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Be careful doing that abroad. Some countries tie their traffic ticket system in with border control. You could find yourself denied permission to leave and sent back to wherever the incident happened to pay in person. a PITA if you were planning to drive across the border, a likely missed flight and new air ticket at a higher cost than the traffic one if by plane. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think this would be a great contest for any country that has sufficient snowfall and cold weather.
Concrete toboggan
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I've heard of concrete canoe competitions.
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Holmenkollen, the great ski jump in Oslo, Norway, the landingslope ends in a small lake. (You can see it at Holmenkollbakken - Wikipedia[^].) In summer, they sometime set up a jump at the bottom of the slope, and arrange acrobatic competitions for jumpers doing the landingslope on roller-skis, doing saltos and twists of all kinds, diving into the water.
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I have been there some years ago, fantastic 
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Turns out, you have to have money before it can be tested 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I tried to calculate how many gumballs my money would buy, but got a divide-by-zero error.
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Where do you get free gumballs?
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Did you find it taxing anyway?
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I once worked for a company named "Flunker", guess what: they went bankrupt 
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There's a trucking company here call Fluke[^] - their motto? "If it's on time it's a Fluke" 
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Yeah, saw the film "Cool hand fluke"
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That reminds me of the German airplane maker Junkers.
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I know them, they make fine boilers
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I once visited a "Flugausstellung" museum near Trier in Germany, they had a lot of interesting planes, among which a Ju 52. Sadly there were only parts left of the notorious Stuka, it seems no Stuka's survived WWII.
Nevertheless I can recommend the museum: Flugausstellung Junior 2017[^]
[Edit] Two intact Ju 87s survive, see: Junkers Ju 87 - Wikipedia[^]
modified 29-Jan-18 14:40pm.
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For everyone in the midwest (of the US) I highly recommend a drive to Dayton, OH and a multi-day visit to the National Museum of the USAF[^] at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Pretty freaking cool!
I nearly wet myself when I got to walk up to the Lockheed SR-71A[^]
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IIRC, there is an SR-71 at the Smithsonian Museum near Dulles Airport. I was once on a very long trip abroad, and I allowed myself to get bumped a day for 400 EUR CASH  , so I had a few hours to kill, and the nearby museum fit the bill wonderfully.
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Isn't the Enterprise still out there somewhere around Dulles?
FWIW there's also an SR-71 at the Evergreen Aviation Museum[^].. for those on the left coast.
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According to this link[^], there are SR-71 planes at the following locations:
Alabama:
A-12 #06930 - On display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL.
A-12 #06937 - On display at the Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL.
A-12 #06938 - On display at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
Arizona:
SR-71A #17951 - On display at the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ.
California:
A-12 #06924 - On display at the Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, CA.
A-12 #06927 - On display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, CA.
A-12 #06933 - On display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum, in San Diego, CA.
SR-71A #17955 - On display at the AFFTC Museum, Edwards AFB, CA.
SR-71A #17960 - On display at the Castle Air Museum near Atwater, CA.
SR-71A #17963 - On display at Beale AFB, CA.
SR-71A #17973 - On display at the Blackbird Airpark, Palmdale, CA.
SR-71A #17975 - On display at the March Field Museum, March AFB, CA.
SR-71A #17980 - On display at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center as #844.
Florida:
SR-71A #17959 - On display at the USAF Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, FL.
Georgia:
SR-71A #17958 - On display at the Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, GA.
Kansas:
SR-71A #17961 - On display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS.
Louisiana:
SR-71A #17967 - On display at the 8th Air Force Museum, Barksdale AFB, LA.
Michigan:
SR-71B #17956 - On display at the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in Kalamazoo, MI.
Minnesota:
A-12 #06931 - On display at the Minnesota Air National Guard Museum, MN.
Nebraska:
SR-71A #17964 - On display at the Strategic Air and Space Museum, near Ashland, NE.
New York:
A-12 #06925 - On display at USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in the New York City Harbor.
Ohio:
YF-12A #06935 - On display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
SR-71A #17976 - On display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
Oregon:
SR-71A #17971 - On display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OR.
Texas:
SR-71A #17979 - On display at the USAF History and Traditions Museum, Lackland AFB, TX.
Utah:
SR-71C #17981 - On display at the Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, UT.
Virginia:
SR-71A #17968 - On display at the Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond, VA.
SR-71A #17972 - On display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
Washington:
M-21 #06940 - On display at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA.
United Kingdom:
SR-71A #17962 - On display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England.
I've seen the one in Nebraska, which was very interesting. Also a B-1 bomber at the same location. I spent 3 hours there, could have spent a day or more.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I now have a blot on my record.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If I squint it looks like an A.
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Forgot to sign the paper. 
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