Someone asked me this today, and I thought it'd be interesting to see what responses would come out of the board here:
Out of places you have been, what is your absolute favorite place in the world, and why? ("want to go" or "wish I could go" places don't count)
I'll start... mine is the Basque country of Spain. It is beautiful, the people are friendly, and the food is amazing. Plus, it's where I went on my honeymoon. God forbid, if a doctor ever gives me 3 months to live, I'm going to hop on a plane and run out my clock in northern Spain.
Gunnison, Colorado. The scenery is wonderful, the local restaurants are good and it is just a wonderful place to be. I try to get out there every summer to participate in the Colorado Brass Band. Now if I could only convince my wife to leave North Dakota for the mountains of Colorado
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
Again, tough to choose one. While I live in a beautiful section of the U.S. (Oregon) I have two favorite places I have visited: Kauai and the Alentejo province of Portugal (both for context as well as content, as it were). This excludes one of my favorite places to visit, the redwoods of northern California.
The most beautiful spot I ever knew was the Silent Pool. Don't bother now though - the town over the hill drew down the water level in the aquifer that used to feed it; I went back for a visit, and all that's left is a mudhole surrounded by briars and stinging nettles.
There are so many beautiful places in the world, it's hard to choose a favorite. However, one of my favorites is the view from my living room window. I've been here 51 years and never tire of the sunsets. (By the way, this shot is zoomed. The Golden Gate Bridge is actually about thirteen miles from my home in the Berkeley hills, and ten miles from the Berkeley shoreline on San Francisco Bay.)
The ouside pool at the Grove Park Inn Spa in the snow followed by a sit in front of the great fireplace.
The organ balcony of Notre Dame Cathedral.
The front row balcony of Symphony Hall is Atlanta during a concert.
The back row of the Georgia Philharmonic during a concert.
I am fortunate to have a great job that feeds my family well, but music feeds my soul.
I have never been too adventurous as a traveler. I have time to travel some in the summer (HS Teacher) but have never really wanted to go anywhere. The area I am in (Olympic Peninsula of Washington State) is so pretty, I'm pretty satisfied with what I see... I like B.C.- especially Vancouver Island but, again, that is very much like where I live...
The Big Ben wrote:I have never been too adventurous as a traveler. I have time to travel some in the summer (HS Teacher) but have never really wanted to go anywhere. The area I am in (Olympic Peninsula of Washington State) is so pretty, I'm pretty satisfied with what I see... I like B.C.- especially Vancouver Island but, again, that is very much like where I live...
Maybe a cruise in SE Alaska....
Total opposite for my wife and me... there are very few places on Earth that I wouldn't want to see at least once!
Cloud forest region of Alta/Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. I was a Peace Corps volunteer there in the early 1980s. Heaven could look like that for me. Stays green all year, except when the trees bloom, then the mountains turn yellow. No dry season; the old folks start to worry about the end of the world if it doesn't rain for a week. But there is too much population pressure for it to be sustainable. Now there are more people and fewer trees. But I found my wife there. We may go back some day when we are through here. She doesn't like the cold weather we get here, much less where I'm from in northern Illinois.
Thanks Ace, a beautiful video indeed. Now I'm confused, maybe I should have said for my
favorite place Ouray in the spring. The wildflowers certainly don't take a back seat to the Aspens
in the fall.
Any place is made more beautiful when the people we love are in it. Because of that I have wonderful memories of several places but I'd narrow it down to a deserted beach on the west coast of Florida at this moment.
City Intonation Inspector - Dallas Texas "Holding the Bordognian Fabric of the Universe together through better pitch, one note at a time."
Practicing results in increased atmospheric CO2 thus causing global warming.
God forbid, if a doctor ever gives me 3 months to live, I'm going to hop on a plane and run out my clock in northern Spain.
