The Syndicate

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:28 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:15 am I'm going to southern Ontario in a couple weeks. Thank goodness. Get me out of this country.

When and where exactly?

Golden wrote:I'm here waiting!

Ricochet wrote:2. Lisbon

6. Vienna

G-Man wrote:Antarctica

Sloonei wrote:

Spoiler: show

I'd like to talk about Iowa for a moment, because I may be one of the few people on this earth who can say they have an honest to God Iowa Story. On Day 2 of the aforementioned roadtrip across the US, my friends and I were driving straight through Iowa, because what's there to see in Iowa after the World's Largest Truckstop (which we reached at around 4 AM the night before)? We drove through the night and into the day, not stopping until we reached the Rockies in Colorado. Around mid-morning, still laboring our way through the everlasting cornfield called Iowa, I am dozing off in the backseat beside Friend A, Friends B & C up front. Friend A, bored as one is to be in Iowa, decides to hold his GoPro out the window of the car and start filming the last exciting moments of our trip as we rush down the interstate.
On that morning, somebody in Iowa on that highway behind us saw this, and decided to mistake Friend A's camera for a handgun, and made the bold leap to believe that he was firing it out the window while whipping down the highway. So naturally they called the state police on this maniac. We, of course, were blissfully unaware, still driving toward our destination until suddenly a police cruiser comes flying up behind us, sirens going. We pull over, expecting them to fly past us. They don't. They stop behind us, two police officers step out, and they're each carrying full assault rifles. They start walking towards us, as we all look on, confused as we've ever been. They get to the car, look at Friend A and see that the thing in his hand is not a gun but a GoPro camera. They yell at him, tell him that was stupid, and say something about how in Massachusetts they would have had us out of the car and on the ground. But in Massachusetts I find it hard to believe that anybody would ever think that we were firing a handgun out the window on the highway. Such a thought would never enter my mind, and I'm still baffled that it happened.

In the end the cops apologized to us and were friendly enough once they recognized the error, and we were off on our way. But I've resented the state of Iowa ever since.

Sloonei wrote:The Cliffs of Moher are the single most impressive/terrifying natural feature I've ever seen.

G-Man wrote:My wife on the other hand has been to most of the lower 48, Puerto Rico, England, France, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Australia.

Sloonei wrote:My first real travel experience was a school trip to Ireland 3 years ago. It was an amazing place and I've been itching to go back ever since.

Sloonei wrote:Iceland and Scandinavia are my most desired locations to visit in the world right now.

Epignosis wrote:I went to Indiana once.