We barely made the train in Oslo and had no time to buy water or food for the ride to Hamburg where the only set detail for a rendezvous with friends was “see you at the Mazzy Star concert”. We found our seats and contemplated our fates, but with each stop of the train things got more and more crowded, but also better and better. Young people piled on and shared their food, their wine, and their stories with us. Some of them shoved poles for teepees through the windows and then climbed into the aisles along with them. Everyone had camping gear and they all thought we were going the same place too – Roskilde, a huge outdoor rock festival in Denmark. They tried to convince us to get off there anyway, though we had no tickets, but we bid our new friends farewell and went on to our own show, luckily in a small venue where we had no problems finding our old friends and telling them all about our Viking train ride.
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I grew up just below this ridge to the right, but the mountain and ocean were my stomping grounds from an early age. The only rule was to be home before dark, and summers were day after long day of exploring. I’ve been many incredible places in the world, but this one makes it hard to leave the Bay Area, and will always be home to me.
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Reinventing Thanksgiving in the Get Stuffed Branch
One year I was in Mexico by myself and I was trying to find something to eat that would make me feel like I was having a Thanksgiving meal....
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Reinventing Thanksgiving in the Get Stuffed Branch
If I am having the Thanksgiving meal at home with my parents, we absolutely must have turkey. My mom has tried to change this a couple of...
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commented on This cemetery is located in the ghost town of Keeler, CA on the way to Death Valley from the East side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It appears that many of the gravesites where washed away by a flash flood. in Cemeteries Around the World
Nice capture! Feels like a ghost town...
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commented on This is the Jewish Cemetery in Prague. They were only allotted a tiny space so graves were built on top of one another. in Cemeteries Around the World
Lovely shot - such an interesting juxtaposition of angles and shapes and shades of grey.
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commented on Rainy day on an old celtic cemetery in Rock of Cashel, Ireland in Cemeteries Around the World
I like the angle on this photo, and the view through the spiderweb....it really makes me feel like I'm there, hiding out from the rain.
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Celtic cross in the west of Ireland The celtic crosses and cemeteries around Ireland are always a striking part of the landscape.
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La Buena Vida Definately not my vote for best beer in the world...but the light Mexican beers like Sol, Pacifico, Corona etc. hit the spot when the heat is on (both picante and calor). They just go down so easy...!
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Wildflowers Though not as spectacular as places like Antelope Valley...I love hiking on Bolinas Ridge in the springtime and seeing the lupine and poppies and Indian paintbrush and so many more cropping up everywhere.
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Old-timer tree Lassen Volcanic National Park
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commented on John Muir's grave in California Off the Beaten Path
I'm a native Bay Arean, and never knew where his grave was. Thanks!
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- Country United States
- Website Things That Catch My Eye
- Languages English, German, Spanish
- Favourite Places Mexico City, Sydney, Paris, Iquitos, Laguna Bacalar, Koh Mak, Sardinia, Croatia, Venice, the South of France, the open road, anywhere in California (my home state)
- Interests Bird-watching, photography, hiking, swimming in the ocean, high tea and dive bars, cooking and eating delicious food, art, literature and travel of course!
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