• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    I live in the northern suburbs of Stockholm Sweden, so a road trip will probably mean going south.

    So lets start going west!

    I would hit up Gripsholm castle to say hi to Leo the Lion: https://www.kungligaslotten.se/artiklar-film-360/gripsholms-slott/2018-07-22-legenden-leo.html

    Then I’d go down the E4, stopping at a moose park in Småland, stay overnight at my aunts place, keep going south to Blekinge, visit Marinemuseum (the National Maritime museum of Sweden) in Karlskrona, then continue on to Malmö, drive to Denmark, visit Legoland, continue to Germany, and Hamburg, for Miniature Wunderland, then find out where the closed steel works that you can explore are, go there, then find the park with old bucket wheel excavators, check those out, keep going south to Sinsheim and Speyer and checkout the cool technology museums, drive over to France and start heading back home.

  • potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I usually start road trips with an early morning Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. gravy biscuit with hash browns and a Coke. I go in and sit with all the old people awake at 5 AM. It’s a nice way to wake up and start a long journey.

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    12 days ago

    Never been to a desert or west of the Rocky Mountains. Gods I don’t want to roll there from NW Florida, but I’ve never seen it.

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    12 days ago

    Computer history museum. – the archive of our age and what shaped it thus far.

    I’d like to go to the La Brea tar pits because that holds massive meaning for Earth’s living history.

    I'd like to spend a full day at Barber Motorsports Park again if I was ever in Birmingham again.

    I love the age when people cast engines and machined parts in their middle class neighborhood back yards and alleys; when all motorcycles still had bicycle pedals and were just modified bicycle frames. The way the motorcycle started as nothing more than a velodrome pace bike to replace the 4+ man tandems for leading out certain track events is on clear display in their museum. I wish I lived in an age like that, where people could be far more creative without space and shitty people constraints. I have no place to do metal casting even if I could somehow handle the physical stress of it. I would love to do green sand casting.

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    12 days ago

    The country I live in now is quite well-served by railway lines so it would be hard to imagine going on a road trip… If I have the opportunity however, maybe to the Ardennes mountains since it’d be nice to explore the whole area

    The ironic answer would be the local pothole(s)

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          11 days ago

          So I did get one of the s’mores hot cocoas. It was nice! It gets sludgy at the end due to whatever is making it taste all graham crackery though, and I don’t always enjoy that sensation. But the flavor is very nice and until the sludge, also nice!

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            10 days ago

            Yum (minus the sludge)! I’m headed out later today, maybe I’ll stop by Wawa on my way home. It’s supposed to be a cold rainy day today so a smores hot cocoa would be perfect :)