Where is your dream place...

[snapdragen]

My spots are:

Saint Helens, OR
Joseph, OR
Metaline Falls, WA (I've actually been here!)
Ketchikan, AK (been here too!)
Bremerton, WA
Astoria, OR

More places in Alaska, a couple in Arkansas and Louisiana, and Virginia.

I can see a road trip to Oregon and Washington is in order.

[Wahine]

It sound like a lot of us got similar answers. Mine were all in Oregon - Eugene , Corvallis, St Helens. But then I got a bunch for Hawaii too. Funny that all the places I hang out came up on the quiz. It's good to know that I'm not wasting my time in places that I don't want to be in. Did that make any sense at all?

[mimitabby]

It sound like a lot of us got similar answers. Mine were all in Oregon - Eugene , Corvallis, St Helens. But then I got a bunch for Hawaii too. Funny that all the places I hang out came up on the quiz. It's good to know that I'm not wasting my time in places that I don't want to be in. Did that make any sense at all?

Yes, it did. I think my answers were more confusing and so I got lots of cities all over the country; only the top one made sense.

[jobob]

For the longest time Lee & I were talking about relocating up to Washington or Oregon. The plan was for me to find a job up there, where we'd eventually retire. The pipe dream was (and still is) to wind up eventually on Whidbey or Bainbridge islands, or near Pt. Townsend.

Anyhow, I was routinely scanning the ads for biotech companies up around Seattle & Portland, and a couple of years ago I found it, a job with my name written all over it. I was so thrilled!

But I was starting to pull up my resume when it dawned on me ... I didn't want to move!

You see, by then we had started cycling, and we were coming to realize that we live in a great area for it, and our home is ideally situated. We're able to head out directly from home to all sorts of great locations in the East Bay, we can ride across the nearby bridge to the San Francisco peninsula and all the great riding out there, and we're not much of a drive to the wonderful cycling in Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Santa Cruz & Monterey ...

I talked it over with Lee and he said he wasn't in a hurry to move either now that we're enjoying cycling so much, so here we remain, for the time being. Maybe in a few years we'll move north, but, not right now.

[hellosunshine]

i think this thread points to the fact that the world is diverse and amazing.there is so much to do!

we are all lucky too that we do ride a bike and tend to get into the countryside,i am stunned by the fact so many of my neighbours etc etc do not travel even 30miles to local pockets of escapism,i see so much on my bike,the views from hills,differing landscapes etc etc,for many a day out means a trip top the cities to shop.


shopping does hit the spot,dont get me wrong,but the smells and visual stimulation out of town beats everything.

[Trekhawk]

we are all lucky too that we do ride a bike and tend to get into the countryside,i am stunned by the fact so many of my neighbours etc etc do not travel even 30miles to local pockets of escapism,i see so much on my bike,the views from hills,differing landscapes etc etc,for many a day out means a trip top the cities to shop.

LOL - I remember when I went to England and made a comment to some locals about how nice it must be to live so close to all these lovely areas and they said oh no dear we dont go there its too far away. Hee hee just goes to show how different we all are.

Sounds like you have some lovely rides.

[mimitabby]

LOL - I remember when I went to England and made a comment to some locals about how nice it must be to live so close to all these lovely areas and they said oh no dear we dont go there its too far away. Hee hee just goes to show how different we all are.

Sounds like you have some lovely rides.

Thanks to increasing size of automobiles, increasing traffic, and less $$ going to infrastructure, and more concerns about security... the world, which had been getting smaller (ie easier to go from say, London to Los Angeles) is now getting MUCH bigger.

Drives that used to be routine and comfortable now take a long time (but not always) so you would be less inclined to do them.

When I was a kid, I heard stories about how long it took to go places, now I can tell my own sons, yeah, when I was your age, i could walk into an airport and be in NYC 5 hours later. They sure can't do that.