Cool post! I am currently at home in Montreal and dreaming of my trip to Switzerland/Italy/France this summer. I leave in exactly one month from today!

I'm in Naples, FL searching the internet for interesting articles about Prague. I'm planning a trip in 2 weeks.

I am in my living room in Dallas, TX with my Dad. It looks kind of like an antigue shop. There is a huge leather couch with a quilt, a blanket, and a pillow with cover, all from very different vintages. The coffee table (wrought iron with a glass top) is covered with papers, as my mother opens her mail here. There are postcards from me from ages ago that the maid just picks up, dusts, then puts right back. My dad is sitting in his black leather chair, which was his father's leather chair and which will, some lucky day, be my leather chair. I am sitting in a huge wooden chair on a soft cushion. Behind me is the bookshelf and music section, which has thousands of CDs, lots of records, and pictures of my brother and me when we were small. The range of items is really stunning: a leather mardi gras mask from NO, a mobile from Zimbabwe, a huge painting from an artist friend in Arizona, jazz pastels by a local (Dallas) artist, a mosaic from Spain, a wooden wall piece from Jamaica, a sun and moon from Mexico, and watercolors from France. there is a family corner where my and my brother's art is on proud display, along with a knit wall hanging by my aunt, depicting our dearly departed cat, Elvin. My dad just swore because the printer got a paper jam (obviously mom's fault), and our two dogs are anxiously awaiting us to go to bed so they can jump up on the couch to sleep. My favorite thing about this room is, by far, the picture of my grandmother. That said, I also love the silver bowl full of fruit carved from marble and other stones, the granite grapes being my favorite of the group.

I'm here in Rock Hill SC (USA), just south of Charlotte, NC. Warm and muggy today. Just finished up an evening walk through the neighborhood with my wife, kids and dog. We are eagerly anticipating our trip to London, Paris and Rome...just a few days away now. Listening to U2, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". How true!!

Just back from Memorial Day weekend at Lake Martin in AL involving college children and their friends, eighth grade son and his friends, DH, two dogs, grandparents, and a niece and nephew apiece. Have learned a valuable lesson, though: when opening a lake house, do not invite a slew of people. Open house a weekend or day before, find and dispose of dead, dessicated lizard bodies in bedrooms before 19-year-old girls arrive. Make sure boat motor turns over before a group is on it with skis, wakeboards, etc. Go ahead and buy a new battery and take it with--why should this year be any different from every other year when we've needed a new battery?? Check for staples (paper towels, tp, unopened toothbrushes) and lay in a WWIII store of Diet Coke FIRST. Gather up all princess pictures made by young cousin's friends at lakeside birthday party, sweep up anthill of glitter, scrape up blobs of birthday candlewax BEFORE you have a new layer of older slobs who litter CD's, poker chips, playing cards and laptop computers everywhere. :D

It was great to be with everyone and a blessing for DH to be off call for three days in a row, but it was sheer heaven to come home to our home in GA, boxwoods and gardenias on the porch welcoming us with that heavenly combination of fragrance, son and DH heading out for a game of tennis before it gets too late.

I am very happy to be home.

Thought it might be fun to see where some of you are a year later.

Hello Iola,
Is this the longest running posting?

This year we are at our new home in North Carolina making plans for another trip to Europe. Italy this time to celebrate 20th wedding anniversary and significant birthdays for both of us. (Five days apart.)

At home in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, trying to finish a paper ...

At home in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, drinking a glass of shiraz and waiting for the HBO show "Entourage" to come on!

at work in Manhatten :(
waiting patiently for my next trip to Catalonia in 10 days....

Tonight I am sitting on the tiny loveseat in my tiny little studio-efficiency apartment. My bed, kitchen, and bathroom are all no more than 10 feet away (and that's being generous). I'm a college student, about 4 months away from graduation. I just finished taking a final exam online, so now I'm waiting up to catch The Daily Show before I hit the sack. I have to work in the morning, but I'll most likely spend the day studying for another exam, with periodic breaks to check back here.
It's a really nice night tonight, unusually quiet around here, since I'm used to the sound of drunken frat boys and shattering beer bottles. But tonight, all I can hear are the crickets outside my open window. I attend the biggest of the Big Ten schools, so it's only nice and quiet like this during the summer.
By the way, I'm very impressed that this thread is still going after a year. Keep it up!

Home at computer, checking mail, making to do lists for youngest child who leaves for boarding school in a few days :( sad to let go but everyone in (my) known universe assumes "empty nest" mom will suddenly be able to staff neighborhood food pantry weekly, run box office for local theater group, and continue as church treasurer indefinitely! Give up garden club, get saddled with music fundraiser! Need to subtract without adding!

Business trip to Chicago, then back to Dallas, then Knoxville, Indianapolis, back to Texas, and then on to Bangkok.

Sitting at the sofa of my soon-to-be former home in Indianapolis. Enjoying a glass of diet Pepsi and planning my trip to Frankfurt,Italy, Croatia,Switzerland, and Thailand. Can't complain! : )

In the (renovated) attic of our renovated 18th century house in a village in the Perigord in France. Just spent the weekend working on our village fete, participating in the making of 5000 crepes, serving 300 meals on the grounds of the 12th century chateau. Finally I think I have the smell of several hundred portions of confit that I cooked out of my hair, clothes, etc. Husband is busy counting receipts of fete - he is the treasurer. This is called being 'integrated' - i.e. exhausted from all this participation.

This morning into Sarlat to welcome guests at one of our properties there. Checked laundry, dishwasher, toilet etc. People have been saying to us for years how nice it must be to have taken early retiremement. If only. It' wonderful here and we aren't about to go anywhere else, or complain, but we still do some work for a living.

And I had to find this and post after Carlux with the 12th century chateau...

I'm in my sitting room waiting for the baby to fall asleep and wishing my sisters house peeing dog would stop barking outside-where he'll stay until she returns!

Another hot day in Atlanta, counting the days until the glorious fall.

kswl-we spent Memorial Day weekend at lake Martin also! Same trouble w/the jet ski-it never did work that weekend!

At my office in suburban Chicago (Hillside, to be specific). It's a beautiful day, so far.

Sitting in my livingroom in Goersroth, Germany just north of Wiesbaden. I'm staring at the pile of boxes just delivered by Ikea and trying to figure out where to start. When we move back to the States in four or five years we'll most likely leave much of the furniture behind, so Ikea is a favorite of ours.

Thought I'd take a break and try to get some ideas from this forum for our one week trip in October. Croatia, southern Italy and Turkey are all possiblities. Whenever I start to miss home, I just come to this board and start to get excited again about all of the great possibilities of what to do with our weekends!

Italybound07, are you from Alabama?

No-Atlanta. Very good friends own a place on the lake and we sponge as often as they will have us! It is so beautiful there.

How long have you had your place?

Hi, I'm at work, though it is my lunch hour, in downtown Toronto. I'm really interested in this forum lately as my husband and I are off to Paris in a few weeks time.

9:30 PM Madrid, sitting on my sofa, waiting to leave to go to dinner.

Sitting in my office hoping that dog left outside in the Atlanta heat survives!

Sitting in my office looking out my window (yes I'm one of only two who have outside windows) at the perfect, sunny, non humid, 80 degree day - wondering why I'm sitting inside on this perfect sunny.....

Dukey-don't worry-he'll live to pee another day...

In my office in Kansas City, Missouri, with an investigation report to write but seemingly unable to leave "the board." Could be because I leave for the south of France a week from Saturday and, despite the beckoning stacks of paper on my desk, even simple talk of Europe beckons more.

sitting at the computer [of course] in cornwall gathering ideas for a short trip in November, suggested by a friend at the weekend who wants me to join her singing in Venice. Brings it home to me that those of us Fodorites who live this side of the pond and can therefore make instant plans to travel around Europe, are VERY LUCKY!
[sorry to shout, but its' true].

We live in a condo on Miami Beach directly on the bay. The apartment is ultra modern and my computer is in a back-lit “cove” off the den. A white wall unit with brushed chrome pulls is to my right, it holds our TV. My partner likes to sit across the room on a light green couch and watch TV while I sit on my computer planning our next trip. It is my obsession. The window behind me looks over sailboats and the water beyond. When I leave the windows and sliding doors open I can hear rope lines hitting against the aluminum masts of the rocking boats.

InMiami-that sounds like heaven! Who would ever want to leave?!

In my office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I'm practically up to my nose in book orders, and reflecting upon the fact that in exactly two weeks I will be on a flight to Rome, bound for a trip first to Capri.

BC

Italybound7--we're just south of you, in Griffin. We've been going to Lake Martin since the early 90's. My in-laws bought the property and we camped there (well, <i>some</i> of us camped there, I am not a camper!) for several years before the house was built. We're in Savannah Crossing, if you know where that is---but the lake is so big it's possible to be within a quarter mile of someone and not realize it. Our end is very quiet--in fact it is called Tranquility Point. [The sign from the street, in true Alabama fashion, reads, &quot;Tranquilty Point,&quot; as though it were a moving comforter :)]
Dukey, didn't realize you were from Atlanta also--

Sitting at my desk in Northern New Jersey, surrounded by books, electronic equipment, drying laundry -- can't shrink the souvenir t-shirts in the dryer -- and a million things I should straighten up and put away.
Instead, I will soon take a cup of coffee and a book into our garden and goof off until bedtime. The mess will still be here in the morning.

kswl-Our friend's home is near Point Cloxon-or something like that. I don't know much about the lake except there are some enormous houses and a rumor that Courtney Cox owns on the lake! It is just beautiful. We spent a week with them in July and took the kids out tubing right as the sun was going down each night-bliss!

Right now, I'm lying in bed with my laptop poised precariously against my legs while my husband reads a book beside me. The overhead fan is on and although the days in late August here in Rochester, New York cool off considerably at night, our upstairs bedroom is still stuffy from afternoon sun and the whir of the fan will help me to sleep very shortly-- to dream about a February trip to Paris...

In Connecticut at my Mother's new computer. Chicago tomorrow.

In my family room in Oregon, sitting in my recliner with my laptop in my lap and can't stop reading this forum! Have finished watering my outdoor flowers with the hopes that when we leave this weekend for a 10 day trip to Canada, my son and his wife will keep them all alive and beautiful. When we come back from Vancouver Island and Whistler, we'll be back at work for 2 weeks and then we'll be off for 4 weeks in Italy! We can't wait! I've been reading this forum religously for a few months now and am so grateful for all the wonderful tips and ideas that I've gleaned for our trip.

When we return, we should have a new grandbaby to dote on. That may curtail our traveling for a bit, but certainly not indefinitely! Our next big adventure will be our daughter's wedding in San Diego next summer. hhhmmmmm...maybe a restful vacation after the wedding would be in order. Ideas anyone?

In an eastern suburb of NYC, feeling guilty about what I'm not doing (cleaning/packing) in preparation for my trip to Rome next Friday. Since my addiction to this site, I am now able to jot down info in the dust around my computer. Thank you.

In my back garden, in glorious Victoria, B.C., trying to finish my Brittany trip report, before I start my Galicia trip report and plan my next trip to Spain in September.

The weather is perfect and the Australian Shiraz I am sipping while writing makes this a perfect Friday evening.

At my desk in my home office in Duri, Indonesia. Sipping my morning iced mocha and wondering if the smoke is ever going to go away.

What a great &quot;thread&quot;. I am sitting at my computer at home and looking at the Harbour Bridge in Sydney Australia. I see the flags blowing at the top of the bridge and can just make out the outlines of the people that are climbing the bridge. &quot;Bridge Climb&quot; is now the thing to do if you are not afraid of heights. I am happy to walk across it but not over it!!The sun is shining and the sky is blue! So why am I not out there enjoying it!?