OK, I'll give this a shot, but it's going to be difficult to sound as glamorous as some of you folks. I'm winding down after my week of commuting. Late this afternoon I drove from the school where I teach in New Iberia (Do you read James Lee Burke?) through the cane fields, then across the Atchafalaya Basin to Baton Rouge. I'm eating hummus and drinking a dos Equis Amber. Well there you have it. J.

Sitting at my antique desk in my cottage in Griffin, GA, about 40 miles south of Atlanta, listening to Barry White on Rhapsody as I type this. Just got home from having dinner with good friends and taking a walk in the crisp fall air. The high school football stadium is about 2 miles away and the music from the bands is drifting thru the air and taking me back years and years. Feeling thankful for my blessings...and enjoying the fact that we (fodors) are a community that spans many countries and ...this thread at least...several years of time.

Oh my, a bittersweet read here. My old pal Art posting as well as Wes Fowler..I don't remember reading this before.
Jason, I hope your find your dads itineraries!
I love this thread :)

At this second, I am sitting in the corner of our little loft apartment in Portland Oregon..our home of 3 months. I can see the city twinkling below, as I sit here in front of walls of windows, trying to decide on where and what my husband and I will do on our 100th anniversary, this Nov 6th :)

I wish I could look out my window and comment the garden needs weeding, however if truth be told, it needs heavy earth moving equipment.

We also have been refinishing the floorboards. However we needed access to all points so we decided to do it in stripes. This almosts works except when you come to the second row of stripes, after the first coast hard to see where you have and haven't applied the oil! So we have socks as markers on the finished sections of boards so we know where to walk. I really pray no-one comes to visit next few days.

All this is in a suburb of Sydney called Como named by Italian immigrants. The house is on a slope with bushland setting that threatens our sanity every fire season.

Anyways off to hopscotch down to the bathroom:)

Where am I? Sitting at home planning a trip to Spain and Italy to see our daughter in Dec whose on an Italian exchange program..can"t wait.. but the household chores will have to !! This is such a lovely timewaster!

Forgot to mention I"m in Melbourne Australia

I'm at home, in the Chicago suburbs, wishing I could be in Paris.

liz

In my living room overlooking Hong Kong airport (Chek Lap Kok); just returned from 2 weeks in my residence secondaire just outside Beynac, Dordogne, and wishing I was still there!!

Hello! I am at my house, in Sardegna Italy. My husband is stationed here and I am exploring to discover cool things to do for New Years!

Ciao Branbal:

Lucky dog!

I'd love to go with my husband and children (7 & 10) to Sardegna: My dream would be to stay in a family friendly hotel that offers halfboard and that's located on a beautiful beach. I'd love to rent a car for 1-2 days and explore parts of the island.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

My goodness what an exotic bunch of places you are all in! I feel quite boring in comparison. But here goes anyway!
I am in my study, where during the week I work as a self employed accountant. At the moment it is 6.15 pm and the last day before daylight saving comes in so i ve made the most of the evening light to look out on our garden where yeaterday i finally pulled out the last of the summer bedding plants and planted winter flowering pansies, so at midnight tonight it is officially winter here in my small village in Shropshire England. We have been enjoying an 'indian summer' here lately and it has been much milder than usual for the time of year so Ive been able to get out and enjoy the countryside, especially as weve been dog sitting for a friend and have taken the opportuniy to explore some of the many footpaths in the area. I'm just begining to realise how having a dog changes your perspective of where you live. This last week we've discovered places nearby that we never realised existed. He goes home tonight so I've decided that if the weather stays good this winter I will try to explore more of my surrounding countryside.
Meanwhile I'll dream of warmer days as we have six weeks to go until we fly off to Tenerife in the Canary Islands for a dose of sun and fun for Christmas and New Year. counting the days.
By the way Scarlett nice to see youre settling in to your new home.Hope pup and the Yankee are well.
Thanks for the thread lola.
CM

...I'm up the road a bit from Scarlett
in Vancouver BC, and like her I'm planning my November 6 anniversary!
We're on Year 200 - time flys when.....

Dear llamalady
congrats on your forthcoming anniversary.
I bet you know all about the winter chill in BC!
Keep smiling and knitting the thermal vests!
lots of 'bat and owl' activity tonight must be because its nearly halloween! Eerie!
BBFN
CM
CM

Hi llamalady. I am in Vancouver too, getting ready to go out to rake leaves. And no, countrymouse, it is not really cold here at the moment. Vancouver has a very temperate climate. We are getting ready to go to Edinburgh next Friday and we hope the weather be ok there too.

Dear Teabag thanks for that info
Hope you have a great time in Edinburgh, but I'd invest in some 'thermals' if I were you as Scotland can be a might chilly at this time of year.
Regards CM

What a kick this thread is. Are we all telling the truth? Countrymouse, Shropshire sounds plenty exotic to me. Where do they say "None so queer as folk"? I suppose that's the grass is always greener syndrome. Good grief, I don't even know where Sardegna is! In the old fogey department, I'm really looking forward to an extra hour of sleep tonight. Check you later. J.

llamalady, 200 years! my oh my , ain't love grand :D

Happy days ,Mouse!!

Hi jmw44 (or may I just call you J?)
Your not alone in your ignorance, I dont know here Sardegna is either! Well I guess we cant be gorgeous and brainy too!
I recall my old Yorkshire grandma saying 'theres nowt as queer as folk!
Which she always said when puzzled by peoples actions. could that be it?
I didnt catch where you were by the way.
I never thought of it that way, I suppose it is rather exotic here! Oo I'm an exotic shropshireite ,cool!
Yoohoo Scarlett, missing your e-mails ducks!
Bye Bye
CM
Ooer the owls are at it again, must be a fox on the prowl.

Sardegna is what the Italians call Sardinia. As for me ... still at home in Canberra. Which is an unfortunately long way from Sardegna.

It is about 1:30am on October 30th, a Sunday, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

I'm staying with my sister at her boyfriend's house in LA. I'm still wide awake because we get an extra hour tonight, after turning our clocks back an hour again. We had dinner together and then saw the movie "Shopgirl" at Century City. It was a somewhat sad night for me, because I'm wishing my husband would see me again. I miss him and I love him so much. I would do anything to have him back in my life... forever.

Having my usual silent rant about "daylight savings" time change. I hate it! It takes some of us more than 6 months to truly adjust to the time change---and then it changes again.

Sitting in the library, watching the sun come up over the woods behind our house, surrounded by hundreds of books that must be packed if we are to move Nov. 15! I am in complete denial as I sit here and sip coffee, hoping that I will wake up on Thanksgiving Day in the new house, fully moved and decorated, ready for 40 relatives from three states. (I believe this is what they call A Cry for Help. But, no help is in sight. My mother, who has the temerity to be going to <i>Acapulco</i> for a <i>wedding</i> that week, cannot help; 2/3 of kidhelp at college up to the last moment (&quot;sorry Mom, I have a test just before break&quot; as if that ever stopped them from re-arranging a test if the <i>beach</i> was the destination); and husband who has pre-arranged and impossible to change off call time <i>after</i> Thanksgiving. Feeling rather sorry for myself. Sniff.

At my second floor office desk overlooking nearly all of the small city of San Miguel de Allende, the Presa Allende and the Guanajuato Mountains to the west.
The fireworks began about 05:45 CST so I'm now wide awake listening to the church bells.
M

i am in sunny praha in the shopping area of namesti republiky surrounded by lovely czech women and not so lovely czech men with dodgy moustaches.

I am in River Ridge, Lousiana, about 20 minutes from the French Quarter. It is Sunday morning, 10:15 a.m.
We are going to walk around the French Quarter today for the first time since Katrina and have some beignets and Coffee made with Chicory. We are truly blessed that all we had at home was wind damage.

marilynr - is Cafe du Monde ok?

I am at my desk in Sugar Land, Texas looking for information about my upcoming trip to Rome and Sorrento in November. There is a cool breeze coming through the open window as I look out onto into my back yard. Sugar Land is about 20 min. south of downtown Houston.
I love this web site because it has given me so much information about where to stay. Now that I have booked my room, I am in search of what to do in Rome for three days and Sorrento in 5 days. Any ideas would be wonderful.

What an interesting question...

I'm visiting Copenhagen with my husband and am right now in the lobby of the Scandic Hotel. I came to use the computer to check out the wonderful Fodor's website to get any last-minutes tidbits of info on places we should visit in the next two days. So far the info is the same as in my book, though these threads always have the best info!

hi
i am in my spare bedroom ,where the computer is,looking at fordors website planning my NZ trip which starts in 28 days
outside it's wet &amp; cold and is now getting dark (it is england)and the leaves are blowing off the trees
but the weather does not bother me today
my family is arriving tonight for a short visit from italy.they are staying 3 days
so we will have plenty of laughter even if it rains the next 3 days it will not matter

Sitting in front of my PC obviously! its in attic conversion in my home, its raining outside and dark, but not too cold, i'm looking a flight prices for a surprise trip to either Amsterdam or Italy for my hubbys birthday next March.

A stately cubicle in a midtown New York City high rise....

enjoying a day off reflecting on our recent trip to England and Paris just last week! Fodor's travel talk has been our guide for the past two years for our trips to Europe. Couldn't have done it half as well without all of you, out there. It's cloudy and cool in Manitoba but memories and photos bring back lovely warm and fuzzy feelings.

I am a travel junkie at home in Cleveland, Ohio typing away on a desk that is actually a DOOR on top of two filing cabinets that my husband salvaged from who-knows-where doing my favorite thing--dreaming about my next big trip. He wants to buy furniture, but I told him we should never do that when we could be spending our money on exotic trips to far off lands. I'm currently fascinated with a driving trip in Ireland. Any ideas?

Doha, Qatar

Thinking about the peki-peki chicken from Nando's I had for dinner.

Right now, at my computer, at work in New York City on Park Ave. Can't wait for my trip to skiing in Austria in a few months.

Sitting at my computer in lovely Central New York in one of Syracuse's suburbs. The days are getting shorter and the leaves are really falling now. Winter can't be far off, but today was nice enough to pretend that it is spring.

My husband is in Romania, of all places, and I am at home with the pooch.((&amp;))
((c))

I am sitting at work looking at the first snow of the season on top of the local &quot;mountain&quot; (actually a very large foothill of the Rocky Mountains), contemplating how much I have to do before leaving for Seattle on Thursday. I've only recently discovered this site and am so happy to have found this community of travellers!

Rauma, Finland...although I'm from Mass. USA and only living here temporarily. Off to my yoga class with an instructor who doesn't speak English! :) I'm slowly learning Finnish though...

Currently typing from the Air France lounge at Paris CDG...heading to Amsterdam shortly and then on to Cairo. US citizen traveling abroad on business.

Experienced no riots on this trip.

my bedroom in New Jersey USA

i'm at work, the final minutes of the workday. i'm in my office, looking at the heaps of documents i have to classify now that a nine year long building project has come to an end... it is already dark outside, first day of foggy cold weather over here. winter is coming nearer. i feel it in my bones...