The AH Travelogue Thread

[uneven]

Right.

Tell me two things: First, a place you want to go, be it Hell, Disneyland (oops, same thing), or the late Weimar Republic. Second, ummm, why. Add Bonus Points, if there are any.

Link us there, if you can, because we are, all of us, too damn nosy.

Example:

http://www.wolfram.com/news/images/trinitysite-lg.jpg

Where: Trinity Site, near Alamogordo, NM, where the first atomic bomb was detonated.

Why: Why? Because I'm perverse, I suppose. It's like the fucking Birthplace of Dread. And because I love Donne.

Plus, I want to see some trinitite, if there's any left.

Bonus Points: There's a Sonic Drive-In in Alamogordo, Bucky. You can slurp a Limeade for Learning while waiting to view Where The World Ended, or Started To.

 

[McKenna]

I want to climb to the top of Cloud Peak (13167 ft / 4013 m) in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming.

http://www.bighornmountains.com/photo-gallery/photos/Jul21105c.jpg

Why? I grew up watching that peak in all its moods, seasons, and breathtaking beauty. Besides, there's a geocache there I haven't gotten yet.

 

[trysail]

Ever since I read Evan Connell's Son of The Morning Star ( San Francisco, 1984 ), I've had a hankering to see the Little Bighorn site. That

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Little_bighorn_cemetary_overview.jpg​

desire has been reinforced and strengthened by every book I've read since then that's touched on the subject from Steven Ambrose's Crazy Horse and Custer ( New York, 1976) to Robert M. Utley's The Lance and The Shield ( New York, 1993 ).

http://www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm

http://www.nps.gov/PWR/customcf/app...=Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Horn_Battlefield

I'll get there one of these days.

 

[McKenna]

Plus, I want to see some trinitite, if there's any left.

It's kinda pretty, though I wouldn't want a necklace made of it. Radioactive, baby!

 

[McKenna]

Ever since I read Evan Connell's Son of The Morning Star ( San Francisco, 1984 ), I've had a hankering to see the Little Bighorn site.

It's beautiful (the area), and definitely Big Sky country. There are several battlefields in the area you can catch along the way which may be of interest (along I90, near Sheridan, Wyoming).

 

[uneven]

Ever since I read Evan Connell's Son of The Morning Star ( San Francisco, 1984 ), I've had a hankering to see the Little Bighorn site. That

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Little_bighorn_cemetary_overview.jpg​

desire has been reinforced and strengthened by every book I've read since then that's touched on the subject from Steven Ambrose's Crazy Horse and Custer ( New York, 1976) to Robert M. Utley's The Lance and The Shield ( New York, 1993 ).

http://www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm

http://www.nps.gov/PWR/customcf/app...=Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Horn_Battlefield

I'll get there one of these days.

Interesting picture. I've not been there (yet), but I guess I didn't realize the highway runs so close to the site. Kind of what I felt when I first saw Stonehenge:

http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/Photos/StonehengeAir.jpg

I guess in the modern world, nothing is ever that far away from a road. Kind of a pity, actually.

 

[uneven]

I want to climb to the top of Cloud Peak (13167 ft / 4013 m) in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming.

http://www.bighornmountains.com/photo-gallery/photos/Jul21105c.jpg

Why? I grew up watching that peak in all its moods, seasons, and breathtaking beauty. Besides, there's a geocache there I haven't gotten yet.

My wife would love that. In fact, she's off hiking right now, though not in Wyoming. I agree with her that the views are wonderful. We disagree about how much effort should be expended to get there.

Ah, love.

I have a friend who's into geocaching, as well. Interesting concept.

 

[uneven]

It's kinda pretty, though I wouldn't want a necklace made of it. Radioactive, baby!

Just means it's hot--really hot.

And, perhaps, only for special occasions.

 

[Freefall_mc]

Geocache...great idea, though, never done it.

Machu Picchu
love cultural studies
and in that terrain!

www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/sites/machu_picchu.html

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, UTAH.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/Jenny_Jackson/ScreenShot356.jpg


Always wanted to go there in th e summer when it's 110 deg F and no one else is dumb enough to be there.

 

[sadangel]

I want to go to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I went there at age 17, on our Senior Class trip. We went to a cool little place, that sadly is no more..."The Organ Grinder" and had a blast.

We saw the (CN Tower)

But we never did get to see the (Royal Ontario Museum)

Or the (Casa Loma)

And we didn't see this either: (The Art Gallery of Onario which was established in 1900)

The reason I want to go there? Because my Sir is there.

Bonus points.
First Bonus point: Toronto has one of seven Peter Pan statues that were cast by a mould by sculptor George Frampton. Peter Pan is playing a set of pipes.

Second bonus point: Toronto and Amsterdam, Holland are "twin Sister Cities" There is a park in Toronto known as Amsterdam Square. It was established in the 1920's but did not get it's name until around 1974, when Amsterdam and Toronto became "twin Cities"

Third Bonus point: In Toronto, there is a park known as the "Glenn Gould Park", recently been named in honour of the internationally famous Glenn Gould. www.glenngould.com . Mr Gould lived nearby in an apartment at 110 St Clair Ave. W. In this park is an copy of the well known statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London England, www.britannia.com/history/londonhistory installed by the College Heights Association in 1929. Donald Jones has written about both sculptures in "Fifty Tales of Toronto."

Fourth Bonus Point: The historic Distillery District, located on the eastern edge of downtown, is North America's largest and best preserved collection of Victorian era industrial architecture. It has been redeveloped into a pedestrian-oriented arts, culture and entertainment neighbourhood.

And here is one more photo. I just had to put it in.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Toronto_at_night.jpg/800px-Toronto_at_night.jpg

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Everest Base Camp, southern (Nepal) side, just at the start of the Western Cwm.

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Just a long-standing dream. See where Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay first summitted, stare down into the glacier field that separates base camp from the actual climb.

I'm lucky enough to have gone on many of my 'dream trips', but this one has been at the top of my list for years.

Someday...

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Vegas, baby! Vegas!

Why? Because I am a poker player, and that is our mecca.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Vegas, baby! Vegas!

Why? Because I am a poker player, and that is our mecca.

And for the hookers, I bet. Sorry Thee. It's illegal inside the city.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

And for the hookers, I bet. Sorry Thee. It's illegal inside the city.

The last time I was there I had offers to go to the Bunny Ranch, or pick up hookers, or whatever, and I turned them all down.

I finally got laid the day after I got back by a woman making a drunken mistake.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The last time I was there I had offers to go to the Bunny Ranch, or pick up hookers, or whatever, and I turned them all down.

I finally got laid the day after I got back by a woman making a drunken mistake.

Sometime I'll tell you the story of the DEAF CONVENTION at the Raddison Hotel in Chicago

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

There are many places I would like to visit, but the Cafe Medicis in Paris is one stop I should dearly like to make. It is where Hemingway was fond of going when he lived there.

http://cafemedicis.com/

Also, I want to visit the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.

http://www.parisdigest.com/takingarest/jardindu.htm

My reasons for wanting to visit these places are perhaps best described by Hemingway himself....

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." --Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

 

[rgraham666]

I want to visit Russia. More importantly I want to tour WWII battle sites, places like Smolensk, Stalingrad and Kursk.

What can I say? I'm a WWII history buff and that was a huge part of it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Oh, Boy.
It would be some list:

The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt,
because the causeway is still there after 3000 odd years.

Goose Green, Falkland Islands;
because we left a lot of blokes there.

Kursk
where the biggest tank battle took place

Christmas Island
to see what's left after the Nukes finished.

Route 66
the old one. because I grew up with that song.

Davis Monthan AFB.
to see all those airplanes in the desert.

and that's only the ones I can think of now.

 

[Teloz]

http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/Photos/StonehengeAir.jpg

I guess in the modern world, nothing is ever that far away from a road. Kind of a pity, actually.

There was talk at one time of running the road past Stonehenge in a tunnel, but of course it was too expensive in the end.

Where would I like to go? The Isles and the west coast of Scotland, it's the only place in the UK I haven't been. I'd like to do it in a ginormous American RV and take my time over it.

 

[sr71plt]

Great pics and enticing locales. If I had any notion how to post a picture, mine would probably be the quay of harbor castle town of Kyrenia, on the the northern Cypriot coast at night--with the Kyrenia mountains in the background.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

And for the hookers, I bet. Sorry Thee. It's illegal inside the city.

Thank God someone mentioned hookers. I want to take a sex holiday to Prague and buy a harem of manwhores.
I'd post pictures, but I think it speaks for itself.

ETA: Oh, and sometime I will tell you about the BLIND CONVENTION in the hotel where I used to work.

 

[TxRad]

Oh, Boy.
It would be some list:

The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt,
because the causeway is still there after 3000 odd years.

Goose Green, Falkland Islands;
because we left a lot of blokes there.

Kursk
where the biggest tank battle took place

Christmas Island
to see what's left after the Nukes finished.

Route 66
the old one. because I grew up with that song.

Davis Monthan AFB.
to see all those airplanes in the desert.

and that's only the ones I can think of now.

Route 66 might be a problem as Interstate 40 buried most of it. Bits and pieces still remain but nothing like of old.

 

[Austin8]

http://www.get-athike.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/atmap.gif

The Appalachian Trail, one of these days, I'll do it!

 

[Handley_Page]

There was talk at one time of running the road past Stonehenge in a tunnel, but of course it was too expensive in the end.

But they DID run the road lower so, from the stones,, you cannot see the Car Park.