Who's been to Butternuts, New York?

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[In_The_Wind]

1. I have visited Climax NY several times,

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2. Stay long?

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3. It's a long way from Intercourse to Climax.

Also what is the distance from Dickshooter, ID, to Wankers Corner, OR?

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5. It depends on how long it is between trips.

[Phentex]

4. I think Cumming and Ball Ground sound more lewd than Butts...

Ah, Georgia...

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6. Miccoskee. What's with Florida?

[pinboy3niner]

8. Um...u dropped a letter

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9. I didn't want to be suggestive.

[csziggy]

11. It's an Indian name - there is also a Lake Miccosukee just down the road from the town

Not that the "town is much - a crossroads with one store and a few houses. There used to be three stores - Ulm's Store was the big one in a building that was very old. The family built a newer standard convenience store with gas pumps across the street and tore down the original a few years later.

Here is a picture of the third store:

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/131135

I think this is the same building in 1928:

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33850

Here is the post office - which has been closed for about twenty years:

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/271047

I live roughly halfway between Miccosukee and Tallahassee.

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12. Do you know what it means?

It looks like the kind of place I'd get off the road for to get a Coke.

[csziggy]

13. No, though there are claims its from a Spanish phrase

Etymology

The etymology of the Miccosukee tribal name have been debated for many years. While the origins have not been fully documented, modern scholarship holds that the name originated among the first Spanish colonizers to reach the North Carolina Basin. In one of the few surviving journals of Juan Ponce de León, he records that his men called the natives they encountered there in the early 16th century micos sucios. This is likely the earliest recorded version of the name that became "Miccosukee."[14] He describes the origin of the name:

When we arrived on the shores of the Northern islands we encountered an odd group of natives. They lead us to their village where they lived in hollow'd mounds and were fully covered in mud and refuse. My lieutenant, [Diaz de la Torre y Gonzaga-Palacios] exclaimed 'Son como micos sucios' (they are like dirty monkeys). From thence forth, until we departed those cold shores, Mico Sucio was the means by which we referred to these happy natives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miccosukee#Etymology

There is not much to the town and it it off the beaten path. The lake is nice and you can rent canoes- though there are alligators nearly as long as the canoes.

To get there, get off I-10 at Lloyd, Florida - you might want to see the small town of Lloyd south of that intersection - though it's no bigger than Miccosukee it does have a historic railroad building. Then take 59 north, follow it's jog on US 90 and keep north on 59 to Miccosukee. At the blinking light in town, turn right, then left at the end of the road, then right at the first road to get to the lake.

If you take the road between the town and Tallahassee be sure to stop at Bradley's Country Store and get a sausage sandwich. They have been smoking their own sausages sicne the 1930s and are a Historic Landmark: https://www.bradleyscountrystore.com/

Another place on the way into Tallahassee is the Bradfordville Blues Club: http://www.bradfordvilleblues.com/

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14. How interesting.

You might appreciate how Venezuela got its name.

According to the most popular and accepted version, in 1499, an expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda visited the Venezuelan coast. The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, so he named the region Veneziola. The name acquired its current spelling as a result of Spanish influence,[36] where the suffix -uela is used as a diminutive term (e.g., plaza / plazuela, cazo / cazuela); thus, the term's original sense would have been that of a "little Venice". The German language 16th century-term for the area, Klein-Venedig, also means little Venice (literally "small Venice&quot .

However, Martín Fernández de Enciso, a member of the Vespucci and Ojeda crew, gave a different account. In his work Summa de geografía, he states that they found indigenous people who called themselves the Veneciuela. Thus, the name "Venezuela" may have evolved from the native word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela#Etymology

[OriginalGeek]

7. I live right down the street from Kissimmee, FL

The Astros used to have a minor league team there.

It was fun to say we're going to a Kissimmee Astros game.

[haele]

10. I've been to Humptulips...

Just another Roadside Attraction...

(Actually, the wild huckleberry patches and blackberry thickets just beyond the ditches alongside the road make some of the best pies and scones in the late summer/early fall...mmmm, Equinox treats!)

Haele

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. Being a PA native, I've vacationed a few times in Intercourse...

...which is just down the road from Bird in Hand. Now my favorite area is a bit South of there and named Paradise. I've been to Blue Ball as well but wasn't impressed.

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16. Did you enjoy going in the town better than going out?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

18. It wasn't Paradise but it was close