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T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends

If anyone ever wanted to become the owner of some tourist cabins, Columbia Cabins in Columbia, NH, (Miss Teresa knows...

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #1 from Dave Weingart

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:33:07 -0500

It'd be tempting if they weren't so far out of the way of the rest of my life. That's a beautiful area.

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Posted December 16, 2010 4:33 PM by Dave Weingart

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #2 from Jon Baker

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:48:00 -0500

The one review at the link above tells me that the cabins will need a LOT of work to make them an attractive hostelry.

-100 stars, filthy, power comes from a generator which works badly, etc.

The Grand Hotel it's not, but then, odds are it won't have children writing REDRUM on the walls either.

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Posted December 16, 2010 4:48 PM by Jon Baker

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #3 from James D. Macdonald

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:36:02 -0500

I see those reviews were from October 2009 and February 2010. Yeah. That was during the period after the owner (who Teresa met) died, when the place was in free-fall before landing in the town's lap.

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Posted December 16, 2010 8:36 PM by James D. Macdonald

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #4 from David Harmon

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:45:43 -0500

It sounds like Google really doesn't know its way around those parts....

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Posted December 16, 2010 8:45 PM by David Harmon

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #5 from James D. Macdonald

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:16:35 -0500

They really don't. Nor do the GPS navigator makers.

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Posted December 16, 2010 9:16 PM by James D. Macdonald

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #6 from Jeremy Leader

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:37:56 -0500

I was going to comment that it seems like a bad idea to invest in a vacation destination that's so hard to find on any modern technical navigation aid, but then I read how popular the cabins were, and I realized that such obscurity is probably going to become a stronger and stronger selling point for vacation destinations.

"Come stay at the South Pole Resort! It's off the edge of Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=90.0S+0W&mrt=loc&sll=-85.05114,-174.538872&sspn=0.000197,0.003235&ie=UTF8&ll=-89.189685,0&spn=11.036716,63.984375&t=h&z=2)".

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Posted December 17, 2010 1:37 PM by Jeremy Leader

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #7 from David Harmon

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:49:14 -0500

Jeremy Leader #6: "... Enjoy our world-famous collection of frozen desserts! Also frozen salads, frozen soups, and frozen entrees!"

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Posted December 17, 2010 1:49 PM by David Harmon

T Is For The Tourist Cabin Weekends -- comment #8 from Tom Whitmore

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:20:07 -0500

Jeremy Leader and David Harmon @6 and 7: and you can visit 24 time zones in seconds!

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Posted December 17, 2010 2:20 PM by Tom Whitmore