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... asking a bunch of old guys... if they remember an old guy... from years ago... lol :geek::ROFLMAO:
Anyone remember William?
- Thread starter Coyote Chris
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I'd say there was a high probability that I was there when a group arrived at the Devils Tower. Saturday I took the family up to the mountain and we walked completely around its base. Sunday we were off to Yellowstone.
We did six National Parks and were on the road 27 days. We even stopped at both the Wall Drug Store and the Motorcycle Museum in Sturgis, SD. This was the best family trip we took to date. I am sure that we created memories that will last a lifetime for my two boys.
Phil seemed to have the answers I was looking for. I guess those crossword puzzles help with Alzheimers.
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Everyone needs to stop in at Wall Drugs once in their life....
After seeing over 400 miles of road signs for Wall Drugs on I-90 heading west, we had to go see what the fuss was all about.
Earlier that day we also stopped to see the Corn Palace.
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Not me.. I've yet to be the latest victim of that tourist trap lol
I did my educational stop there in about 1952. I was on a trip with my family in Dad's 1949 Packard. I remember more about that car than the Corn Palace.
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I remember being there in the 1950s too. No air conditioning. And there were hired hands running around the parking lot putting bumper stickers on every car they could. WALL DRUGS. Can you imagine someone doing that today?
It was a family vacation, you’re supposed to stop at places such as this. It’s “FREE” to look. We only got a snack while at Wall Drugs, besides it was time for a break from the hours of driving we did on the interstate. The truck needed fuel and everyone needed a pit stop.
I do not regret stopping there. Now I have bragging rights saying that I stopped there.
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You shouldnt go now...you are too old and too smart....the magic is gone......
Chris who has never been to Disneyland
Willing to try most things once. For Wall Drug that was enough.
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after seeing pics a few years ago from spearfish rally, someone visited Wall Drug. So I was nearby after Badlands. So went to Wall Drug AND stayed overnight in Wall. I only had 2 maple donuts, and just walked around in amazement! If you read the story about this first store, were about to go out of business, when they decided to offer free ice water!!!! then they grew by leaps and bounds
I have been there more than once. I don't feel bad about visiting the corn palace. I grew up in Illinois where we grew the stuff. Corn was important to us. If it wasn't for corn the state would be an empty wasteland.
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A wise man....
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I have to say I was incarcerated in Illinois for 40 years, first in Downers Grove and then South of Champaign Urbana. One of the few things I do miss is night rides in Summer when you can smell the corn in the humid air....than and the cheep booze and lightning bugs. (y)
When I talk about the "night smells" on hot humid nights people think I'm nuts, but the smell is wonderful. The smell of fresh cut hay is also wonderful. Glad someone else besides me noticed 'em.
Mike
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Hay...yes, that also....out here, the best smells are willow river bottoms, and mint fields....but nothing trumphs a brief rain on sage brush....(y)
Yup! In my travels out west I too enjoyed the aroma of sage brush. At first I didn't know what it was but I finally figured it out. Also, now that my remembery is cogitating, the smell of a pine forest is quite enjoyable as well. Motorcycling, after all, is an immersion of the senses.
Mike
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