Where am I - Travel Game II.

Baja, Piffka? Couldn't read that sign.

Baja is v.good... can you name the town?

Just a guess, Piffka, as I couldn't find your picture. La Paz?

Not La Paz.

I was just watching Andy Kaufman on YouTube. Do you remember when he came on David Letterman wearing a swami outfit + dress sox and shoes and then he danced a belly dance, swallowed a sword and sang RoseMarie? Holy Moley...







I got to the YouTube because someone on a2k started a thread about David Sedaris on David Letterman (which was funny) and the Andy Kaufman show was right there. Omigosh, if you have time... check it out. Could he really swallow a sword?

Hey, honey. I'm trying to make a French connection; the Baja; Andy Kaufman; (can't do YouTube too well with a dialup connection) Afraid that I am not having much luck.

Well, another guess. Santa Rosalia? Also, Piffka, is your structure a hotel or such? Don't think we ever decided that.

Good grief. Found it. Hotel Francis Santa Rosalia, Baja.

You've got it, Letty.

It is the Hotel Frances in Santa Rosalia, Baja, where a church designed by Eiffel remains in use. If I can figure out transportation, we'll be staying there next year.

Santa Rosalia was practically a French colony on the Baja.

It also has a Tacoma connection -- Baja copper shipped from here for the infamous Tacoma smelter and its arsenic wastes.

And... it is also the port city for the ferry to Guaymas. <smiling>

I read that information in my search, Piffka. Fascinating background, and you and Mr. Piffka have a right to be smiling. I do learn so much on this thread.

Back later with a place.

Where am I?

Wow... I love those graphics. I need a new lesson on a2k technology.

Philadelphia.

Don't you love that animated memorial, Piffka? Not the city of brotherly love, but you are in the right state.

A signer of the Constitution?

Hey, C.I. (loved your travelogue in Germany, incidentally).

No, but this man was really good at propaganda.

Oh... no one has figured this out yet??

I've checked Lancaster country, William Pitt, Robert Fulton and Benjamin Franklin.... and Daniel Boone. I don't know that much about PA.

Is it in Pitttsburgh?

Hey, Piffka. Hint: it's a park and there is one similar in
Trenton, New Jersey. I think if you get the name of the man, it shouldn't be too difficult. He almost lost his head in France.

Was he painful?

Good hint, Francis.

Another hint: Piffka's state+druid tree+park

Seems to me there are a lot of Druidic trees, Letty, though I guess the Oak is king (at least in the summer when the best rituals occur). Sounds like Thomas Paine, too, if I understood Sir. Francis's hint correctly. ;-)

However, the internal ethernet (or maybe it is the eternal inthernet ) within my computer's innards sems to have fizzled during a power surge/outage this morning. I don't have a connection, darn it and grrrrr. We've had high winds for the last day or two... which is perfect for gleaning the best bits of evergreens that come from the tops of the trees but not so good for staying logged on. Anyway, I am logged onto Mr. P's computer 'til he gets home but I can't stay. :-( This computer is slower and weird and way upstairs in a garret while I need to be downstairs cooking, wrapping & decorating next to where my otherwise absolutely fine iMac sits, silent and refusing to give me anything but what's already there. Pffft.

I'll check back to see if Oak Park & Thomas Paine are right... but if they are, I think someone else should pick a place if you want to play. I'll be in and mostly out.

I"ve put all the hints together and came up with this Letty:
A Tribute to Thomas Paine
The life-size sculpture of Thomas Paine deep in thought while writing the first Crisis Paper. The high relief sculpture is mounted to a glass background with Paine's words etched into the glass. This very realistic yet contemporary sculpture greets visitors to the Washington Crossing Historic Park, which also houses the famous mural of Washington Crossing the Delaware.