Your Favorite Place To Visit

[moe smith]

Also like Beaver Island MI, A great place to get away and enjoy the quiet life. Nice people and very laid back attitude, travel around the island, see lake Michigan every turn. I spent a month there one week, the most relaxing vacation I can remember. Time just seemed to slow down for a change, instead of flying by.

Stoney's still there? Good food/drinks.

 

[TheHobbyist]

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness..." - Mark Twain

There are so many places in the world I would love to see. My favorite that I have traveled to so far would be South Dakota. Travelling internationally, I have gone to a few countries, but have a whole lot more on the wish list. There is so much to learn and do in life.

 

[sipowicz]

As I get older....the bathroom.

 

[TheHobbyist]

^^^^Well said Sip, well said.

 

[walkin jack]

Walkin' Jack, you are one hell of a writer. You made me feel and smell salt water.

Well not really. It's just that this has been the life I have loved and the heart of my joy for living for 65 years. I've had all that time to dwell on this passion and try to understand where it comes from.

I once wrote that the surf was like a love. She could be gentle and allow you to fill your stringer, rejuvenate your spirit and fill you with love with the fragrant salt air in your nostrils and her cool water on your skin. Or like an angry lover deny you that which you need from her and try to take your life with wave and current. You never knew which it would be. for the times she loved me I thanked her. For the times she would have taken my life I forgave her and promised to return.

I never really wanted to drown but I was always aware of the symmetry, the poetic justice of dying in the arms of my beloved surf. Had some close calls over the years but nothing to make me fear my lover. I guess that after all I trusted her with my life and never really believe she'd hurt me.

Many's the night I've sat in front of my tent flap with the smell of fresh fish on my hands with a glass of Crown Royal and a good cigar under a starry sky with a full moon, a gentle off- shore breeze rippling my wind sock, leaning back in my beach recliner knowing that if I reached out my hand that I could touch God.

So if I seem like I'm able to express all this well it's only because I've lived it so long and it is such part of who and what I am that to me it's like reciting the alphabet.

Not to put too fine a point on it but if anything were ever to happen to Miss Pam I am sure that I'll wind up living on some beach in Mexico for the rest of my life. I've spent a few happy hours on various Mexican beaches too and there's worse places to finish out ones days.

 

[mike from st pete]

Can I pick two?

Cedar Key FL the drinking village with a fishing problem. Or is it the other way around?
Blue Ridge Mountains anywhere from North Georgia to Virginia.

One in the Summer one in the Winter.

 

[mtgianni]

Anywhere would be Italy, we will go back someday. In the US I love to camp at an unnamed lake in Western MT 5 miles w of the continental divide. Full of grayling and not many people.

 

[medxam]

Charleston, SC. The place where I was educated!

 

[usm1rifle]

Key West, Florida or the island of St. Lucia.

 

[black1970]

Russell's Beef House
Corinth, MS

 

[radar1972]

Any beach in Florida.

Magen's Bay, St. Thomas, USVI

 

[sheepdawg]

Sitting on the deck at dawn. Tims Ford Tennessee.

 

[Maze 686]

Long Boat Key, Fla.
Bath, England
Gelnhausen, Germany
Nashville, Tenn.

 

[1morethan8]

Anywhere that I don't have to be near a phone.

Not to worry.. it won't ring here!

And this is NOT a telephone pole!

 

[Rangerpat]

The Ice Bar on the side of a mountain in Crested Butte, Colorado in the month of January.

 

[Marshwheeling]

The Moon Bar

 

[Wyo]

We have a number of national parks nearby - Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain, etc. - and they're spectacular, but the area we really enjoy is the Blue Ridge country of western and southern Virginia. Love the scenery, the greenery, and the wineries!

 

[whitestang]

Starved Rock State Park near Utica IL. The trails are great and there are several small water falls. Illinois RailRoad Museum near Union IL , certain days you can ride on some of the trains.

 

[tops]

I have been in 40 some of the 48 States and enjoyed all of them, had great times and glad I took the trips but the best looking thing I saw on all of my trips was my house when I got back home. Larry

 

[captorquewrench]

I'm still looking for my favorite place. In the meantime, I'll take the hammock in the back yard or a blanket on the grass anywhere peaceful.