THE LIST (places and things to avoid before you die)
1. Terre Haute Indiana 
I, sadly, have been to Terre Haute and have actually spent about three days there. Indiana, generally, as a state should be avoided as much as possible. But, the apex of the horrid ennui that Indiana manages to suggest is at Terre Haute. This is a town whose claim to fame is that it is the place
Where home grown terrorist Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber 
Was executed by the federal government. Avoid all your life and you will be happier and healthier for it.
Alternative: Nashville Indiana. 
If you have to spend time in semi
If you have to spend time in semiRural Indiana, try Nashville. A quaint town with interesting shops and
Art gallerys. Its kind of cheesy but all in all has a nice light, easy going
Spirit. It’s near the Brown County Forest and not far from the I.U.
Campus at Bloomington which is, itself a ‘hip’ college town.
Comments
Come visit us in sunny North Korea! The land of no smiles!
Visit our beautiful beaches and bask in the glow of radiation from the two nuclear reactors the Soviets dumped off our coast.
Dine at one of our fine restaurants. Try the three eyed Blue Tuna, it's great!
Yeah, add North Korea to that list.
ismile
To top it off one of my "little sprouts" got a scholarship offer from ISU, and decided that as good an offer as it was, they couldn't picture 4yrs in Terre Haute.
Jules
Don't let anyone, ( including posters on Tripadvisor), convince you that taking a 30 min. train ride south out of Dublin Ireland to Killiney Bay in search of Bono's home is a not to be missed and "oh so scenic" trip into the Irish countryside. IT'S NOT!!
Instead, ( depending on the side of the train you're sitting on), you either have a view of the Irish Sea or buildings, i.e. projects full of Irish graffiti. along with a lot of scruffy teenagers.
After a night of pub-crawling neither of us were really up for sightseeing but I hated to waste a day, and remembered everyone talking about the train ride, so I thought that's something we can do and shouldn't be too hard on our ailing heads and tummies...So off we went...After about 5 stops he starts looking at me, like "Where's the scenery"??..."And let's get off and head back to the city"...But oh no!!...I was convinced we were about to hit beautiful Irish countryside and insisted on staying on that silly train for 90 more minutes..."Just one more stop, I'm sure we'll find it somewhere!!".
Anyway this did nothing for my travel planning cred, or our hangovers...If in Dublin, give it a miss!! ( And we didn't find Bono's house either).
Jules
Jules
In 2007 Terre Haute ranked 13th on the Review’s “More To Do On Campus (Than In Town)” poll.
And lest we forget, comedian Steve Martin got a boatload of complaints when he called Terre Haute "the most nowhere place in America."
Martin did visit Terre Haute in an attempt to give the city a second chance in 1979.
He said he was "really looking forward to the laundromat there. I hear it's the best in the nation."
"The last time I was here was on a one-night tour and frankly, I was a little bored," Martin conceded. "Maybe it still will be boring but I came with an open mind.
He passed such Terre Haute landmarks as the Highland Lawn Cemetery, the auto graveyard, the state Highway Department garage and the Pride City Auto Sales with a sign in the window that read, "Welcome Stan Martin".
At the modest Shuffle Inn, more than a hundred people crowded around the windows to peer in at Martin lunching with the mayor and two playboy bunnies.
Now get this folks, a chef from Maxims of Paris, a Chicago restaurant, was flown in to prepare the meal. They had to fly people in to keep Terre Haute from being boring!
ismile
Jules
McVeigh there. I ask how Tim get along.
He say, "The guards and inmates
give him the blues"