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Went there a little over a month ago

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An extended car trip through Canada and the U.S. Northwest with my parents and my half-sister when I was 14 was a terrific trip. We'd spend days admiring the scenery and visiting parks such as Glacier National Park and Yellowstone, while at night we would ensconce ourselves in our hotel room and play epic games of canasta.

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I think my first trip to New York in the early 70's was the most fun I have ever had there....Experiencing everything for the first time is always the best....I was only there once during the winter...but several times after that in the other seasons...
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I used to go here when I was based on Okinawa back in 2000. A country bar in Japan :p Loved to see the Japanese girls dressed up like cowgirls and trying to line dance.
Also spent a lot of time on this...
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Ironically it was on that very mechanical bull that I broke my first bone..... After years of riding the real thing with no major injury :p
It may have had something to do with the fact that back then it didn't have a bull rope, but a metal ring to put your hand through, and it was one of the old belt driven types..... Recipe for disaster :p
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I was born and raised in Sturbridge, MA. My grandfather used to work in the gunshop at Old Sturbridge Village after he retired.

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I used to love going to work with him on Saturday mornings in the 1950's and 1960's. In those days, the interpreters were retired local people, and they were all very dear to me. My grandfather used to let me tell people about the guns, and show them how to open the safe with the secret compartment.

In the back part of the gun shop, there used to be a pewter shop, and the man in there used to let me help him make spoons.

I also knew where the false walls were in the wrought iron display, and liked opening a wall and popping out unexpectedly when there were visitors in there! :D

Mrs Ball worked in the Freeman farm, and in the winter, we used to eat big pieces of gingerbread with lots of whipped cream. If a visitor came, we had to run and hide our gingerbread in the kitchen, because they only gave little tiny pieces to the visitors.

When it was time for my grandfather to have lunch, we ate in the tavern, then went over to the General Store to play a game of checkers, using a checkerboard on an old stump for a table top, with corn cobs for the checkers.

I also would go to the print shop and help set type and print pages, and visit my uncle, who worked in the bank, and sometimes the law office, as well as visit lots of other old friends there.

The village was much more relaxed and friendly then, and a lot of the older people were born before 1900, so they were closer to the period of the village. Now it's so business like and yuppyish.
 
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Nafplion, Greece: Years ago, during a family tour through Greece, we stopped at a little town called Nafplio. With a fortress on the hill behind it, vine covered streets, a beautiful harbor, nearby ruins and beaches, this was a great place to stop and relax. Our plan had been to stay for a morning and drive on, but we ended up staying for three days.

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