The most unusual thing you see on your way to WDW

Nemo14

Nemo14

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Bob Saget said:
Sorry about that. A lot of booze & bad decisions led to that moment, but I assure you it won't happen again.
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Master Yoda said:
No worries. We have all been there at one time or another.:p
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photos or it didn't happen!
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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Not really unusual, but cool to me anyway...
Lookin' down at the oil rigs, ships, and boats in the gulf from the plane.
Better yet, the flight path takin' us over a perfect aerial view of one of the Parks. Much cooler than any Google Earth image! :)
 
PUSH

PUSH

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Gabe1 said:
That cross is in Effingham Illinois, home of the middle of nowhere, but by gosh they have a train depot.
The cross was to be dedicated on 9/11 2001. Instead dedicated a few days later with a massive crowd due to 9/11.


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198 feet tall!



It is to be the beacon of hope for the 50,000+ travelers that pass it each day on Rte. 57. Three IL Universities are along that particular highway including my DD's which is north of there.
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Effingham! That's it! Thank you! I always keep an eye out for it. Hard to miss it being out in the middle of nowhere like you said.
 
bsiev1977

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My first ever trip to WDW, we drive from north New Jersey. I have a distinct memory of being somewhere in the South, and parts of the roadside being littered with dead armadillos.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Sans Souci said:
I don't know if it's "unusual", but we fly out of Midway when we go to WDW. I always think it's a little freaky that there are homes and apartment buildings literally across the street from the runways. I try not to think about that when we're taking off.
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I use to work at Ohare years back. Our parking lot was on the airfield a bus ride away from the concourse. I had to yield to aircraft that taxied in front of me to take off or land in route to the lot. We were the only airline with an employee lot out there. Chicago is a unique place for airports.
 
PUSH

PUSH

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Gabe1 said:
I use to work at Ohare years back. Our parking lot was on the airfield a bus ride away from the concourse. I had to yield to aircraft that taxied in front of me to take off or land in route to the lot. We were the only airline with an employee lot out there. Chicago is a unique place for airports.
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Chicago is just a unique place. Coming from a town of 11,000 people, I see some unusual things in Chicago. I always get a kick out of the pigeons that walk around the streets. They don't get bothered by people or cars. Oh the wonders of a big city! :rolleyes:
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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PUSH said:
Chicago is just a unique place. Coming from a town of 11,000 people, I see some unusual things in Chicago. I always get a kick out of the pigeons that walk around the streets. They don't get bothered by people or cars. Oh the wonders of a big city! :rolleyes:
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Ohare actually legally belongs to Chicago however it sits completely encapsulated in the NW and Western suburbs. Ohare's boundaries never come close to touching Chicago proper.

Wow you are a big city dude 11,000. My little town has around 8,000. Pigeons have been disappearing from Chicago. An alderman unbeknownst to anyone else hired someone from Indiana to capture them and take them away with him.
 
PUSH

PUSH

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Gabe1 said:
Ohare actually legally belongs to Chicago however it sits completely encapsulated in the NW and Western suburbs. Ohare's boundaries never come close to touching Chicago proper.

Wow you are a big city dude 11,000. My little town has around 8,000.
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I find it funny how people think they have small "towns" when they are under 100,000 people. I've heard people say that they have only 50,000 people in their city and they say there's nothing to do because it's so small. What do people do for fun here? They go to Walmart and shop.

Plus, the only reason the signs say our population is 11,000 people is because we have a college hear and the census is taken during the school year, so all of the students living in rentals are counted towards us. These students have given us a huge Walmart, and an abundance of restaurants (well, compared to places around us).
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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Well, there's this sign. I'm not going to attach an image because I'm afraid of what will pop up in the image search if I do, but essentially, it says:
TOPLESS TOPLESS TOPLESS!

I don't want to know.o_O
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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PUSH said:
I find it funny how people think they have small "towns" when they are under 100,000 people. I've heard people say that they have only 50,000 people in their city and they say there's nothing to do because it's so small. What do people do for fun here? They go to Walmart and shop.

Plus, the only reason the signs say our population is 11,000 people is because we have a college hear and the census is taken during the school year, so all of the students living in rentals are counted towards us. These students have given us a huge Walmart, and an abundance of restaurants (well, compared to places around us).
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Both of my kids during the last census were counted at their Universities. During the election at my DDs school they registered voters down there in Champaign Urbana IL, they had to bring a ton of officials from the county because the local voting judges/officials kept turning the students away lying saying they were not registered.
3/4 of the towns are students, locals get ticked about college students deciding issues for the locals.
 
luv

luv

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Lol, I have heard so much about South of the Border that I want to go there. Alas, I don't drive through there.

Who has been? How was it?
 
RandomPrincess

RandomPrincess

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luv said:
Lol, I have heard so much about South of the Border that I want to go there. Alas, I don't drive through there.

Who has been? How was it?
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I have been to the Sombrero Restaurant (which is not in the Sombrero shaped building) and the main gift shop. It's the normal tacky souvenirs and bad "Mexican" food you would expect from a road side attraction in South Carolina.
 

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