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tggzzz
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Bucket List: Technical Places to Visit

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Cragside Britain's original smart home which sits at the heart of a grand fantasy garden. Morpeth, Northumberland. (It has a hydro power supply, hence the tag :) )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cragside
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/ ... t/cragside

I'd like to see this 1773 mechanical swan operating in The Bowes Museum Barnards Castle, County Durham. The yootoob vids probably don't do it justice.
https://thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collectio ... -duckling/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECuS6HDa-9Y

So, what other places are on your bucket list?

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Re: Bucket List: Technical Places to Visit

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My bucket list?

To wake up everyday. :lol:

Seriously, these weren't "technical" but were on the list and achieved...

Visit West cost USA....specifically LA. Was not impressed.
Travel across Mojave Desert and camped out at rim of Grand Canyon. That was impressive.

Technical....

Visited Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

To do....

USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.
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Re: Bucket List: Technical Places to Visit

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MED6753 wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 6:16 pm Seriously, these weren't "technical" but were on the list and achieved...
That's sufficient :)
Visit West cost USA....specifically LA. Was not impressed.
From what I can see from the aerial shots in "Lucifer", LA == SimCity 2000 :)
Travel across Mojave Desert and camped out at rim of Grand Canyon. That was impressive.
Once I would have thought so. I've assuaged that desire by a walk through the Dolomites, including some via ferrata.
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I've been up Tridentina, and up and down 666.

While staying in Rifugio Pisciadu (supplied by helicopter) I bumbled into the only English people I saw in a fortnight - and I already knew them! Similar happened in Varkala, Kerala, and on a train in S France. Small world indeed.

Slight altitude sickness overnight at Rifugio Boè
Technical....

Visited Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

To do....

USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.
Smithsonian would have been of interest, but not now.
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Re: Bucket List: Technical Places to Visit

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MED6753 wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 6:16 pm My bucket list?

To wake up everyday. :lol:

Seriously, these weren't "technical" but were on the list and achieved...

Visit West cost USA....specifically LA. Was not impressed.
Travel across Mojave Desert and camped out at rim of Grand Canyon. That was impressive.

Technical....

Visited Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

To do....

USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.
visited the USAF museum in 1999 and was very impressed. (drove to Dayton on the Friday before jfk jr crashed the plane. had the whole afternoon to visit the museum because we were scheduled to do a firmware update on some switches early saturday morning, and then drove to Columbus to update switches there on Sunday morning.)

always planned to go back and see it again but have not taken the time. it would be well worth the drive.
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