"The Renaissance Festival" just south of Minneapolis is a blast. Where else do you get to throw soft, raw tomatoes at a "Ramlick" type barker. There is plenty of live entertainment, hot turkey legs, ale, magicians, and vicious insults. Good family fun. I recommend.
The most wonderful thing I ever did on vacation was in County Sligo, Ireland. On a really gorgeous Sunday morning in March, I took a nice stroll up Knocknarea to Misgaun Medb, and sat on top of the cairn for about an hour and a half, watching the sheep and the clouds and the bees.
It was a very special day.
If you ever try it, and the path is washed out a bit, follow the sheep. They know where they are going.
Purple Haze I laughed with you, felt one of those soft tomatoes, took aim and saw the expression on the barker's face as he laughed as it struck him on the side. CreamyLady, I see the trail, the peaceful pastures, the lushness of the isle, and the sheep working their way up the path. Thanks.
Go to Pamplona, Spain and run with the bulls. I go to Spain often, and a Spanish girlfriend of mine talked me into running. It is really exciting and dangerous.
I learned to become "hip" and clued in thanks to my really really experienced mentor Purple Haze. His sarcasm rubbed off on me and now I get to be a smart ass just like him and hang with the rest of the Ass-tray gang. Just for the record Purple Haze...you wouldn't be sportin' a ball cap, goatee, or earring now would you? Honda civic with big honkin tailpipe? repetitious no-brainer boom boom boom stereo? Grateful dead stickers perhaps?....or are you a non-trendy dumb ass?
Perhaps living up to my handle today coaster..
but I imagine you.. I mean being a coaster and all..you must get around from table to table. Tell me then.. how can a poor clueless one like me finally clue in and fit in?
Now let's see.
10 years ago in Canada. Rock climbing, that was cool.
8 years ago, windsurfing in Thailand.
6 years ago, trecking in the Malaysian jungle, and drinking a singapore sling in Singapore.
4 years ago, attending the annual beer festival in Munich, Germany.
3 years ago. Bungy Jumping from a bridge in France.
Last year, backpacking in France.
This year, skating San Diego and finally succeding a darkslide.
For you who knows what that is, you know how difficult that trick is.