This is my first time replying to a salon post, so hi everyone. I'm hobbitbabe, and I like to talk and listen and think. I aspire to do them in the reverse order but don't always succeed.

The awesome places that come to my mind are mostly in Canada, because I've travelled more in Canada than in the US and abroad.

Moosonee and Moose Factory are awesome partly because they're not accessible by road, so they feel remote even though they aren't objectively very far north. I stayed there for three days, doing excursions with a local tour company which unfortunately isn't currently operating. My favourite thing was the afternoon that I took a canoe-taxi to the sandbar in the river where I'd seen local kids swimming, and I swam in the brackish (partly-salt) tannin-coloured warm tidal water of the Moose River. After I dried off and relaxed on the sandbar for a while, I realised I had no plan for how to hail a canoe-taxi to get back to my lodge in town. But eventually a canoe-taxi that wasn't full came by, and I waved not-too-desperately, and I went home very pleased with my initiative.

I also think that Bruges (Belgium) is awesome, and Yellowknife, and Edmonton.