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I am enjoying this thread too though way across the big pond. Nice to get an insight and a pictured painted of the places you have been and would like to travel to.
I was even looking forward to a blog from Eddie when he was thinking of starting his RV travels that time, then he went and sold it, though it was the right thing to do he felt.
Have any of you ever put places into Google street view and then have a good look around, I do this all the time, brings a bit more realism to a place name.
Haven't got to America yet myself, maybe some day though time is on the march and I would need to get a move on. Probably would be a trip to New York if I did get around to it, I do love the streaming cams from Times SQ.
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For a while here I have been finding the Forums a little depressing, this wrong or that. Not much seemed nice. Then I read this. I found this thread warming (if that is the right word). Sounds like some folk have good times. Your experiences are different to ours in the real South. (Below the equator).
It is a good read.
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Have any of you ever puts places into Google street view and then have a good look around, I do this all the time, brings a bit more realism to a place name. I do that a lot. As I look at houses in smaller towns, the kind where directions include "Go through THE stoplight", I take a virtual drive through the town and look at the storefronts and such. If a town is full of payday loan businesses, pawn shops, smoke shops that sell smokes individually rather than by pack, that gives me a feel for the economic climate of the place and the element that lives there and they go off my list. But if I see a busy street full of local businesses with people walking in and out of stores, then they get my attention. I just wish Google would update that more. I looked at a house recently that Google maps street view showed to be a grown over, tangled mess. The real estate site photos though showed that all the awful shrubs and the dead tree have been removed, and the yard was bright and cheerful. The imagery on street view was from 2013. My own house shows my old windows and shrubbery in front of my house, which dates those pictures as being before 2014 when I bought the new windows. Overall though, Google maps is a great tool.
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I’m another Carolina transplant I moved to the upstate of South Carolina a year ago. Actually work up around lake Keowee on occasion. I like in the Spartanburg area. I love it here, and would not move back to Southern California unless I had to. It’s beautiful and far better for us financially. $1.00 a gallon cheaper gas, and I pay 1/3 what I paid there for housing.
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I’m another Carolina transplant I moved to the upstate of South Carolina a year ago. Actually work up around lake Keowee on occasion. I like in the Spartanburg area. When I saw your location I thought "Isn't he in California??" Now I know why. Another candidate to attend Herbfest! How many do we need before the food and drink vendors start asking to attend? Bring me the Italian sausage and peppers sandwich guy and I'll never leave. If the Elephant Ears truck comes I will start building a house.
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Back when I traveled on the company dime I always looked at the age and condition of personal vehicles to get an idea how economically successful an area was. It always amazed me how some parking areas would be filled with Mercedes, Lexus or BMW and a short distance away fifteen year old pickups and beaters were the norm.
One thing that amazed me was how in the snow belt you see a lot of vehicles eat through because of road salt but they disappear once the weather turns warm and people bring their "good" vehicles out of storage.
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All this fun talk of Herbfest made me think about something. Until I visited Pat, I had no idea just how many users here are in the Carolinas. Given that, what would the objections be, if any rational objections exist, to require at the very minimum a user list his state? I mean, privacy? C'mon. What kind of paranoia is it to care who knows what state you are in? Besides which, as I just showed one user here, with the internet anybody with minimal internet skills can find you in about 5 minutes. Complete with a picture of your house if they choose to take it that far. Of course nobody is asking for home address and such, as that is obviously taking it too far, but in the spirit of community and the "musician bro" factor, it would be great to know where everybody is.
That way, as we plan Herbfest, we know who to expect will descend on his property!!
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Ok, I live near a place called "Center of the World." Center of the World Nothing there but the sign is cool! ...Deb
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Eddie,
One of the forum users created a map thingy where anyone can mark their location with a virtual push pin. They have a link to the webpage in their signature.
The forum literally has thousands of members and I think three participated.
While your idea has merit I doubt it will fly very far. But I've been proven wrong before!
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I have actually stopped and taken a picture of that very sign and posted it on Facebook with the comment "No. I am the center of the world!!"
I had a guy out Warren way fix a baritone sax for me and on the way to drop it off and pick it up I passed that sign.
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so... Ohio has towns named CENTER OF THE WORLD and UTOPIA.
North Carolina has HORNEYTOWN, HIGH POINT and CLIMAX.
Your move. ;-)
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Climax and Hell are both in MI .. just sayin
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!
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And let's not forget Intercourse, PA. Which has never, and I don't know why, appealed to Climax in That State Up North to become sister cities.
But back to Herbfest..... Will there be t-shirts?
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$45 at the merch tent. 
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suggested schedule of events for Herbfest 2019:
1) while we consume the 1st case of beer, have a meet & greet
2) 2nd case: jam session
3) 3rd case: target practice (shooting at beer cans from events #1 and #2)
4) 4th case: same as event #3, but now the beer cans are balanced on one anothers' heads
5) 5th case: Same as event #4, but now its live action and nobody is standing still. Every man for himself. Last man standing gets the generator and PA system.
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we'll probably only need ONE "survivor" shirt
Just sayin'.
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we'll probably only need ONE "survivor" shirt
Just sayin'. AND,it can be free...... with nobody there to collect the $45.....
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