Tenth salon: Interesting places

[jenett]

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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Comments

[hobbitbabe]

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.

[jenett]

Hiiiiiiiii!

There is something about being somewhere remote, isn't there? (Particularly remote and gorgeous.)

[nicki]

I second the Bruges is awesome thing. It's massively picturesque.