What to love in America

[Cybermat47]

With all of the political arguments about the US getting nowhere and generally just causing ill feeling among all involved, I thought it’d be refreshing to start a thread about the places everyone can love in America.

Gettysburg National Military Park
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

The site of the American Civil War’s most infamous battle is not only a memorial and national park, but it has also been maintained to ensure that the landscape remains accurate to how it was in July 1863 through the cutting down of trees and the replanting of native flora.

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
Tuskegee, Alabama

The same airfield that trained the American military’s first black pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen, is now a museum celebrating the accomplishments of this groundbreaking group of fliers.

[em2nought]

I guess I'd have to say first and foremost "music".

[Eisenwurst]

https://www.considerable.com/enterta...food-and-more/

Not sure how many of these are still around, but in their heyday 1920s - 30s, they must've been really something .

[Jimbuna]

San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site

USS TEXAS

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site

USS TEXAS

America’s got to have the largest number of preserved capital ships of any country, right?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

America’s got to have the largest number of preserved capital ships of any country, right?

I'm no expert but I'd have thought so.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I'm no expert but I'd have thought so.

Now, if only the Prinz Eugen hadn’t been nuked

[Jimbuna]

The largest ship the UK hung onto was HMS Belfast and she resides in the bloody Thames

[Platapus]

One of the many things I love about the US is that you can engage in any outdoor activity without needing to leave the country.



Mountain climbing to deep scuba diving, we got ya covered.


One can easily spend a lifetime just exploring the wilderness of the US and still not be done.

[Skybird]

The one thing that would attract me as a foreigner more than any other is the nature and landscape. If I would plan a trip to the uS, it would be to the natural, isolated regions, and into the wild. The big cities that most tourists tend to get attracted by - leave me completely uninterested, I must admit. I live in a town, but I am not really a city boy. Principally a little house or blockhouse in the woods is more my thing of love.

Just for curiosity: is wild camping allowed in the US like in Scandinavian countries, or is it generally banned like in Germany?

[Catfish]

I like a lot of things in America, especially the Aztec and Maya settlements, Brazil (if they ever come to grips again and fire Bolsonaro); Canada..
Ah, you mean the United States? America is more than that

I would like to see the outdoor wilderness, Grand Canyon and the Utah national parks/desert. Nashville, drive the route 66, visit friends, and if possible look at some old 4-4-0s, if possible hitch a ride on one that is still in working order .
There is 99 more percent in the US alone i would like to see and visit, but...

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Ah, you mean the United States? America is more than that

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Catfish

I like a lot of things in America, especially the Aztec and Maya settlements, Brazil (if they ever come to grips again and fire Bolsonaro); Canada..
Ah, you mean the United States? America is more than that

I would like to see the outdoor wilderness, Grand Canyon and the Utah national parks/desert. Nashville, drive the route 66, visit friends, and if possible look at some old 4-4-0s, if possible hitch a ride on one that is still in working order .
There is 99 more percent in the US alone i would like to see and visit, but...

I see you like taking your time. If you ever make it here and you're interested in adding a little spice to life. I suggest driving The Tail of the Dragon.


Anyway I'll add what I like especially this time of year, low and slow smoked choice brisket, there's nothing like it when its done right.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I'm no expert but I'd have thought so.

Starting with number one: and my # 2: now a museum in San Pedro I caught being towed there from atop Ft Point; USS Iowa under tow to one I caught aboard my Catalina on my flipphone at the the foot of Mare Island being refitted at the CA Maritme Academy: USS Red Oak Victory at the Richmond Museum. and this one I took in at the Alameda Naval AIR Station a few months ago: USS Hornet-Essex class" now an air museum: < wife's cellphone We recently got extremly lucky as the Liberty Ship and D-Day veteran: Jeremiah O'brien narrowly escaped a wicked inferno moored at Fisherman's wharf:

at one point flames from the massive blaze overtopped the Jeremiah O'Brien, which is moored adjacent to the plant on the northeast side of the pier. SFFD Fireboat 3 arrived on scene and provided water monitor coverage. “When firefighters arrived, the flames were literally lapping over the Jeremiah O’Brien,” said SFFD spokesman Jonathan Baxter to local TV media. “They literally saved the O’Brien.”

[Cybermat47]

^^

If that had been my brigade, I would’ve talked my crew’s ears off with Battle of the Atlantic facts