What is your "magic" place in the USA?
Apr 10th, 2019 | 03:32 PM
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Barbrn, I walked through those magical hicago Christmas lights every night on my way home from work!
And I agree with NeoPatrick’s adrenalin comment. I got a rush of it every time I went outside in Chicago and NYC. The world is at your fingertips!
Actually all the places mentioned in this post are pretty magical. How could I forget Kauai?
And I agree with NeoPatrick’s adrenalin comment. I got a rush of it every time I went outside in Chicago and NYC. The world is at your fingertips!
Actually all the places mentioned in this post are pretty magical. How could I forget Kauai?
Apr 10th, 2019 | 04:19 PM
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"Paris."
I was going to suggest Texas too
But more around the stunning Big Bend Nat'l park and heading to points west. Maybe going along the border (visualize that new wall before it's there...., ugh), including White Sands, NM (beautiful) and winding up in Tuscon or Santa Fe for great food and some pampering.
Not so much that this area is my "magic place" (that would probably be up in the Rockies in CO or wandering the West Village in NYC). But in November, while much of the US is just cold, cold, cold, you'd get to see beautiful places in pleasant conditions that at other times of year would broil you.
I was going to suggest Texas too
But more around the stunning Big Bend Nat'l park and heading to points west. Maybe going along the border (visualize that new wall before it's there...., ugh), including White Sands, NM (beautiful) and winding up in Tuscon or Santa Fe for great food and some pampering.
Not so much that this area is my "magic place" (that would probably be up in the Rockies in CO or wandering the West Village in NYC). But in November, while much of the US is just cold, cold, cold, you'd get to see beautiful places in pleasant conditions that at other times of year would broil you.
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Apr 10th, 2019 | 04:51 PM
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Apr 10th, 2019 | 04:58 PM
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On the other hand, as Gertrude Stein said, "America is my country, and Paris is my home town."
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Apr 10th, 2019 | 07:06 PM
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I meant Paris, France, Mr Ligma. It is my magical place. There is no magical place for me in the US.
Gertrude Stein was from Oakland, CA. She said of Oakland on returning home, "There is no there, there."
Paris is there.
Thin🐩
Gertrude Stein was from Oakland, CA. She said of Oakland on returning home, "There is no there, there."
Paris is there.
Thin🐩
Apr 10th, 2019 | 07:24 PM
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Clifton, funny you mention Big Bend Natl Park. Yesterday a FB page, Traces of Texas, posted this.
https://www.facebook.com/TracesofTexas/
By request, my Texas Quote of the Day is a reprint of one of my favorite quotes. Here, a Mexican vaquero (cowboy) describes how to get to Big Bend from Fort Davis:
"You go south from Fort Davis
Until you come to the place
Where rainbows wait for rain.
And the river is kept in a stone box
And water runs uphill.
And the mountains float in the air.
Except at night, when they run away to play
With other mountains."
---- as told to Frank Tolbert, legendary Dallas newspaperman. In fewer than 100 words, I think this cowboy caught the elusive essence of Big Bend better than folks who've spent their whole lives writing about the area.
https://www.facebook.com/TracesofTexas/
By request, my Texas Quote of the Day is a reprint of one of my favorite quotes. Here, a Mexican vaquero (cowboy) describes how to get to Big Bend from Fort Davis:
"You go south from Fort Davis
Until you come to the place
Where rainbows wait for rain.
And the river is kept in a stone box
And water runs uphill.
And the mountains float in the air.
Except at night, when they run away to play
With other mountains."
---- as told to Frank Tolbert, legendary Dallas newspaperman. In fewer than 100 words, I think this cowboy caught the elusive essence of Big Bend better than folks who've spent their whole lives writing about the area.
