Tour of Dixie

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This Ride Report is a 3 week (pre-Katrina) BMW motorcycle tour Barb & I rode. Photos shot with a Canon A80 P&S.

Built in 1840 the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the tallest Brick Lighthouse in America. There are two black and two white stripes on the Cape Hatteras lighthouse; each circles the tower 1.5 times; all are wider at the bottom than at the top.

Why is the tower leaning? It is not leaning significantly. There is a deceptive optical illusion at certain angles of view, caused by the stripes, and sometimes enhanced by a backdrop of moving clouds, or just maybe I not holding the camera level.:dunno

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Black and white horizontal bands, 150 feet, Beam range 19 miles

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Mount Airy NC
Mayberry Wall

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Replica of the Ironclad CSS Albemarle in the Roanoke River at Plymouth, NC

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Battleship USS North Carolina

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Matlock's Wilmington Court House

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Karen's Café is a fictional cafe made for the hit WB show One Tree Hill. You can not actually enter Karen's Café, but you can find the exterior of it on the corners of Front & Grace St in Wilmington, North Carolina where One Tree Hill is filmed.

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Home of the best cheeseburger anywhere

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A model of Jimmy Buffett's Grumman Albatross "Hemisphere Dancer"

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Ready Reserve Force Ships, Cape Kennedy & Cape Knox

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1966 Marusho
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Easy Rider Bike

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Old Militor sidecar rig

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Set on 40 acres of running streams, cascading waterfalls, pedestrian bridges and 12 greenhouses, the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn.

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The Kentucky Horse Park is a working horse farm and an educational theme park opened in 1978 in Lexington, Kentucky. The equestrian facility is a 1,200 acre park dedicated to "man's relationship with the horse."

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The Park has a twice daily Parade of Breeds, showcasing both common and rare horses from across the globe. The horses are ridden in authentic costume.

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The Kentucky Horse Park has been a retirement home for some of the world's greatest competition horses including thoroughbreds Cigar, voted Horse of the Decade for the 1990s, John Henry, the top money-winning thoroughbred gelding in racing history, champions Forego, Bold Forbes, and Da Hoss, the first of only two thoroughbreds to win Breeders' Cup races in non-consecutive years.

Besides thoroughbred horses, standardbred greats such as Western Dreamer, Cam Fella and Rambling Willie have made the Kentucky Horse Park their home, as well as 5-gaited Saddlebred gelding CH Gypsy Supreme.

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