Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan
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No. They must have taken a few detours. And I know they're skint, but Greyhound will do that for $54 now. It wouldn't have been very expensive back then.
John Denver
Country Roads
Almost heaven, West Virginia,
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
The Blue Ridge Mountains run through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, but not West Virginia. The Blue Ridge Parkway goes through Virginia and North Carolina.
I know a guy from Virginia who finds this annoying.
John Denver had never been to WV when he wrote that.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View PostIt once took me four days to hitchhike from Bath to Leicester on a bank holiday weekend.
I've never hitchhiked in my life. By the time I was old enough to try, I'd been indoctrinated into the idea that it inevitably led to murder.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
That must be quite a story.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
Not really. It was just extremely tiresome. There were few, if any, direct main roads, so I tended to get a whole bunch of four to ten mile local rides. Also, because it was a long weekend, cars were stuffed with daytripping families. Mainly I remember sleeping in a bus shelter, a public toilet and under a cricket pavilion.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostGene Pitney (Bacharach & David) - 24 Hours From Tulsa
He was only 24 hours away. Was he driving? In which case he could have been in Canada or Mexico and made it at a push. And if he was flying, half way round the world, even given the limitations of air travel in 1963. “At least” 24 hours from Tulsa might have been more suitable. Or “24 bloody hours” from Tulsa.
To be in the US and 24 hours from Tulsa, you can really only be in the distant parts of New England, or in Washington, Oregon or Northern California.
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It must be only half an hours flight time from Liverpool or even Manchester to Belfast. It;s only 45 minutes from Bucharest to Istanbul, for christs sake. Once you factor in taxiing and all that yes I guess the official flight times are longer, but I reckon it's fair to say that Belfast is only half an hour away
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Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino
Take me back to my sweet lavida
Find my love my dolce vita
Show me where I need to go
Donde esta mi chico latino
Singing in Spanish and suddenly switching to Italian. Right up there with Bonio starting off "Vertigo" with Uno, Dos, Tres, Catorce. (Three's Company reference be damned.)
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Originally posted by Stumpy Pepys View PostSan Jose wasn't as nice as Bacharach and David made out.
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- Jul 2016
- 9350
- Dublin
- Bohemian FC Manchester United Mansfield town Torino Berwick rangers
- Chocolate Digestives
I'll probably get spam from easyjet and Ryanair for the next year for finding this out but Belfast to Glasgow is 45 minutes and Belfast to Liverpool is 1 hour and 5 minutes so Belfast isn't half a bloody hour away.
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