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ctechbob

ctechbob

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Just back from an ultra-cold trip to Perry with the friendgroup, so far have booked 3 more weekend trips and with the exception of one camp site, our entire 2 week summer trip to SD.

Plan is to go at least one weekend a month, with a couple of longer vacations thrown in.
 
it should start warming up , so have fun.

question? is it Perry GA or Tifton GA that has that giant Planters Peanut sign /thingamajig right along I 75?
 
Must be Tifton

Yea, Tifton = Home of the GA peanut commission, so if it is anywhere it will be there.

Have to look around for it, I don't remember seeing it the last few times down 75.
 
ctechbob said:
Must be Tifton

Yea, Tifton = Home of the GA peanut commission, so if it is anywhere it will be there.

Have to look around for it, I don't remember seeing it the last few times down 75.
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yeah, it was on the west side of I 75... and it is probably Tifton... Big Old Planters Peanut type statue for lack of a better description.
having travelled from FLA to MI about once or twice a year up until my parents died, since then not so much so I forgot what town it was...

I used to have my Georgia expressway Landmarks memorized.. Like King Frog down there near Adel... or the Claxton Fruit cake stuff and the Thomasville stuff up there in the middle..
Fort Valley I associate with Blue Bird school buses..

you have any of those landmarks you use in your travels that keep your sense of where you are?
 
MSCH said:
you have any of those landmarks you use in your travels that keep your sense of where you are?
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Back when we used to travel back to PA for Christmas and Summer vacation, absolutely. I could drive the route we used to take in my sleep.

I85 to I77 to I81, left at Hagerstown into Breezewood, turnpike to Bedford, I99 to Altoona, 220 to Ebensburg (I think that's the right route #) and then 422 into the Indiana area.

Big peach water tower - Gaffney SC
Jackson Ferry Shot tower - Near Fort Chiswell, NC
Driving forever in the valley next to a mountain ridge - Pretty much the entire way up I81. Feels like you spend 20 hours in Virginia

Breezewood PA, which has an interesting interstate history all on its own.

I'm sure there's others I've forgotten. When I go up that way now I take a different route that is ever so slightly shorter. That route goes over the New River Gorge bridge, which is another interesting piece of americana.
 
I noticed today my boss has an 1800 mile route on google maps from home to Seattle. She must be going to visit her brother. :unsure:
 
ctechbob said:
Back when we used to travel back to PA for Christmas and Summer vacation, absolutely. I could drive the route we used to take in my sleep.

I85 to I77 to I81, left at Hagerstown into Breezewood, turnpike to Bedford, I99 to Altoona, 220 to Ebensburg (I think that's the right route #) and then 422 into the Indiana area.

Big peach water tower - Gaffney SC
Jackson Ferry Shot tower - Near Fort Chiswell, NC
Driving forever in the valley next to a mountain ridge - Pretty much the entire way up I81. Feels like you spend 20 hours in Virginia

Breezewood PA, which has an interesting interstate history all on its own.

I'm sure there's others I've forgotten. When I go up that way now I take a different route that is ever so slightly shorter. That route goes over the New River Gorge bridge, which is another interesting piece of americana.
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I have a buddy from Indiana, PA, you don't hear much about it. Small world.
 
Azjeff said:
I grew up in a small town 50 miles from Indiana. Nice little university town. Home of Jimmy Stewart.
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yeah, reminds me of the time they were interviewing Charlton Heston and he was talking about growing up in St Helen.
for some reason I thought he meant the volcanoland but then it became clear he was talking about St Helen MI.
I used to go hunting in ST Helen MI.. what a miserable little pithole,no university there..maybe lumberjack university..
no farming either as the topsoil is non existent as a summer climate ..
I never could figure out how Ben Hur escaped but he did.
 
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