BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: GUEST,Just Amy
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 07:10 PM

Been through Kansas and Nebraska. Flat Flat Flat

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Shields Folk
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 07:34 PM

Jerry,

about your summer job on the pheasant farm, were you the pheasant plucker or was that your father?

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 07:46 PM

House on the Hill is wonderful. Jerry also mentioned Circus World Museum in Baraboo. You owe youself THAT experience at least once in your lifetime.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 10:07 PM

Shields: Nope, I cleaned the crap out of the cages. For 40 cents an hour. Lasted a week.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 10:09 PM

Maybe Western Kansas and Nebraska, Amy. Southeastern Nebraska is kinda hilly, as is some of northeastern Kansas. Not mountainous at all, but certainly not what one could reasonable call "Flat Flat Flat."

(Barbara tends to gnash her teeth a lot when people say that)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Jim Krause
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:41 PM

Yeah, I was going to say that when I show photos of the country near where I live, my cousins out in Oregon usually ask "Now what part of southern Missouri or Arkansas were you in when you took that picture?" Love those glaciated landscapes.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Jim Krause
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:45 PM

Oh, and I'll let all of you in on a little secret. All that stuff about tornadoes and hail storms and such; all of that was made up to keep the Californians and New Jersians out. It has worked pretty well for about a hundred and thirty-one years of statehood now.
Jim who's about ready to spend the resr of the weekend camping out on that beautiful prairie.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Mike Byers
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 08:42 PM

Just Amy: Hoopeston is quite cosmopolitan compared to Warren County. I'm south of Williamsport, in Bailiff's Hollow ("A little Bit of the Bermuda Triangle, Right Here in Indiana"). How's the music scene in Hoopeston? My band is playing mostly in the Lafayette area, but I make it to Zarate's market in Hoopeston now and then, trading Thai chiles for some of his home-grown heat with Mr. Zarate. So I don't care what anyone says, we've got culture here in the midwest (as long as it has yellow mustard on it).

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 09:12 PM

Oh BG, I weep for you. We got Leinie red at our local (and Schafley's Stout and Tannhauser on TAP! The owner is Dennis Conolly and we have General Guiness too but not (sob) on tap. The Schafley's stout is a durn good substitute. Well I gotta go down to the Front Street Grill (the local).Tonight there is live string-band music and that Schafley's sounds pretty good. Big T-storm out there but the severe weather siren just blew the "all clear" so...

Bye!

CB

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Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: GUEST,Just Amy
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 06:41 PM

Three things I never e't until I come to the big city: brown mustard, Rye bread, and bagels. Mike - Hoopeston is slowly going backward we have about 2,000 less people than we had when I left which was in the late 60's.

Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 07:03 PM

My grandfather used to drink a case of Leinenkugel a day (back in the days when they were a small independent brewery and only made the one kind of "strong beer"). Thought the brewery would go out of business when he died in '65, but they lasted until bought out by Miller who has mercifully left them alone. (He was a carpenter who either built or remodeled every house in Stetsonville, Wisconsin.)

Linn