way all do with railroading and phototaken. So far I have been as Far North as Dallas Ft Worth Area. West to Alburquerque, New Mexico in 1996 to look at the ATSF and SP lines before all the Semaphore Signals were replaced. And to East to Atlanta Ga.

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