Eaten home-grown sweet corn?
Been to Wall Drug?
Voted?
Gone to a township meeting?
Walked the Hollywood walk of fame?
Climbed around Mesa Verde?


I've done many, many things on the previous lists - guess I'm blessed. Or I just have a short attention span.

Oh! And toured the White House? Capitol? Library of Congress?

more more more!

Seetheworld wrote, "gotten poison ivy the day you traveled?"

No, but this year I did strike a fever and a flu, a period and a migraine upon arrival in Seattle followed by the discovery of the biggest rainbow bruise on my right boob from crashing into a row of seats at the previous evening's Tori performance. Wooo!!!

Okay, have you ever:

Stood with one foot in West Virginia and one foot in Maryland while shouting at Virginia?

Repeated a local ghost story?

Picked cherries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, grapes and apples in the same year?

Stood in front of a Seurat painting twice as tall as you are and muttered to yourself, "Bueller? Bueller?"

Worn a tank top and shorts today and mittens and a scarf tomorrow?

Met an American Holocaust survivor?

Drank fresh squeezed orange juice at a Florida welcome center?

Cursed a Wal-Mart?

Bought new underwear instead of doing your laundry?

Walked home at 8:00 a.m.?

Listened to "Whaddya Know"?

"waterslide at slickrock, Sedona Az"

Keith, this was going to be a highlight of our family trip to AZ about a decade ago. We were warned off doing it because of parasidic, dangerous water. Too bad.

Flown above the 24 Mile Causeway of Lake Ponchatrain?

Gone Ice Fishing?

And liked it?

Visited Gettysburg?

Ridden a Cigarette Boat across a choppy Great Lake?

Visited a Professional Sports Hall Of Fame?

Navigated a 12% grade road in a car with 200,000 miles on the odometer?

Watched bats feed outside your hotel room door in Camp Verde, AZ while you and your spouse sipped Jameson?

Visited Montezuma's Castle, and been awed?

Climbed a dormant volcano?

Vacationed on the "target side" of a fast-moving forest fire?

Saw rain fall, and evaporate before it hit the ground?

Done a distillery tour in Tennessee?

Chased your kids into the frigid waters of a Finger Lake?

Walked the "rut" at the top of the Empire State Building?

--Gone to the Kentucky Derby? (Haven't yet, but one of these years...)
--Been to a town that is named for its position relative to three states? (TexasArkansasLouisiana=Texarkana)
--Watched in amazement (good or bad, depending) as two former rival US Presidents, one the father of the current Pres whose idea this supposedly was, travel the USA together, asking Americans to help disaster victims.
Only in America!!

Hey, Charlie Daniels, have you ever...

- Been made over by the Fab Five?
- Been done for deewee?
- Been on a civil rights march?
- Found a relative's name on the wall in DC?
- Been laid off from your job because it moved overseas?
- Attended a party precinct meeting?
- Had a corporate executive make off with your retirement money?
- Volunteered in a food bank?

...sorry, grumpy Saturday I guess...

Here's some additional thoughts:
* - gone smelt fishing in Lake Michigan
* - took a Grand Canyon mule trip
* - been in Times Square on New Year's Eve to watch the ball drop
* - attended the Huntsville Prison Rodeo
* - been to Wall Drug
* - been on the Hoover Dam tour
* - stood at the top of Mount Battie and overlooked Camden, ME
* - survived 3 hurricanes in Summer 2004
* - seen the Gateway Arch

-climbed the steps of the Washington Monument
-visited a Redwood in Muir Woods
-watched a moonrise on Isle Royale
-searched for your ancestors on Ellis Island
-been crabbing on the Chesepeake Bay
-built a homecoming float
-placed a hand and a foot in four states at the same time (Y'all know where!)
-took a ferry to Ocracoke
-visited the House on the Rock
-couldn't wait to find out what "South of the Border" was?
-ate chocolate in Hershey
-traveled the Blue Ridge Parkway during rhododendron season
-got lost in a corn maze
-been to the Ben & Jerry's factory
-lunched at the top of the Space Needle
-camped overnight in the Okefenokee Swamp
-dropped your change in the Salvation Army bucket
-listened to jazz in Preservation Hall
-driven to Dyersville to see the Field of Dreams

-folded your hands, bowed your head and said thanks for so many blessings....

walked in the footprint of ground zero

I live in Canada, so I have skated on a frozen pond, been stranded somewhere(in a bar, thank goodness!) during a snowstorm, gone ice fishing, snow mobiling,you name it! I want to do more warm stuff!! And I want to see New York!

Been to...
All four corners, plus north and south:
Maine
Key West
Seattle
San Diego
Hawaii
New Orleans
Mackinaw
The Heartland:
St. Louis
Detroit
Cleveland
Denver
Chicago
Dallas
Albuquerque
Cheyenne
The Landmarks:
The Arch
The Statue
The Bridge
The Halls Of Fame
The Shoe
The Swamp
The Quarter
The Rockies
The Divide
The Canyon
Death Valley
The Falls
Sin City
The Queen City
The Windy City
The City of Angels
The Music City
The Empire State
The Golden State
The Buckeye State
and on, and on
The Bush Man
The Gator Man
The Lizard Man...
...I'm so blessed to have been born in The United States!

Have you ever...

run up the art museum steps in Philadelphia (like Rocky)?

people-watched on Ocean Drive in South Beach?

visited the Devil's Den at Gettysburg after dark?

watched the sun set over the Pacific and the sun rise over the Atlantic in the same 12 hour period?

watched an interleague game, Cubs vs. Royals, at Wrigley Field?

been bitten by a copperhead in West Virginia (not me, but I was with my brother-in-law when it happened to him)?

walked around the University of Pennsylvania's campus?

been caught in a "white out" on Rt. 22 in the Laurel Highlands (PA)?

dodged joggers and cylclists on Kelly Drive in Philadelphia?

eaten buffalo wings at Chuck's in Princeton?

taken a Devils fan to a Flyers game in Philadelphia?

shopped in Peddlers Village (Lahaska, PA)?

shopped in New Hope (PA)?

driven River Road from Morrisville, PA to Easton, PA?

seen the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon in Wellsboro?

visited the Horseshoe Curve in Altoona?

bought baked goods from the Amish?

Folded your hands, bowed your head and felt a tear in your eye as you profoundly wished our elected leaders would live up to the vision of America that most of us hold so dear?

Returned from a bad experience overseas truly wanting to drop down and kiss the ground?

Marveled at a landscape of Midwestern American farmland?

Crossed the Mississippi three times in 15 minutes (ok, we made a wrong turn) with a carload of kids in the van, singing Ol' Man River every time?

"Folded your hands, bowed your head and felt a tear in your eye as you profoundly wished our elected leaders would live up to the vision of America that most of us hold so dear?"

Ain't that the truth tuckerdc!

Yep, me too TuckerDC.

Fun Thread. I have done many things listed here (13 from the original post) but I see there is way more to be seen and experienced. Heading out to Baltimore tomorrow for work so maybe I can start there.

Ate way to many dogs and had way too much beer at way too many ballparks.

Eat at Waffle House. Sober.

Eat at White Castle. Also sober.

Watch the sunset over any of the Great Lakes with someone special.

Watch the sunrise over that same lake the next morning without ever leaving.

Ride the incline in Pittsburgh.

Attend the Army-Navy game.

Go to Ohio St. - Michigan game.

Ride the rides at Cedar Point.

Gamble at a church festival.

Get married in Vegas. Talk about a gamble.

Ohmigosh, Sam H.

I thought we were soul mates until that last one! Almost fell off my chair laughing.

Did all those others though.

Three spots on the GLs - Mackinaw Island, Caseville, MI and Keeweenaw Brockway Mountain Drive.

:) :) :)

This thread is a riot. I can't believe how many I have done on the original list--15 total. I didn't think anyone ever heard of a Door County Fish Boil, but it sure is fun!

Also jserpente have been to 5 bars in one night in Appleton, along with IKEA. Stayed in Texarkana (on the Texas side), did the 4 corners and ran up the Art Museum steps in Philly like Rocky (I wasn't the only one either, it is a "thing" there, lol.)

Why would anyone eat at White Castle sober?

US is a great country...anyone ever spend 4th of July on the White house lawn?

Threw up behind the bleachers at the HS football game?

Been to a toga party?

Been to a clam bake?

Pig roast?

Had deep-fried turkey?

Tried out for the cheerleading squad and didn't make it?

Been arrested at a protest march?

Ever been mugged?

Been to the Liberty Bell?

Times Square on New Year's Eve?