Travel Bug Dog Tag WE ARE ... Penn State!

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Released:
Monday, July 4, 2011
Origin:
Pennsylvania, United States
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I would love to go to places that have either hosted Penn State games, or have a tie in to Penn State.

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    Tracking History (42183.5mi) View Map

    Discovered It 1/30/2020 DelicateFlower & Tim discovered it   Visit Log

    It was great meeting you at the ice cream event.
    Discovered It 1/23/2020 BanditBoy/HollyGirl discovered it   Visit Log

    Thanks for sharing at the ice cream social in Florida
    Visited 1/23/2020 IlliniKina took it to Questionable location (not!) Florida - 490.85 miles  Visit Log

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    Discovered It 1/23/2020 Zargonians discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered at an event in Gainesville. Thanks for sharing!
    Visited 1/18/2020 IlliniKina took it to Balls and Buds Florida - 8.15 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 1/1/2020 IlliniKina took it to The Snake Wall Florida - 89.22 miles  Visit Log

    Florida has 6 venomous snakes, and Pennsylvania has 3. The only one in common is the Timber Rattlesnake. This particular rest stop, the home of the "Snake Wall", has many signs warning about the possibility of venomous snakes being present, and it is in the southern range of the timber rattler, so there could be some around. The northern version has been seen on the New Kensington campus of Penn State, around their Nature Trail.

    Florida A & M University, or commonly known as FAMU, are the Rattlers. There was one game, in softball, between Penn State and FAMU last year. Penn State won 2-0

    • Looking SE towards larger part of Paynes Prairie Paynes Prairie is a large Florida State Park with I-75 running N-S through the western portion, and 441 running N-S slightly east of there. Many different species of wildlife live there--snakes among them.
    • Looking south over western Paynes Prairie Rest stop near Micanopy, FL, overlooking Paynes Prairie
    • Sign showing snake wall from above My favorite part is the "bunny bump" :D
    Visited 12/31/2019 IlliniKina took it to Library cache - Casselberry Florida - 511.52 miles  Visit Log

    We just got done with a road trip to Missouri, so what do we do? Drive to Orlando to pick up a table saw. I told my husband we had to take the time to get at least one cache, and one is all we had time for. This library cache wasn't too far from our destination, and I love library caches :)

    Penn State just finished an expansion of the Pattee and Paterno Libraries, called the Collaboration Commons and Central Atrium--what a mouthful! The area around the library looks like it's itching for a geocache ;)

    • We got some readin' to do! Hmm, reading->Reading RR->Pennsylvania RR->had a stop in State College :)
    Visited 12/23/2019 IlliniKina took it to Florida Welcome Center Florida - 170.9 miles  Visit Log

    Back in Florida, barely! This cache was at the Welcome Center on I-10 as you enter the state. I also needed this county, and the next one to the east, but it was getting late in the day. I settled for this one--Escambia County--and this cache near the "Blue Angel on a stick".

    The plane on display is a Grumman F-9 Cougar. The Blue Angels flew these from Winter 1954/55 to mid-season 1957 according to roadsideamerica.com.

    Chief of Naval Air Training Rear Adm. Greg Harris announced Cmdr. Todd Royles as the incoming executive officer of the 2020 Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels. And where did Cmdr. Royles graduate? You guessed it! Penn State!

    Congratulations Cmdr. Royles!

    • Welcome to Florida! In front of Blue Angels F-9 Cougar, FL Welcome Center, near Pensacola, FL
    Visited 12/23/2019 IlliniKina took it to Scooba Dooby Doo Mississippi - 103.26 miles  Visit Log

    Another quick png on our drive home. I really wanted to stop here though, since we just finished watching "Last Chance U" on Netflix. The first two seasons follow the East Mississippi Community College football team in Scooba, MS.

    In the second season, they gave a lot of screen time to Kam Carter. It was actually very frustrating watching his story unfold because he just didn't seem to care about anything. The bad news is he got kicked off the Penn State team. The worse news is after he left the JuCo program, he signed with Pitt ;) He wasn't there very long either, and finally turned his act around with the Duquesne Dukes, also in Pittsburgh.

    If you're ever in this area, Scooba itself doesn't seem to have any restaurants other than a Subway, but a little further south down the highway is Meridian, MS and there's this place called Weidmann's that is great!

    p.s. I was kicking myself for not pushing while in Missouri, and visiting Independence, KS. Seasons 3 and 4 were following the ICC football team. Would have been funny to go to both places on the trip :)

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    Visited 12/23/2019 IlliniKina took it to IF YOU HAVENT BEEN HERE, NOW IS THE TIME! Mississippi - 219.34 miles  Visit Log

    So this was just a quickie lpc to get the county on our drive home. It was in a Kohl's parking lot. Turns out Kohl's carries Penn State gear.

    :)

    • I am not affiliated with Kohl's
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