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Road Side Attractions
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squeaky4432
Squeaky
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Just a bit of Navy humor! By the way, it would be nice if every post declared where the photo was taken! Some of us may want to visit these "monuments".
Just a bit of Navy humor! By the way, it would be nice if every post declared where the photo was taken! Some of us may want to visit these "monuments".
i do remember the RAT rides. my son and i accumulated 100 points each on one cross country trip in 1999 with a 35mm camera. i still have the pictures. don't remember if i ever submitted to the RAT site. alb
rich
#37829
Riding down a nice gravel road today along the Knife River in SW ND, I stumbled across a rancher's version of a road side rest area. I had to pull over and snap a photo, and once I realized how much it had warmed up I stayed a while. This was less than half a mile from his house, and the road is semi-private, but the site looked well used. Very cool! Paradise. Yes it was.
I graduated from WT when it was West Texas State University. 1985
Darryl Cainey
Sir Darby
rich
#37829
Had no idea this was in my riding back yard....
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...eographical-center-north-america-1-180961932/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...eographical-center-north-america-1-180961932/
pglaves
#13338
Well, yes. A century ago a man made a cardboard cutout of North America and found the center by balancing the cardboard on a pin. Later, Rugby let their trademarck "Center of the North American Continent" lapse so an enterprising bar owner in Robinson bought the trademark. Looking at Robinson on Google Earth that might have been a good thing because there apppears to be no other reason for being there. Finally another scientist with a computer ran some type of algorithm and identified a location near Center, ND of all places. So take your pick: Cardboard cutout, crafty bar owner, or computer algorithm.
