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[apocalypsos]

I'm bored. Tell me the weirdest, coolest place you've ever been, someplace that everybody else on my friends list probably hasn't been to.

EDIT: *looks at your answers* Damn. I've never been anywhere, have I? *sigh*

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[xerne.livejournal.com]

Um... a mango farm outside Iloilo, Philippines, where I met dinner before it was killed, attended an open-air wedding on Christmas day, and learned not to be embarrassed about bathing at a water pump.

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

A little diner in the main square in timisiora, romania where the chocolate ice cream tasted like cigarettes.

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

Also: The choir loft at St. Vitus cathedral (Czech Republic), where we sang mass. We were them mistaken for nuns in training because of our choir robes and people asked us to pose for pictures. Haha.

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

A protected wildlife preserve in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It's a resort town on the Red Sea, and the preserve is a short drive away. While we were there, a desert fox walked right across the beach, about five feet from us.

Then, on the way back, our car broke down and we had to get towed back to the hotel by a Bedouin.

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

Also: Tabaa, on the border of Egypt and Israel, where you can stand on the shore and see Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and... Yemen? I'm not sure. Some other country.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

The production line of the McDonnell Douglas aeronautical facility (or whatever the hell it's called) in Mesa, Arizona. I was probably somewhere between six and ten years old at the time - my dad worked there.

On Saturday, I get to go do the same at Lockheed AFB in Atlanta, as it's where dad now works and it's family day. Just in time for my birthday (Friday)!

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Orkney, where I grew up :)

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

Speaking of old stones: Clava Cairns (http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/clava_cairns.html), bronze-age burial mounds near Inverness.

Also: the inside of a nuclear reactor.

[topaz08.livejournal.com]

China Grove, from the Doobie Brothers song . . . . You don't remember the Doobie Brothers, do you?

[chilledglove.livejournal.com]

http://www.mitaddelmundo.com/indexeng.html

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[chilledglove.livejournal.com]

if this were a friends-only entry, the answer would be very different

[alexislogain.livejournal.com]

I've been inside the bar, "Woody's" that they film parts of Queer As Folk in. I've also been to Itasca State Park and waded through the beginning of the Mississippi Rivier, which was about ankle to knee deep in parts. But probably the most interesting place I've been that most people don't go is just my back room at work because I work at a bank and all the things that are back there. That and our main building in Downtown Minneapolis with all of the departments and such.

[alexislogain.livejournal.com]

Oh! I've also been to Barbie's house.

[feath.livejournal.com]

The Arabian Sea during a golden sunset.
Also there, a cobra and a mongoose, the mongoose was blind and the cobra defanged.
It was beyond dreams and into story telling.

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

A random Toyota dealer, whose sign said it was a Chevy dealer, in the middle-of-nowhere, New Mexico. And I threw up in their bathroom.

Yes, we had an adventurous drive across country when I was little.

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

The place in New Zealand where they filmed the background for the Vale of Isengard. Standing on the road, it was hard to tell how big and far away everything was. At one point I thought I was looking at a bird on a hill and then realized it was actually a person -- my brain just had the scale all wrong. My pictures turned out crappy, too.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

We lived three years in Pusan, South Korea.

[whitetower.livejournal.com]

I got lost on the side of a mountain near Nara, in Japan. Just before the sun went down I came across an old temple full of monks. They were chanting and doing stuff with drums and incense. When they were finished, I asked one of them how to get back down the mountain to the village.

He pointed. "See the path?"

"Yes."

"Follow the path."

Very Zen moment.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Hee. :)

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

Lost. In Rome. In the rain. While the riot police were out.

I ended up holding an umbrella so the Czech boy I was lost with could take pictures of a car bombing outside the Colliseum.

... good times, man. Good times....

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I've been at the mouth of Mississippi.

But for uniqueness, can't beat the flea market I'm at every weekend.

Not many other places I know about where you can get a gyro, Wolverine comics, I Love Lucy tapes, dishwashing soap aprons, guinea pig food, mailboxes and Kermit Pez Dispensers all within the same square mile. It's like the Good Version of Wal-Mart.

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

East Germany before the wall was down.

Oh. And Legoland in Denmark :)

[wer-bin-ich.livejournal.com]

Hitchhiked on a sunny Sunday afternoon in a small German village in order to get to another small German town 5km away that was having a flea market. The guy that picked us up was older and like, "You guys aren't from around here, are you?" My friend Liga said (in german), "No we're very international: Latvia, Norway and America." The guy just nodded his head. She chatted him up while my friend Kjersti and I exchanged looks like "eeek!"

But luckily folks in rural Germany are very nice, and we arrived in Bitburg (also big town for a brand of beer) unharmed. :-)

Then later we had to hitchhike back to that town, but a girl about our age picked us up. Boy did we have some luck....I certainly didn't want to walk 5km. Screw that.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

The ruins of Ephesus (in Turkey) and to Assisi, Italy, just two weeks before the earthquake that ruined some of the frescos in the basilica.

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

I was in the chuch in Assisi about a year before that earthquake. It was very sad to learn how much was ruined.

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

I've been to the Subtropical Botanical Garden of Kuban in Soshi, Russia. It was surreal to be so far from home, and yet the vegitation was just like something you'd see in Jackson or Mississippi. We spent an afternoon there - one girl in the group flirted with the tour guide. I had more fun poking at the ruined old buildings, finding old statuary...

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Bishop Castle (http://www.bishopcastle.org/). Being built by ONE MAN, in Colorado. The photos really don't do it justice; it's probably ten stories high and all stone, wood, and mortar. Truly amazing.

[raya21.livejournal.com]

An Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, a Pow Wow in Canada and Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain

[midnightbex.livejournal.com]

museo de los mumies in Irapuato, Guanjuato, Mexico.

Creepy, weird, gross place, but oddly cool. It's museum full of people who were accidentally mummified in the local cemetary and then dug up and put on display. Very very disgusting naked mummified dead people.

[xerne.livejournal.com]

I think there's a Ray Bradbury story about that place.

[florahart]

Roslyn, Wa, the buildings you see as the moose walks by on Northern Exposure's opening credits? Wow, I'm boring.

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

I used to be addicted to that show.

[thedorkygirl.livejournal.com]

I swam in a church's front lake (was very deep, man made, and had a waterfall). Um, the church is 20,000 members large, so I was mocking their God but not mine, mmkay.

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

Coral reef in the Red Sea, near Eilat, Israel

Atop a camel

Inside a Sbarro in an Israeli mall, a few years before it was the site of a homicide bombing

The back of a bowling alley

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

The Phoenix zoo used to have a camel ride set-up next to the elephants and petting zoo. It was, appropriately, a bumpy ride. *rimshot*

[sifaka.livejournal.com]

I went to the Isle of Arran to become a member of the Arran Viking Longboat Society, where the crew and I were promptly swept out and almost lost at sea.