La Salle Explorers

[Bklyn]

What would you do?

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[Jungle Rat]

Nope. Id move on.

[sardis]

I love the guy's "Where the hell is Laos" expression...

[gule]

I'd push that button for a $million bucks

[Owlman]

If I was with my wife, I'd push the button (for both of us).

[Bklyn]

I was thinking they had to pay for two if they were standing there. The one older cat had his wife there. And I'm guessing Heineken covered the hotel/accomodations too (and got pre-clearance on visa issues), but I would need the full detail on those accomodations before I agreed to bounce.

I would do it in a heartbeat, but my wife would not. So, essentially, I wouldn't do it.

[Jungle Rat]

If Heinichen is paying, Im in.

[Jungle Rat]

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[AlabamAlum]

Hate I couldn't meet up, Bklyn. Trip was unexpectedly cut short.


Great pics Augie and ecat.

[AugustWest]

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[10ac]

Great trip this week:
Hwy 70 to Lenoir City, up 321 to Maryville, across 129 (The Dragon) to Deal's Gap, Up 19 through Bryson City to Cherokee and Maggie Valley across the Blue Ridge Parkway to Ashville up 221 to Blowing Rock, 321 over to Boone and then 421 on to Mountain City, through The Snake via Shady Valley to Bristol into Lee County VA to Pennington Gap, down 58 onto 25E to the Cumberland Gap and up to the Pinnacle and back down to Middlesboro, over and back to VA for beer to Williamsburg and down to Jellico for Beer, down 297 to 63 to 27 to 62 to 285 and home.

Amazing views, lots of curves and mucho cervesa!

[sardis]

Western NC is a beautiful part of this country. I hope to retire there someday.

[Bklyn]

Hate I couldn't meet up, Bklyn. Trip was unexpectedly cut short.


Great pics Augie and ecat.

No worries. Whenever I'm in Alabama...heh...I'll see if...you're ar....

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I couldn't get it out. I tried. So close.

this will seal the fate that one of my kids will get a scholarship to UA or something like that

[Jungle Rat]

I hate driving through that shithole ever year.

[AlabamAlum]

Bklyn,

lol....kidding aside, a lot of great areas in Alabama. Great college football, the Gulf Coast, foothills of the Appalachians, some of the best golf courses in the nation, good southern food, an easy drive to the Great Smoky Mountains, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Florida, and some really good people. I could live anywhere in the US or the world for that matter. I actually chose Alabama.

[gule]

everybody fucks up sometime.

[Jungle Rat]

Don't forget the great Mexican food.

[Bklyn]

I'll retire someplace cheaper...above the Mason Dixon.

After all these years, I still prefer my racists lying to me.

[AlabamAlum]

Understandable. I've thought about Colorado. If you visit, however, I don't think you'd see the racism -overt or otherwise- that you would expect due to the movies and what was in place in the 60's or before. Does it exist? No doubt. But those voices are fairly muted. Hell, Birmingham hasn't had a white mayor since Jimmy Carter was in office.

[Bklyn]

Seriously now (as I was having a bit of lighthearted fun on the "travel to Alabama" spiel, I will travel anywhere being that I am a lover of culture and the uniqueness of various locations in this great nation and world), no offense to Alabama. I'm speaking a deeper level of racism that rears its head in the form of reductive legislation designed to hold back people of color...whether voting laws, education laws or immigration laws. I don't think I could ever be happy pitching my tent in places like that and I am under no illusion that my (albeit meaningful and enviable...heh) influence or voice will ever change that dynamic in many places.