Meeh…
Age: 24
Sex: Yes please. Hahaha… <sigh>… Male
Location: <====[Look left]
Hi, mipiace! What was your favourite place while traveling?
Hi, MissTake! The balmy wonderland of Minnesota? You mean South Saskatchewan? 
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Here goes nothing:
Age: Barely breathing. 47
Sex: Between breaths only. See above.
Location: Prone. But wil turn on occasion. See above.
Here’s an extra “L”…do with it as you will
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to gulp some air.
OK, I’ll bite…
Age: 34
Sex: Male
Location (and here is the sticking point): Montana
See, it’s the location that gets me every time. The closest woman in this thread is MissTake (and how you doin’?), in Minnesota. I grew up in Tulsa (hi, sunfish!), so I have connections there, but it’s still many many miles away.
Oh, well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?
Squirebob I’m down in Kent, though it’s not so sunny at the moment. Yourself?
One more, here goes…
Age: 41 (Yikes!! it doesn’t feel like 41)
Sex: Female
Location: Chicago for now. Every family function I get asked at least twice, “So how much longer are you staying in Chicago?” I was just born without roots, I guess.
Oh a favorite is tough. I adored LIVING in Italy. The lifestyle just suits me.
I love Paris, Prague is a beautiful city and I liked kicking around the beaches and partying with my pals in Croatia.
The Amalfi coast in southern Italy was amazing, as was a group of islands called Cinque Terre a little further north.
Have y ou ever been to Europe? Do you like to travel?
Hi *mipiace!
I keep thinking your username is miapace*, which means something else entirely…
Have things stabilised enough in Croatia for tourism? Or am I just assuming that, because it’s next to Bosnia, Serbia, etc, it still has troubles?
In 2000 I went to Europe, starting in Scandinavia and across to England. Loved it in Scandinavia. I only saw a very small amount of Paris (basically overnight and change trains on the way to London). I’ve always wanted to see Prague and Berlin… Italy… Slovenia*… Australia… New Zealand… Japan…
People keep telling me how beautiful Italy is. Of course, many of them are Italian. Ever since studying the Coliseum in architecture school, and seeing Moebius’s strange yet luminously-beautiful artwork that references Naples, I’ve wanted to see it.
I like to travel, but these days my dreams outstrip my budget (paying off debt, you know…). I’m planning to go to a conference in Lithuania in 2005, with maybe some additional travel and cheap Pasporta Servo hospitality-exchange lodging on the way there.
[sub]*Why Slovenia? I don’t know anyone there or anything; it just looks like a cool out-of-the-way place to go.[/sub]
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Slovenia rocks!! Where I lived in Italy was in the north about an hour from the Slovenian border. IT’s beautiful in Slovenia and not expensive either. They have a lot fo casinos if you like to gamble and what I liked to do was visit the spas. They cost about 1/4 of the price that they do here in the US so you could go and get the full Euro treatment and stay over night for a couple of hundred bucks. The people usually speak several languages (German, English, Italian, Slavic) and there are a lot of good deals on goods like crystal, lace and pottery.
There is an awesome place there I liked to go in the autumn called Lake Bled. http://www.globtour-bled.com/en/bled-intro.html That is really beautiful. Slovenia is totally under rated.
Croatia is kind of the same. I think a lot of people are afraid to go becuase they got a bad rep with the Balkan wars but there hasn’t been civil unrest there in 10 years. When I first went there in 98, it was a little strange being an American there. I found myself one time in a bar with a Bosnian and two Croats. When they found out I was American and not Italian, the subject turned to war and the Bosnian man told me how MY PLANES killed his sister who had been a nun in a convent…mmmm a little uncomfortable. I explained that I didn’t own the planes and fortunately I am a chick with a big smile…(and able to bullshit the devil if I need to) since then things have changed a lot and pretty much no one talks abotu war and no one cares. More people are interested in you spending money than anything. It’s a gorgeous place for flat rocky beaches and a GREAT place to dive and they have these really cool discos out on the beach where you can dance right on the beach. You can rent a full apartment for about $25 a night and like Slovenia they speak about every language in Europe. Croatia is another undiscovered gem. http://www.villamarija.com/eng/rv.html
No, I mean the wonderfully bland state of Minnesota (pronounced Min-nee-soh-tah, not Min-ah-soh-tah, tyvm 
). I truly do like it here as we edge into fall- cool nights warm days. I love the fact that we have four distinct seasons. I love knowing I can drive 40 minutes 1 way to be in prairie land, 40 minutes the other to be in hilly forest land.
South Saskatchewan, indeed!
I’m doin’… how YOU doin’?
I’ve been to Montana. Once. MANY moons ago. Youth camp. Beautiful country, if I may say so…
I agree distance sucks, BUT if you find a connection with someone, there has to be a way to accomodate for it.
Ah Kent… I’m from Sunderland far up north… there be monsters here! Strange though it may seem it is rather sunny here, global warming has its good points.
So why are you moving to the land of the Welsh? university or cravings for a new accent?
Hey there LindyHopper, what’s doing? Sorry I can’t help much on the distance thing - I’m in NYC, it’s BethCro that’s from Tulsa/London - but that’s no barrier for the electrons at least, now is it?
I’ve never been to Montana myself, although I’ve always thought it would be a beautiful place to see. What brought you there from Tulsa?
Duh. :smack: That’s what I get for trying to remember things instead of writing them down. Feelin’ kinda stupid right about now; sorry, BethCro…
It’s a great place; I love it here. How I got here from Tulsa is kind of roundabout; school in Ohio, then down to Houston for grad school, then up here because my (now ex-)wife got a job here.
And MissTake, you’re right about distance and accommodating for it. It still kind of sucks.
I’m sorry, MissTake, after I posted that I remembered that the South Saskatchewan thing was about North Dakota. My apologies.
A few years ago some friends and I drove out west along US. 2 to (ultimately) Edmonton, and we passed through Minnesota. Unfortunately, driving in shifts, we passed through Duluth around 11 PM and Minnesota in the middle of the night, and we didn’t get a real sense of what it was like. I suspect that Minnestota shares its beauty with northwestern Ontario. What I remember is how my friend, driving, was able to see all kinds of deer and other animals along the road, when I couldn’t see anything.
I’d like to go back in the daytime.
After looking at your links, mipiace, now I really want to go to Slovenia and Croatia. maybe I can make a trip out of it in '05. I wonder whether our word “euphemism” has anything to do with St. Euphemia, whose cathedral is in Rovinj.
Although perhaps the main page of the Bled site souldn’t say, “What is really wonderful about Slovenia is that no matter where you are it is never boring.” After all, you could say the same thing about Iraq these days.
mipiace, you lived in Italy? Do you have the right to Italian residenciy or was it for university? Is it true that they take art more seriously there, in the sense of recognising it as a fundamental part of life, rather than as a frill to be jetisonned when not profitable? (Can you tell that that’s one thing that bugs me about Ontario?)
BTW, if the real name of Croatia is Hrvatska, how the heck did we end up calling it Croatia?
Depends on where I get a job, now doesn’t it? I’ll be finishing library school in May…I really want to get back to New England - New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine, but I’m willing to go just about anywhere.
As long as I don’t end up back in Atlanta, I’ll be fine.
Age: 24
Sex: Male.
Location: Hell, or so it feels like it in Phoenix, AZ.