BadNick

Are you in the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater?

uncle phil

no, i'm on the coast...

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Tully Mars

Gulf coast?

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BadNick

Are you in Coatzacoalcos?


...too bad if you're not - Salma Hayek was born there and she's hot!

uncle phil

gulf coast, just north of belize city...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Tully Mars

Well, Belize City is on the Caribbean side, not on the Gulf Coast. Anything just north of Belize City and in Mexico would be on the Yucatan peninsula. Guess I'm kind of lost.

Chetumal Bay?

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uncle phil

sorry, thought it was gulf...

it's on the peninsula, but i guess it's "on" the caribbean...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

BadNick

I'm grasping for tacos here since I have no idea. Hunting around on a map, I found this place with sort of the word "coast" in it:

are you at Costa Maya?

Costa Maya is a small tourist region in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, located between Cancún and Belize. The area is generally undeveloped but has been growing quickly and rapidly after construction of a large pier to accommodate cruise ships. The Costa Maya includes two small villages -- Majahual and Xcalak.

Costa Maya is the closest port of access to many of the lesser known Mayan ruins in the Yucatan including Chacchoben and Kohunlich. These sites are substantially less excavated than the better known pyramids near Cancún.

Tully Mars

Punta Allen?

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uncle phil

nick -

Map of Mexico's Costa Maya - Playa Real Playa del Carmen Real Estate

you got it, buddy...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Tully Mars

Gez, damn near in my own back yard and I missed it.

Ok Nick NH?

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BadNick

Awww, unc...you made my magic twanger tingle by calling me "buddy" ...maybe I'm just in a sensitive mood But I sure stepped in the proverbial geographic pile of shit with that guess. But a cheap win is still a win.


OK, where in the world am I this time?
-----Added 20/11/2008 at 10 : 06 : 38-----
hey no fair, Tul. You guessed where I am before I even knew where I am!!!! How'd you do that!? Mayan Magic, I presume.

But yes, NH.

Tully Mars

WH?

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BadNick

yes WH

Tully Mars

North America?

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BadNick

yep, NA

Tully Mars

US?

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BadNick

yes US

Tully Mars

East of that river?

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BadNick

yep, to the right of that old man river

btw, I love Paul Robeson. I'm gonna throw his album on my turntable tonight.



...since I'm happily rolling along I'll throw another free clue out there:

I'm north of the Shenandoah

uncle phil

in a state that touches an ocean?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

BadNick

nope

By the way, I'm hoping you find the establishment I'm in which is near a small town nearby here.

Tully Mars

North of Shenandoah Nat. Park?

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BadNick

yep, definitely north of the park

uncle phil

that big-ass hamburger place in western pennsylvania?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

BadNick

I'm gonna have to look that one up, unc, since I'm not sure what/where that is. But nope, not there.

Head east some since you're in the right state.

Even though where I am is not an eating establishment, they do have some pretty decent food in their large cafeteria area. But it is a commercial establishment that is generally quite well known, and there are several of them around the country in addition to this one here....though this is the largest and one of the more interesting ones.

uncle phil

six flags?

by the way, this is that hamburger place:

http://www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com/

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

BadNick

nope...too far east.

This place is more about the great outdoors, though they don't sell doors.

uncle phil

within 50 miles of philadelphia?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Tully Mars

Are you in a park?

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BadNick

unc, this place is about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia. I wish that burger place was not ~3+ hrs from here, I'd go.

Tul, I'm not in a park but this establishment is surrounded by a large parking lot.

This place is a commercial business enterprise....as I said above, it's about the great outdoors. And strangely enough, unc's suggestion about that hamburger place has an eerily familiar ring to it at this place.

Tully Mars

I just don't know jack about this area. But I keep getting images of Dan Aykroyd, John Candy in my head for some reason.

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uncle phil

gander mountain?

don't know of too many places around shamokin...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

BadNick

how about commercial places around Hamburg PA? ...great outdoors kind of places? in a large building.

Tully Mars

You're not in the Cabela's in Hamburg are you?

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BadNick

damn right I am, Tul. Good going, you're up next. That hamburg/er connection by unc had me wondering how to say it.

As of now, this is the largest Cabelas in the world, just over 250,000 square feet of every kind of outdoor item you can imagine. Pretty cool place IMO...though I more often support and actually buy more stuff from my locally owned "small business" sports outfitter since the "BAD SIDE" of these huge conglomerate stores is the stress they put on established mom & pop businesses like my perennial hated-store Walmart.

On the plus side, they always support and have programs going on related to wildlife and habitat conservation.

But we really like spending a couple hours at this Cabelas every couple months or so. I take my kids here just to walk around, target shoot and "window" shop...though we almost always buy something we "need", like a crossbow or 4 ft. long blowgun, a new fly fishing outfit, 50 caliber practice slugs...my kid came running up to me with a box of real live .50 caliber bullets and thought I'd get them for him since they looked so cool...this is my kid who got a two day suspension from school last year for bringing "explosives" to school, which in this case were just those little tissue paper poppers you throw on the ground and they pop, but the zero tolerance policy leaves no room for interpretation. He wasn't dumb enough to get caught, but somebody else who got one of the poppers and got caught rated him out...they're still friends.

Cabela's has a distinctive look to their retail operations, a look which turns them into tourist attractions as well as retail stores. The stores are more like cavernous showrooms, bringing the outdoors inside. They feature museum-quality displays of taxidermied wildlife, large aquariums, indoor mountains, and archery ranges. The success of the format is illustrated by the company's showcase store in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, with more than 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) of floor space.

uncle phil

EH?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Tully Mars

WH

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uncle phil

NH?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Tully Mars

Yep, NH.

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