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Your favourite place on earth?

Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
edited July 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I've just been to mine...

Down the bottom of my Dad's garden. It's so serene and beautiful :) I just love it when the cat comes to sit with me whilst I read or just sit and take in the world. All I hear is the trickle of the pond whilst the flowers sway in the breeze... absolutely perfect :)

Where's yours?
Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    mine used to be Lake Samish in washington. It's where we took our summer vacation for 10 years in a row. It was the absolute greatest thing as a kid. The epitome of being a kid. Days lasted forever, carefree as can be. Ahhhhhhhhh.
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  • IAmMyselfIAmMyself Posts: 671
    Ireland, anywhere in Ireland but just Ireland!
    "Please help me to help you, help yourself." EV
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Anywhere near the sea. It doesn't matter if it's calm or angry. It's the expanse of it all... the vastness. It reminds me that we're all just ripples in a pond. It's calming and reassuring to know we can't control everything and when we're gone, the chances are that something better and bigger than us will surely endure.


    As I can't get to the sea very often, the next best thing is anywhere there are lots of trees. For very much the same reasons.
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Loch Lomond.


    But, like Sarah, anywhere by the sea is as close as anywhere else can get to perfect for me.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,430
    southern utah
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • finnanniefinnannie Posts: 1,186
    http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/a/aurora-borealis-960261-lw.jpg

    home.. in Lapland
    Won't let the light escape from me.
    Won't let the darkness swallow me.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.ballycroynationalpark.ie/
  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,963
    I have a few favourite places . . .

    Emerald Lake - The Canadian Rockies

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    Kicking Horse River - The Canadian Rockies

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    Strait of Juan de Fuca (looking south at Washington State) Two blocks from my house - Victoria, BC

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  • clark_kentclark_kent Posts: 166
    irieinindy wrote:
    Ireland, anywhere in Ireland but just Ireland!

    i second that, though i was particularly partial to the north coast and the aran islands. im not sure how much that was those particular places, how much was the ocean, and how much was the girl though.
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    "in my babys arms"


    other than that, i would say on a beach, with the waves hitting my feet, and beer in hand.
    Peace, Love.

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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,298
    Fifthelement wrote:
    I have a few favourite places . . .

    Emerald Lake - The Canadian Rockies

    204.jpg

    Kicking Horse River - The Canadian Rockies

    215.jpg

    Strait of Juan de Fuca (looking south at Washington State) Two blocks from my house - Victoria, BC

    Screensaver2.jpg


    Wow, those are some amazing pics!
    I wish I was there right now!
  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    The top of Engineer Pass on the Alpine Loop between Lake City and Silverton Colorado.
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
    BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
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  • RiverrunnerRiverrunner Posts: 2,419
    In an old cemetary on a bluff overlooking the Ohio River in Bay City, Illinois.
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    My favorite place on earth is being at a Pearl Jam show. Its as if nothing or no one exxxists during that time and everything is forgotten. But when theres no shows.....

    ~DISNEYLAND. Everyone hates it cuz its too exxxpensive, crowded, over rated, etc. i dont care. Its always special to me.

    ~This little area in Laguna Beach, Ca. that I have yet to share with ANYONE. Its secluded and private and its a hike to get to. It has the greatest view of the ocean EVER and i can go there and sit and have the water at my feet watching the waves roll off the rocks and see the sun set & the moon rise.
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  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    SENROCK! wrote:
    ~DISNEYLAND. Everyone hates it cuz its too exxxpensive, crowded, over rated, etc. i dont care. Its always special to me.

    Awww! I love you and your posts, Sen :D
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • audiodaveaudiodave Posts: 1,623
    I don't have one specific place that is my favourite, but I generally like being outside and being surrounded by nature, which probably stems form growing up in the countryside. I think that a lot of people take for granted the beauty of such simple things that occur naturally in this world, but I like being surrounded by them. :o

    As for my favourite place entirely? That would be not of this earth, but part within my own imagination, and part within a book. If I really enjoy what i'm reading, I can just lose myself entirely for hours at a time. I'm such a geek.
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    Awww! I love you and your posts, Sen :D

    haha thank you AUDIOSIAN!!!! :)
    ~~~~~~ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME~~~~~~
    Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
    EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!

    "Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95

    It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I like temples here in Asia that are off the tourist trail. There's some in particular here in the mountains were no one's about and they're very relaxing places.
    One in Korea stands out for me in particular. It's called Huibangsa temple, and it's on the side of Sobaeksan mountain.
  • Left PorchLeft Porch Posts: 846
    Had a chance to visit the home of my ancestors Galway, when I was 16, that was amazing. Besides that anywhere by the water, love fishing off the rocks into the Long Island sound (I know its nasty and polluted but it works) or surfing in the atlantic ocean. Have always wanted to go to San Diego, my brother worked out there for awhile and said it was amazing.
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    For Exploration:

    Goblin Valley & Zion

    Patagonia

    For relaxation:

    Copacabana beach

    St. Tropez
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  • comebackwomancomebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    The place I spent my last birthday:
    http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1314428987045430263MuEkwz

    also:

    http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/sanpr/clelandconservationwp/index.html
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    comebackgirl wrote:
    The place I spent my last birthday:

    http://home.iitk.ac.in/~skb/images/glenelg1.jpg

    Is that a picture of Zoso's arms? ;)
    NERDS!
  • comebackwomancomebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    South of Seattle wrote:
    Is that a picture of Zoso's arms? ;)
    I'm sure we can work him into the picture somewhere :p
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    honestly, it's being home in New York.
    Or anywhere I am where I am eating a meal. Eating makes me happy :D
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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Along the California Coast
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  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    restlesssoul wrote:
    mine used to be Lake Samish in washington. It's where we took our summer vacation for 10 years in a row. It was the absolute greatest thing as a kid. The epitome of being a kid. Days lasted forever, carefree as can be. Ahhhhhhhhh.
    That's cool. We're going there tomorrow. We live very close and don't go often enough. :)
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    i wish i was closer to the ocean.
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    wow....i don't think i have just one.

    - my bed. :D
    - my back porch, heaven!
    - this tiny little spot on long island's north shore...right on the water....looks like it's from ages ago and oh so beautiful. when i die i want my ashes scattered from a boat in view of that spot. :)
    - in my husband's arms.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • iamsampjiamsampj Posts: 784
    my spot on the beach, just south of cocoa beach. there's noone around on the beach, just surfers mostly.

    and this was pretty amazing during my trip to hawaii:
    on the path to rainbow falls: http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i112/saj35931/scan0018.jpg
    in volcano national park...hiking through the cater of a volcano that erupted in the 60s:
    http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=12058522&albumID=608448&imageID=2154014
    yes...i do feel like a human. i do not feel like a tree.
  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    Garmisch, Germany or any hidden beach
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