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Tenth salon: Interesting places
Welcome to our tenth discussion thread. Wander in, invite a friend to come along, and chat! (Not sure what's going on? Here, have a brief FAQ.) You can find previous ones in my salon tag. Please take a quick look at the reminders at the bottom of this post, too.
Since I am about to go on vacation, you are about to get two weeks of vacation related questions out of me. The first, today, is "Talk about somewhere awesome you've been" (which could be the place you live, or somewhere you've visited, or hey, because we're flexible about reality around here, a fictional world that you willingly get lost in over and over again.) Why is it awesome, what makes it fascinating to you, and what would you tell other people to pay attention to?
(A brief note that I am busily making computers behave like good little computers today, and then have that 'I should do laundry so I can pack' thing tonight, so I may be slower to pick up on threads than usual, but I'll be in and out.)
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- The FAQ still has useful stuff, and I added some thoughts about getting conversations going a few weeks ago.
- Comments tend to trickle in over the course of a day or two, with a few nearly a week later: you might enjoy checking back later if you're not tracking the conversation.
Since I am about to go on vacation, you are about to get two weeks of vacation related questions out of me. The first, today, is "Talk about somewhere awesome you've been" (which could be the place you live, or somewhere you've visited, or hey, because we're flexible about reality around here, a fictional world that you willingly get lost in over and over again.) Why is it awesome, what makes it fascinating to you, and what would you tell other people to pay attention to?
(A brief note that I am busily making computers behave like good little computers today, and then have that 'I should do laundry so I can pack' thing tonight, so I may be slower to pick up on threads than usual, but I'll be in and out.)
Quick reminders
-
jjhunter did a great guide to following conversations here on Dreamwidth. Also a roundup of regular Dreamwidth events. - If you want to post anonymously, please pick a name (any name you like) that we can call you - it makes it more conversational and helps if we have more than one anon post.
- Base rule remains "Leave the conversation better than you found it, or at least not worse". If you're nervous about that, I'd rather you say something and we maybe sort out confusion later than have you not say something. (I've heard from a few people who worry they're going to say something that's going to be taken weirdly. If it helps, I am usually around and if there's a thing you'd like to get out in the conversation, but you're not sure how, feel free to PM or email or IM me, and I'll nudge the conversation that direction.)
- The FAQ still has useful stuff, and I added some thoughts about getting conversations going a few weeks ago.
- Comments tend to trickle in over the course of a day or two, with a few nearly a week later: you might enjoy checking back later if you're not tracking the conversation.
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As a kind of close to my home entry, California's Siskyou County in general is gorgeous. Mt. Shasta is there of course (the big landmark), but there are a ton of smaller peaks, including the hike back to a lake on Mt. Eddy which is covered in wildflowers and snow-melt rivelettes in the spring. The Castle Crags are a stark rock formation in a park that contains more lovely hiking and a lake, and for volcanic evidence you can't beat Medicine lake which contains both floating pumice and non-floating black-glass obsidian. There are also a number of old-timey small towns in the general area that still contain things like soda-shops and nearby is the source of the Sacramento river. And there are endless beautiful waterfalls. It is much more outdoorsy than indoorsy, but there are activities for every fitness/ability level.
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That's a kind of geography I'd love to explore sometime. (I've been to San Diego and Seattle briefly, but nothing in between on the West Coast.)
There is also something about old-timey small towns. (We don't have a soda shop, but .. lots of other things like that.)
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Maine has many lovely places too, although I was small when last I was there so almost all my memories involve either snow or being covered in Old Woodsman creosote based bug repellent.