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Has anyone eaten at that Johnny Reb's place in Hearne?

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Johnny Reb's Dixie Cafe. Good eats!

Kathmandu, Nepal or perhaps Delhi, India.

I've been lucky in my life to have travelled extensively. Nepal still haunts my dreams from time to time.

-td

Blue Balls and Intercourse, Pennsylvania...both in the same day

Hell, Michigan.

Toad Suck, Arkansas

Cadaquez, Spain. Just south of Barcelona. Beautiful beaches, but famous for one unsettling fact.

Pohang, Korea.
After an opeation, spent time on a ROK Marine Base. Spartan, in describing the conditions, is being generous.

-Kenyan Safari(pictures not guns, I was a child)
-Dubai
-Small city(1 Million people) in China, literally walking through a hole in the wall of an alley(affectionately known as Hepatitis Alley or Hep A) for the best chinese I've ever had. Ate there on many occassions during my time there.
-Same city, seeing 3 year old Chinese kid who I saw most days I was there. Difference was this time he was wearing a yellow t-shirt with a Confederate flag on it and the words "It's a white thing you wouldn't understand". No way that kid, or his parents knew what it meant.
-About an hour outside Beijing on the ruins(not the fixed up part for tourists) of the Great Wall taking a leak(could they see me from space?)
-Midnight in the Red Square, with my best friend, smoking Cuban stogies and drinking coffee that could take the corrosion of the Titanic. Earlier in the day I had seen a wrist watch in a store commemorating the "crushing of the evil rebellion" in that very spot. Incredibly surreal moment.

I've been to a cock fight somewhere around Toomey-Starks, Louisiana. If there's somewhere more "unusual" and "out of the way" than that, I don't know what it may be....although I've heard you can ask a few people in the crowd "Where are the dog fights?" and even though they're illegal you can still get directions.

Oh, I almost forgot. A few years ago on a mission trip to Mexico I went to Saltillo and a few of us ended up in this back alley courtyard watching an authentic Luchador show. It had everything, guys in the masks, grisly women, and midgets. After they were done a few of us got in the ring and did and impromtu Gringo show. The crowd that was leaving came back in.

PB,

What were you doing in Blue Ball or Intercourse, PA? I don't guess you've been to Puseyville, PA have you?

I've driven thru Blue Ball ,Arkansas a few times.....the men always seem like they are in a bad mood...

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Camp Navistar on the northern Kuwait/southern Iraq border. Cobras (snakes, not helicopters), big azz black scorpions, and camel spiders everywhere. 120-130 everyday from April to November, and helacious duststorms...the place makes Lubbock look like Seattle.

Vilcabamba, Ecuador - absolutely beautiful and you can stay there for like $6 a night and that includes dinner and breakfast! It is known as the valley of the immortals and I'd go back anytime - so relaxing it should be illegal.
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Valley of the immortals

The valley is famed for its longevity of its locals, it has been reported that many folks lived to be over 100 years of age with the oldest up to 135 years making it an area with some of the oldest inhabitants in the world.

Such longevity has been mainly attributable to the perfect all year round climate, deep family ties, low animal fat diets, little stress and daily physical exercise along with a simple life and hard work ethic. Backing the last statement up, often you can view people in their 80's working away in the local fields. The result of this legend has helped in increased levels of tourism as well as appealing to migrants for a more low key existence along with their imported alternative health techniques as previously mentioned on living the natural life, this has led to the name of the town being named "the valley of longevity".

GoHorns94

Pokhara, Nepal

St. John's, Newfoundland

I was fogged in (and freezing) there for 3 days in February. I couldn't tell you what the place looks like because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me for the entire 3 days...

That's too bad... I hear the place is nice (in the summer.)

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Lordsburg, NM could probably be torn down without the world knowing...

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Kiln, Mississippi population 413. This is where Brett Favre grew up and played high school ball. There is a bar there called the Broken Spoke and they actually serve moonshine. It's against the law to sell it so you get it for free.....tons of Favre memorabilia (especially from High School and South Miss)...if you're heading east on I-10 it's only 5 miles off the interstate around Biluxi/Gulfport.

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I was just there last weekend. Well was in Bay St. Louis but went to Kiln to the broke spoke.

Farve is tryign ot sell his place on the Jordan there. that is where his bro in law died on the ATV.

michigan. place was full of inbreds and the only sign of intelligent life: Columbus 188mi

oh yeah. My far away places are.

Kaohsiung Tawiwan

and bar far the best beach in the world

Boracay Philippeans!!

I have also been all over Colombia. stayed in the same suburb of Pablo Escobar. Went into his nephews house when I was about 9 years old. he said to me "I love Americans" Needless to say, my aunt had a cow and told me never to go over there again.

Moscow (In the middle of winter to boot)

without a doubt

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Veracruz, Mexico. There was an actual street riot while we were there, complete with cars being overtured and set on fire and everything.

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I was there.

I've been to Grenada. Pretty cool little island.

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was driving back to Aggieland and my car broke down at 10pm on a Saturday night about 10 miles from Caldwell. I walked to the nearest building and went to the door and found myself in a "juke joint". I was the only person in the place who wasn't African-American. It was like a scene out of Animal House.....("do you mind if we dance wif yo dates?" Turns out, the people there were quite gracious and helpful and I was back on my way in no time.

And no, the house band was not Otis Day and the Knights....

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Same thing happened to me while taking a shortcut from Waco to Marlin near the "town" of Satin. The place was the Hideaway Club. Glad my wife knew a girl that was a waitress there and she let us use the phone.

Malta

I stated Nepal or India in my previous post, but I've rethought this some...

The most remote, unusual place I've ever been was about 8,000 feet back into an underwater cave, about 90 feet underground (and under water).

It was like stepping back in time to about 15 million years ago. Most excellent. Got to see a part of the world that probably less than 200 people have ever seen (in this particular cave).

Diving is awesome.

-td

Them Roatan (sp?) Island off of Honduras.

Gardiner, Montana. Right outside the north entrance to Yellowstone. Incredible scenery, 150 full time residents, and 20+ bars.

Lubbock

Wuxi, China (3 times)

Rio Negro in Brazil. Awesome peacock bass fishing. Go if you ever get the chance because there's nothing like.

I'm with TechDiver on this one. Probably the best being 140 feet down in the Blue Hole, 2+ hours boat ride off the coast of Belize swimming with 50+ bull, reef, and blacktip sharks. Coolest dive because you basically parachute down into the hole, it's awesome.

In a banya located in the basement of a Russian pipeline company’s field office on the outskirts of Samara, Russia, on a very cold December night. Hottest sauna I’ve ever experienced. With all of the vodka and incredible heat, I wondered if I’d ever get back home to tell the story.