I wanna go there someday. It has to be the coolest National Park there is!!!

Victoria, BC

Crap! Gotta get there!!! Will you meet me and show me around if I come this summer?

Absolutely!

If you come around Audiofest time (TBD), I can introduce you to a very cool bunch of guys and we can listen to $10K stereo systems

Tell me more. All I'm getting by googling is a Denver thing. I am free pretty much anytime I choose to be and would love to see Victoria and more....

Note me please.....

OK

no better place to disappear to than a good book or movie

Ha ha...you have got that right. I can drop into a book and disappear for as long as I please...or until it ends....whichever comes first. ;3

if it ends first you can always grab another. a bigger one next time xD

when i do go anywhere i really like rottnest island one of ym fav places !! ^v^

Link please!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottnest_Island !! ^v^

Probably Lochranza on the Isle of Arran here.

It's a small village sitting right on the beach in a semi-circular bay with a harbour in it and a beautiful sea view on a clear day. Further inland the surroundings become a rocky craggy mountainous landscape covered with forest, nice place to explore.
And to top it all off, the village has a ruined castle tower sitting right in the middle of it.
It's a writer's dream location made real, hehe

Costs too much for the ferry fare to get there every day though. So I just relax and dream of it

OMG! Are you a Scot? I'm one by name, though not by blood. I'd love to come across the ocean and see the isles!!!

Thought I mentioned that before, hehe.
Yep, I am. Living on the west coast here with a nice view of the Isle of Arran out across the water (at least on a clear day. Can't see it at all today).

I've been there myself a few times. Beautiful scenery. When it's not raining, lol.

Oooh, that looks lovely! I can think of a few places, for myself. Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve is lovely, and a place I must visit again, and definitely need more pictures of it, but here is one, and here is another. Interestingly enough, Chicago is something like that for me, on the opposite end of the spectrum, all of the things to see, just watching and wandering about, never really knowing what you might see, like this. There are parks here in Aurora that are lovely, just begging for me to visit and photograph; already wandered along the Fox River, travelled its length from Algonquin to Oswego by bicycle (albeit not all in one go, heh), and then seen the Fox River Dells at Wedron and Sheridan and the confluence with the Illinois at Morris.

I'm off to Chicago yet again in a couple hours, and next weekend I intend to be in Monticello IL. For a steam locomotive, of course.

Funny how to one a big city is anathema, where to another it is a big source of interest. I left LA in 1971 because it was too big and crazy for me.....yet I still can see the attraction and thrill of living in a big city. Especially one with a lot of history and interesting places. It's one of those love/hate things for me. I love LA for all the interesting things there and close by....which must be very much like Chicago. Yet I freak from all the people......I don't play well with crowds. *sigh*

Oh, I understand. If I lived in LA, I would definitely leave also. The smog, the earthquakes, the fires, the lack of public transportation, the lousy weather...Chicago doesn't have any of those problems, not really. It's not that crowded, either, at least I don't think it is, with plenty of parks and little niches and green spaces and secret places for a kitty to perch and watch the rest of the world go by, practically unnoticed.

That's a hard question, as there isn't much open land around here that isn't taken up with either a big horse farm or someone's tobacco fields. So there's really nowhere for me to go that isn't a pretty big trip. Still, of the places I can get to in a day, I'd have to say my favorite would be the Daniel Boone National Forest. It covers a pretty good chunk of the eastern part of the state, and while it isn't all virgin forest, there are some lovely spots there nevertheless. My undergraduate university was actually located slap in the middle of the forest, and I spend a fair amount of time at a lovely man-made lake not too far from campus.

A little closer to home is the Blue Licks battlefield, which was the site of one of the last battles of the Revolutionary War and, unfortunately, a disastrous rout for our team. After 200+ years, there isn't a lot there to show that it's anything other than a big, open field, though, and if you don't think too hard about its history it is a very peaceful place.

That's one reason I'm glad I live out west. The history here is more spread out....kinda. Lots of places here still where the hand of man has never set foot. (=p) But really anywhere you can escape the noise of traffic and man made machinery.....where the sweet sound of birds and the wind through the boughs of the trees is all you hear......this is heaven, in my opinion. The sound of surf counts too. ;3

And that's why I've always wanted to go out west, at least for a visit. Mind you, I do enjoy the history here and being able to go visit places where famous men like Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton made their mark two hundred years ago. It very much appeals to the historian in me. But I would very much like to go see the wilder parts of the country, too.

Pretty looking place that Big Sur. As for my pretty place...That place only exists in my mind...I can however reach it from everywhere!

Lucky you! I have to drive. But happily it's not far. I can get there in a couple of hours.