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    I start this Thread to find out what you have found in your travels

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    When we came across this place on the way to South Carolina for the first time in the 80s, it was a Big surprise!!

    The land of tacky crap!!

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    "I've stopped fighting my inner demons, we are on the same side now."

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    I've been to the house on the rocks
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    It was nice when my folks took me there in the 70's . Now I read that the place is not that well maintaned
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    Quote Originally Posted by luckydog View Post
    I've been to the house on the rocks
    I'm pretty sure that with the Global Warming / rising sea levels and the extremely fast rate of Coastal Erosion where I live, that give it 10 years and my own house will be on the rocks...literally

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    Quote Originally Posted by hanabi View Post
    I'm pretty sure that with the Global Warming / rising sea levels and the extremely fast rate of Coastal Erosion where I live, that give it 10 years and my own house will be on the rocks...literally

    My god that would be awful.
    Make sure the new extension is pointing inland.
    And may I take this opportunity to offer your pachi's a safe haven, In my games room about 70 miles from the sea

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    Quote Originally Posted by hanabi View Post
    I'm pretty sure that with the Global Warming / rising sea levels and the extremely fast rate of Coastal Erosion where I live, that give it 10 years and my own house will be on the rocks...literally

    Quote Originally Posted by derek1960 View Post
    My god that would be awful.
    Make sure the new extension is pointing inland.
    And may I take this opportunity to offer your pachi's a safe haven, In my games room about 70 miles from the sea
    Dont fall for that...

    she's all sad and grumbly now...

    but when she re sells her home as beach front property and the return on the investment is 10 to 1..



    oh never mind

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sid View Post
    Dont fall for that...

    she's all sad and grumbly now...

    but when she re sells her home as beach front property and the return on the investment is 10 to 1..



    oh never mind
    Sink or swim I don't care, I was just after the pichinkos

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    Quote Originally Posted by derek1960 View Post
    Sink or swim I don't care, I was just after the pichinkos
    The pachinkos are going nowhere!!

    None ever leave me!!

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    And now back to the thread already in progress
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    人生に必要なもの。それは勇気と想像力、そして少しのお金だ。

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