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Post by madonna on Feb 8, 2018 14:31:07 GMT -5
As of now, it's the 2019 Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase. I don't think any dates and venue locations has been set yet, but I've always wanted to go. My goal is to find a few amethyst geodes to display around the house and a rose quartz bathtub. I probably won't find a rose quartz bathtub to fit my bathroom, but it is on my wish list. I also want to check out the personal collections of gems, too.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 8, 2018 15:46:35 GMT -5
As of now, it's the 2019 Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase. I don't think any dates and venue locations has been set yet, but I've always wanted to go. My goal is to find a few amethyst geodes to display around the house and a rose quartz bathtub. I probably won't find a rose quartz bathtub to fit my bathroom, but it is on my wish list. I also want to check out the personal collections of gems, too. Damn. I definitely don't know what this is.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 8, 2018 15:48:27 GMT -5
I think I would enjoy "theme" travel, e.g., all the missions of California. The ones people are most familiar with are the TV themed ones like visiting all the on-location sites of Game of Thrones. There may even be a Harry Potter tour. I personally did the Jesus tour on my own when I was in Israel -- visited Nazareth (Mary's Well where Mary was told by the angel Gabriel that she would give birth to the Son of God), the Sea of Galilee, Jerusalem (many Jesus-related sites there) incl. Golgotha, place of where his dead body was placed, etc. I'm not a believer at all but it was still interesting to me to physically see and occupy the places where the alleged "Son of God" allegedly walked around. I'd do the same for Muhammad. To me, such religion-themed travel would be treated like a fictional novel themed travel, e.g., visiting all the sites mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes novels. And for azvb, I think a Joseph Smith-themed or Brigham Young-themed tour would also be a lot of fun. In the case of Smith and Young, it would be more of a history-themed tour instead of a religion-themed tour because I would think that their travels are more recent and well-documented, in contrast to Jesus and Muhammad whose travels have approached mythically fake levels. I’ve done the Joseph Smith, Brigham Young tours. Northern parts of New York State (beautiful), Kirkland OH, Nauvoo, ILL, and of course Salt Lake City. Visited some Amish communities in ILL, MO while we were there. Spent 10 days in Israel. Had an LDS tour guide and a Jewish guide. Really interesting. So much to take in. I’d like to go back. This trip my husband and I are taking is sort of a WWII themed trip. Normandy, Paris, Berlin. We did the Winston Churchill bunker last time we were in London. Pretty cool. I think all the WWII themed tours sound great. The D-Days and the Holocaust ones, especially might be quite moving. As much as I hate Hitler, I'd love to go on a Hitler's youth tour.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 19:21:53 GMT -5
I went and walked/toured the Bridge Too Far areas and Bastogne. A friend took his son and visited Colditz Castle--the inspiration for Hogan's Heroes with a great NOVA show about building a plane inside a POW camp.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 9, 2018 13:33:03 GMT -5
In the mid-1990s, my wife and I visited Seattle. We read in travel books and also heard from the locals of an underground city. One afternoon, we went to look for this underground city and despite directions, we just couldn't find it. This was before the explosion of the web. Information was not that readily available. In the end, we just got tired and decided to drink iced mocha at a nearby cafe and just relax. With that said, many many cities supposedly have underground cities (underground now but they were once ground level back in the day). I'm going to visit those some day.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 9, 2018 13:39:40 GMT -5
In the mid-1990s, my wife and I visited Seattle. We read in travel books and also heard from the locals of an underground city. One afternoon, we went to look for this underground city and despite directions, we just couldn't find it. This was before the explosion of the web. Information was not that readily available. In the end, we just got tired and decided to drink iced mocha at a nearby cafe and just relax. With that said, many many cities supposedly have underground cities (underground now but they were once ground level back in the day). I'm going to visit those some day. IIRC the tours started from a bar called Doc Maynard's. It's not the most amazing tour in the world.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 14:29:41 GMT -5
I think I went to Seattle three times before there was a clear day and I discovered Mt. Ranier was sitting right there. Scared the bejeebers out of me.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 9, 2018 15:30:22 GMT -5
I think I went to Seattle three times before there was a clear day and I discovered Mt. Ranier was sitting right there. Scared the bejeebers out of me. I was really impressed with the U. of Washington's view of Mt. Ranier. Actually, it's a great view from everywhere. But on campus, there was one particular area -- can't remember the name or location -- where the "courtyard" and buildings were designed to maximize the view of Mt. Ranier. (Who wouldn't design it that way, I suppose?) Buildings with corridors to provide unobstructed views toward the mountain. I thought, at the time, Gee, I wouldn't mind spending 4 years here. I think it may have been one of these two locations (if they're not the same):
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Post by c4ndlelight on Feb 9, 2018 18:01:05 GMT -5
Torres Del Paine.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 9, 2018 18:59:50 GMT -5
I think I went to Seattle three times before there was a clear day and I discovered Mt. Ranier was sitting right there. Scared the bejeebers out of me. I was really impressed with the U. of Washington's view of Mt. Ranier. Actually, it's a great view from everywhere. But on campus, there was one particular area -- can't remember the name or location -- where the "courtyard" and buildings were designed to maximize the view of Mt. Ranier. (Who wouldn't design it that way, I suppose?) Buildings with corridors to provide unobstructed views toward the mountain. I thought, at the time, Gee, I wouldn't mind spending 4 years here. I think it may have been one of these two locations (if they're not the same): That pathway is called "Rainier Vista". It leads from Red Square (named for the bricks) down to Drumheller Fountain. It was designed by John C. Olmstead. www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march02/place_rainier.html
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Post by ironhammer on Feb 10, 2018 3:05:30 GMT -5
Antarctica. Machu Picchu. Great Pyramids of Giza. Yes, Acropolis. Taj Mahal, Great Barrier Reef.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 10, 2018 22:46:34 GMT -5
If there's ever a John Steinbeck tour, it would be incredibly boring. I'm familiar with the area where Steinbeck set some of his novels -- Salinas, Monterey (Cannery Row), King City, etc. I drive up and down that stretch of HWY 101 monthly because I have a house in San Luis Obispo. Beautiful rolling hills but there's nothing remarkable. There's even a John Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA. Of course, if there's a Grapes of Wrath tour, that would most likely be absolutely depressing.
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Post by mln59 on Jul 25, 2019 15:16:39 GMT -5
i would like to take a trip to israel. gotta find a good tour company and make that happen
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Post by ironhammer on Jul 25, 2019 22:07:34 GMT -5
For a long long time, the Acropolis in Athens was on my bucket list -- although back then, it wasn't called "the bucket list." As a child, there was a children's picture book that showed a boy visiting all the great sites in the world. (How he went around the world, I can't remember.) The one that was the most fascinating to me was the Acropolis -- and the Parthenon on top -- in Athens. Wanted to go there since. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I finally visited. Amen to that. Acropolis was always a place I wanted to go to. I am thinking of going there during the offseason when there are fewer tourists and the sweltering summer heat of Athens has cooled down.
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Post by ironhammer on Jul 25, 2019 23:57:10 GMT -5
The reality of course frequently do no match up with expectations, but I have to confess I am enchanted by this short travelogue MV of Greece:
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