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Old 10-24-2015, 12:18 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Ive been to every nook and corner of Houston and the surrounding area and u haven't lived till u have been through the SLums of 5th ward Houston

felt like I was driving through the bombed out city of Syria or something LOL and the crazy thing is just 5 miles to the west of that is million dollar homes
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Old 10-25-2015, 05:33 PM   #42 (permalink)
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I don't know the area, but have been to the Lake District a few times on family holidays as a child. It's a real pretty area and not too dissimilar to north Wales where I now live. Same raw and rugged landscape, same weather, same air quality.
^ Yes, I noticed elsewhere the pics of your neighbourhood - I am very envious.

Not exactly EPOCH´s original plan for this thread, but perhaps he won´t mind if I invite people to post more pics of places by posing these questions:-

What are the highest/ most northerly/ southerly/ remote places you have been to?

For instance, most easterly for me would be East Berlin, and Haifa:-




Germany and Israel may not be the best of friends, but they seem to share the same taste for drab, grey concrete buildings.
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Old 10-25-2015, 07:59 PM   #43 (permalink)
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But my favourite scenery, my true enthusiasm is for The English Lake District:-



These hills, for instance, are the Langdale Pikes and like much of the area you can walk all over them because there are open to the public. No insects or animals to worry about, and no trees to block the view; just a lot of fresh air and exhilaration.
Lucky you! Ontario is truly the land of lakes--we have one third of the world's fresh water--but mosquitoes and black flies can suck all the enjoyment out of a hike.

Animals can be problematic too--I've encountered bears in the past. Once, I found a fresh deer carcass, evidently wolves' work. There was thick grey fur and blood all over the hiking trail. Needless to say, I left in a hurry! On the flip side, I've seen a lot of harmless wildlife, and that's always fun. Last winter, it was eight owls--a personal record.

Most northern would be somewhere in Germany or Northern Ontario, most southern would be Florida or California, most eastern would be Prague, and most western would be British Columbia and Washington state.
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Most northern was in Föhr, an island in the North Sea, most southern was Tunisia, most western was somewhere in Spain, most eastern was Moscow.
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...and Haifa:-

I liked Haifa. The centre of town is pretty ugly, but the seafront is nice, and the eastern side of town, up on the hill, is lovely:



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Old 10-26-2015, 02:29 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Highest place I've been:

Nepal, 'bout 15 miles south of Everest Base Camp. Always wanted to go to Base Camp and woulda made it too had my companion not fallen ill with altitude sickness. I didn't know him that well and it was tempting to journey on alone but he was in a bad way and it was a 5 day trek back to Lukla and so I couldn't leave him. Just felt wrong. Sometimes you gotta not be an arsehole.




Lowest place:

Dead Sea. Came here a few times when I lived in Israel. Cool place, spookily still, and so silent it hums. Water hurts like hell when you get it in your eyes.




Most northerly:

Newfoundland, Canada




Most southerly:

Lagos, Nigeria. Crazy, dirty, ugly city. Beautiful country though.




Most westerly:

New York. Spent a year here. Didn't like it.




Most easterly:

New Delhi, India. I love India. It's an assault on the senses and murders any preconceptions you have regarding how the world should be. You might see the most beautiful thing you'll ever seen one moment, and the most distressing or disturbing thing you'll ever see the next. It's that kinda place.

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Always wanted to go to Base Camp and woulda made it too had my companion not fallen ill with altitude sickness.
I read that as 'attitude sickness'


Amazing how widely traveled you are.
Were those just your wandering years, or is there some kind of bigger story behind all that?
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Attitude sickness? Haha. That's far cooler.

I think my mother influenced my desire to travel. Her and my father hitchhiked from the UK to India in the 70s, hanging out with Bulgarian gypsies and travelling across Afghanistan in beat up hippy camper vans along the way; and the stories she told sounded exciting and exotic. So when I finally had a little money saved up I wanted to have similar experiences.
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Lucky you! Ontario is truly the land of lakes--we have one third of the world's fresh water--but mosquitoes and black flies can suck all the enjoyment out of a hike.

Animals can be problematic too--I've encountered bears in the past. Once, I found a fresh deer carcass, evidently wolves' work. There was thick grey fur and blood all over the hiking trail. Needless to say, I left in a hurry! On the flip side, I've seen a lot of harmless wildlife, and that's always fun. Last winter, it was eight owls--a personal record.
^ Wow! It sounds like you have to take hiking a lot more seriously in Canada; I also would not like to encounter wolves, bears or mosquitoes.
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Most northern would be somewhere in Germany or Northern Ontario, most southern would be Florida or California, most eastern would be Prague, and most western would be British Columbia and Washington state.
Prague is a long way from you home patch, Pet_Sounds. I wonder what you were doing there? Everyone says it's a great city.

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Most northern was in Föhr, an island in the North Sea, most southern was Tunisia, most western was somewhere in Spain, most eastern was Moscow.
Congrats,grindy! With Moscow you win the prize for going furthest into Eastern Europe.

For some reason, I imagined you would´ve gone furthur north though - perhaps in search of strange Scandanvian music or something.
Fohr looks a nice place, but this place, 20 miles north of Loch Ness, beats it by about four degrees of latitude:-



^ What the photo doesn´t show is how windy it is; bleak, bland and windy is how I remember my stay on the Moray Firth coast.


That´s a really impressive portfolio, Mr. Charlie, with some spectacular pics! I often dreamed of going to Nepal or India but never quite had the courage. From what I´ve read about it, your description of India is a very neat summary of a very complex country.

Most southerly for me is Costa Rica, which I was rather disappointed with. The most exciting thing I recall, even though it was in a car, is crossing a very significant watershed. You climb and climb for an hour with the Atlantic to your back, then at last the gradient levels out and changes, and you have started the long descent to the Pacific. I think what made it special for me was that it was already dusk on the Atlantic side, but as we crossed the ridge we came back into sunshine again and could see the sun as it set way off in the low hazy distance.
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Attitude sickness? Haha. That's far cooler.

I think my mother influenced my desire to travel. Her and my father hitchhiked from the UK to India in the 70s, hanging out with Bulgarian gypsies and travelling across Afghanistan in beat up hippy camper vans along the way; and the stories she told sounded exciting and exotic. So when I finally had a little money saved up I wanted to have similar experiences.
Nice sharing here. I also love travel like my parents. And they always inspire me to go somewhere for excursion when I am free. LOL!
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