Visiting Colleges --- for kicks?

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<p>Talk about not having a dog in this fight – this guy has an unusual hobby!</p>

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<p>Not too much more unusual than us!! :)</p>

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<p>Been doing the same thing for 30 years or so. Never added them up but it’s in the 100’s.</p>

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<p>I noted that the visits only lasted about an hour. I think a lot of prospective applicants and their parents do not spend much more time on the campus visits.</p>

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<p>Is this guy saner or crazier than my friend who is intent on visiting every minor league baseball park as well as every single county in the US? He’s well on his way, too. I haven’t even visited all of the counties in the state where I grew up, the state where I lived in for 20 years, or the state I live in now…</p>

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<p>I’m the second generation for this particular quirk. My dad always enjoyed driving (not much for walking tours) around college campuses, and we’ve continued the tradition. I don’t even want to think about how many I’ve been onm by the geographic extremes are: U of Miami, McGill, U of Washington & USD.</p>

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<p>my extremes–Alaska-Fairbanks, SDSU, Maine/Bowdoin, and U Miami. Need to get to HI someday.</p>

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<p>Shoot, I KNEW there was something I forgot to do on that early '70s trip to Vietnam – I could have visited the Alaska-Fairbanks campus! On the other hand it WAS January …</p>

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<p>Extremes –</p>

<p>U of Virgin Islands (St. Croix)
U Alaska-Fairbanks
U of Hawaii-Hilo
Tulane
McGill
U of British Columbia</p>

<p>Probably more, but you know your old when…</p>

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<p>This reminds me of a story that caught my eye this spring.</p>

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<p>“The documentary chronicles the Texan’s eccentric mission: to visit every Starbucks on the planet.”</p>

<p>This caught my eye because my H and I just opened a (non- Starbucks) coffee shop after a lot of research and planning!</p>

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<p>Sounds fun and normally I would say power to you if thats what you enjoy. But this time I have to take into account all the fuel he used up for the rest of us is got to be driving up the energy shortage, rather than taking up some other past-time that does not required extensive personal travel.</p>