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[chasfh]

My wife and I are flying to LA tonight and then renting a car, and then guess what we’re going to do next? Here’s a hint:

[oblong]

If you plan on stopping in Winslow.... but I think you already did that?  I know you did the meteor crater.

 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

If you plan on stopping in Winslow.... but I think you already did that?  I know you did the meteor crater.

 

Good memory! Yes we will be stopping on the corner again, because why the heck not?

[CMRivdogs]

4 hours ago, oblong said:

we always took route 2 to Cedar Point.  At the age of 16 friends and I decided to go.   We asked someone's dad how to get there, he said "75 to 2".  That stuck with me so it's always how we went.  I love those roads.

I like 2, anything to avoid the turnpike. We also try to avoid Columbus on our way south, depending on the destination. 
As I've said for 20 plus years now, the Michigan to SW or even our current location in Virginia wouldn't be so bad if Ohio wasn't in the way.

[VegasTiger]

5 hours ago, chasfh said:

My wife and I are flying to LA tonight and then renting a car, and then guess what we’re going to do next? Here’s a hint:

Get your kicks.

[chasfh]

52 minutes ago, VegasTiger said:

Get your kicks.

I might try to have Kix for breakfast on one of these stops.

[oblong]

4 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

I like 2, anything to avoid the turnpike. We also try to avoid Columbus on our way south, depending on the destination. 
As I've said for 20 plus years now, the Michigan to SW or even our current location in Virginia wouldn't be so bad if Ohio wasn't in the way.

Ohio's refurbishing their rest stops.   The last 3 going south on 75 are closed.  So it's Findlay then bust for me in a few weeks.

And the one just north of Cincy was nice.  It looked new.   It wouldn't be so bad if 75 wasn't always a cluster in Cincy trying to cross the bridge.

[Screwball]

4 hours ago, oblong said:

Ohio's refurbishing their rest stops.   The last 3 going south on 75 are closed.  So it's Findlay then bust for me in a few weeks.

And the one just north of Cincy was nice.  It looked new.   It wouldn't be so bad if 75 wasn't always a cluster in Cincy trying to cross the bridge.

As you are driving south going through Findlay, watch on the left for about...5 huge windmills, not sure how many. There is a Whirlpool plant just off 75, I don't remember how much of it you can see, if any, but you can see the windmills. Whirlpool and a company called Ball Corporation financed them to feed their plants (only paid part of the bill). They go back to the mid or early teens. Whirlpool has a huge dishwasher plant there. I worked there when they were putting up the windmills.

Once the large support was in place, you could see guys standing in the cavity where the spinning shaft will eventually be. Fun to watch it all go on, but...given hundreds of us had to get in and out from all over, it was a real pain at times. When they shipped in the blades traffic was a giant cluster. I wonder, if they were not so close to 75 if it would have ever had happened? Those blades are pretty long. They could never truck them to Cornhole.

Funny town Findlay. They are on the I75 corridor, which is a good thing. That helped them grow. They also have Marathon Oil's corporate office, Cooper Tire & Rubber (who I think might have been bought out by Goodyear) as a couple big names. The downtown is small, but kind of neat. Quite a few food places to chose from. But they have trouble with floods. The Blanchard river has flooded ever since Moby **** was a minnow, and they never did jack squat. It ended up running places away from downtown because they kept getting flooded. It's a very wealthy town. 

There is a...I don't know what to call it...myth maybe. They said that Dave Thomas of Wendy's fame square hamburger was stolen from a Findlay restaurant named Wilson's. I don't know if that is true, but I ate there, and they are square. It was a long time ago, but I don't remember when.

First famous person I think of is Ben Roethlisberger. 

Edited October 1 by Screwball

[oblong]

49 minutes ago, Screwball said:

As you are driving south going through Findlay, watch on the left for about...5 huge windmills, not sure how many. There is a Whirlpool plant just off 75, I don't remember how much of it you can see, if any, but you can see the windmills. Whirlpool and a company called Ball Corporation financed them to feed their plants (only paid part of the bill). They go back to the mid or early teens. Whirlpool has a huge dishwasher plant there. I worked there when they were putting up the windmills.

Once the large support was in place, you could see guys standing in the cavity where the spinning shaft will eventually be. Fun to watch it all go on, but...given hundreds of us had to get in and out from all over, it was a real pain at times. When they shipped in the blades traffic was a giant cluster. I wonder, if they were not so close to 75 if it would have ever had happened? Those blades are pretty long. They could never truck them to Cornhole.

Funny town Findlay. They are on the I75 corridor, which is a good thing. That helped them grow. They also have Marathon Oil's corporate office, Cooper Tire & Rubber (who I think might have been bought out by Goodyear) as a couple big names. The downtown is small, but kind of neat. Quite a few food places to chose from. But they have trouble with floods. The Blanchard river has flooded ever since Moby **** was a minnow, and they never did jack squat. It ended up running places away from downtown because they kept getting flooded. It's a very wealthy town. 

There is a...I don't know what to call it...myth maybe. They said that Dave Thomas of Wendy's fame square hamburger was stolen from a Findlay restaurant named Wilson's. I don't know if that is true, but I ate there, and they are square. It was a long time ago, but I don't remember when.

First famous person I think of is Ben Roethlisberger. 

I know the windmills.  I don’t need  the map to get where I am going but I keep it up for traffic and such. I really wish there was a “tag” feature because I pass by so many large complexes and structures that I want to check out. I mean Ike you say, driving thru cornhole with nothing around then you suddenly see a 30,000 sq foot office building with a full parking lot. That’s gotta be something important.  I love looking at Google maps and street view.  Sometimes I pick a random city and just browse around. It’s like visiting. 

[Screwball]

47 minutes ago, oblong said:

I know the windmills.  I don’t need  the map to get where I am going but I keep it up for traffic and such. I really wish there was a “tag” feature because I pass by so many large complexes and structures that I want to check out. I mean Ike you say, driving thru cornhole with nothing around then you suddenly see a 30,000 sq foot office building with a full parking lot. That’s gotta be something important.  I love looking at Google maps and street view.  Sometimes I pick a random city and just browse around. It’s like visiting. 

IMO, the worse drive in Ohio is going South 23 from anywhere. The road you need to take to Columbus. From about anywhere North. Just on the North side of Deleware (nice state park) is a traffic light. First light is Rt. 229. Rt. 270 is 43 miles away. I think I have lost count, but pretty close, there are 38 traffic lights.

[oblong]

This is my favorite attraction on 75 in Ohio.  I always have to get gas right before this so I'm freshened up, have some snacks and a coffee and only a few more hours before home.  Next stop is the rest area near Wapakoneta.   That one has some nice walking trails to stretch out.

[CMRivdogs]

7 minutes ago, oblong said:

This is my favorite attraction on 75 in Ohio.  I always have to get gas right before this so I'm freshened up, have some snacks and a coffee and only a few more hours before home.  Next stop is the rest area near Wapakoneta.   That one has some nice walking trails to stretch out.

Wasn't that the statue that had a big fire a few years ago? 

[oblong]

16 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Wasn't that the statue that had a big fire a few years ago? 

yes.  Before it was his head and torso sticking out of the water.  Got struck by lightning.  

 

[Tigeraholic1]

[gehringer_2]

17 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

The difference is nations founded with migrant populations. There was no practical alternative for the "New World" countries. They would only have had citizens born of their indigenous population (who were largely repressed) at their foundings if they hadn't made citizenship "JusSoli" and that never would have done for the Euros that founded the modern nation states there(here).

Pakistan is the interesting outlier. They had to do the same thing since so many millions migrated there during Partition - so they are in effect another nation founded with a largely 'migrant' population despite the Indus valley being one of the oldest civilizations on the globe. And on the flip side of that one I imagine India had to do the opposite and consider everyone who lived under the Raj a citizen by blood even if they had had to migrate back into post partition India from what became Pakistan or Bangladesh.

[CMRivdogs]

48 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The difference is nations founded with migrant populations. There was no practical alternative for the "New World" countries. They would only have had citizens born of their indigenous population (who were largely repressed) at their foundings if they hadn't made citizenship "JusSoli" and that never would have done for the Euros that founded the modern nation states there(here).

Pakistan is the interesting outlier. They had to do the same thing since so many millions migrated there during Partition - so they are in effect another nation founded with a largely 'migrant' population despite the Indus valley being one of the oldest civilizations on the globe. And on the flip side of that one I imagine India had to do the opposite and consider everyone who lived under the Raj a citizen by blood even if they had had to migrate back into post partition India from what became Pakistan or Bangladesh.

The other question is where exactly do you set the time line. In what is now the United States...where 1776? Somewhere in the 1800's? 1920's. We are all the offspring of immigrants unless we can prove at least one of our ancestors was around prior to the European invades came to what is now US shores. 
 

Also where would you be deported to? England, Ireland, Germany? Italy.....

Edited October 4 by CMRivdogs

[gehringer_2]

16 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

The other question is where exactly do you set the time line. In what is now the United States...where 1776? Somewhere in the 1800's? 1920's. We are all the offspring of immigrants unless we can prove at least one of our ancestors was around prior to the European invades came to what is now US shores. 
 

Also where would you be deported to? England, Ireland, Germany? Italy.....

and the other half is the naturalization process. It's only been in relatively recent years that we have the phenomenon of people coming here and not entering the naturalization process, in the current situation of  course because many don't have legal status to access the process. When there is a straightforward and widely used path to naturalization, which was traditionally true in the US,  the distinction on birth/blood citizenship fades from significance.

[casimir]

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

The other question is where exactly do you set the time line. In what is now the United States...where 1776? Somewhere in the 1800's? 1920's. We are all the offspring of immigrants unless we can prove at least one of our ancestors was around prior to the European invades came to what is now US shores. 
 

Also where would you be deported to? England, Ireland, Germany? Italy.....

You don’t need a timeline.  You just take a person’s phone, and if they have Bad Bunny on their Spotify, you deport them.  It’s just that simple with the clown crew currently in charge.

Oh, and never mind that the First Lady is of foreign descent.

[casimir]

506 sports has the weekly NFL Sunday TV coverage maps available on Wednesdays.  I aways look at them even if I’m not planning on watching any games.

https://506sports.com/
 

 

Blue for Lions v Bengals.  Red for Commanders v Chargers.

[romad1]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

506 sports has the weekly NFL Sunday TV coverage maps available on Wednesdays.  I aways look at them even if I’m not planning on watching any games.

https://506sports.com/
 

 

Blue for Lions v Bengals.  Red for Commanders v Chargers.

It will be a bike ride and working on the softball field for me...stupid blackouts. 

[casimir]

16 minutes ago, romad1 said:

It will be a bike ride and working on the softball field for me...stupid blackouts. 

I did my bike ride earlier, got 18 miles in.  Not many more days of bicycling left this season.

[romad1]

1 minute ago, casimir said:

I did my bike ride earlier, got 18 miles in.  Not many more days of bicycling left this season.

Mine will be much shorter.  Weather her in NOVA is ideal!  But i have too much to do with the softball so, it will be about 5 miles for me. 

[casimir]

Just now, romad1 said:

Mine will be much shorter.  Weather her in NOVA is ideal!  But i have too much to do with the softball so, it will be about 5 miles for me. 

70s and 80s have persisted here, but there are some low 60s on the 10 day.  If it isn’t too windy I’ll probably still get out.  But it’s trickier now with the reduced daylight.

[chasfh]

Hard to imagine today, but true:

[chasfh]

Here's a good one: is your country richer or poorer than Mississippi, based on GDP:

Ontario!!