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ahh Lutefisk....the days of living in Minnesota are haunting me. I'm going to pass on my portion of dried cod soaked in lye...but let me know how it goes..if it goes down!

It sounds like you had a good time...although you looked pretty miserable in some of the bike photos.

All but 13 national parks...according to the internet there are 57 official national parks (really 55 cause the one in American Somoa and in the Virgin Islands shouldn't count)...but that puts you somewhere between 42 and 44...thats impressive.

So naturally (ok, cause Im supercompetive), I had to figure out how many I'd been too, and sadly, I am trailing by a lot. I've only been to 8:

Badlands National Park
Capitol Reef National Park
Crater Lake National Park
Glacier National Park
Great Basin National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Redwood National and State Parks
Yosemite National Park

Can anyone even come close to Mr. Myers for parks visited?

I think that list may be lacking a few... For Congaree Swamp just got upgraded last year from Monument, to National Park... so you have to count that one... also Death Vally is now a national park...

4 of the parks I lack you have to get to by plane in Alaska...hmm..

But your list Jeremy... Includes 4 of the 13 I've not been too...

And techinically I wasnt counting the National Park on the US Virgin Islands, and American Somoa... So that would add 2 not in my list... both ran by the park service.

Yes, I have been to 52 of them. Take that Myers. I remember when I was flying to one of the four parks you have to get to by plane in Alaska and an engine blew. A penguin had flown into it. And, yes, they can fly. We were now in a tailspin. As we were heading down, I remember seeing a herd of polar bears scuffling with a herd of wooly mammoths, which surprised me because I thought they were extinct. Apparently they aren’t extinct, just difficult to spot because their white hair blends with snow and ice. Those crafty polar bears! I only saw the battle every few moments, as the plane was spinning, allowing me to only catch the action during the times we were actually facing the animals. I eventually blacked out and as I came to a polar bear was pulling me from the wreckage. It turned out that the plane landed on the wooly mammoths, effectively killing the last of their kind (making them extinct), but in the process providing me with a softer landing than the ice would have. Since they were the natural enemies of the polar bear and the only creature above them on the food chart (wooly mammoths' favorite meal is polar bear tartar) the polar bears were indebted to me. They nursed me back to health and within three months I was healthy and also now able to communicate with the polar bears. Their leader, Bob, was a complicated bear. No one understood him but his woman. But he made me a boat that I used to go to the other three parks and then the other 48 that I have been to. True story.

Javann there are no penguins in alaska... in fact almost all penguins live in the southern hemisphere... the only place i've seen them ... south africa.

Lets see I have been to a few myself...
Turkey Creek Park
Big Spring Park
ALL Disney Theme Parks
Thats about 7 right there..I am sure there are others but they just escape my mind right now :^)

No penguins eh? I know what I saw. Since you have never been to those parks, I guess you wouldn't know, would you?

Hey jerm, great write up on ND. Too bad I'm not a mountain biker (not yet anyhoo, i can be an optimist right?) but at least we had a crazy fun time at the Waltzers watching the bike videos and learning to play Mr. MacIntosh. And yeah, it's scary all the missles hidden underground in our fair state. In fact, back in the 90s when Clinton was in office and reps from the U.S. would inspect Russia's sites and vice versa, one of Yeltzin's reps came here with an entourage to look at one or two of our minuteman silos. I have heard from several sources that we are somewhere around #2 on counterstrike is there were to be a launch from the U.S. Bye bye lutefisk, it would be nuke-te-fisk. An entree' which I as a native North Dakotan have never tried in my 22 or so years of solid food intake, based on gut instinct. Then again I hear lutefisk isn't exactly solid food, more like smelly-jelly fish based food product only meant to keep natives of Norway alive during hard times hundred/s of years ago.

Due to some bad spelling I should clarify what I mean when I say we are number 2 on counterstrike lists. IOW, if the U.S. were to say, attack Russia or North Korea, we would be one of the first states to get hit back by their missles due to all of the weaponry here. WMD in ND? haha

You know, that Javann impersonator is getting better and better at what he does. You just keep doing your thing man. As far as the lutefisk goes, I'll try it. But if its disgusting (and why wouldn't pickled fish be anything else), I'd like a strong chaser. And I do mean strong.

I never realized how many of the parks I had been to until I looked at that site Jerm. Thanks for the info.

And Javann, I was laughing out loud when I read your experiences from Alaska. Well done. Alex and I are thinking of making a little Huntsville run soon. Start planning now.

D.A.

Lutefisk eating champion...OF THE WORLD!!!

Heck yes I am.

OK... I could save the lutifesk... and combine it with Star Wars night... in which we must watch all the orignals on DVD via projector and surround sound

yep yep