Just returned to expat life in Saudi Arabia and mourning an enjoyable summer spent in
Nimes, Montpellier, Barcelona, Montreal, Biddeford Pool, ME; already planning next trip OUT at Christmas!

Thanks Challiman! Right now I'm reading this just to keep me occupied with something other than the storm. Stayed at Nursing Home till 4am getting evacuees in from another facility from the coast. Preparations are done. Just the waiting now. From predictions we may get 90mph+ winds. In addition to lots of rain and possible tornadoes. Similar to what we got for Andrew.That was scary! It should be an interesting day tomorrow!! Italy's looking better by the minute! they don't get hurricanes there do they? Oh forgot, they get earthquakes. If i had to pick, I'll take a hurricane. At least i know it's coming and can get out of the way if i want to!

At work in LI, NY wishing I was either in a manhattan park enjoying the last few days of summer, or home back in the DR, or anywhere in Europe really :-)

I'm in Dublin, Ireland in my bedroom which is third floor of 200 year old house near city centre, a lot of noise from traffic outside my window. I am feeling a little guilty as I should be downstairs cleaning or doing something from my long list of chores but I love this travel site and I have got so much information from it so I always check in from time to time.

Planning Venice - looking out on to a golf course on the Potomac River in Virginia, US...

Sitting into a cream leather lounge - laptop contently purring as the fingers tap tap tap

happy travels everyone

What a great question! And great responses. I'm in the cafe at the Chiostro di Bramante in Rome, taking a break from writing. I help my son with the publishing of his daily website about all things Italian. It's a good life.

Sitting at my desk at work counting the day's. Sept 15th we are off to Europe for 22 days.

what is your *all things Italian* website?? i wish i was with you!! hahaha

I, too, wish I was sitting in a cafe in Rome!

Instead, I am sitting in the back bedroom of my house in South Florida trying to measure how close the category 4 storm "Ike" will come to my town, based on the very scientific measurement of stretching my iPod headphone wire between the midpoint of the current spaghetti models and my town on the east coast. :'(

Boo hurricanes!

At my computer, how else would I have read this?

Sitting at my computer, of course, but getting up every few minutes to look off our upper deck at the America's Cup boat. Really feel lucky that she is docked for her work-up less than a hundred yards from our house. I spend much too much of my time watching the activity, and walking down to talk to team members. (Just ask my wife.)

She was built by a syndicate run by Larry Ellison, CEO of the Oracle software firm. She was built here in our little Washington State town of Anacortes, in great secrecy, out of high tech carbon fiber laminates by a firm that supplies Boeing, and the aerospace folks. She was launched last week, and moved to a yard just below us for load testing and sailing trials. If you want a look at her go to the web site:
http://tinyurl.com/6bnlan

She is an amazing sight!

:-)

In Iowa....counting the days till we leave for France! And that means I'll get to see the ocean! (I grew up on the coast of Maine, and boy, do I miss seeing the ocean every day.)

Jenny

North Rocks..a suburb of Sydney Australia. Planning our trip to the UK and Morroco in Decmber.
Rosie ((R))

I am in my home in Ben Lomond - not Scotland, though ... but in the Santa Cruz Mountians in California. Redwoods and beaches always bring me back, but having spent a good part of last month in the Castilla y Leon area of Spain was amazing. Soon heading north to Ashland, OR, for a long weekend. Next int'l trip will be my usual February in coastal Pacific Mexico. Hope to be back in Soain next summer ...

I'm in my office sitting at my desk at work, a small IT company in hot, dusty Arizona. It's in a commercial district but it's actually a converted farmhouse from the 30's, so it's quite charming, with Pottery Barn decor , thick tweed panels on the windows and a swirly, stained concrete floor. My office is decorated with photos from trips abroad, most notably a 24x36 shot of the most famous view of ancient Cefalu near the fisherman's beach, how I love that picture! I'm researching our trip to Paris and Barcelona coming up in just 5 weeks, wondering how I am going to lose 10 pounds so I can eat with reckless abandon and not worry about fitting into my jeans. Next to me is my lazy office mate, an 11 year old cockatoo named Eggo. He rarely pulls his weight around here, in fact I'm often hard at work while he plays, naps, or chews on random objects. I hear he screams when I go out to lunch. It's raining a little right now. Arizona is the craziest place, the only place I know where it rains with the sun brighly shining.

scdreamer do you have a trip report? Would love to read.....

Sitting at my desk looking out at the fig tree which is now bearing succullent delicious fruit. Coffee has just finished and I am retiring to the balcony to watch a cruise ship glide into a old port of Dubrovnik. It's a beautiful morning and will continue to be a great day as only one of the mega cruisers will arrive today. The attach of the umbrella people will not be there until Saturday.

I am in Tallinn, Estonia :)
I think most of you don`t know much about this country but you can read more for example here: http://www.visitestonia.com and http://www.all-about-estonia.com

I'm 200km west of Lake Superior in Canada. Sitting at a desk placed between my living room and dining room facing out onto a lovely green water lake.

I have no neighbours nearby so only the birds and I share this cloudy/to sunny/back to cloudy morning.

Our gardens are put to bed for the winter and life has slowed down here now.

I am sitting at my desk 1 1/2 hours west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It's a beautiful, sunny early autumn day (22 celsius). I'm taking a break from the garden where I've just pruned some rose bushes hoping they will bloom one more time.
The leaves here have not changed color yet, but it won't be long now. We have a resident cardinal chirping as I type.

I'm sitting at my dining room table, in Long Beach, CA planning my trip to Turkey - thanks Fodor's and all the people who post -- you make it so much easier

I am sitting in my family watching Project runway with my girls... playing online :D in Orange County California...

I have just been for my morning stroll to watch the magnificent sunrise in Opatija,Croatia. Husband is still in bed with a head cold! Off to the pharmacy to get some medication for him,then breakfast.
We then hit the roads again travelling up to Salzburg for tonight.Cheers.

Greetings from Northern California,

I am enjoying my last day of freedom from work after having the most magnificent first visit to Scotland, a land that truly touched me and often moved me to tears by it's beauty. I had two weeks there and wanted to spend another couple of months there easily.

I am now hanging out at home, laptop on the dining table and talking with my long term Internet friend, who I met afterwards in England. He took such great care to show me around during my four night visit with him. I was thrilled.

Travel is such a huge joy. I am ready to return anytime.

New york

This very second I sit in a 150 year old stone house, looking out the window at the 1,000 year old trees and down the valley to the little Greek village. Across the waters are Turkey and another 2 Greek islands in the hazy distance.

I have sage tea on my computer desk made from the bush outside, live Greek music being played by a couple of the neighbor men. Am here visiting wonderful person I met while in Athens couple of months ago on my tour.

Say YES to travel.. ha ha

Very small town in Pennsylvania. Planning my next trip in January to Italy. We are four seniors, 66 to 79. Keep traveling, everyone.

I'm at my Saturday job (part-time)at the showing desk at Coldwell Banker Real Estate office in Denver (Greenwood Village) Colorado reading the Fodor's talk as I always do to make the time pass quickly until I go home at 5:00pm. Always trying to decide my next trip to Europe and where I'll go.

At home in Richmond Nelson New Zealand, having lunch. It's 1pm on Sunday 30th Nov and it's a nice hot summer's day. We have a view of the sea from our lounge and also a view of the mountains which in winter are covered in snow.
The roses are all out, and the tomato plants are growing well.

I'm at work in Newark, New Jersey.
Going over my itinerary for my Christmas Market vacation next week in Netherlands and Germany.
Happy Holidays!

Sitting on the couch in a condo at Westin Mission Hills Resort & Villas In Rancho Mirage, California with the laptop on my lap watching late night TV and rading Fodor's Q & A.

Oopps...and reading (not rading) Fodor's Q & A

at work with my door closed so no one can see that I'm actually not doing any work at the moment!

Lovely thread. I'm in Manchester England and it's saturday lunchtime and I'm upstairs in my bedroom at my desk in front of a big window which looks out over Moston Vale which is a kind of park but rough and with no plants just rough grass but it's in a valley and it looks good in the summer but not that great now, but its a big view and there are no buildings in it. And I'm depressed about the fall of the pound and wondering whether we should still go to South America in August.

Waukesha, WI, sitting in our TV/computer room finishing up the trip report on Croatia. Two delightful grandchildren playing in the background, excitedly speculating on what Santa might bring this year. Temperature is 21 with a wind-chill of about 8, not much sun in sight and piles and piles of frozen snow packed everywhere! I can officially begin planning with my hubby our trip for next year-Czech Republic! That certainly helps those of us in the Frozen Tundra get through winter. Life is good, blessings plentiful. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

I'm in a condo on the north shore of Oahu typing this at 4:30 AM because I can't sleep! We just had huge storms here for the past few days, so there has been a lot of time spent hunkering down in the condo due to flooded roads and power outages. But...we aren't at the office!

Margy

I am sitting at my laptop on South Padre Island, Tx. I am a winter Texan. I will be leaving for church and then to eat. praying and singing makes me hungry. Actually almost anything makes me hungry. At almost 68, what is there left that gives us so much pleasure!! Just kidding hubby.I live in Illinois so you know why I come here for a few months in the winter.I am looking at the gulf of Mexico.It is, however, a bit "cool" here today but will be 70 or 80 in a couple days.To quote a renowned poet: "The seas are angry my friend" I have taken the princess for a walk, put on my "face" and will get prettified and take off across the causeway to lift my spirit and soul to get me thru the rest of the week. Happy days to all, wherever you are. Hopefully I will be in England next summer!!!

Taking a break from cooking dinner..I live in Sunny Texas home of the Cowboys.

On my sofa watching the end of the Pittsburgh Steelers/San Diego Chargers game. Too much down time during football games so I need to do something else.

In Utah looking out my window watching the rain melt the snow; counting the days until I get to France This May.