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We spent more time changing our plans. Cut a day off Hartford, CT from Albany, NY to drive back into Vermont to visit Kennington and then Robert Todd Lincoln's Hildene, both of which we found in pamphlets at local stops and not while doing Internet research.

p>I also tell my friends that if you want to really tour great spots in the South, forget Nashville and come down 20 miles south to Franklin, TN. I know, I live in Franklin! br> -- Greg Barnard /p> p> BAY BUCCANEER br> Re: The Prowler's Convention Wisdom : /p>

Please -- the name of the city is Tampa. Tampa Bay is a body of water. The local Babbitts and boosters caused this lamentable confusion by naming the local sports teams Tampa Bay This and Tampa Bay That so that folks from all the towns surrounding the bay would want to shell out for overpriced tickets to sporting events.

I hope you're right that the Republicans will hold their convention in New Orleans rather than Tampa. It would be a lot more fun for the people attending - lots more places to go and great food and music to enjoy in New Orleans between the times when the lowing mob is needed as cheering backdrop for the scripted platitudes and ham bone the convention's choreographers will come up with for TV consumption.

Against all reason, the Tampa Babbitts and boosters are droning on and drooling about all the great "exposure" the Republican convention would bring Tampa. (Have you noticed how Babbitts and boosters seem to be obsessed with exposing themselves?) Aside from having hordes of politicians and journalists underfoot for a week, lowering the moral and cultural tone of the city, I'm not sure the Babbitts and boosters would be happy with the "exposure" Tampa would get. It would surely include snippy columns by the likes of Maureen Dowd on what a hick town Tampa is. (It isn't any more hick than most places -- not that there's anything wrong with hick -- but she'll say it is because she won't be able to get a date here either.)

p>Next to not having a convention at all -- the intelligent choice, so don't hold your breath -- N'awlins is the best choice, cher.

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