Show Off Your Homeland

[Whateverist]

The Shenandoah Valley. Mid-to-late spring, when the red buds and dogwoods are blooming, or in the fall when the leaves change. Plop a canoe in at the top and float down. If there's an "Eden" in America, it's that valley. Get out at points and go see the three main cavern systems - Luray, Skyline (with their crystal flowers grown in vacuum) and Endless.

That's going on the bucket list. You mean to say the caverns really are accessible by canoe? How cool is that .. but is it safe? I mean do I need to be a highly accomplished boater or is it a floating party? Also, what is the likelihood of running into toothless good ole boys with a taste for fudge packing? (I'm looking at you, Rhythm.)

[Alex K]

If this weekend has shown me anything it is never try to drive around London.
They fling their cars at you as though they are unconcerned by consequences.
Cornwalls nice if you catch it on the nice day of the year.

Wife and I went backpacking, starting in Newquay along the coast to Lands End and Treen, took the bus to Penzance and then spent 5 days in London. Theperfect holiday if you ask me...

[downbeatplumb]

If this weekend has shown me anything it is never try to drive around London.
They fling their cars at you as though they are unconcerned by consequences.
Cornwalls nice if you catch it on the nice day of the year.

Wife and I went backpacking, starting in Newquay along the coast to Lands End and Treen, took the bus to Penzance and then spent 5 days in London. Theperfect holiday if you ask me...

 5 days in London! you must be richer than you look.

[Whateverist]

Food.... food... food!!!
There are a few special dishes which require you acquire the taste for them, but everything else is just plain old GOOD!
Here are a few ways Bacalhau gets served (a kind of cod fish, salted right after fishing for old-timey style conservation and it seems only the portuguese are allowed to eat this fish, for it is listed as endangered):


A nice whole piece of fish with boiled and then slightly roasted potatoes - the skin gets crackly and you're supposed to open it by punching the potato (try not to make a mess, it's impolite). Olive oil, everywhere!

Now you're talking. I do like trying new dishes .. but no Haggis, thank you anyway.

[brewer]

Nebraska? Nothing to see or do here. Just another state that unfortunately you have to drive through to get to where you want to be.

Oh no, you don't have to drive through it.  I usually just fly over it.  Much faster.

Much better. About the amount of time it takes the attendant to get you a cocktail and down it.

[Alex K]

Wife and I went backpacking, starting in Newquay along the coast to Lands End and Treen, took the bus to Penzance and then spent 5 days in London. Theperfect holiday if you ask me...

 5 days in London! you must be richer than you look.

If you are referring to the guy in my avatar, that is not me. He wasn't exactly impoverished either, though...

[Whateverist]

Oh no, you don't have to drive through it.  I usually just fly over it.  Much faster.

Much better. About the amount of time it takes the attendant to get you a cocktail and down it.

But every where there are special places.  You just keeping it on the down low?

[Jenny A]

 5 days in London! you must be richer than you look.

Rent a vacation apartment in London.  It's cheap that way.  And most of the museums are free.*  But why, why, I ask you Brits are the buses, tube, and trains, so ridiculously expensive there?  Especially as they are all so much better on the continent?

*Why is it that the Brits charge for public churches but not museums and the Italians charge for museums but not churches?

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

I live on the most awesomest place ever.Seriously.There's this bridge from where I can see a lake joining the sea.I see it every day around evening and it takes my breath away Every.Single.Time.

We also go for rides to find cool places to hang about.
Went for a ride with my buds and we found the most awesomest place on earth:



And there's even a frigging waterfall.
There was this one time when we went for a dip and we ganged up on my bud.We basically stripped him off his clothes hahahah his underware included. He had to walk over all these chicks staring at him all the while trying to adjust his shirt to cover his member (i'm dying)

We took a piss in the woods which later we came to know as a private property guarded by security guards.
If you look close you will see my beloved friend trying to push me into a pit

Long story short: We ran like fuck.

And this is at the waterfall

The quality isn't that great,but you get the picture

[downbeatplumb]

Hmm well I suppose my area does contain more than it's fair share of History. I live just across from Portsmouth Naval Base which houses HMS Victory just down the road there are a number of forts including the remains of an iron age wooden fort and just a little down the road is a well preserved Roman fort which was converted by the Normans into a castle. Oh and we also have the Submarine and hovercraft museums because this area was at the for front of that sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5OFksI-Fjg