What's your favorite place to visit and why?
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Probably Machu Picchu. Going there in the early morning when it was nearly deserted and watching the mist clear was beautiful.
QarQing
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Yeah, it's really beautiful place.
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Peruvians were very friendly.
Somehow I was so tired from doing the long Inca trail and the early morning to walk in the back way on the trail It didn't thrill me so much.
The train back out was fun and full of locals.
If you define favourite as the place I have been to on holiday most times in my adult life it is by far South Lake Tahoe.
For many years my brother lived in the Bay Area, and I would visit him for fairly long holidays in the winter, like a month or more. I would spend the weekends either their or in Tahoe, and all the weekdays in Tahoe. South Lake Tahoe has Heavenly Ski resort, which is the biggest in Tahoe with some great terrain and had a <$400 season pass last time I was there is you bought early enough. It is accessible by public transport from the Bay Area with Amtrak, though it leaves from the most stupid of places. It has cheapish accommodation, this place was $200/week last time I was there, and is a short walk from the gondola. It also has casinos, if you are into that sort of thing but it at least means there is somewhere with a bit of life you can go to.
I have been to many better ski resorts, and none uglier. Also few have been cheaper, and when the conditions are good midweek it has an enviable amount of accessible powder with little competition.
For many years my brother lived in the Bay Area, and I would visit him for fairly long holidays in the winter, like a month or more. I would spend the weekends either their or in Tahoe, and all the weekdays in Tahoe. South Lake Tahoe has Heavenly Ski resort, which is the biggest in Tahoe with some great terrain and had a <$400 season pass last time I was there is you bought early enough. It is accessible by public transport from the Bay Area with Amtrak, though it leaves from the most stupid of places. It has cheapish accommodation, this place was $200/week last time I was there, and is a short walk from the gondola. It also has casinos, if you are into that sort of thing but it at least means there is somewhere with a bit of life you can go to.
I have been to many better ski resorts, and none uglier. Also few have been cheaper, and when the conditions are good midweek it has an enviable amount of accessible powder with little competition.
GoodEnoughForMe
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Kuala Lumpur - my favorite city in the world -, Paris; because it really is beautiful and romantic, and the Swiss Alps, because watching the sunset over the mountains while all the small towns spread across the mountains light up is nothing you can imagine until you are there.
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Manitoulin Island is a beautiful place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoulin_Island
Plus, my Aunt and her cousin have cottages there where we have our Greater Family Reunions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoulin_Island
Plus, my Aunt and her cousin have cottages there where we have our Greater Family Reunions.
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Yep, my Mom lived in Walnut Creek (Bay Area) for many years. We took a trip to Tahoe during the holidays once and I skied Northstar. Later, I skied Kirkwood not far away, and I still consider it the best place I ever skied...for pure skiing...and I've skied East Coast, the Rockies, and the Alps. The advance slopes were awesome and the powder was incredible. I did see Heavenly from a distance but have not had the pleasure of skiing there.
I traveled a bit in my life...not so much recently...but would give a shout-out to Belgium for the food, beer, chocolate, and medieval stuffs. Brugge and Ghent were lovely. Also, Munich cause Munich
....been there twice (in October and always go to the Hacker tent...the locals were great)
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Kirkwood has the edge on Heavenly for terrain, but Heavenly is so much more convenient. The alps is a big place, I consider Chamonix the best ski resort, and that is really a few.
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I went to Heavenly earlier this year on what I think they said was their most crowded day on record. Super fun. I don't really do any of that stuff so I had no point of comparison.
During my school years (up to junior high), we spent our summers in BC, in the North Okanagan region. We had family in Vernon and Oyama, and my grandparents had friends here and there around the province. One of my couple-of-times-removed cousins lived in Surrey, and we were able to visit him briefly (my dad, great-uncle, and I were on our way to Wenatchee, Washington for some cross-border shopping, but stopped along the way to visit this cousin (old enough that I called him "uncle") and my great-uncle's relatives on Vancouver Island.
It's so depressing now to read the news and realize that some of the places I went during these holidays are right now burning to the ground as I'm typing, as much of the Okanagan is on fire. That's a large region, and travel is restricted not only to the places where the fires are, but also to the cities and towns designated as evacuation centres. That includes Vernon, where my family lived.
In the meantime, Red Deer is taking in several hundred evacuees from the NWT.
If anyone has snow, send it here. We need it.
It's so depressing now to read the news and realize that some of the places I went during these holidays are right now burning to the ground as I'm typing, as much of the Okanagan is on fire. That's a large region, and travel is restricted not only to the places where the fires are, but also to the cities and towns designated as evacuation centres. That includes Vernon, where my family lived.
In the meantime, Red Deer is taking in several hundred evacuees from the NWT.
If anyone has snow, send it here. We need it.
My favorite coffee shop. It's not very far away, has some very good pastries, a good tea selection, a patio with fire pits, and is also a brewery. Plus they have food trucks, a rotating selection in the evening and a Venezuelan one at lunch. And sometimes they host events; last week I went to a board game event they hosted.
If you mean on vacation... I tend to go somewhere different every time, variety is the spice of life as they say. Though if I had to pick a state, I'd probably choose West Virginia. It's nearby, tons of outdoor options and mountains, and it's not just one area that's interesting, pretty much any part of the state offers something to explore and a municipality to make your home base. Yes, in the area I've gone to the most, that municipality has fewer than 1000 residents, but there's a motel, a couple restaurants, a cafe, a bicycle shop, a couple other stores, and even an opera house that has a show about fifteen times a year, and what else do you really need? If you're really hankering for something different for dinner, there's a town of about 8000 people 50-60 minutes down the road that has a biergarten and my favorite Japanese restaurant, among other options. Or half an hour in the other direction, you can get some pretty decent barbecue.
Plus there are the famous country roads. Compared to the straight-as-an-arrow, surrounded-by-corn-or-soybeans, always-two-lanes-across back roads that cover most of Ohio, you feel much more alive when you're on a mountainous, curvy, one-and-a-third lane road with mediocre paving quality and a significant hazard to the side in West Virginia.
If you mean on vacation... I tend to go somewhere different every time, variety is the spice of life as they say. Though if I had to pick a state, I'd probably choose West Virginia. It's nearby, tons of outdoor options and mountains, and it's not just one area that's interesting, pretty much any part of the state offers something to explore and a municipality to make your home base. Yes, in the area I've gone to the most, that municipality has fewer than 1000 residents, but there's a motel, a couple restaurants, a cafe, a bicycle shop, a couple other stores, and even an opera house that has a show about fifteen times a year, and what else do you really need? If you're really hankering for something different for dinner, there's a town of about 8000 people 50-60 minutes down the road that has a biergarten and my favorite Japanese restaurant, among other options. Or half an hour in the other direction, you can get some pretty decent barbecue.
Plus there are the famous country roads. Compared to the straight-as-an-arrow, surrounded-by-corn-or-soybeans, always-two-lanes-across back roads that cover most of Ohio, you feel much more alive when you're on a mountainous, curvy, one-and-a-third lane road with mediocre paving quality and a significant hazard to the side in West Virginia.
Zardnaar
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Somewhere near a river or lake various child hood spots near forests and hill country.
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Philmont!!!
I'm not very well travelled personally, I've only ever been to four countries. However: Bangkok, since I was born there, and there's a lot about it that I like that I miss in Melbourne; and Adelaide, which is just lovely, a smaller, chiller version of Melbourne.
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I haven't actually been there in a long while, but for me it's New York City. I'd have to win some kind of lottery - literally or figuratively - to live there, but if I could, I would.
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I've only been to NY once and it was just a few months before 9/11. It really was an experience even though just a quick long weekend trip. I would never live there though..just too big and too New York
, but really should go again if not least for the culture and food.
