(July 6, 2016 at 4:16 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:(July 6, 2016 at 3:20 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Yeah, for you is sort of what it's all about. Still I've had the sense in the past that you'd pull up stakes and head for europe given the right circumstances.
South of France and parts of Germany have floated through for me, and I think I probably could be convinced by an Irishman to pick up and go to Ireland if he married me. But why the fuck would the Irishman do that when he can live in green hills here? That's what a large number of them did, which is why the mountainous areas of the south are still filled with fiery clannish rednecks of the scots-Irish persuasion. In the sunset, the Appalachians look like mounds of melting amber, like so many sidhe mounds filled with secrets. In any other time, they're the setting of a Lovecraft or Tolkien tale - the third oldest mountains, worn down smooth with age and time, riddled with caves and covered in mists - you see how a Hobbit loving woman would find them hard to move away from. They're close enough to drive to from Charlotte, which, for so many reasons, is a good place for a young single person to live.
There was that movie recently about a man who hikes from Maine or New Hampshire most of the way down the Appalachian trail. Looked very scenic and definitely more Shire than Rivendell.
