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today, i had set my alarm, so i'm showered, wearing matching socks, etc. i did manage to leave the house without my glasses, so i had to backtrack and grab them. i was also too lazy to pack a lunch, so i'll walk home and eat. in part, this is a good strategy to get a little extra exercise in, and also to enjoy the beautiful weather we're having these days.
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hubertwee is to name the ten places I'd most like to visit. I've been thinking about this for awhile, and decided that it'd be most interesting to include fictional places, which I'd rather visit than most real places. Most of my travel is focused around food or a sense of magic, which I associate with my visits to Ireland, Macchu Picchu, the Japanese gardens in Portland (Ore)... I think it has to do with lushness, not being too populated with tourists, and vagaries of the day like my mood and the weather.
So, five real:
1. Morocco. I'm in love with the cuisine, but otherwise I'm not sure what draws me to it. Most places that I want to visit are green, and Morocco is mostly desert. I think I daydream about the markets. I loved the street markets in Peru, so maybe I correlate the two.
2. Iceland. It just sits there in the middle of nowhere. There's only one native land mammal (the arctic fox, according to wikipedia), and very few insects. Its language maintains the use of a runic letter. I don't know. It's just mysterious and cool. We might go there next summer.
3. Nova Scotia. The pictures I've seen are really pretty. Again the surrounded by water places intrigue me.
4. Wales and Scotland. There's a lot of mysticism that I associate with these two. I also have childhood fantasies of riding poines across the moors. And I like the accents.
5. Japan. I wouldn't mind seeing the homeland one day :)
Less real:
6. Lyra's Oxford, from the Philip Pullman books.
7. Diagon Alley. Of all of the HP sites, I think this would be my favorite. I would buy a wand and go to the bookstore and drink butterbeer.
8. Avalon, from the Mists of Avalon books. Again with the magic and the pretty. Narnia would also fit in this category, but I don't remember the books well enough to know whether I'd really want to go there.
9. Chicago, in 1893. I'd love to see what my hometown looked like back in the day, and the World's Fair seems like a good thing to take in while there.
10. It's a toss up between Oz (book version, not movie version) and Faerie, from Stardust. Probably the former -- the latter will fade as my memory of the movie does. Or maybe it's Paris at the time of Moulin Rouge (the movie). So many choices...
Today's top ten list courtesy of
hubertwee is to name the ten places I'd most like to visit. I've been thinking about this for awhile, and decided that it'd be most interesting to include fictional places, which I'd rather visit than most real places. Most of my travel is focused around food or a sense of magic, which I associate with my visits to Ireland, Macchu Picchu, the Japanese gardens in Portland (Ore)... I think it has to do with lushness, not being too populated with tourists, and vagaries of the day like my mood and the weather.So, five real:
1. Morocco. I'm in love with the cuisine, but otherwise I'm not sure what draws me to it. Most places that I want to visit are green, and Morocco is mostly desert. I think I daydream about the markets. I loved the street markets in Peru, so maybe I correlate the two.
2. Iceland. It just sits there in the middle of nowhere. There's only one native land mammal (the arctic fox, according to wikipedia), and very few insects. Its language maintains the use of a runic letter. I don't know. It's just mysterious and cool. We might go there next summer.
3. Nova Scotia. The pictures I've seen are really pretty. Again the surrounded by water places intrigue me.
4. Wales and Scotland. There's a lot of mysticism that I associate with these two. I also have childhood fantasies of riding poines across the moors. And I like the accents.
5. Japan. I wouldn't mind seeing the homeland one day :)
Less real:
6. Lyra's Oxford, from the Philip Pullman books.
7. Diagon Alley. Of all of the HP sites, I think this would be my favorite. I would buy a wand and go to the bookstore and drink butterbeer.
8. Avalon, from the Mists of Avalon books. Again with the magic and the pretty. Narnia would also fit in this category, but I don't remember the books well enough to know whether I'd really want to go there.
9. Chicago, in 1893. I'd love to see what my hometown looked like back in the day, and the World's Fair seems like a good thing to take in while there.
10. It's a toss up between Oz (book version, not movie version) and Faerie, from Stardust. Probably the former -- the latter will fade as my memory of the movie does. Or maybe it's Paris at the time of Moulin Rouge (the movie). So many choices...
