From my friends on the Iowa. Lots of neat stuff to do and see. If you're in L.A. next Labor Day, try and include it, but get there early. They had around 300,000 visitors this year, and it's expected to grow.
Admiral Yamamoto infamously said "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a man with a rifle behind every blade of grass."
And so it should be, a nation of riflemen....
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It's too bad that Colorado (and AZ) don't have their own salt water ports and beaches. But being anywhere with 300K people milling around aimless me reminds me of a light day on the freeway.
ReplyDeleteIt was gonzo there last year, and I don't think we broke 200k visitors. I can imagine what it was like with almost double the people.
DeleteMemories, good and bad, about Seattle Seafair.
ReplyDeleteNever made it to Seafair. That's where Tex Johnson barrel-rolled the Boeing Dash 80 over the crowd one year.
DeleteKnew an engineer who was aboard that day.
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