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10/17/2005 11:42:50 PM · #26 |
Bar Harbor or bust baby
(Bar Harbor, Maine or as I like to call...Garden of Edon) |
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10/17/2005 11:58:27 PM · #27 |
Go to California and drive Highway 1 along the coast north from LA up to Monteray or farther. Easy to do in just a few days, at a relaxed pace. Amazing views, neat stuff to stop and see along the way. We drove part of it a few years ago, and it's near the top of my list to go back and do the whole thing.
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10/18/2005 01:21:11 AM · #28 |
Iceland.
You'll get a ribbon winning shot, or 100 of them probably.
What are you in the mood for?
What are your (other) hobbies?
Are you trying to escape from...the city noise, the hustle and bustle, the kids, the boss, the phone...
Do you want to be outside, inside, alone, drunk, driving (not both!), hiking, scenery or animals or ...
I was the Henry Ford and Greenfield Village earlier this year. Highly recommended, but if you hate musuems or love the beach, then you won't be happy there.
I can be happy most anywhere, if I can get away from PITA customers from work and my kids. I seem to have no 'alone' time anymore, time for my brain to function creatively. I also lack relaxed adult conversation. YOu may feel the exact opposite...
IF i had a weekend and had to get away, no budget concerns, I think Ireland would be cool to visit and photograph. Second might be England. I'd like to see the desert southwest, grand canyon and vegas. I doubt i';ll like Vegas, but gotta go there. NYC is another place i'd like to visit. Not sure how photogenic NYC is (overall it is, but a city is a city..dirty, grimy, noisy, smelly, mostly ugly) but there is enough to see there i'd put up with the environment for a weekend.
but then, as Dorothy says "There's no place like home" |
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10/18/2005 01:30:24 AM · #29 |
Big Sur... unbelievable coastal wilderness, staggeringly beautiful, utterly relaxing.
Fly to San Jose, rent a car, be there in 2 hours easily. Call the Big Sur Inn, see if "Top House" is available, view to die for. The rest of Big Sur Inn lodging is cabins nestled in the trees, uber-romantic. Post Ranch and Ventana Inn both extreme luxury accomodations on the ridgeline with stunning ocean views also.
Big Sur, dude, You'll never forget it, ever.
Robt.
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10/18/2005 01:45:06 AM · #30 |
Mendocino... the New England of the west coast.
Unbelievably beautiful and the coastal areas are bar none.
3 hours north of San Francisco. Stay and have dinner at the Albion Inn. The place to go if you would like some romance or rekindle and renew that "spark" in your life :)
Watch sea lions nurse their pups along McKerickher Park. Ocean kayak along the caves and start your exploration of California's hidden treasure.
The Mendocino Coast - a place you'll never forget :) |
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10/18/2005 01:45:52 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Big Sur... unbelievable coastal wilderness, staggeringly beautiful, utterly relaxing.
Robt. |
Indeed, hard to disagree with this advice, although I've been thinking that a visit to bear's kitchen might run a close second.
Photo-Op: Big Sur (uncropped)
This was taken at Point Lobos State Preserve, between Big Sur and Monterey:
You Want Me to Stand WHERE?
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10/18/2005 01:48:21 AM · #32 |
San Luis Obispo, California. If you have to ask why, you haven't been there.
Message edited by author 2005-10-18 01:49:10.
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10/18/2005 02:04:22 AM · #33 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
San Luis Obispo, California. If you have to ask why, you haven't been there. |
There was an earlier post which suggested the whole Highway 1 route from LA up to SF or something -- we're just all highlighting favorite stops.
Some more things along that way: Hearst Castle, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Asilomar, UC Santa Cruz, Pigeon Point and Montara Lighthouses (Youth Hostels there!), etc. |
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10/18/2005 02:08:56 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
San Luis Obispo, California. If you have to ask why, you haven't been there. |
Yeah! Cal Poly! Woohoo :)
Visit the famed Gumball Alley as well.
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10/18/2005 02:13:17 AM · #35 |
no one's said Utah that I saw, which has some beautiful landscapes.
Vegas is one of few places in the world I can die happy without setting foot in. I wouldn't want to go there, but that's just me. I think I would rather watch my money burn than pay for a ticket there.
Reno is acceptable though if you have to fly into it in order to get to Lake Tahoe which is also a sweet place. |
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10/18/2005 02:14:24 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by rikki11:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
San Luis Obispo, California. If you have to ask why, you haven't been there. |
Yeah! Cal Poly! Woohoo :)
Visit the famed Gumball Alley as well. |
Left you a comment.
As long as you're in the neighborhood, you might see whether DHS is paying any attention to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. |
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10/18/2005 02:15:40 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by rikki11:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
San Luis Obispo, California. If you have to ask why, you haven't been there. |
Yeah! Cal Poly! Woohoo :)
Visit the famed Gumball Alley as well.
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I put a few wads of gum up there in my time.
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10/18/2005 02:20:42 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by rikki11:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
San Luis Obispo, California. If you have to ask why, you haven't been there. |
Yeah! Cal Poly! Woohoo :)
Visit the famed Gumball Alley as well. |
Left you a comment.
As long as you're in the neighborhood, you might see whether DHS is paying any attention to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. |
I lived right over the hill from Diablo, it's about impossible to even SEE the place unless you're out on the ocean. Can't hike over the mountain or the guys dressed up like M-16 carrying ninjas come out and escort you away at gunpoint. Air traffic is not allowed. Even the tours, if they still have them, only get to see a replica of the control room. This was all way back, well before 9/11.
Besides, I thought Diablo was slated for de-comissioning about 10 years ago.
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10/18/2005 02:35:34 AM · #39 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by rikki11:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
San Luis Obispo, California. If you have to ask why, you haven't been there. |
Yeah! Cal Poly! Woohoo :)
Visit the famed Gumball Alley as well. |
Left you a comment.
As long as you're in the neighborhood, you might see whether DHS is paying any attention to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. |
I lived right over the hill from Diablo, it's about impossible to even SEE the place unless you're out on the ocean. Can't hike over the mountain or the guys dressed up like M-16 carrying ninjas come out and escort you away at gunpoint. Air traffic is not allowed. Even the tours, if they still have them, only get to see a replica of the control room. This was all way back, well before 9/11.
Besides, I thought Diablo was slated for de-comissioning about 10 years ago. |
Interesting story; back when I was a pup, my best friend married a gal whose family was Marshall Fields department stores. Her grandpa OWNED that entire, huge point of land to seaward of Highway 101, including Diablo Canyon itself. The Canyon, one of the last, pristine California Coastal canyons, a precious ecosystem, was seized by eminent domain to build the power plant. I stayed on the ranch there several times over the course of a few years, and watched them build the plant.
The Diablo Canyon power plant was the beginning of the schism in the Sierra Club, incidentally. PG&E wanted to build in the Nipomo Dunes, a few miles down coast, and Sierra Club spearheaded the resistance to that, because the dunes are completely unique in central California, maybe all of California I'm not sure. Anyway, in the end Sierra Club brokered a compromise, and agreed not to oppose Diablo Canyon if they spared Nipomo Dunes. Pissed a lot of people off, but Diablo Canyon was private property and hardly ahnyone ever got to see it, so there wasn't as much hue and cry as there might have been.
Robt.
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10/18/2005 02:37:43 AM · #40 |
I would go to Vegas. I tried explaining to my girlfriend tonight that it would be much funner to go spend a grand there than to spend a grand going to the beach, but she didn't agree.
Plus, in Vegas, you have a shot at coming home with something...after all, poker is a skill game...and even if you suck, your odds are better than winning the lottery.
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10/18/2005 02:53:49 AM · #41 |
Originally posted by deapee:
...after all, poker is a skill game...and even if you suck, your odds are better than winning the lottery. |
Jaysus... famous last words... I suppose it may be true if A) you are a genuinely good player, and B) you play only in low-stakes games, but I can assure you if you play for any real money they are gonna eat you alive... Unless, as I say, you are very, very good. I played a lot of poker when I was younger, and dabbled at professional backgammon, but that was no life for me and I dropped it when I became a photographer.
Robt.
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10/18/2005 02:58:45 AM · #42 |
| I'm always partial to the Washington DC area in the fall. You have the world famous Skyline Drive in Virginia to partake of as well. |
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10/18/2005 07:32:09 AM · #43 |
Alaska! Hands down...have always wanted to go there, but have never had the funds. One of these days I'll get there.
- Linda |
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10/18/2005 07:36:10 AM · #44 |
Okay, all of these places are lovely, but in Nov/Dec they'll have one thing in common..... COLD!!!
But Florida is still warm :P
+1 for Florida!!! lol
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10/18/2005 08:13:46 AM · #45 |
My 2 FAVORITE cities in the US, so far:
NYC
Las Vegas
I love em both.
P.S. Just got back from Denver. Also a great place till the snow hits. Was 38 and snowing on Tuesday, but Thurs. - Sun. was in the 70's...go figure.
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10/18/2005 11:38:54 AM · #46 |
| Baxter State park in Maine. Its one of the most beautiful & protected land in the US. |
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10/18/2005 11:45:55 AM · #47 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
... dabbled at professional backgammon ...
Robt. |
Boy, I bet "Professional Backgammon Player" would go over well when filling out unemployment insurance forms ... : )
Thanks for the background on Diablo Canyon!
Message edited by author 2005-10-18 11:46:47. |
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10/18/2005 11:52:18 AM · #48 |
Does it have to be "continental US"??? If so, then I would go to Miami and swim to St. John, USVI.
Spectacular blue water and very charming culture.
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10/18/2005 01:11:34 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Go to California and drive Highway 1 along the coast north from LA up to Monteray or farther. Easy to do in just a few days, at a relaxed pace. Amazing views, neat stuff to stop and see along the way. We drove part of it a few years ago, and it's near the top of my list to go back and do the whole thing. |
Don't you mean Hwy 101?
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10/18/2005 01:38:13 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by colyla:
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Go to California and drive Highway 1 along the coast north from LA up to Monteray or farther. Easy to do in just a few days, at a relaxed pace. Amazing views, neat stuff to stop and see along the way. We drove part of it a few years ago, and it's near the top of my list to go back and do the whole thing. |
Don't you mean Hwy 101? |
Nope. 101 is mostly inland. The coast route is Highway 1. There are some places where they merge together, notably around Santa Barbara.
If you start in LA, you can drive Hwy 1 from Santa Monica through Malibu and all the way up to Oxnard. In Oxnard you pick up 101 and continue, on the coast, right through Santa barbara and north to Point Conception, where the highway turns right and heads inland. Once you get over the small mountain range (and through a tunnel I might add) the road turns left again and heads up the central valley past Santa Maria, then picks up the coast once more at Pismo beach or thereabouts.
You can take Hwy 1 off 101 after you cross the mountains and head north past Vandenburg AFB and Guadaloupe, and it rejoins 101 at Pismo Beach. Anyway, 1/101 runs up the coast from Pismo Beach for a number of miles then turns inland again to San Luis Obispo. In SLO 1 splits off again to head north and picks up the coast again at Morro Bay. 101 heads inland and runs up the valley all the way to San Jose. It's at this juncture that Coast Highway 1 gets interesting, from Morro Bay on up all the way to Cambria, San Simeon, Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay and, eventually, San Francisco.
Can you tell I've driven this road times beyond counting? :-)
R.
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