Comments on: Pull Up A Chair…

By: Pfifferling

Pfifferling — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:37:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip, shilohcat!

By: shilohcat

shilohcat — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:24:28 +0000

Hi Shilohcat!

I think the most wonderful vacation my husband and I ever spent was a week on Ocracoke a few years ago. It was late September, so the beaches were empty, but it was still hot and sunny. Absolutely perfect. I can’t wait to go back.

Pfifferling @
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Hi Shilohcat!

I think the most wonderful vacation my husband and I ever spent was a week on Ocracoke a few years ago. It was late September, so the beaches were empty, but it was still hot and sunny. Absolutely perfect. I can’t wait to go back.

If you go further up the island from Silver Lake, the beaches are mostly deserted year ’round.

I’m glad y’all liked it.

By: Old Sow

Old Sow — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:28:37 +0000

Meta at 50, I went over the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time this year. I fulfilled a lifetime dream somehow, for although I’d been in NO CA on numerous occasions before, I’d been from Sacramento or Arcata or just gone back east over the Bay Bridge in my hitch-hiking days. I aah-ed and commented out loud and everyone on the Airporter bus turned and welcomed me.

Your message and Suzanne’s, well…….I’d move to NO CA in a breath if my husband were willing, and I already have a great life in Maine. Can I say the grass is always greener……

CBL, do you know that coming to the lake is also heaven for me, especially before or after a hot bath. And wouldn’t I also like to meet more of us in real time…

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:31:26 +0000

Impeachment Happens at 261 — my dachshund does the same thing when we take her for a walk around the neighborhood, although we usually find small sparrows or squirrels that have fallen prey to neighborhood cats. Our doxie gets that same cheery, dreamy little look on her face. Clearly it’s a dog thing. *g*

By: chharriett

chharriett — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:40:34 +0000

lotus…just reading the comments, and feel a definite kinship as the ONE PLACE I dream of visiting is Greece!!! Always have, always will. It seems that I must have lived there in a former lifetime as whenever I see pictures, or someone describes what they’ve seen there, I feel like it’s home. I do not know if I will ever be able to go there, but I can dream… So, Negril must be somewhat similar, because I love it so much!

By: Adie

Adie — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:39:57 +0000

Hotflash 264

Thanks. He’s cool as a cucumber, but we’re nervous wrecks. Breaking into the field is l-o-n-g h-a-r-d trek. Gotta have the “right stuff” AND be stubborn.

Wonder where he got that last part from…*g*

By: NZ Expat

NZ Expat — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:29:59 +0000

I walk on the edge of Lake Taupo and pick up smooth glass fragments, worn down by the immense amount of pumice in the lake. I draw labyrinths and Roman mazes. I crochet and embroider (sometimes listening to books on tape….last was the fabulous The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time).

I’m sure you have all moved on, but still, I want to include links to the webpage with the image gallery and the webcam where I now live…the webcam often malfunctions and the perspective on the mountains is off,but you get the idea. If you look at the webcam and see people barefoot and in short-sleeves, remember that Kiwis are strange that way. I see barefoot kids when there is frost on the ground.

Lake Taupo, NZ (the largest freshwater lake in the Southern Hemisphere…those are three volcanoes across the lake)
http://www.laketauponz.com/lakecam.cfm (

click on the image gallery on the right…some of the sunset pictures are my favorites)

webcam: http://www.taupodc.govt.nz/Abo.....WebCam.htm

By: liz

liz — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:18:18 +0000

HB to ilson…. and I am outta here for the cool crisp NC mountains…. try finding me in Banner Elk or Boone or Lake Watuga….. look em up and be jealous~~

By: sofistic

sofistic — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:42:28 +0000

In rare cases, Death Valley will put on an unforgetable flower show. Such was the case in March 2005. Take a look here:

http://www.montereybay.com/cre.....Mar05.html

By: bekkieann

bekkieann — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:38:55 +0000

The most beautiful vacation spot I’ve ever visited was Vevey, Switzerland, on the shore of a lovely Swiss lake, swans swimming and Chateau de Chillon in the distance as if in a fairy tale, green lush mountains seem to rise directly out of the lake in their steep vertical ascent, the traces of gray clouds hanging around after the morning rain, a lovely walkway leading to a breakfast of coffee and croissants. The peacefulness seeps right through the pores.

I was surprised to read in previous posts that I by coincidence shared a little of Pachutec’s and Christy’s favorites this morning. I spent some time playing my old favorite Chopin and Debussy on the piano this morning, and then put on my Rod Stewart “Great American Songbook” albums, singing the wonderful songs of the 30’s and 40’s (I recommend them). The piano is my Calgon get-away for sure.

I love reading everyone’s contributions here. It’s become a Saturday ritual for me.