DePaul?

Prairie State College?

nick - WE ARE (not) DePAUL!!!

tully - no

University of Illinois at Chicago?

nope...

not a university...

On a college campus?

is this a medical facility?

it is...

Malcolm X College?

good lord, tull...

nope...

College of medicine, right?

Rush Medical College?

McKinley Student Health Center?

I'm gonna say Illinois Medical District.

Actually Tul's guess of Rush is part of it, and Cook County Hospital is also part of it.

Whether this is where unc is or not, I like the baseball connection that I found and was just reading about for like the last half hour...cool old baseball history. In 1917 the State acquired the vacated Chicago Cubs Park aka the "Second West Side Park" located at Polk and Wolcott where in 1920's they built two new medical college buildings and a hospital. The Cubs played in the "Second West Side Park" from 1893 to 1915, when they moved to Weeghman Park which is now knows as Wrigley Field.

tully - no

pig - no

nick - no

not a medical college...

Columbia College Chicago

Your response in 3809 is throwing me. Don't know if my question regarding college campus or Nicks of medical facility is the owner of -

it is a medical facility; it is not a medical college or university...

John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital?

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center?

tully - no

nick - close

Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital

VISN 12 - Hines VA Hospital Home

i worked here from 1978 to 1980 while attached to the VA IG...

ok, cowboy...where are ya?

Hmm, I was in the Navy with a pair of brothers named Hines. That counts right?

OK, Go!

GLNTC?

Nope! Went to boot in San Diego.

BTW- I'm not there either.

EH?

EH, Yes.

asia?

Not in Asia, don't even care for the band that much.

okay, nh?

No, SH.

E-SH....hmmm.

on an island?

micronesia?

Island, yes.

Micronesia, no.

new guinea?

Philippines?

....I have to throw some wrong guesses in here so Tul doesn't get too suspicious ;)

No and No.

is that island a continent?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

I'm on an island. I'm certain I'm not on one of the seven continents.

i'm feeling incontinent...

i'll be right back...

tasmania?

Swing and a miss.

That's not a clue.

island...

southern hemispherical head...

not dodge city...

english-speaking?

I'm certain the majority of people living here speak English.

this could be hawaii?

In the SH? Not bloodly likely.

oo oo oo...how about New Zealand?

I am in NZ.

Never been there yet, but from what I've seen in photos and heard about NZ I would love to go there...hell, I think I'd love to live there!

I'm just searching around and came up with this cool pic so here's my guess...are you in Cathedral Cove?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...dralCoveNZ.jpg

No.

I've never been either. Like almost all places I've never been I certainly want to go.

Are you on North Island, NZ?

No I'm not.

May we assume then that you are on South Island?

Yes, yes I am on South Island, NZ.

Are you north of Ashburton?

No, south of there.

This looks like a cool place...how about at Dunedin Railway Station?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...y_Station2.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ay_Station.jpg

That does look cool, but I'm not there.

washdyke?

Sorry no.

fernbrook?

No still south.

waikouaiti?

East End? I think that's about as far south as you can go on the island.

No
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I show Fernbrook about half way from the southern end of the island and Christchurch.

will it play in new haven?

Not in New Haven.

west end?

maybe Queenstown Harbor?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...newzealand.jpg

Up, more west then east.

Nick, no but cool photo.

BTW- My last Dr. in the states wanted to move to NZ. He said their immigration agency told him he needed at least a net worth of 2 million for a full time resident visa. For Mexico I needed to prove a net worth of about 40k or an income of about $750 a month. Not both, one or the other.

west arm?

No not in West Arm.

Here's a clue-

In the game six degrees of separation I could connect Anthony Hopkins to this town in one step.

Invercargill, New Zealand!

That guy who Anthony Hopkins played in the movie "World's Fastest Indian" was Bert Munro, who raced his Indian motorcycle; he was a real cool old die-hard racer from Invercargill. A lot of places refer to him as "Burt" but look at his gravestone below...I would think his family & friends have that right.

Burt Munro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In our "tilted motors" forum bobby posted a thread about him with some photos. And I recently saw photos of him from back in the days when he went to Bonneville Salt Flats to try for the world land speed record and the pic showed a bunch of the other racers collecting a few bucks for Bert so he could go home since he was totally out of money after the races. He's probably riding his motorcycle through the heavens right now with that cool old leather helmet on his head.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...oonthesalt.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...1920indian.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...8701775193.jpg

Bingo!

I just happened to be watching the movie, which was partly filmed there when I got UP location sighted in.

Good movie, good story, must have been a hell of a guy.

Yer up, where is your Bad Ass headed?

OK where in the world am I this time?


I've heard of this kind of requirement and not just for NZ. The brother of a guy I used to work with moved to New Zealand with his wife a few years ago; they took everything they had and decided to open an inn/restaurant someplace on North Island. Last I heard they were doing fine and very happy. In this case, I think she was a citizen of New Zealand so maybe they let the spouse in without such restrictions.

NH?

I used to get an Ex-Pat new letter. Think it came out every quarter. It always had a list of countries in the back and what the resident visa requirement were. I don't remember seeing anything on NZ but there were several counties that grabbed my attention with huge financial requirement. I should go look up what it takes to get a long term visa for Monaco

yes NH

I thought to live in Monaco you have to be born there or marry a prince or princess. PS: I love Grace Kelly.

wh?

That could be true, been a while since I was in search mode. I know one of the those small monarch European counties has some crazy visa residence requirements. Some day when I get bored I'll look it up.

So, city?

in PA?

yes wh
not a city
not in PA ...but Grace Kelly grew up in her family house around the corner from my buddy in East Falls, part of Philadelphia. Some of the guys in the Kelly family were world class rowers.

na?

yes na

East of the river?

nope, I'm to the left of the miss.

Btw, a clue: this place has great geologic significance

nebraska?

Utah?

Neither a corn husker or a salty dog, so not NE or UT. A little more to the left.

are we californicating?

not CA. You're too low. And don't forget "very significant geological" or else.

Washington?

mt. st. helena?

Washington is good...and correct.

But not St. Helen's. This ancient geologic feature/remnant is not directly related to mountains or volcanos.

the columbia river gorge?

The Stonerose fossil site?

You know what, I'm gonna have to give it to unc on this one. Even though I wasn't looking for that "columbia river gorge" answer, it is in fact directly related to what where I am. You're up, unc.

Tul, aren't you from nearby here? I bet you used to bath in the Columbia River gorge when you were a baby.


I was checking out "Dry Falls & The Missoula Flood" ...if you like geological stuff, do yourself a favor and read these few details, this sounds like an awe inspiring event (ps, also check out this "waymarking" site, pretty cool stuff for our game):

Dry Falls & The Missoula Flood - Places of Geologic Significance on Waymarking.com

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...28f1a527ff.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...d2e51eac66.jpg

More than 12,000 years ago the largest and most powerful scientifically documented freshwater flood to occur on earth happened in the Pacific Northwest. During the last ice age, ice sheets, at times reaching over 10,000 feet in thickness, covered much of Canada. A small lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet called the Purcell Trench lobe advanced southward blocking the river in the Clark Fork Valley in northern Idaho and Montana with a 2,000 foot high and 30 miles wide ice dam. A glacial lake was created that covered much of present-day western Montana under approximately 2,000 feet of water in a 200-mile-long lake roughly the size of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined.

Eventually, water burrowed into the ice dam, shattering it. The water roared out of the lake, swept across northern Idaho into eastern Washington, then rushed southwest across the Columbia Plateau, and split at a bluff--part of the flood traveled east but the main thrust traveled down the Columbia River. The floodwaters, moving up to 60 miles per hour, stripped away the soil, scoured out hundred of miles of deep canyons called coulees (Grand Coulee being the largest), created the 3 ½ mile wide, 400-feet-high Dry Falls (see default photo), the largest waterfall to ever exist, and the 198 feet Palouse Falls and left 300 foot high gravel bars and huge granite boulders called glacial erratics. The muddy torrent carried water, chunks of ice, trees, gravel, soil, and boulders--some the size of small houses. The first floods carried more debris than the succeeding floods.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...c25d453aa5.jpg

The floodwaters traveled westward through the Columbia River Gorge at velocities as high as 90 mph. Geologists estimate the flow which raced through and scoured the gorge was likely 4,000 times the flow of the river today. The waters’ height exceeded 1,000 feet in the gorge. If it happened today, tourists at Crown Point would be running for their lives.

In Vancouver, Washington, the cataclysmic flood laid the gravel and sediment that today forms the 10-mile-long gravel bar that encompasses the ridge north of Portland International Airport called the Heights. It swamped Portland beneath more than 400 feet of swirling debris and ice-choked water. Ripple marks can be found in Portland on the east side of the Reed College Campus. Willamette Falls existed before the flood but was shoved far upriver by the waters’ scouring effects. An estimated 50 cubic miles of rich topsoil stripped from the gently rolling hills of eastern Washington’s Palouse region was re-deposited in the Tualatin, Yamhill and Willamette valleys.

The flood extended as far south as Eugene still 200 feet deep. Rich silt left by the flood reached 100 feet deep in places. Numerous boulders (erratics), carried by the flood (some embedded in icebergs), were strewn about as though they were pebbles. The roaring flood reached the Kalama Narrows, 30 miles north of Vancouver and about 40 miles north of downtown Portland where some of the water backed up creating the 11,000 square miles Lake Allison. Eventually the floodwaters flowed on to the mouth of the Columbia River and far out into the abyssal plains of the Pacific Ocean.

During a period of several thousand years a single large flood, a few, or possibly as many as 100 of these floods scoured the 600-mile path when the glacial ice dam repeatedly reformed, the lake filled up again, and the ice dam broke again. Each flood was separated by decades or centuries. The National Park Service has proposed this 600-mile path as an Ice Age Floods National Geological Trail—a five-state system of marked travel routes and new interpretive facilities featuring significant landforms created by the colossal floodwaters.

This massive cliff can be viewed from the Dry Falls Interpretive Center, a state park located on Route 17 near the town of Coulee City. Admission is free.

wow...

i'm running out of places to be; it's such a small world...

ok, whammi...

WH?

yup...

SH?

nope...

NA?