HopeHoops
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Sun Nov-13-11 02:05 PM
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If you had one last place to visit before you died, where would it be? |
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Me? Eight miles deep in the Allegheney National Forest near Kane, PA where my wife and I spent a week, quite alone, on our honeymoon in 1987.
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Sun Nov-13-11 02:11 PM
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1. Same kind of response from me |
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I just got back from my honeymoon on Tybee Island, Georgia and that's exactly where I'd want to spend my last day along with my wife. We had a very good time there and it's something that we will always remember.
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Sun Nov-13-11 02:14 PM
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2. We did really well alone out there except for one evening... |
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We decided to hike out about a mile on the ridge to watch the sunset. It was REALLY fucking beautiful. Um, woods are dark way out in the middle of nowhere. Like REALLY dark. We followed the edge of the ferns (the only grew at the peak of the ridge, at least in quantity), and scanned for the tent with the flashlight. The tent was green and tan - good choice, eh?
Fortunately, I had anticipated the possibility of getting misplaced while taking a dump or something and had aluminum pie tins hanging from each of the four corners of our camp site. I finally spotted one with the flashlight. Oh, did I mention that we were stoned all to Jesus at the time?
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Sun Nov-13-11 05:54 PM
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12. That's EXCELLENT to hear. You LOOKED like you were having one... |
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. . . . ... and if ever any two people deserved that... . . . . . NOW... try to maintain the level of joy you had for and with each other through that honeymoon. "Real" life won't be as loving or sweet as that "break" from it was -- but the two of you are still the exact same two people who were there. . . . Jen and Tobin Sittin' on Tybee K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!! . . . "Oh, honey... LISTEN!!! MFM's singing our song. . . .
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Sun Nov-13-11 06:33 PM
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13. Best wishes to you both! |
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I liked Tybee Have only been there once, back just before Christmas in 1997 Stayed at a beach house owned by the mother of a friend in Florida Toured around Savannah and visited with my cousin who is an attorney and knew a lot of the people in The Book He and I are both originally from Oklahoma Went to The Breakfast Club on Tybee and another place there for dinner, think it was called Harbor House or something like that One of the best dinners ever Got a parking ticket while we were down on the beach taking pictures I wish we had gone back before we moved to Texas
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Sun Nov-13-11 08:25 PM
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18. congratulations my friend!! |
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Sun Nov-13-11 02:17 PM
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3. The Life Extension Foundation |
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Sun Nov-13-11 02:18 PM
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4. Cute answer though - they've got that fountain in the middle of the building, right? |
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Sun Nov-13-11 02:52 PM
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7. Wouldn't matter where...just someplace beautiful with the people I loved. |
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Sun Nov-13-11 03:09 PM
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maybe they could extend the time before I died and allow me the chance to see more places
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Sun Nov-13-11 03:26 PM
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9. I've seen some amazing places. But I'd have to go with someplace I hadn't seen yet. |
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Edited on Sun Nov-13-11 03:44 PM by GoCubsGo
I know it's a pretty broad, but there are too many places I want to visit there, and it would be too difficult for me to decide just one. My top two are Machu Pichu and the Galapagos Islands. I would love to visit the Patagonia, the cloud forests of Ecuador, and the Amazon, too. And, while I was in Chile, I'd swim a lap in this pool: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-509718/Try-making-splash-worlds-largest-swimming-pool--1-000-yards-long.html
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Mon Nov-14-11 01:41 AM
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21. I went to Machu Picchu in 1970. We explored the ruins by |
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candle light and slept in one of the restored thatched stone houses. It's an experience that I'll never forget. No doubt, it would not be possible today to do what we did. We were there at just the right time.
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Sun Nov-13-11 04:06 PM
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11. I'd want to revisit La Sainte Chappelle in Paris... |
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It is almost entirely out of stained glass, and it is incredibly beautiful...
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Sun Nov-13-11 06:58 PM
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14. Stonehenge... at sunrise |
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Mon Nov-14-11 12:10 PM
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23. stonehenge is so cool |
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as we were driving up, i remember the tour telling us that some people are disappointed that it isn't bigger :wtf:
i was there a few days after the summer solstice and we passed a gypsy train headed out. that was pretty neat, too.
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Sun Nov-13-11 07:04 PM
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15. Any of the beaches along the California "Gold Coast'...prob near... |
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Santa Barbara... That's where we took old Thelma Lou just before and where we'll take Tikki Marie. Maybe walk the path they walked among the rocks and sand.. smell and feel the ocean air.
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Sun Nov-13-11 07:13 PM
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16. A small nook, in the middle of nowhere. |
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Between Dr Coss, NL, Mexico, and. Mier. A small waterfall I know, two hours drive from Reynosa, then two hours more by dirt road, and a final hour by motor boat, up river.
A place surrounded by ahuehuetes, the majestic trees called the old men of the river. There is a small waterfall. Pristine clear waters, among the rocks, and a small cave underneath the waterfall where the water is translucent, and small fish can be scooped up with your bare hands.
I was there, once, with the woman who I have loved for the past forty years. I was happy then.
I want to remember that place one more time, before I die.
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Sun Nov-13-11 07:52 PM
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Have to think about where, and which view!
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Sun Nov-13-11 10:43 PM
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19. Alaska or Australia. n/t |
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Sun Nov-13-11 11:00 PM
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20. My homes in Russia. I was young and awesome there. |
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Mon Nov-14-11 11:53 AM
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22. South Africa was on my bucket list. |
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But I just returned from there. So I'd better think of some place else just to stay alive. :)
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Mon Nov-14-11 01:08 PM
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24. Limbaugh's grave site |
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Ideally right after consuming copious quantities of beer and before visiting the rest room.
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1) Na Pali Coast, Island of Kauai, Hawaii
2) Mt. Kathadin Maine after ascending The Knife Edge Trail
3) Glacier Point in Yosemite NP
4) Angels Landing Trail Zion NP
5) The Baths, BVI
5) My own backyard, sitting under the Pin Oak
Under the Pin Oak :)
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Mon Nov-14-11 07:52 PM
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27. Aitutaki, Cook Islands |
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Mon Nov-14-11 09:31 PM
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29. Ama Dablam, preferably the summit, but just a view would do. |
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Tue Nov-15-11 05:48 AM
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30. Angeles Crest Highway - Los Angeles County. |
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and be wel l enough to really experience it in all it's glory. San Francisco is my second choice-and much more a possibility.
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Tue Nov-15-11 12:39 PM
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I'd have lived out my lifespan by the time I got there, anyway. :P
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Seen em when I was a kid and it was magical. I'm saving to take my son there in the next few years.
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