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Posted: 07/28/12 01:34pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

One year on th etrip we visited aplace near Smoky Lake Alberta. There is a living museum there, where some of the volunteers dress up in period costume. At this particular place there is the oldest building in the province that is still on its original foundation. IIRC its about 135yrs old.


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Truthfully, my EX, because it's a marvel she has made it this far, Law and Order SVU not withstanding. JOKING,a little.

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Recently, I saw the Tokyo Sky Tree. Before that, the model train museum in Hamburg. Roman aqueducts. Honestly, any of the modern rapid passenger rail services in Europe. I really wish we had that here. I'd love to do what I did in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and England here in the USA.

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Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
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Orion wrote:



The view from the UPPER lookout on the CN Tower.



Been there also. DH got me off the elevator, but I wouldn't come outside! He loved the view! I "peeked" from the stairway. Being high up is not a good place for me, I like ground level better.


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MrsMingo wrote:

Orion wrote:



The view from the UPPER lookout on the CN Tower.



Been there also. DH got me off the elevator, but I wouldn't come outside! He loved the view! I "peeked" from the stairway. Being high up is not a good place for me, I like ground level better.


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Warther Carving Museum, Dover Ohio.


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A modern Aircraft Carrier. You would be amazed at what is contained within one of these. A city of over 5000. Escalators., elevators, All air conditioned (except the engine spaces). A modern hospital complete with several operating rooms and beds for over 100 patients. Several mess halls, with one of them open 24-7. Of course it contains an airport with landing strips and take off areas with catapults to get a plane up to speeds of 175 mph in a short distance. Can generate winds over the deck of up to 35 mph. Just some of the features. Cost ???


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We got a tour of the Pentagon when my bro-in-law retired. Words can't describe how enormous the place is!!

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Stonehenge. Nobody really knows for sure who did this and how, just that the stones came from fairly far away.

Restored sections of the Great Wall. The pits full of terra cotta warriors. West Lake at Hangzhou. The Grand Canal connecting Yellow and Yangtze rivers. The man-made lakes around the Imperial palace complex in Beijing, and the hill where they piled up the dirt; same thing at the Summer Palace. All this was done with picks and shovels, men carrying dirt in baskets. The Ming Tombs are filled with stone tablets recording the accounts for the work in that era.

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