Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:

 EH>> I keep seeing those California dairy commercials about happy cows with
 EH>> green rolling pastures and wonder where those are. All I've seen along
 EH>> I-5 are brown flat fields. :-)

 MG> That's because they're farther inland along 99.  :) What I want to know
 MG> is where the citrus groves have gone? There used to be miles of orange
 MG> and lemon groves on both sides of I5, but the only place I've seen them
 MG> in I can't remember how long is in the really awesome ride at DCA called
 MG> Soaring over California.

I remember those citrus groves. They went on for miles. I guess that with
technology advances in growing such crops they are able to harvest more
from less acreage.

 MG> IMO that on ride alone is worth the price of admission.

There is a similar I-Max type video "ride" for Washington. They
had it at the Seattle Science center for a while and it has made
appearances at the various state fairs and theme parks.

 MG> It's like an IMAX except more real. You enter the room and
 MG> get in this contraption that lifts you off the ground while the movie
 MG> plays scenes from all over California.

The one for Washington doesn't have the lifts. You just sit down in a seat.

 MG> It feels like hang gliding (or so
 MG> I've been told, I've never actually been hang gliding), I love that ride
 MG> it's so realistic, when you're flying over the citrus groves you can
 MG> smell oranges, over Big Sur you can smell the ocean. :)

It's amazing how realistic they can make the experience getting your other
senses involved.

Ed

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