Your city/hometown

[bikerchick68]

Popoki... also the Gardens! I love Buschart Gardens (sp?)... and Stanley Gardens in Vancouver... as well as Capilano Suspension Bridge... Victoria and Vancouver are both just gorgeous!

[Popoki_Nui]

Popoki... also the Gardens! I love Buschart Gardens (sp?)... and Stanley Gardens in Vancouver... as well as Capilano Suspension Bridge... Victoria and Vancouver are both just gorgeous!

...bikerchick...did you actually cross the Capilano Susupension Bridge?? Wow...you're made of stronger stuff than me. I made it about ten feet before freaking out...I just can't deal with the height!
D'oh...I forgot about the Buchart Gardens! Pretty spectacular, for sure. Did you visit in summer with the fireworks? This past winter they put in a refrigerated outdoor skating rink...now we can ice skate among the palms and cedars. Bizarre but neat

[Waverly]

I live in North Georgia. I have lived in several areas in GA but mainly grew up in Athens. Athens is the home of the University of Georgia and is a neat place to live....if you like college students. North Ga is home of the famous Brasstown Bald climb of the Tour de Georgia. I have never even attempted to climb it. I actually tried to walk up it and pooped out so I watched the race from where I stopped Ga is also famous for peaches and peanuts. I enjoy riding around here because there is still a lot of "country" in this area and really all over Ga. I am very accustomed to heat and really whiny if I am cold. And yes I have the awful wicked southern accent!

Jessica

[DrBee]

I live in North Georgia. I have lived in several areas in GA but mainly grew up in Athens.
Jessica

Jessica - 2 cool things about Athens are REM and the B-52's

[DrBee]

I grew up in northern Maryland (Baltimore County) - moved around a lot within the county. Maryland is known for it's steamed blue crabs and the world's best crabcakes. Yummmm - how I miss them.

For the past 5 years I've lived in Cleveland, MS. The MS Delta region is known for catfish (which I work on) and the blues (which I know very little about, but like the music). We have super hot summers which last forever, have high humidity and gigantic mosquitos (that take multiple hits to kill - seriously) and wet and not so cold winters.

[NorCalGal]

This is a great thread! I love hearing about everyone's hometown, either current or where they grew up, or both.

I grew up on the beaches of Ventura, California (south of Santa Barbara...and hello there fatbottomed girl in Simi Valley!) but now live in Orland, California. Hardly anyone knows of us, but when we tell them we're about 20 miles west of Chico, then the light bulb goes on. Good bike riding there, one of the largest municipal parks in the nation, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and Cal State Chico, which is trying to overcome a party-school rep.

Anyway, when we moved here from Ventura we pretty much went into culture shock. There are REAL COWBOYS here wearing tight Wranglers and REAL SPURS and there are more cows than people. We're at about 6,500 residents, and our county has about 26,000 total.

Orland was once in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the most churches and bars per capita than any other city in the U.S.

We grow olives and rice and almonds. Cal Worthington lives here (but not his dog Spot). We're about halfway between Sacramento and the Oregon border, and Tahoe and Mt. Shasta are an easy morning's drive for skiing.

Besides the wonderful small-town environment, what I love about my little city is that on every holiday where an American flag is in order, such as Veterans Day, Memorial Day, etc., the local Boy Scouts put up hundreds of large American flags along the two miles of the city's main street. They drilled holes in the sidewalk near the curb for each flag's pole, and the flags are spaced about 20 feet from each other. It's absolutely spectacular, and when the flags went up after 9/11, it was nearly impossible to drive down the main drag without crying.

[mmelindas]

Oh,....crab cakes and steamed blue crabs...yummy! I used to go to a cool restaurant in MD that was out over the bay and had a crowd: it had tables covered with paper shelf stuff and the crabs were served steamed on lunchroom trays piled high. There was a deep sink and a waiter with clean towels at each end of the place.

All you could hear was the whacking sound of people beating their piles of steamed crabs to eatable pieces and the sound of shells flying all over...and lots of slurping and gulping sounds of deliriously happy crab eaters...

They served seasoned red salt and vinegar for the crabs and people in all kinds of dress, from mink and diamonds to bib overalls were in there eating. I think it was called "Captain Johns" or something like that.

It burned down and I don't think they ever rebuilt it, but no kidding the best STEAMED CRABS ARE FROM MARYLAND!

I really miss Maryland crabmeat, cakes, everything food related to seafood there....wahhhhhhh!

[eofelis]

I live in Grand Junction, Colorado. I've been here for about 3 years and I love it here. I'm a (non-traditional, 38) student at Mesa State College, majoring in geology.

Before that I lived in Sheridan, WY for 7 years. It's pretty nice up there too.

I grew up in Ipswich, MA. I love living out west and I don't plan on moving back east. I'd like to go back there, with a bike, to visit more. School keeps me very busy right now, year round.

[bikerchick68]

...bikerchick...did you actually cross the Capilano Susupension Bridge?? Wow...you're made of stronger stuff than me. I made it about ten feet before freaking out...I just can't deal with the height!
D'oh...I forgot about the Buchart Gardens! Pretty spectacular, for sure. Did you visit in summer with the fireworks? This past winter they put in a refrigerated outdoor skating rink...now we can ice skate among the palms and cedars. Bizarre but neat

Yep! I thought it was breathtakingly gorgeous... and when you get to the other side, there are gorgeous walking trails thru the forest... really a beautiful area. Of course, I have also bungee jumped once... I'm going to Australia in Sept and will be doing the Sydney Bridge Climb... you have to wear a special suit where they clip ya in so if ya fall they can drag ya back up... falling is very unlikely... but I find it amusing. My best friend, not so much. She is not going, but will sit and wait while she sips an Appletini!

I was there in summer but didn't see the fireworks... have friends in Seattle so plan to come up next year again... but most likely in winter cause they want me to snowboard with them!

for those that haven't heard of the Capilano Suspension Bridge... it's 1 mile up, 1/4 mile across a river, fully suspended bridge... it shakes when ya walk on it! click the link and then watch it play... pretty neat!

http://www.capbridge.com/

[DirtDiva]

for those that haven't heard of the Capilano Suspension Bridge... it's 1 mile up, 1/4 mile across a river, fully suspended bridge... it shakes when ya walk on it! click the link and then watch it play... pretty neat!

http://www.capbridge.com/

A mile-high swingbridge? Duuuuuuude!