I am in London, Ontario, listening to the World at Six on CBC Radio and reviewing the details of our trip next week to San Diego. Like other posters, I am looking out a home office window at a garden in disrepair - not so much from our indifference, as because of the aggressive browsing of the local deer herd. This past winter, they ate everything but the bricks on the house. Our trip to San Diego and two weeks of California touring following, will let me avoid replanting the shrubbery for a bit longer. Cheers to all the Fodorite's posters. Your advice is always so helpful.

Lola be ready for some summer weather!

OOPs I mean Ionastation (Lola's way back there in August of 2008)

Iam in Lucerne!

I'm in the middle of the US, in northeast OK, where we've had more rain than usual, but not like Iowa. I kept scrolling thru the messages & reading all the travel plans - makes me plumb pea green with envy! We have vague plans for our next trip to UK, but no firm idea when that will be. Just that family & Scotland will be on the agenda; I'd love to summer there & get away from our heat & humidity!

Hello All, Must admit since I love to travel this has become my secret addiction. Come home and sign on to Fodors the way some people sign on to porn. Have my laptop set up on my butcher block table surrounded by maps and travel books of France. For those of you talking about enjoying photos of your vacations have stumbled on a great way of doing it. I subscribe to the school of thought want to enjoy my photos. Everytime we get back from a trip I take my favorites and take two thin plain panes of glass. Mine are 4' x 3' and make a collage of photos, seal between the glass and mount using mirror clips at the edges. I get to see my photos every day and no space left to frames. People who come to visit love to browse the collages.

Bangor, Maine, 200 meters north of I-95.

It's 12.15 a.m. here in Toronto where I have just finished uploading the 1300 photos I took while recently in France.

ncounty, Thank you.

dupher,

Hi, and thank you. Yes the invitation is still good. Please let me know when you make it to Hawaii.

How is Natty?

Cafegoddess,
How kind of you to remember...and to ask about Natty...he is fine and about to move to Newport R.I....Hawaii seems unlikely right now, but, for a meal from a Cordon Bleu chef?....you never know!
Have a wonderful journey...
Dupher

at my mac at home watching uefa cup quaterfinal ger-cro

Luzern, Switzerland
5 minutes walk from the lake

In sunny Texas talking with my sister that lives in Provence.

To designergigi in South Dakota:
You didn't mention which area you relocated to but we vacationed there last year. One night spent in Chamberlain down on I-90. Travelling west we crested a hill and stared in wonder at the most beautiful sight of the valley below with the river moving at a lazy pace.

Our destination was Keystone, just south of Rapid City. We stayed at a lodge which was beautiful; and they have a wonderful chef on staff.

There is so much to see in that area! Enjoy your new home.

How great, a thread that has been going on for nearly 8 years!

I'm sitting here at my desk in the tv room of our house in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The weather outside is not too bad, after all it is the dry season and the temperatures are much more reasonable.
Cheers!

Hello world travelers and dreamers:

When I stumbled onto this thread, I had to look twice when I saw the first posting in 2000!

It is funny that I should find this as I am researching for an upcoming trip to St. Petersburg and Helsinki. So, if you have any odd or interesting tips or sites, please do tell!

Right now, I am visiting Baltimore, Maryland US and loving life in Austin, Texas.

Happy travels to all..whether by plane or computer!

Home on the computer. Milwaukee of course - beer and brats!!!

For childlife - One trip to Helsinki we took the ferry to Tallin for the day. That was great. Another trip to Helsinki we took a tour by train to St Petersburg sponsored by the Finland Tourist Bureau. This involved getting a visa for Russia.

The night ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm with Silja line was awesome.

We did take the train to Turku for the day.

Just walking around Helsinki is great. Enjoy your trip.

In my family room, about 15 miles from downtown San Francisco. Also on a Mac!

Hi Everyone! I have to admit that reading this thread is giving me goosebumps! It's fascinating!

Whenever I start planning a trip, especially international, I always turn to this site for invaluable help from everyone. But I've always wondered where in the world all my helpers are writing from. Rarely does anyone give any clues about their locations.

Now I stumble across this thread with all the "where are you?" answers and it just gives me such a profound feeling of connection or something.....know what I mean?

Anyway, I am nowhere exotic right now. I'm in a town called Peninsula, in Northeastern Ohio,in the midwest part of the U.S.

I'm in my living room in a big, brown leather chair with my laptop on my lap. I've spent the whole day in this spot planning out a last minute trip to Munich and Venice for my husband and I.

We leave in 2wks and I just decided last night where to go. So today I have the deliciously frustrating and perplexing task of "putting together the puzzle pieces" of planes, trains, B&B's, etc.

All the best to all of you, whereever you may be...and safe travels.

I, too, just stumbled across this thread and find it very interesting. I am in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, about 150 miles south east of Chicago. Right this second I'm on Fodor's still working on Netherlands, Belgium, France trip for October. Our beautiful (in our minds) Olde English Bulldog is snoring slightly as he lounges on the sofa, tongue protruding about 2 inches from his mouth! I love reading the exotic places the posters are living. Having lived all over the US, I find Fort Wayne a nice, quiet place to live. Alabama, Hollywood, Florida, San Jose, California, Rancho Cucamonga, California, now here. Maybe these places sound exotic to others! LOL, keep the thread going.

In Bruges, listening to the Market square tower bells play "Greensleeves."

Greg, can't wait to see Bruges, there in October, all who have been say it is so beautiful! Lucky you.

At this very second I am sitting in the Detroit, Michigan airport waiting for my flight for my first ever trip to London! NOT a place where I usually am for posting. But a point where the planning of many months is finally coming to fruition. Thanks Fodorites!

Sally

I am sitting in my suburban New Orleans home still trying to decide where to stay on Lake Como in October, and how much to pack if we have to evacuate for Hurricane Gustav. I lost half of what we had three years ago, so I'm not too crazy about the thought of having to replace house/clothing/items yet again. But, let it be known, that even in the worst case scenario in which we lose the entire contents of the house (again), we will still be on that plane in late September heading to Austria and Italy!

at home...watching Good Eats.

www.hereinfranklin.wordpress.com

Right this second I'm driving 80mph northbound on Interstate 15, eating a sandwich, smoking a cigarette, drinking a Coors, and texting on the phone. I do so love multi-tasking

Dutch, I'm right behind you. Do you see the flashing lights?

Challiman -

Thanks for the warning - I hope you didn't see me toss my bag of weed.

I'm here in the living room of our little log cabin in southeastern Massachusetts, watching a Red Sox game and hoping they beat the poop out of the Yankees. It 4-2, Boston but Damon's on first with no outs. One eye on the tube and all fingers on the keyboard.

Italy in 39 days but who's counting?

In Ottawa Ontario, having just watched Bill Clinton's excellent eulogy of Obama. On a more travel-related note:

1. Just phoned and wished bon voyage to a friend who leaves in 2 days for Paris, La Rochelle and London.

2. Over dinner tonight, we debated going to France in October VS. going to South Africa in November.

3. We took our crashed hard drive to a tech shop today, to try to recover about 1000 travel photos: France, Lithuania, Savannah, Boston, Florence, Rome, Provence, Burgundy, Nova Scotia, Toronto....

Off in the car tomorrow morning to start a long Labour Day weekend at our cottage on Lake Constan, jewel of eastern Ontario. It's been our refuge for many years -- where we will celebrate this weekend the 32nd anniversary of our meeting + falling in love!

I am watching the dying of the sun at our beach house, over the water, there is a couple of eagles swooping around, a big log floating in the water, a warmth on my back as I leisurely read my book, and a wish to remember this day.....beautiful, just beautiful...

Our little sick doggie is getting better, albeit very thin, our good friends just waved from down the beach, DH is full of home made soup and mellow, and we are going to bed early.

Happy dreams, everyone.

Hi, it's Thursday afternoon, in tropical Queensland. I've just watched the movie "In the Valley of Elah", and found it most touching and disturbing.

I'm in my office/library, and look out onto my garden with native trees and shrubs. A cheeky kookaburra has just landed, he'll soon be digging fat, juicy grubs from the garden. Then, he'll bash the living daylights out of his meal, leaving a big mess on my fence. This will be scrubbed off, with warm, soapy water and a stiff brush.

It's nice to visualise our fellow forum members, all over the world. Great idea for a thread.

Cheers.

I'm sitting at my computer in my small hometown of New Roads, Louisiana which is about an hour north of Baton Rouge. Right now everyone in our state is trying to figure out if hurricane "Gustav" will hit our fair state, and if so, when and where. We may get some bad weather, but generally we are too far north to get the worst of it. Of course the potential for tornadoes, some high winds (Andrew came right over us with gusts of 120mph)and lots of rain, is always there. I am the administrator of a nursing home and am preparing for 15 new admissions on Sunday from a nursing home on the coast. But on a travel note, i can't WAIT to go to Tuscany in October!!!!

I am about 30 miles east of Sacramento, CA..watching football & waiting till we go to Germany Dec 1 for 2 weeks!! this is fun to see what everyone is doing

love this thread! I'm at home on Long Island (NY) enjoying the peace while my husband and sons are out golfing. Contemplating whether we should spend tomorrow in Manhattan or on Fire Island.

My first reply -- Aug 27 -- didn't go through. I was in the Detroit airport waiting for a flight to London for our long-planned trip. Right this second I am sitting in our flat in Archway after a hard day doing the verger's tour of Westminster Abbey, the tour of Parliament, and the dismounting ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade. Then some good Greek food from a nearby restaurant and now sitting relaxing.

Normally I post from the kitchen table in our fifth wheel RV, where we have lived since retiring and selling the house and most of the furniture etc. As much as possible we follow the weather.

Sally

Good luck, lsugirl, looks like Gustav will be a most unwelcome guest somewhere in your area. Keep us posted on how it is going.
From Carol in Indiana.

A small coincidence, ref. HowienChar,
I am about 30 miles east of Sacramento, just finished watching football...(Cameron Park)
Dupher

We are sixty miles from San Franciso (and an hour from Sacramento) drinking wine and watching TV on the computer on a Saturday night.

And we've decided that our next trip will be to Greece -- so that we can touch the soil of my husband's grandfather... :)

Rural North Saanich, Vancouver Island, about 30 miles from Victoria, BC. Sitting in my home office in the semi darkness on a cool summer night on the last day of August - 11 at night. Looking out the window to our patio where my sons wedding reception is winding down. Well at least thinning out. Those left are the young, energetic crowd of serious dancers. The 20 and 30 somethings. Lots of energy so I suppose it may yet go for hours yet.

So interesting to read where other posters are / were.

What can you say about this travel forum ? My last posted question got 33 replies with many pearls of travel insights. Love it. Between this and Trip Advisor, there is a wealth of travel information.