NoNTnow
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When you ride by the huge "chicken ranches" around here you'll defintely experience "an immersion of the senses"....
Anyone remember William?
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When you ride by the huge "chicken ranches" around here you'll defintely experience "an immersion of the senses"....
When you ride by the huge "chicken ranches" around here you'll defintely experience "an immersion of the senses"....
Right, and then there are the pig farms, dairy farms, paper mills, sewage treatment plants, the exhaust from all the traffic you're following on the freeway, and that stuff that comes out of all the smoke stacks in Chicago. Contrast that with the smell of fresh mown hay, dew on the sage and grasslands, pine forests, wet leaves in the fall, flowers in bloom, and the crisp mountain air at 9,000 feet and up. We also get to smell the hot pavement in summer and vaporizing gas from our machines, but we don't notice any odor when we unzip our riding gear after a long ride in the summer, or after sleeping in our stuffy tent after a day or two of riding with no shower. "Nose blind"
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So true. I live in a pine forest so that smell doesnt hit me but I do remember the smells of yesteryear. One of the advantages of traveling through the environment instead of being in a cage. Then there are the hog farms......
I hope someday you get a midnight ride by a citrus grove when the trees are in flower. And when I was in high school the cheapest date available was a trip to Disneyland. Girls love Disneyland. But I also visited the month it opened, as a very young baby.
But I think Disneyworld sucks.
Ken
But I think Disneyworld sucks.
Ken
I do not need to go very far to do that. I could go from Moorpark to Filmore or Moorpark to Ojai if I want to go for a ride. Otherwise, step out my backdoor as we have a variety of citrus trees in our yard and all around us. They all are starting to come into blossom now.
I avoid the OC like the plague...
Going back to the Wall Drugs subject of a couple of days ago...... My wife and I were on a honeymoon trip across the US in Oct 66 and we stopped at both the Corn Palace and Wall Drugs. I can always remember the cashier lady telling us that back then the only thing that kept them in business in the winter was the "newly weds" and the "nearly deads"! I think that this group is probably headed towards the second category
Wendell (and I still have a pulse)
Wendell (and I still have a pulse)
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NoNTnow
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They stole that line from Florida....:unsure:
I believe admission was $1.50 when I was a senior. Parking was free. Once you were in, you bought either individual tickets for rides, or a book of tickets with a variety of tickets--A through E--depending on the popularity of each ride. Every family I knew had a collection of partial ticket books, access to a couple of those provided an evening of almost free fun. And, as I recall, you could smell the orange blossoms in the spring while making out with your girl in the skybuckets.
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The Wall Street Journal said they had to raise their prices cause the place was getting too overcrowded.......
A ticket for regular-demand days is $117, up from $110. The price of a ticket on peak-demand days is $135, up from $124.
It is unclear to me if the parking fee is per vehicle or per ticket holder.
A ticket for regular-demand days is $117, up from $110. The price of a ticket on peak-demand days is $135, up from $124.
It is unclear to me if the parking fee is per vehicle or per ticket holder.