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To: Gauguin who wrote (53857)	7/25/2000 12:24:55 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

If I could start a teenytiny town (1 pump, 2 room motel, and of course the towers and parapets of the Doublewide Latherial Compound) out in the endless shimmering dust flats, it would be Exultation.

To: Gauguin who wrote (53857)	7/25/2000 4:59:57 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Wow. Marvelville. I think your life could be effected by having that as your address. Yep... odd thing about names... The certainly do conjure up images... When we go out driving through the back country... which we do quite often as you know... we seek out places with odd names. Seems like there's often something interesting to be found in towns with unusual names... Like...well... take for instance last Thursday. We were just cruising along, enjoying looking at historic old farms along Hwy 2 down near the St. Lawrence Seaway... when all at once, we arrive in the town of Ebenezer...and what in heck to we see, but this giant... uhm.... well.... what the heck WAS that thing?? Sort of a big framework of strange odds and ends of metal and cables, with all kinds of weird little propellors and whirligig thingies spinning all around on it in the wind... Of course, I took a photograph of it... to record it for posterity... but I think you get my drift... strange place names either inspire or incite strange happenings... Let's see... I should probably give you some criteria for what to look for when you go for a drive up in this neck of the woods. Our own goal is usually to find towns that have: a.) old mills b.) great architecture c.) waterways, dams, canals and locks d.) old factories e.) very early settlements with log cabins, etc... f.) geologically interesting features g.) some interesting history in their past. h.) something quirky and unexpected. This said, I guess the first thing to be watching out for are towns with the name "Mill" in them.... Like Oxford Mills, Bishops Mills, Bowes Mills, Herron Mills.... We have dozens and dozens of these up around here, so you can pretty much pick and choose from a good selection when you go out for a drive. The important thing about most of them is that there's probably the remains of an old mill of some kind in those towns... maybe even a well-preserved mill, or a restored one that's still in use... so that's a great tip-off if you like that sort of thing (which, as you know, we do). OK... Now, the next thing you've got to look for are towns with rather...I guess you could call them... pompous... or perhaps visionary names... like... Athens or Verona... BTW, I have been to Athens many times.... Those kinds of towns often have good architecture... classy stuff... because some of the residents had hoity-toity ideas about keeping up with the folks back home in England or Scotland. Now, the next thing you should look for are towns with obvious references to Scotland. Those places have the best stone architecture around. They are often situated along rivers named after rivers in Scotland... like The Tay, and The Clyde. The towns will have names like Glen Tay, Glen Becker, Dundela or Tweed. Other good towns are ones with geologically interesting names... Like Iron Mine, Marble Rock, Rocksprings, or White Bluff. But the real "grab bag" ones have super weird and inexplicable names... like Tincap, or Sparkle City... (forgot to check that one out last time I was down that way, but I will... you can count on that). But, the ones I think I like just about the most are such-and-such Corners. Definitely worth taking a pass by any of those "Corners" places, especially if they are a little off the beaten track of modern roads. Many of those little Corners places have neat old houses and even the remains of old general stores, churches, halls, and other interesting buildings. Just about always find something good to see around those Corners... oh..and the same goes for "Hills"... like Buttermilk Hill or Fiddler's Hill... yep... good things to see in little settlements with those kinds of names. Another thing to watch for up here are towns with old native names, like Gananoque, or even Ottawa... a lot of those places are among the most historic of all.. Well, that's a start for how we plan out an expedition...except that none of them are really that planned out at all... Usually, we just start driving and every time we hit a "T" in the road, we just pick a direction... perhaps based on the slant of the sun, or some glimpse of a little thing that we can see way down the road... like maybe a church steeple, or a barn silo... BTW.... I want to hear all about what you saw and what you got yesterday... You can't just come here and say you saw cool things and got some neat "stuff" and not come back to tell me about it pretty soon... Makes me feel crusty... and you don't want to find out what I'm like when I get into a crusty mood...okay?