What's the most obscure place you've been to?

[dolgoruky]

You know, a place where you're sure nobody on this board has ever been to, or will ever go there?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Mayreau.

A small island in the Caribbean, one of the Grenadines.

[dolgoruky]

4. That's not obscure

That's exotic. There is a difference.

[Justice]

2. Frankenmuth Michigan

[maddezmom]

9. that's not obscure

:) I've been a few times, myself.

[bif]

14. I've been there many times, too!

[adriennel]

18. yes, but have you been to Hell?

and seen the lovely sign "Welcome to Hell, MI"

[bif]

22. No but my wife has.

n/t

[damnyankee2601]

23. I live there.

They call it "Houston" now.

[KCDem]

43. I've been to Hell, Norway

Near Trondheim... beautiful area!

[Az]

197. Regular stop for us

Interesting tid bit. The 2 roads leading into Hell are Church and Darwin.

Oh by the way. Hell is frozen over right now (as is all of Michigan) so if there is a special someone you have been scared to ask out now is the time to do it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

45. I've been to it many times as a youngster

My parents were absolute suckers for that Disney-Bavarian crap.

[Faygo Kid]

63. Good beer. Good chicken. Good times. Sadly, . . .

Frankenmuth is getting killed by the casinos. All the blue hairs that used to go there are now headed to Mt. Pleasant, and Soaring Eagle Casino. (Talked to the Visitors' Bureau person, among others). Please, DUers, go to Frankenmuth. One of a kind.

[Rabrrrrrr]

99. I've been there many times, too

In fact, just mentioned a couple nights ago when talking with someone from MI (we were talking about WI) wine, and she didn't realize that MI had vineyards and made their own wine. So I told her about Frankenmuth!

[bif]

161. There are some decent wines from the Leelenau

But the stuff from around PawPaw is pretty horrible. And the Leelenau wines are pretty expensive to boot.

[elfwitch]

3. I've been in the service area for the gorillas at the San Antonio Zoo...

Actually, I've been in most of the service areas at that Zoo.
Not a whole lot of people can say they've been there.

[AlienGirl]

5. San Miguel Teotongo

Just up the mountain from Mexico, D.F.

Tucker

[burrowowl]

217. Been there. eom

[wysimdnwyg]

6. Just because I'm fairly sure mine aren't that obscure...

I'll post a couple.

Broken Arrow, OK

Cumberland Gap, TN

[camero]

74. Been to both n/t

[bif]

7. Sophia, Bulgaria

n/t

[Richardo]

8. Quesnel, BC

:hi: HEyHEY, SLByron, et alia Canadians.

[HEyHEY]

65. I was there three months ago!

Of course it's a seven hour drive. I believe you were the Casino fan?

[HEyHEY]

68. Bidofec - Bhutan

NO I HAVEN'T! I made the name up!

As far as reality, I'll say Digby Nova Scotia.

[Richardo]

70. I was there on BC Rail business about 3 years ago...

...consulting, dont'cha know...

10. Canton, Missouri

& not just driving through, but walking around, hiking the creek that runs through the town, etc.
if anyone has been there I'd like to hear about it.

[dolgoruky]

16. Has any one been to...

... Elektrainai? Can anyone even tell me where it is, cos I've been there.

[KCDem]

47. I'm guessing somewhere in Russia?

Are you Russian or a Russophile? I'm the latter.

[dolgoruky]

50. ooooh! You're very close

Actually it's in Lithuania.

No, I'm not Russian. But I suppose you could say I'm a Russophile, yes.

[KCDem]

57. I've been to a few places in Lithuania

The most beautiful place I've ever been is the spit of land that connects Kaliningrad with Lithuania... I think it connects at Kaunus. I spent several naked days on the sand dunes in that area. Sigh.

[dolgoruky]

69. You mean Palanga?

That's pretty obscure.

[KCDem]

98. yeah, that's it!

:hi:

[northzax]

170. eh, not that random

I was there in 1990...

[Robb]

11. A little patch of pasture in NM

Horizon to horizon nuthin'.

...and almost no reason to ever go there. :)

[burrowowl]

133. Where is the pasture?

Been to some in NM that have less edible than that.
White Sands Missile Range is off-limits and tons of people have been there.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Too many to name, but about 100 beaches far from any road

where one needs to motor bike up trails with maps that name no city because nobody lives there in countries such as Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua and right here in the US.

[UrbScotty]

13. Davis, WV

To see my grandma's friend.

It's a little south of the western border of Maryland.

If you've ever heard of the Canaan VAlley or Blackwater Falls, it's near there.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

35. Born and raised 20 minutes from there...

It a truly wonderful place.

[Burma Jones]

79. Camp at Dolly Sods

Davis, WV is great.

[Nay]

100. I was at Dolly Sods last summer! Sorry!

WV is beautiful.

[Hand]

123. Hey! I've been there, too! TWICE!

Took some friends camping there once in the summer. Then some other folks and I tried camping there in the winter, but a blizzard blew in and we booked the hell out. Lovely place, though; very lush and quiet.

[MrSandman]

127. Spent a couple of summers there

Long, long ago

[adriennel]

15. Galapagos

though lots of people go there now, I definately would call the Galapagos Islands obscure (and wonderfully unique)

[muriel_volestrangler]

105. well, they used to be obscure

until 140 years ago. Are you really that old?

[adriennel]

186. No!

I just haven't met many people who have been there : )
the problem is eco-tourism is an oxymoron and on the rise.
my paretns were supposed to visit Easter Island earlier this year--would love to go there someday!

and I'm jealous of alarcoeg, because I've visited Ecuador but never made it into the Amazon. lucky duck!

[alarcojon]

184. Pan~acocha, Ecuador

Deep in the Amazon. BTW, I've been to the Galapagos twice. Beautiful place, wonderful snorkeling.

[Wwagsthedog]

17. Rub' al Khahli &

Persepolis

[dolgoruky]

20. Yes, that's obscure

.

[damnyankee2601]

25. We have a winner... nt

[damnyankee2601]

19. By obscure, you mean unknown I presume?

Dollar Bay, Michigan

[ulysses]

21. Ocilla, GA

For an interview when I was freelancing for the AJC.

[stevedeshazer]

24. Denio, Nevada

Crowheart, Wyoming

Rome, Oregon

[greendog]

227. I've been to Denio....

....I've also been to Crowheart.

[plcdude]

26. Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea

n/t

[SoCalDem]

27. The Darien province

where the Pan-American highway was stopped in its tracks

Dense jungle, and very unfriendly indigenous people..(when we were there)..They may have mellowed since..

http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9711/25/panama.darien.gap/

Images of the critters who live there..:)

video
http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9711/25/panama.darien.gap/darien.rain.forest.40.375.mov

who needs another stinking highway .. gas costs too much anyway..

I vote for jungle :)

[amazona]

46. when did you go there?

I visited Panama recently and was hoping to go back to get a chance to visit Darien since time did not allow this on my first trip. Extremely friendly people in Panama City and the Gamboa region. Fantastic birding. I was very very favorably impressed. And I heard Darien was even better so I'm sorry to hear the people were unfriendly.

[SoCalDem]

52. I lived in Panama as a kid.. 8 yrs worth

and back then there were still rumors of head-hunting in the Darien.. None of my father's hunting guides or trackers would even venture in very far.. We drove in a ways, had stuff thrown at the car, and we left.. Of course back then the whole place (Panama) was untouched and beautiful.. The densest jungle you could imagine.. In some places you could not see the sky in the middle of the day..

We had flocks of parrots and toucans so think, they cast a shadow, as would clouds.. I have always wanted to go back, but I feared it would break my heart :(

[amazona]

190. still very birdy

The Gamboa area I visited still had clouds of Red Lored Parrots, and Pipeline Road has one of the highest if not the highest Christmas Bird Count of species in the world. Like I said, haven't been to Darien yet, but it enjoys a VERY good reputation among birders.

I would say if you can, go back. Of course I didn't see it back in the day, but what I saw was quite impressive.

[VelmaD]

28. Frog Knot, TX

Swear to gawd. Drove through there with my parents back when I was a kid. Sometimes on Saturday we'd all just pile into the car and pick a direction and see what we saw. Frog Knot included: a store, a couple of houses, and some cows.

[beyurslf]

29. Going to Kenya next year.

Been to any number of small KS towns that I am sure no one has heard of.

[amazona]

39. just got back from Kenya

Wouldn't call it unknown or obscure -- but a tad over-run with church and missionary types. It would be nice if they could get a real tourism industry going again; people are really hurting, and the State Dept. isn't helping with the constant drumbeat of Terra Alerts.

[beyurslf]

185. I have a friend who is from there and has family there

I told him I wanted to take an African trip and saving up. When I told him I expected it to be 8-10K he about died. So he said we could go next year and it would cost 25% of that.
:)

[amazona]

191. your friend is right

You definitely don't need that much money, go ahead and do it while you have this opportunity, as over-grazing is becoming a problem, even in some of the national parks. Right now it's an amazing experience. The bird book, Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, weighs a ton but is well worth it. Besides the obvious game animals, felines, elephants, etc. you should see a TON of eagles of many different species. It was an amazing experience.

[PragMantisT]

30. Murfreesboro, Ark

Only diamond mine in the country. And it's not a DeBeers operation.

[amazona]

41. been there several times...

...but never lucked into any diamonds. :-(

[put out]

121. Yes, been there.

ER for a severe ear infection. My step-sister's daddy lived there.

[maddezmom]

31. Paracas National Park, Peru

[Faygo Kid]

32. Narvik, Norway - north of the Arctic Circle

And I taught a fellow traveler I met from Australia how to bumper ski. The Norwegians didn't appreciate it, though.

[dolgoruky]

33. Yes, that's also quite obscure

But I know someone who's been there, too.

[Faygo Kid]

55. Did they bumper ski with Australians, too?

Are you turning up your nose at this, or asking a legit question?

[CPschem]

34. stonehaven, scotland

absolutely beautiful.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

222. Used to live about fifteen miles away.

[woofless]

36. Iskenderun, Turkey

way down on the extreme SE coast of the Med. Very near the Syrian border. Also served in the Pentagon and that was worse.

[amazona]

37. i thought of telling but then i would have to kill you

Sorry. :-)

[jpak]

38. Deception Island, Antarctica

Nanisivik (Baffin Island Canadian Arctic)

[dolgoruky]

40. Wow!!!

[Xithras]

110. Been there

Antarctic eco-tour a few years back. The station was interesting, but I wasn't brave enough to jump in the water at pendulum cove (heated or not!)

[jpak]

118. I was a Palmer Station for Y2K

we all jumped into the ocean nekkid at midnight .

-1.8 degree C water - yikes!

[Dogmudgeon]

180. Baffin Island, in Antarctica?

I though it was us near the North Pole!

And Nanisivik sounds Inuit to me ...

--bkl
Ants or no ants, it was cold.

[jpak]

189. read carefully - Nanisivik

<canadian arctic>

[OhioStateProgressive]

42. slippery rock, pennsylvania(nt)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

44. The Yangdang Mountains in Zhejiang Province, China

several hours inland from Wenzhou--which I'm sure you've ALL visited. :-)

Tsumago, Japan, a perfectly preserved 18th century village.

[Palacsinta]

73. I used to swim in the Slippery Rock Crick

I'm from that neck of the woods. Did you ever swim in the Connequenessing?

[OhioStateProgressive]

77. yes:)

I'm from New Castle:)

I lived right off of the Shenango river

[Palacsinta]

103. We beat NeCa!

(Sorry.....used to shout that at football games. Yinz guys were our favorite rivals!) I'm from Ellwood City, although I live in Lancaster County now. Nice to meet another Rust Belt Baby on DU! I miss the rocky rivers......the rivers are tame 'round he

[OhioStateProgressive]

114. cool

my brother lives in towards Ellwood City, out by Walczak farms

I actually went to Shenago High School:)

[Dogmudgeon]

181. Jeeze!

I grew up with a scion of the Walczak family; but they lived by Philadelphia.

Small world? Define "small".

--bkl

[Zero Gravitas]

48. Naviti Island

in the Yasawas, Fiji.

[KCDem]

49. I was among the first 50 Americans in Kaliningrad, Russia

That was pretty cool.

[dolgoruky]

53. Been there

So has Kant.

[KCDem]

58. Yup, my friends and I spent some good times there.

:smoke:

[TrogL]

51. High Level, Alberta

I've got a photograph taken while I was there. It's "high noon" and the sun's still on the horizon.

[camero]

54. Okanagan National Forest-Washington state

The most beautiful place I ever saw. I hiked about 3 miles off the road. Got pics too.

[Blue-Jay]

56. Goofy Ridge, Illinois

I swear to God, there's a place called "Goofy Ridge". It's south of Peoria, near Manito. I was on my way to the World Freefall Convention in Quincy IL with a friend. We saw the Goofy Ridge sign, and couldn't resist making a short detour. Ended up having a beer at the local watering hole, and playing with one of the local's pet squirrel. The place could've been pulled right out of a Twilight Zone episode.

If any down-staters want to find it, good luck. It's somewhere off the Manito Blacktop. The "sign" that we saw was temporary, advertising a 1950-something Indian Chief for sale. It had been sold about 3 weeks prior to our visit, but the seller still hadn't taken the sign down. In retrospect, it could've been a nefarious trap that we somehow evaded.

[scarlet_owl]

145. My father has been there.

He said it was a strange place.

[GemMom]

213. Yes, that's near....

the Jake Wolf Fish Hatchery, which I've also visited.

[gold_bug]

59. Pribilof Islands

I've been to the Pribilof Islands. Actually only St. Paul.
http://www.southwestalaska.com/pribilof/

I've also been to some of the Aleutians.

[devilgrrl]

60. Forres, Scotland

It's east of Inverness, way up in Northern Scotland

[ronnykmarshall]

61. Weedpatch, CA

[SoCalDem]

62. So, That was YOU, in my backyard..

:P

[ronnykmarshall]

64. You live near Weedpatch?

[SoCalDem]

66. That's what we CALL our backyard

:)

because it IS a weed patch:)

[devilgrrl]

67. Anyone ever been to Blue Earth, Minnesota?

I have! :crazy:

[Shananigans]

201. I have!

Of course I'm from Minnesota, so that might be why!

[sbj405]

71. Wrangell, AK

also Kodiak, but that's a little more popular

[Whitacre D_WI]

72. Obscure to Americans, but not to Brits...

...Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfal, Deutschland.

I'd never heard of it before, but apparently, every member of the British army is stationed there at one point or another.

[Palacsinta]

75. Red Bay, Labrador

Spectacular! Go for the Bakeapple Festival. No one ever goes and Labradorians are so welcoming!

[SmileyBoy]

76. Fortuna, North Dakota.

Just two miles south of the Canadian border in the extreme northwest corner tip of the state. I went through there on my way back from Saskatchewan on a trip to the Canadian Rockies. Fortuna has a population of 35. Probably the most isolated town in the state.

[Burma Jones]

78. Salem, Kentucky

Once held the distinction of having the smallest freestanding post office in America.

[JVS]

80. Bad Munstreifel

[name not needed]

81. Manchester, NJ

There is almost nothing there. All it is is crappy houses and stores on barely paved backroads.

[ThoughtCriminal]

82. ?????, Alabama

Got lost on a maze of dirt roads in L.A. (Lower Alabama) once. I have NO idea where the hell I was.

[baldguy]

83. Bond, Colorado

Actually, about 20 miles beyond. I don't really know the name of the place - or if it even has one. My sister & I went on a white water rafting trip. The starting point was a bar in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. We got there about 1 am, checked in, and fell asleep in the car. At 6 am we discovered that the bar was next to a railroad switching yard.

[Bundbuster]

89. Been there, baldguy

I was rowing the raft.

[baldguy]

94. Wasn't that chicken BBQ at the end great?

[booradleyjr]

84. Elephant Rocks State Park

Interesting giant granite boulders that look like elephant parts.

[Zero Gravitas]

93. great place

been there too :)

[Mrs. Overall]

85. Clonakilty, Ireland

in County Cork.

[Ediacara]

86. Rudyard MT, Newcastle WY, New Salem ND

Although I could be wrong :-)

[northofdenali]

87. Here, near ANWR:

(Hard to read the little red "here" I put on the map, but it's up near Umiat)

[Mz Pip]

88. Margarita

Small desert island off the coast of Venezuela. Hot and windy, a windsurfer's paradise.

MzPip
:dem:

[jmowreader]

90. Bernau, Germany (the one in the former DDR)

It's slightly northeast of Berlin and has a street named in honor of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. I have a photo of the street sign.

I Googled Bernau and found hotels there. Then I saw the (in Bavaria) note; there seem to be two Bernaus, because in 1992 there was absolutely nothing worth seeing in Bernau.

[Kellanved]

146. been there, done that

Been there, done that. :evilgrin: But only recently, I never went there, when the wall was still up.

And *there* are things to see, the usual stuff: old church, old city wall ...

It's a pretty popular suburb now, with a decent public transportation connection (Bernau <-> Berlin Mitte in ca. 30 minutes).

[DemoTex]

91. Tchepone, Laos (N16.0/41.9 E106.0/12.4 )

Just west of Khe Sahn, at the intersection of QL-9 and Laotian Rt. 91 (the Ho Chi Mihn trail).

[Kickin_Donkey]

95. I went to Khe Sanh when I backpacked through Vietnam ...

a couple of years ago.

Did you take the bus between Savannakhet, Laos, and Hue, Vietnam?


On edit: typo

[DemoTex]

195. Did the ghosts talk to you?

Khe Sanh, northern tip of The Valley of the Shadow of Death (the A Shau). That's a backpacking trip I hope to make someday. I also want to visit Dien Bien Phu on the ground (I've flown over it, too). Another place with its share of ghosts.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

92. i live in wv

so 95% of the towns here are obscure to most of you DUers

[Duncan Grant]

108. But not Chapmanville or Logan or Matewan or Beckley...

I've been all over the southern parts of West Virginia. :hi:

[geniph]

96. Humptulips, Chimacum, Quilcene

Duckabush, Brinnon, Wauconda.

All in Washington state.

[ironflange]

116. Sorry

I've been through Humptulips.

[Mrs. Overall]

141. I live not very far from these places.

[geniph]

176. Hi, neighbor!

:hi: from just across the water.

My big brother used to live in Quilcene, then moved to Wauconda, up in the upper-right-hand corner of the state map. Blink and you'll miss either one of 'em.

Are you in Jefferson County?

[Mrs. Overall]

210. Hi! Not in Jefferson County, but Kitsap--

we camp/hike/explore around the Hood Canal, Brinnon, Humptulips, Duckabush area. And I always go through Chimacum on the way to Port Townsend, one of my favorite WA towns!
Where are you?

[Duncan Grant]

97. Mosbach, Germany

You should try to go there though...it's wonderful.

[MAlibdem]

101. Becket, MA

Any becketites here? Not really obscure, but certainly the most peaceful, out of the way, special place.

Edit: Most obscure would be old Lebanese side of the Israel/Lebanon border. Checked out some Lebanese fox holes/turrets while eating sunflower seeds out of a sunflowers, FRESH corn just cut off the cob, and watermelon from a Kibbutz I visited.

[marigold20]

102. Poniatowski, Wisconsin

45.0 N and 90.0 W. Halfway to the North Pole, halfway around the Western Hemisphere.

[Columbia]

104. Iraq

[Tripper11]

106. Jeju-do South Korea

Korean Map

It's the island off the tip of the mainland.

[fudge stripe cookays]

107. Burdett, Alberta

Whitsett, Texas

Eagle Grove, Iowa

[nini]

109. San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama

Very primative. but they sure learned how to say "money" :-)

[GalleryGod]

111. BORING, MARYLAND

Debbies's Coffee Shoppe:hangover: Great French apple pie!
G.G.:smoke:

[camero]

115. I used to live 15 miles from there

Manchester, MD. An aquaitance lived in Boring. It is boring.

[northzax]

172. how about BORING, Oregon?

roughly similar to Boring, MD, I'd guess.

[camero]

198. Boring MD doesn't even have a traffic light.

Yeah it's pretty much the same.

[Skinner]

112. Uzbekistan

Do I win?

[nuxvomica]

130. How? When? Why?

You don't just say "Uzbekistan" without some sort of explanation.

[Skinner]

162. I did a semester abroad in Moscow in the spring of 1992.

A few of us were able to get a cheap flight to Tashkent, Uzbekistan for a few days. We were basically tourists. Visited a number of old mosques in Tashkent and Samarkand. Everyone we met thought we were from "the Baltics" (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) because we obviously weren't from around Uzbekistan and our Russian wasn't very good. When we told them we were Americans, they all said they had never met Americans before, and they kept giving us free food. This was more than a Decade ago, shortly after the coup in Russia, and Central Asia hadn't really opened up to foreigners much. It was amazing.

[Rhiannon12866]

225. WOW! I was going to say Tblisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia

But I agree that you win, hands down. I can't see me going back there even though it was a lovely, fascinating city. I understand that Georgia is now an al-Qaeda stronghold.:-(

[aldian159]

113. Medina

Suadi Arabia, a few years back, with my favorite uncle.

We wanted to go to Mecca, but since only Muslims are allowed, and we're not, we didn't want to insult them by going.

[ironflange]

117. Haight and Inland, both in Alberta

Neither of which exist anymore.

[bikebloke]

119. Some wee villages in Nepal and India

I'd have to dig out my travel journals and maps to name any now. I suspect many more places in Europe, New Zealand and Aussie considering my mode of travel. Either via bicycle or autostop. To think "friends" chastised me for travelling, when I could have used the money to buy a television and stereo. Merde, I really blew it, eh.

[thelocalkgb]

120. The Lost Sea, Somewhere in Tennessee

Man, I hope nobody has ever been there. Worst. Tourist Trap. Ever.

http://www.thelostsea.com/home.htm

[amazona]

192. i think everyone has been there

And don't forget to see Rock City and Ruby Falls while you're at it.

:-)

[annonymous]

203. I have been to the Lost Sea.

I didn't think it was a tourist trap. I like caves.

[Hand]

122. Wake Island...

1956, I think. It used to be a regular stopover on trans-Pacific flights back then, but I can't imagine anyone stopping there now.

:hi:

[NoPasaran]

231. I'm told I was there

I was born in Japan and the plane to the States refueled there. I think that was 1956.

[scottcsmith]

124. Diego Garcia

A small island located in the Indian Ocean. It's a British territory and the U.S. Navy has a base there. I spent a week at Diego Garcia in 1990 en route to the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Shield.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

211. Been there many times.

sorry

[cosmicdot]

125. Isaac's Bay beach, St. Croix

and areas around Turtle Cove, Australia

of course, I thought Orient Bay on St. Martin, FWI, was fairly obscure back twenty years ago ... the airport terminal just had a couple of ceiling fans, and the luggage came through some hanging rubber/leather strips, tossed-in by hand ...

[bobthedrummer]

126. Rock, Michigan

In the U.P., population about 350.

[MrSandman]

128. Cleveland, WV...

Between Wildcat and Milroy. About twenty miles from Duck.

[nuxvomica]

129. Sortino, Sicily

It's up in the mountains. As you approach, it looks like nothing but rocks and boulders and then you turn a corner and voila, a busy, crowded little city.

[ornotna]

131. Madain Saleh, Saudia Arabia

It was created by the Nabataens (the same people who built Petra in Jordan).

[burrowowl]

132. A 16th cnetury mine in Ste Marie aux Mines

only about 20 people have gone there.
Read De Re Metallica, Pres. Hoover was wrong, they did go deep in the 16th century. Saw the Middle Ages mines on top, they didn't get any deeper than the Romans.
Been other places too.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

134. The orchestra pit

Sure, plenty have been there; but they'll all tell you it's the most obscure place you can visit and still be surrounded by people.

Imagine crawling under the living room carpet...

[TrogL]

187. How about the lighting catwalk

I crawled up there one time carrying about 100 pounds of recording gear on my back including a 10" reel-reel tape recorder.

There was a sign half way up the ladder:

You've got to be crazy to be up here

[GoddessOfGuinness]

205. That's a good one too!

:scared:

[ewagner]

135. Guam n/t

[LosinIt]

136. Oxbow, New York

It's right down the Oswegatchie River from the big town of Wegatchie.

[Parrcrow]

137. Chapeau , Quebec

On Allumette Island on the Ottawa River

[CO Liberal]

138. New Philadelphia, PA

It's a coal mining town in Pennsylvania. My aunt was a nun (a Sister of St. Kasimir), and she was stationed there for a number of years.

[proud patriot]

139. Tacopa Hot Springs ... It's in Death Valley

Nothing like a hot spring in the middle of a desert
when it's 115 degrees.:D

[bubblesby2002]

140. Arenys de Mar, Spain

[Kellanved]

148. Sorry

Been there, alas only for a few minutes. I was en route from St Pol de Mar to Barcelona. AFAIR I passed through Arenys at the time.

[ButterflyBlood]

142. possibly Madison Lake, MN

or weird little camping grounds in ND.

[peterh]

143. Adak, Alaska

Out on the Aleutian chain….lovely place…tundra from coast to coast to coast to coast….a few caribou still roam….there’s a National Forest….measures about 10` by 10` square…the pines are still about the same height (about 4`) as the day they were planted…I think `42 or `43…..all-in-all, just a lovely fucking place….:freak:

[CanuckAmok]

144. Goose Bay, Labrador.

The only thing there is a Canadian Forces Base for refuelling military aircraft en route to Europe and Greenland.

It was snowing, quite heavily, in June.

I've also been to Paradise, but I've never been to me.

[grannylib]

168. My brother was supposed to be stationed there for a year but wound up

going to Thailand instead...he hates cold, but he had to deal with cobras and Asian food instead *lol* which he hates more, hee hee!!

[Shanty Oilish]

147. Alboran. And we got chased off.

Where is Alboran? Well, you know where Gibraltar is? Alboran is east of Gibraltar, north of Melilla in Africa and south of Almeria in Spain. In the Mediterranean sea. One big ugly rock. Not on any map you're likely to have, but it's there. Beware!

[Spider Jerusalem]

149. Germantown, Illinois.

Wide spot in the road thirty miles east of East Saint Louis off of I-70. Population around (maybe) five or six hundred (?). Nothing but cornfields for miles around. Dull, momotonous landscape. Dull, monotonous people.

My car broke down there back in 1997, when I was on a road trip...wound up having to spend the night in a creepy place that looked a lot like the Bates Motel. I expected to see a skinny, nervous geek behind the counter saying "you mustn't make too much noise...Mother is very sensitive".

[freestatevet]

150. Phnom Phen, Cambodia

[arwalden]

152. I've Been To Cambodia...

but not Phnom Phen.

[freestatevet]

153. Cool!

"Interesting" place. Did you go to Ankhor Wat (sp)?

[arwalden]

164. No... But I Know Which One That Is

It was over 30 years ago, I was 12, so my memories are vague... I didn't appreciate it as much then as I ought to have. We lived in Bangkok and our family made several day-trip/weekend-trip driving excursions throughout the region.

-- Allen

[DemoTex]

175. I've flown over Phnom Phen

I also flew over to Angkor Wat for a low-level look-see.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

220. It was not a fun place to be when I was there, but yes

I have been there.
What I saw in Cambodia will never leave my nightmares.
Don't want to go back.

[arwalden]

151. Wrightsville, GA or Clyattville, GA... or possibly...

Tabb, VA

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

154. Itaboraí, in Rio de Janeiro State

A really sucky place. I had to install some Linux servers for the city government.

Non-sucky places: Mendes, also in RJ State. Outside of Brazil: Hendaye, France. (OK, that's not obscure either, but it's the less famous foreign city I was in)

Edit: on second thought, the city just across the river from Hendaye, Irun - in Spain. I crossed an international border in a taxi. B-)

[OldEurope]

155. Böszenfa.

That´s the Hungarian village my father was born in.
8 houses, 1 church and a bridge. Bridge is too small for cars, and the only street is not tarred. Whole thing lies in a basin, so mobile phones don´t work.

[DiverDave]

156. Chitna, Alaska

Beaver Marsh, Oregon

http://www.labor.state.ak.us/ada/parks/chitna_wayside.htm

There is (was) a "bluegrass festival" in Chitna every year.
I worked on a boat out of Valdez and we drove over to Chitna.
Middle of no-where.

A friends cousin grew up in Beaver Marsh, I visited one summer.

[Twillig]

199. Had an alternator belt break on the approach to Beaver Marsh

I was very glad it existed. A mechanic at the gas station replaced the belt in a matter of minutes after I pulled in.

Try that in the city! :)

[LynneSin]

157. Virginville, Pennsylvania

I've been there several times, there is even a Covered Bridge near there.

Map of Virginville, PA


See, it really does exist!!

[gator_in_Ontario]

158. Hell Holes, Ontario

[soleft]

159. Wilmington Delaware

[Skinner]

160. Hey, watch it!

:D

I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware!

[LynneSin]

173. Add me to that "WATCH IT" list

:P

[soleft]

174. I was aiming to get Lynn's dander up

not the boss man - oooops. Better donate ASAP!

[Richardo]

163. "I've been to Paradise, but I've never been to me"

:D

[grannylib]

165. Mertthyr Tyddfil (sp?) Wales, railroad history town eom

[XNASA]

166. Posen, Illinois

Located in Cook County, 5,000,000 people live within 75 miles of it. 20 minutes from downtown Chicago.

And nobody, I mean nobody, knows where it is. It really gets overshadowed by all of the surrounding hustle and bustle.

I should know. I grew up there.

[Kellanved]

167. Concots, France

Probably not that obscure, but pretty far from anything (for Europe).
Hot, dry, full of Snakes. The best wine to make up for the other points.

[kmla]

169. Swayzee, Indiana. The only 'Swayzee' in the world.

I think their claim to fame on their billboards, as you enter and exit town, is the longest high school basketball game in state history - there was something like 16 or 17 overtimes before someone actually won the game...

[northzax]

171. Brennan Falls, Ontario

nothing to do but jump in the river and let the white water take you.

[Gringo]

177. Bombay Beach & Salton City, CA

On the shores of the putrid "Salton Sea" an enormous saltwater lake in the middle of the sweltering desert. Very surreal place.

[EstimatedProphet]

178. Several ties

Frankenstein, MO
Mora, NM
Willow Beach, AZ
Starkville, MS
Chena, AK

[Dogmudgeon]

179. Oroville, California

Rustic little Freepish town an hour or so above Sacramento.

Lat: N 039° 32' 54" ( 039.548 ° )
Lon: W 121° 31' 04" ( -121.518 ° )

Main Export: Rice Cakes.

Main Attraction: During rice field burning season, enormous Dust Devils that look like real tornadoes.

I was in Gridley, too, which is about ten miles (?) south of Oroville. It's a much smaller, much more obscure town.

--bkl

[SOteric]

182. Either Arco Kuparuk, or a remote site 7 klicks outside of Luxor, Egypt.

Either is reasonably untravelled.

[northzax]

183. A Republican National Convention

San Diego 1996. on the floor, no less.

I know, I know, I was a student.

[midnight armadillo]

188. Lakagigur, Iceland

Site of the famous 1783 lava flow.

[Xithras]

193. Mt. Clark, Yosemite National Park

At the VERY top :)

It's the only "real" mountain I've ever climbed (11,522 feet)

[Odessey]

194. Groveton, Pa

Now part of Coraopolis. Not the 'projects', the older part.

[Az]

196. Bad Axe Michigan

Its in the thumb. There is nothing in the thumb. Trust me on this.

Hell Michigan is another regular stop but its too accessible and the name is a natural draw, so its not obscure. Bad Axe is obscure. It was named after a ...... wait for it.... a bad axe. Thats the entire charm to the place. Bad Axe. Don't go there. No, really.

[Lisa]

200. Attawapiskat, Ontario

A very small native community on the western shore of James Bay.

[Shananigans]

202. Ties between Winterton, South Africa....

which is nestled in the Drakensberg Mountains

(see link, it's gorgeous) http://www.amatikulu.com/didima_cathedral_peak_accommodation.htm

and Togo, Minnesota.

Has anyone been to either?

[Mrs. Venation]

204. Chicken, Alaska

Wartburg, TN
Deer Lodge, TN
Sunbright, TN
Rugby, TN

[Edge]

206. The deep catacombs of my brain...

nobody's been there...nobody's gonna wanna go there.

[dawn]

207. Welwyn Garden City, in England. nt

[Cat Atomic]

208. The Mines of Moria.

And I don't recommend it. I know what lurks in the deep places of the world.

[Susang]

209. The Korean DMZ

The band I was employed by played there in winter 1997.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

212. The Presidental Bathroom off the Oval Office

No shit. Big Dog let me go in there.

[kurtyboy]

214. Bikini Atoll

In the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This after a coupla days at Eniwetok, where we fired up long dormant generators to provide AC in old Dept. of Energy barracks.

The obscure moment came when we discovered some abandoned, original MST3K tapes (on Beta!) and played them to amuse ourselves.

Pretty eerie, overall. Hanging out in the West Pacific, on an abandoned DOE site, watching bizzare western video's.

[GemMom]

215. Bong State Recreation Area

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/specific/bong/

I keep telling myself I should take a picture of the sign posted at the entry to this place and send it to Jay Leno.

[GemMom]

216. Spook Hill, Lake Wales, Florida

You have to experience this to believe it.

http://historiclakewales.com/spookhill/

[JCMach1]

218. Skeedee, Oklahoma

Road Approaching Skedee, Oklahoma



In the Fall that I was first in love with you
the apples hung bushels
and falling
on abandoned farms that lead
to your home



And when I left you each time
it never mattered somehow
that my car always seemed to find
the crunch of a Tarantula
scurrying for warmth
in the failing light



Near an old homestead
I first caught sight of it,
a half-wild abandoned rose
exploding by the road
I stopped the car and breathed in
deep smell of red cedar and
something older
like the scent of your hair
warmed by sun

[JCMach1]

219. Loco Hills, NM

Even worse, we broke down there...

not too far from Roswell in the absolute middle of nowhere.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

221. Brooklyn, NY 3am, corner of Atlantic and Utica, out of gas, no money

drunk, stoned and otherwise blasted.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

223. Wanaka, NZ, or maybe Craobh Haven, Scotland.

[LWolf]

224. Trona

California.

[greendog]

226. False Pass, Alaska

n/t

[bearfan454]

228. Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.

I was stationed at Roosevelt Roads in the Navy from 1974 to 1977. For the 1st 90 days at a new base all boots have to do mess cooking.

[randr]

229. Electric Lady Land

[Rhiannon12866]

230. Sochi, a resort on the Black Sea, in Russia

I met many other tourists, mostly from East Germany. Americans were non-existent there and those I met were positively thrilled and amazed to meet us.:shrug:

[NoPasaran]

232. Terciera, Azores

Actually I won't be surprised if others have passed through there but I lived on Lajes AFB "Last gas before states" 1965-67.