Am I the only one on the actual East Coast with water?

I'm in PA?..but a bit far from the ocean

Well, I am on the east coast  and beaches are less than an hour drive.

 The Ocean is like 20 minutes down the road for me, but the humidity the last few days has been horrible.

Kinda cool for the beach.  Winter here.

Brisbane????!!!!   BBQ at your place next weekend! or.... whenever we get down there. lol

Sure thing

Nebraska, here.

I used to live in Bellevue, NE, back in the mid 70's.

 I have been too Nebraska once.

I use to dislike it here, a while ago, mostly. Then I've been getting to travel quite a bit the last few years, and boy, I am so happy to get back home these days. :)

Some states, the people there... are just plain Rude a.f.  :o

 Yeah try driving in Boston very rude for sure.

Ha! I took cabs. Got to see the Green Monster and watch my RedSox play the hated Yankees. Yanks won.  :(

But we made a trip to see Old Ironsides! Wow, was that ever impressive. Next time though... I shall not be wearing a sundress. Talk about a dozen Marilyn Monroe moments there that day! Eep!

 Booo Hate the Yankees...... Oh Cool, Fenway is fun. Ironsides is awesome.
I live near Plymouth and the Rock hehehe, and the May Flower replica.

always wanted to  see Old Ironsides...my late wife and i saw the  Constellation  down Balitmore, when we were first married... I have two 'lifetime passes" struck from the copper sheeting it once  had.

 we  went aboard  and a tour  Guide   took some folks through, I broke off was  showing my wife  all the stuff and  explaining   al the parts of the ship, we  went  down to the Bilge!.. one of the rangers   was laughing, , he sai"d you can go in there, you'll fall through the bottom."

 as we went back up to the main deck, he took the tour guide to hire me.

I love stuff like that.... went to NY  to see  the areodrome up there, and WWI  aircaft.. I sat in an Albatross D-3..only because  i told him the guy what  type of  buns  it  had, and pointed out the differance  between the D-V

 another Place in WVA  had one too. but they had  WWII aircaft as well... a 'Tora Tora tora"  zero  did a ply by dropping  'flour ' bombs

 good old days...now? too lazy  and too many grandkids to watch!

In reply to donsr (msg # 33):

Awesome! My dad took us to Seattle years and years ago. The Missouri was stationed there and we got to walk the decks. I never would have thought it was wood decking yet on that big assed ship! Lots of pictures of the fam on it!

We also have pictures of us all on the Turner Joy, which was some kind of way smaller gunboat? Was so neat to get to go through *almost* all of the ship... up until my younger brother fell overboard. Ugh.

But the biggest ship there, by far, was one of the old aircraft carriers. I don't remember exactly which one cause we weren't allowed to get on it, so no pictures were taken. That was one big ol boy right there.

My oldest son ( the one that wanted to be a SEAL)..ended up on the Kittyhawk..he srved there  for  6 years  after the SEAL  thing didn't work out...they took the Kittyhawk up to washington and Mouthballed it...he is a Plank Owner  for  being on the DeCom team..I have the  massive   parchament  hanging in out living room.

I have been to Mobile, AL and toured the USS Alabama.  I have also toured the USS Midway in San Diego, as well as a destroyer and a LA Class sub.

As far as "active" ships, I have been in the USS Dolphin, the only diesel sub in the US Navy, 2 Ohio class subs (the big nuke ones), and a Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

Most of my work was with aircraft and USAF systems.

 I have gone to the USS Massachusetts, they had a sub there and a lot of other ships in Fall River. I was actually on the Battleship Missouri when it was docked at Cape Canaveral Florida. We where there normally you couldn't go on, but on the dock a kid was playing with a rope the crew went to stop him, I went too and tripped and fell and hurt my ankle bad. They took me to the 'Hospital' they had on the ship it was amazing, and they where awesome.

very neat...... where the contellation is  they had a WWII sub there... after a  brief  tour, that had  a re-enactment, where they warned anyone who is claustrophobic.. the  slammed the  Hatch ways, red Lights   came on, and Voices   talked  as   depthcharges   fell and we heard the   sonar  bleeping..then the shipe  fired  two torpedos ( the ship shook, that was nice)..and  the 'captain timed it  with a stowatch..and we heard the  explosion of   the hits ...it was suppsoed to be one of the Japenese ships  it  sunk.

 the only bad part was  some one crying through half of it...when the  hatches were open..there was  a guy about my age ( at the time..early 20s)..cryign , His wife looked soooo embarrassed,

 as we  climbed out of the hatchway, I told my wife...' i do something like that..kill me"

I was fortunate, the group I was in, a multi-service group, got to go in the areas the public never sees.  I am not sure what all can be talked about, but it was really interesting.  Not always fun to know so much, but not able to remember what you can talk about. LOL

From the Netherlands no big ships to visit. Could only boast on visiting some battlefields of WWI (Verdun), all the interesting points of Normandy (D-Day), several sites of Operation Market Garden (in the Netherlands), a fort of the French Maginot line and several bunker-compexes of the Atlantik Wall. But I guess you all visited the fields of the Civil War.

I lived near to a lot of them, like Fredricksburg, Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, and a few others I got to visit.  Been to a few forts from Spanish-American war as well as some from the days of pirates.  I love to travel and to read history of wars.

I saw Gettsysburg...I went through fredicksburg but didn'[t stop.... I have a cousin, his  whole  family was into the  Civil war  re-entactment thing..his  Son got married  at Fort Bedford, not far from my home, and had a Civil war wedding..it was neat, because they had  camps, and we were alllowed to go through..my kids were little then, one one of the Boys sat down with some guys and  had  beans and bacon while a  played  a mouth Harp.

 he  and his  'company' were also in the Movie Gettsyburg..he played a  dead rebel on a fence, and a SGT in the Union in some battle scene.

 I've been to fort Ligonier  as well.. Both fords are decent historical stops for the Revolutionary war

In reply to Krwyn (msg # 40):

<<<<< JEALOUS!

I have a great grandpa that was WWI and WWII, the stories they have of him telling on video can curl the toes... especially the ones about WWI. *shudders!*