So, we show photos of where we live, what we look like, etc. But what about our travels around the world and unique spots we've been to. Show us your own photos or photos you've found online of famous spots or not so famous spots. This might spark some interest in some people who are seeking some cool vacation spots  :)

Here's a picture of the beautiful Peloponnes peninsula, in Greece...

My parents used to bring me and my brothers here when we were much younger...and this is the area where I first started learning how to swim!  :)

Here's a picture of the beautiful Peloponnes peninsula, in Greece...

My parents used to bring me and my brothers here when we were much younger...and this is the area where I first started learning how to swim!  :)




Wow, Karen, this is beautiful. It seems you've been surrounded by lots of beautiful beaches a good portion of your life! Now THAT's where I'd like to learn how to swim  :)  ;D

Wow, Karen, this is beautiful. It seems you've been surrounded by lots of beautiful beaches a good portion of your life!

Indeed I have!  :)

Lake Shasta - Northern California. I was here in 1988. We spent a week or two on a houseboat trolling the lake. Some days were fun, other days were a bit boring, but the scenery was always nice!

http://www.shastalake.com/images/shasta-lake-5-25-2006.jpg

Lake Shasta - Northern California. I was here in 1988. We spent a week or two on a houseboat trolling the lake. Some days were fun, other days were a bit boring, but the scenery was always nice!

http://www.shastalake.com/images/shasta-lake-5-25-2006.jpg


Wow!  That's gorgeous!  :D

I love Lake Shasta. We used to go there every summer when my grandfather was alive, and we went there a couple of times in 2005. I would so love to move there and just live on the lake in a houseboat or have a cabin somewhere. It is freakin' gorgeous. Actually, the whole Shasta Trinity forest and surrounding areas (including the Sac. River) is just utterly beautiful. I feel so at peace when I'm up that way.

God, I miss it. :P

I love Lake Shasta. We used to go there every summer when my grandfather was alive, and we went there a couple of times in 2005. I would so love to move there and just live on the lake in a houseboat or have a cabin somewhere. It is freakin' gorgeous. Actually, the whole Shasta Trinity forest and surrounding areas (including the Sac. River) is just utterly beautiful. I feel so at peace when I'm up that way.

God, I miss it. :P


Yes, now that I see more pics of it, I have come to realise how beautiful it really is! When I was there, I was 6 years old and it was September, so there wasn't as much greenery, but the lake was always blue and the mountain was always in the background. Our houseboat also had my Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles and cousins.

Gorgeous!  So jealous!

My brother and I on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls in 1997

http://www.geocities.com/bookmistress4ever/niagara.jpg

Me in Pittsburgh 2001
http://www.geocities.com/bookmistress4ever/pittpatty.jpg

A waterfall at Ogelbay Park in Wheeling, West Virginia 1999
http://www.geocities.com/prettypurr/waterfall_patty.jpg

My brother and I at Geauga Lake Amusement Park (in Aurora, Ohio) (now closed) around...1976ish?
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/43d0dc92zb803385e/f963/__sr_/3bd1.jpg?phwD0DHBEQ8495pJ

Here's Pittsburgh, Pa. at night

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/PittsburghTwilightboatcruise8-05084.jpg

some other shots of Pittsburgh

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/PittsburghTwilightboatcruise8-05055.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/PittsburghTwilightboatcruise8-05007.jpg

Here are some pictures from my trip to Savannah, GA:

picture of a cathedral
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/SouthCarolinapictures035.jpg

my husband in Savannah, GA
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/SouthCarolinapictures046.jpg

Us at Wildwood, NJ (when we were young...I am the one on the right)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/80spics003.jpg

Here's Pittsburgh, Pa. at night

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/PittsburghTwilightboatcruise8-05084.jpg

some other shots of Pittsburgh

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/PittsburghTwilightboatcruise8-05055.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/PittsburghTwilightboatcruise8-05007.jpg

Here are some pictures from my trip to Savannah, GA:

picture of a cathedral
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/SouthCarolinapictures035.jpg

my husband in Savannah, GA
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/SouthCarolinapictures046.jpg

Us at Wildwood, NJ (when we were young...I am the one on the right)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/rapunzel_1689/80spics003.jpg




Pittsburgh is beautiful at night! My cousin's grandmother lived just outside Pittsburgh, but she has since passed on. I've never been, but hope to make it a vacation destination one of these days!

The cathedral in Savannah is gorgeous! Wow, I hope to visit there someday, too!

And, I always love seeing those cute kid pics! Love those poses!

I've been to Disneyland 4 times - It's probably one of my favorite places to visit.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/ultraviolet521/IMG_1149.jpg

Here is a picture of where my Half-Brother lives in East Berlin.

He grew up on the West side of the wall but property is so much cheaper on the East side. You can't actually see where he lives, that is Landsberger Allee trainstation (S-Bahn, the above ground railway) he lives about 500 yards further down the street but the buildings are essentially the same, communist chique.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/S-Bahn_Berlin_Landsberger_Allee_total.jpg/793px-S-Bahn_Berlin_Landsberger_Allee_total.jpg

Boy, this is the best I could find for where I used to live - Aurora; Illinois, home of Wayne's world.

http://www.barraclou.com/photo/highway/05aurora.jpg

Pont d'arc.

This is not far from where my parents have a holiday home in the Ardeche Gorge in France. It's beautiful.

http://www.archmillennium.net/images/pont_d_arc.jpg

Tallinn; Estonia, where my good friend Andre Yule lives and by far the single most bizarre country I have ever visited.

http://www.estonia.gov.uk/static/files/038/t2_port_of_tallinn.jpg

Podgorica in Montenegro, the city itself is certainly nothing special, but some good friends live there and run a video store (still with the VHS) so I visited and stayed with them and explored the rest of Montenegro from there.
Here is the beautiful part -

http://www.gocurrency.com/international-investing/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/montenegro.PNG

http://www.uom.cg.yu/srednja/slike/podgor_v.jpg

Here is a picture of where my Half-Brother lives in East Berlin.

He grew up on the West side of the wall but property is so much cheaper on the East side. You can't actually see where he lives, that is Landsberger Allee trainstation (S-Bahn, the above ground railway) he lives about 500 yards further down the street but the buildings are essentially the same, communist chique.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/S-Bahn_Berlin_Landsberger_Allee_total.jpg/793px-S-Bahn_Berlin_Landsberger_Allee_total.jpg

Boy, this is the best I could find for where I used to live - Aurora; Illinois, home of Wayne's world.

http://www.barraclou.com/photo/highway/05aurora.jpg

Pont d'arc.

This is not far from where my parents have a holiday home in the Ardeche Gorge in France. It's beautiful.

http://www.archmillennium.net/images/pont_d_arc.jpg

Tallinn; Estonia, where my good friend Andre Yule lives and by far the single most bizarre country I have ever visited.

http://www.estonia.gov.uk/static/files/038/t2_port_of_tallinn.jpg

Podgorica in Montenegro, the city itself is certainly nothing special, but some good friends live there and run a video store (still with the VHS) so I visited and stayed with them and explored the rest of Montenegro from there.
Here is the beautiful part -

http://www.gocurrency.com/international-investing/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/montenegro.PNG

http://www.uom.cg.yu/srednja/slike/podgor_v.jpg


Wow, these are very interesting places you've been, Davey! I like the fact that your parents have a holiday home in France - sounds so chic! It's not like living in the states and saying, "Erhmm, I gotta holiday home in Fresno - lol" 

Wow, these are very interesting places you've been, Davey! I like the fact that your parents have a holiday home in France - sounds so chic! It's not like living in the states and saying, "Erhmm, I gotta holiday home in Fresno - lol" 


It wasn't very chic when they got it. The first year we went there we camped the whole time whilst me and my Dad worked fixing it up because it was falling to pieces. A lot of people from the UK bought holiday homes in the south of france a decade or so ago because rural property was insanely cheap, I think they paid the equivalent of about $11,000 for a 4 room building, there's a small town nearby with different shops, a boulangerie etc and it's about a 5 minute walk from the river.

Here I am posing by a Payette Lake sign in beautiful Cascade, Idaho, 1992...

Here I am posing by a Payette Lake sign in beautiful Cascade, Idaho, 1992...


Very nice, young Karen...

Pity there wasn't an arrow pointing downwards from that 'Scenic Attraction' sign!  ;)

Very nice, young Karen...

Thank you, Paul... :)

Pity there wasn't an arrow pointing downwards from that 'Scenic Attraction' sign!  ;)


Awww...you're cute!  ;)

One more...

This one is a picture I took of some temples in Bali, when I was there in 1993...

Last one (for today)...

This is a lovely garden in Kyoto, Japan...the city that my brother's first wife came from...

Very cool places,everyone :)

The places i've been in the Americas,i'll do Europe some other time :-\\

NYC,still one of my favorite cities ever 8)
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/9906/nyc2in8.jpg


Boston,it was okay,nice bars...
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1446/bostonjn7.jpg


Washington DC,is really big and a lot to see but it was so cold.
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7502/dchb0.jpg


The Iguaçu Falls,Argentina and Brazil share it kind of fuels our rivalry,our side is a lot better :P
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/734/iguaunm4.jpg

Buenos Aires this is La Boca ,where they say Tango was invented.
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/990/labocayu8.jpg

Montevideo,the capital of Uruguay,very caotic and i don't remember much:(
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3927/montevideouruguayoq6.jpg

Buenos Aires this is La Boca ,where they say Tango was invented.
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/990/labocayu8.jpg



I loved Boca!

Just because I get a kick out of the name: Gila Bend, Arizona. ;D

I didn't take this picture. I found it online.

Last one (for today)...

This is a lovely garden in Kyoto, Japan...the city that my brother's first wife came from...






Very lovely scene, Karen. I love Japanese gardens. We have a few here in the Bay Area.

this is the coolest place I've ever been to...Yosemite National Park in California and the mountain of granite in the pic is the famous Half Dome. Me & my friend hitchiked with our backpacks, got a ride to the park and spent a week there which is when we climbed it & looked over the edge. I think I was 18 years old. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/45975337_e1092eef44.jpg?v=0

from the Yosemite Valley, it's a little over 17 miles to get to the top and back, but if you camp at Little Yosemite, then the hike is half as long. http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif 

when you arrive at the base of the monolith, you then use the cables embedded into the rock for the final ascent to the summit
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5meBLhRHWjUAkwOjzbkF/SIG=13cbt0int/EXP=1192591361/**http%3A//www.wwwdotorg.org/www.wwwdotorg.org/photos/piers_digital/half_dome_cables.mod.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1009/688552254_c0802c6d0a.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/41914534_0e64bfa825.jpg?v=0

me & my friend Dennis both crawled up to the edge and looked down and this is what we saw
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/41914568_e5557ec0bb.jpg?v=0

tokjct has done this climb/hike more recently and Diane wants to do it for her 50th birthday. Is she nuts or what  :D  we'll have to wait and see what kind of shape we are both in, in the year 2009. anyway, if you ever come to California and wanna see someplace really special, this is the place.

I have never seen Yosemite, which is weird since I'm from California. ^ That looks neat and scary. I have a fear of heights, but geez....the views!

I have never seen Yosemite, which is weird since I'm from California. ^ That looks neat and scary. I have a fear of heights, but geez....the views!
it is super neat and somewhat scary. I don't like heights but I was young and brash and fiery & it was was quite an experience.  we were up there partying. we went up about twice every summer to party and try to meet chicks. me & my friends got kicked out of that place one summer, can you believe that sh*t? kicked out of a National Park.  ??? if you guys come back home and wanna do a day trip, you can take Amtrak to Merced, then a 1 hour bus ride with a tour guide to the park where you take a tram for a 2 hour tour of the park, it brings you back to the lodge where you can get lunch, shop and then get back on your bus and back on the train home, all in 1 day. me & Diane & Julie did that once in the mid 90's I got it on video. it was fun.

Last one (for today)...

This is a lovely garden in Kyoto, Japan...the city that my brother's first wife came from...






hey, i was there too..amazing!
i also saw the big buddha in hong kong:
http://kottke.org/photos/hongkong1105/thumb.jpg

this is the coolest place I've ever been to...Yosemite National Park in California and the mountain of granite in the pic is the famous Half Dome. Me & my friend hitchiked with our backpacks, got a ride to the park and spent a week there which is when we climbed it & looked over the edge. I think I was 18 years old. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/45975337_e1092eef44.jpg?v=0

from the Yosemite Valley, it's a little over 17 miles to get to the top and back, but if you camp at Little Yosemite, then the hike is half as long. http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif 

when you arrive at the base of the monolith, you then use the cables embedded into the rock for the final ascent to the summit
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5meBLhRHWjUAkwOjzbkF/SIG=13cbt0int/EXP=1192591361/**http%3A//www.wwwdotorg.org/www.wwwdotorg.org/photos/piers_digital/half_dome_cables.mod.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1009/688552254_c0802c6d0a.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/41914534_0e64bfa825.jpg?v=0

me & my friend Dennis both crawled up to the edge and looked down and this is what we saw
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/41914568_e5557ec0bb.jpg?v=0

tokjct has done this climb/hike more recently and Diane wants to do it for her 50th birthday. Is she nuts or what  :D  we'll have to wait and see what kind of shape we are both in, in the year 2009. anyway, if you ever come to California and wanna see someplace really special, this is the place.



Ahh, Yosemite, I've never been there either - although I've mostly covered a lot of California - there are still SO many places I've never been to in this state. It sounds like you had such a fun time, Mike!  :)

Ahh, Yosemite, I've never been there either - although I've mostly covered a lot of California - there are still SO many places I've never been to in this state. It sounds like you had such a fun time, Mike!  :)
I did have a wonderful time Krissy & it is still quite vivid in my memory. You and your BF should go. It's unforgettable and the majestic monolithic mountains will have you goin "whoa" just like Keeanu Reeves .
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5xbo3SJHwBsBHV.jzbkF/SIG=12l86nbku/EXP=1193553768/**http%3A//www.hfstival.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10148/NeoWhoa.jpg

This is a photograph of myself, sitting by the fountain in the Plaza Civica, in beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, one of my favorite places in the world:

http://b2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00348/23/27/348557232_l.jpg

This is a photograph of myself, sitting by the fountain in the Plaza Civica, in beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, one of my favorite places in the world:

http://b2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00348/23/27/348557232_l.jpg
An American in San Miguel sounds like a book title. I can see why you love this place Michael. It's old and quite a visual feast. nice

This is a photograph of myself, sitting by the fountain in the Plaza Civica, in beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, one of my favorite places in the world:

http://b2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00348/23/27/348557232_l.jpg


Always liked that picture of you Michael, it looks like you are right at home there.  :)