Favorite Place to be Alone
 

What is your favourite place to be alone, just you and nature? Mine is the Mojave desert. The sound of silence, warm sun, and no sign of human kind as far as the eye can see.

Mine is Alaska....I traveled alone 3 summers ago for 2 weeks and absolutely loooooooved it. I reveled in my anonymity and the solitude was even better. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. The highlight? And this is cheesy okay?....watching the Survivor finals (the first season) in a bar in downtown Anchorage with people I didn't know but who like me, followed each episode from the start. I was in from NY and didn't think I didn't have anything in common with these nice folks and there I was watching the telly with bated breath. It was funny, bizarre and very unforgettable. <BR><BR>

In My Room

Up on the Roof

Under the boardwalk

OR, on the dock of the bay.

----In San Francisco

My favorite place is at the Ocean. Any Ocean. I am not picky, but the Caribbean is great. The ocean allows you to refuel, it comforts me, and makes me realize how awesome this universe really is, and how small we all really are.

There's a small cemetery near my house, about a mile's walk. It crowns a hill, with apple orchards fanning out from it, spreading over lower hills, until forcibly stopped by roads on two sides, and the forest on the other two. At the edge of the forest on the next hill over is a big white farmhouse that no one has lived in for decades and is reputed to be haunted; it's pressed between the woods and the orchard, and looks trapped. From the cemetery's high hill, you can look out over the trees and see mountains both nearby and distant, especially Bearwallow Mountain, tallest in Henderson County, whose peak is pastureland where my neighbor's cows graze beneath the mountain's headdress of radio and cell phone towers, clustered in a bristly little grove at the very top.<BR><BR>The oldest graves in the cemetery are the ones at the easternmost edge, worn down to rough stone nubs by time and weather, but they march westward in orderly rows, becoming newer and newer. In one corner stands a stubby little obelisk dedicated to someone who died on the USS Arizona.<BR><BR>It's a very peaceful place to be, especially on a breezy day, though I remember I went up there once at night to stargaze when there was a comet in the sky like a smudged fingerprint -- Hale-Bopp, I believe it was. At any rate, I love the place.

On my farm high on a mountain in West Virginia with no one around for 1.5 miles. Listening to a grouse drum off the point, watching deer and turkey. No people, no traffic it is beautiful.

In my room.

at any airport, twenty before boarding, hooked up to Chopin, and feeling free.

I agree with the airport. What a great place to people watch and feel alive!

On top of a large rock in Cedar Falls (Ohio) where I used to skip school. I am about to pass on its location to my 14 yr-old nephew & 16 yr-old brother-in-law. I also like the beach & perhaps a Paris cafe w/a book by Hemmingway.

in my bathroom pinching a loaf

(I wish the little boys would go back to school -- obviously they are "alone" way too much as it is.)<BR><BR>My favorite: By the light-tower on the rocks at the end of Marblehead Neck, in Mass.<BR><BR>Second favorite: At dawn -- Outer Banks Seashore or, failing that, Wrightsville Beach.

Why, in a changing room at Bergdorf's of course! Such serenity...

Lol, fashiongirl!!<BR>mine would most likely be at Bendels!

Laying on the beach in St. Augustine Beach on a clear night watching the stars.<BR><BR>This is also my answer for the question of what is your favorite place to be with someone you love.

Watching a sunset at the end of Mallory Pier - without a cruise ship in port, of course.<BR>

By the sea ...tranquility re-charges batteries

Deep in a hilly forest sitting alongside a babbling brook, in October when the foliage is screaming, on an Indian-summer day of about 70 degrees with puffy white clouds drifting overhead at a snail's pace.