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Where is the most beautiful place you have ever been? (2 Viewers)
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Mr. Mojo
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Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Well, I didn’t pick it. My ex-wife did.
That said, it’s a wonderful place to live. The mountains are just as beautiful as the beaches, but the people are the best part.
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Zow
Footballguy
That makes sense.
Manster
Footballguy
New Zealand, and Patagonia are on my bucket list as fly fishing destinations. The beautiful backdrop would be icing on the cake!
El Floppo
Footballguy
Sailed by on another family sailing vacation when i was 13.
Went down with my kids (too young to appreciate) on my next time to Greece...walked around the temple and had lunch and hung out at the beach below.
Its a magical place- mustve been jawdropping at sunset!
Andy Dufresne
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Snowmobiling in West Yellowstone leads to some magnificent views. I don't remember where we went specifically but I think it included Two Tops and Big Sky Trail.
Peggy
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if you squint just a little and imagine away all the people its easy to understand how the Native Americans thought they discovered heaven.
And I'd add the rolling green farm fields nestled in the vallies of the Blue Mountains.
Chaos34
Footballguy
I spend so much time there I take it for granted now, but every time I take a north on the 28 at the intersection with the 50 those lake views are so stunning it's almost dangerous to be driving. Then I settle in at my sister's massive estate overlooking it all and get used to it. On my way soon. No idea how long I'll stay. She just let's me ride out my desert heatwave every summer. Can't wait but the desert is being kind to us fools so far.
Chaos34
Footballguy
My first thought was two places in Hawaii, Hana and Na Pali. It's been 18 years now, but New Zealand was spectacular. The most beautiful scenery on that trip was a three day adventure to the Conflict Islands, part of Papua New Guinea. The most beautiful part of the Conflict Islands was 20 feet below the surface diving maybe the most pristine coral reef on earth. So that's my answer.
Great thread idea, tim. I felt blessed reading having been to so many of the places mentioned. It gave me a sense of calm.
steelerfan1
Footballguy
the only place i've ever been where i didn't want to go back home.
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Alaska. And your moms house.
Instinctive
Footballguy
Patagonia was cool. But it was also not that dissimilar, to me, to many places in CO Rockies, Lake Tahoe, etc. New Zealand was on a whole other level. Like everything everywhere was 10/10 in this weird "I can't believe it still looks like this" and then the next turn would level it up somehow.
We got wind-stormed out four days in a row on our helicopter to top of glacier and half day hike. Still want to go back just for that but now we have kids.
I would love to do more scuba too. Did a bunch in Belize, including the Blue Hole.
I'm seriously considering with my wife if we can move to NZ and have work for a while.
I thought it was kind of dirty. Just a weird vibe to me. I was by myself and had a day after work meetings completed the day before. I took a train from Milan (that was an awesome train ride). It dropped me off and I walked the city for the day. I found it strange just walking down various neighborhoods and realized how weird it was. Me just looking around while somebody just looked at me walk by from their house. It was interesting but kind of dirty. After about an hour I had pretty much seen most of it and was done but had another 7 hours to kill until my train back to Milan. I had lunch in a courtyard and people watched. I ended up sitting/napping on a park bench for about a couple hours.
Might have been better if I was with someone that knew the area/history etc but as a guy by himself it was just ok.
Sand
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1. The Gap of Dunloe, Ireland.
2. Bealach na Ba, Scotland.
3. Galapagos Islands.
If we want to talk cities Florence by miles and miles.
2. Bealach na Ba, Scotland.
3. Galapagos Islands.
If we want to talk cities Florence by miles and miles.
Now I know why you live in Hawaii. Perfect match for you.
Manster
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That's how I felt hiking around the Sierra, especially further south......Tahoe is cool, don't get me wrong, but the country down by Bishop/Yosemite (Whitney, Little Lakes Valley, etc ...) is a postcard around every corner.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
moleculo
Footballguy
Ahh, the dirty Myrtle.
mr. furley
Footballguy
i've been to both. Tijuana offers a certain.... charm... that Gary can't match
mr. furley
Footballguy
how were the flights there? been dreaming of seeing this part of the world.
JohnnyU
Footballguy
That’s sweet.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Very long. About 12 hours from San Francisco, if I recall. And Tongans, while very nice and hospitable, tend to have wide bodies. The plane was tight.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Big is literally beautiful in Tonga.
We went from SF>>HI>>Fiji>>Tonga... 12 hours total sounds about right.
Fiji qualifies for this thread...i was just sooo sick the couple days we were there, i didnt get to really take it in. Nicest people as a culture I've met.
Harry Frogfish
Footballguy
Great question. To me, it's mostly a memory I can never go back, a place I only experienced a few times. But that might be enough.
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For Yosemite, May-June is great when the waterfalls are at peak flow, and flowers bloom in the valley and elsewhere.
Getting together 10 family members for a trip back in 2022, made it more beautiful and memorable.
the moops
Footballguy
I'm guessing his wife is known to snoop into his history
rockaction
Footballguy
I'm guessing his wife is known to snoop into his history
Heh. I asked Mrs. ChiefD if she'd give back the FBG password to ChiefD because we missed him (I actually said we "missed you both"), but I deleted it. I thought it was pretty nice of him to say, and if he was really sharing, then I didn't want to disrupt that.
But now that you have . . . bam! I'm there and all over it!
JohnnyU
Footballguy
Haven't been and it is beautiful, but stay out of the jungle. Lots of things that can kill you, including the Fer-de-Lance and various pit vipers, various biting and stinging insects like ants, wasps, and spiders, some of which can be venomous, are common. Also easy to get lost.
Hawks64
Footballguy
We stayed between Uvita and Dominical and did a bunch of tours further south. I would recommend going with a guide, as you won't see much without one.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
We went to Corcovado NP. There are no roads into the park from the east. We had planned to hike to the ranger station, Sirena, in the middle of the jungle, where there are barracks-style accommodations.
Well, it had been a wetter than usual rainy season. Much of trail was flooded, and there was a mandatory stream crossing. I’m a terrible swimmer, so I asked for more details:
TX: “How deep is the water? Is the current strong?”
Info desk rando: “It shouldn’t be too bad, but you need to watch for the caimans. And bull sharks”
TX: “Hmmmm. What’s the alternative?”
We discovered there was an airstrip, and chartered a small plane, much to my wife’s chagrin. She freaks out at the first sign of turbulence on jumbo jets, and this was a four seater, on a windy, overcast day. But our other option sounded worse.
Visibility was poor. I was in the front seat, chatting with the pilot, while wifey sat behind me. As we ascended into the clouds, it was a little bumpy. My wife dug her nails into my right shoulder, whispering into my ear, “DON’T DISTRACT HIM!”
Overall, the flight wasn’t terrible, and pretty short. But holy carp, the landing was scary. The “runway” was a small swath cut through the jungle, maybe a couple hundred yards of wet grass, which abruptly terminated at a cliff overlooking the ocean. Suffice it to say, my wife was not amused.
Anyway, we survived, and spent a couple nights at Sirena. It’s a biodiversity hotspot, and we saw a ton of animals: howler monkeys, macaws, peccaries, coati, a toucan, and a bunch of reptiles/amphibians. We also hiked to the stream crossing the approach trail.
The “stream” was a raging river, at least 20 yards across, which emptied directly into the Pacific. A roseate spoonbill seemed comfortable in the shallows, as did a half dozen caimans on the shore. A couple others popped their heads up in the water. Now, I’m not usually risk averse, but no way in he!! would I have attempted to cross that.
Didn’t see any bull sharks, venomous snakes, spiders, or stinging insects, at least. TBH, I felt more threatened by the ranger station workers, some of whom gave me an organ-harvesting vibe.
Chaos34
Footballguy
That was a fun post to read, thanks. I was 10 in 1972. My dad drove five of us from SoCal to Panama where we lived for year. He had work on the canal. We lived in an Americanized compound outside of Clayton Air Force Base surrounded by those jungles. That's where kids my age played. We were probably dumb, but in a year only one kid had a problem with scary jungle things (ants got him good). I walked to school on a trail through dense jungle - every day. It was an awesome time and in some ways life changing for a 10 year old. I think the road to San Jose was the most beautiful part of the trip. The memories are faded, but a canyon road along a river in Guatemala was also incredibly beautiful. The jungle grown over the then one lane Pan American Highway from the Costa Rica border to David, Panama was wild. It was a tunnel cut out with dudes wielding machetes, the jungle just teaming with the wildlife you describe. I've been back to Panama and Costa Rica twice.
TripItUp
Footballguy
Iceland in the summer - felt like I was on another planet
Muir Woods - just outside of SF
Joshua Tree spring nights
Peruvian Andes Mountains indigenous village with small lake at about 12K feet.
African Serengeti at sunset
Takayama - small Japanese town
Austrian lake called Hallstatt in the summer
Uganda forest called Bwinde
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Lehigh98
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My wife and I had our honeymoon in Moorea (1 week) and Bora Bora (1 week) in 2002. We flew from the east coast to LA and stayed overnight and then had a 7-8 hour flight to Tahiti and then a connection to Moorea. We landed in Tahiti after dark, connected to Moorea and checked into our room pretty late at night. The thing about the South Pacific in 2002, there were no streetlights and almost no lights anywhere. There was almost no info online about each place but there was a warning to bring flashlights. The reason I mention that, Is because we really couldn't see a thing. That is until the first morning of our honeymoon when we walked out onto the deck of our overwater bungalow, that was quite a sight. 
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AAABatteries
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I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters.
Klimtology
Footballguy
Sedona?
Heaven on Earth!
Heaven on Earth!
Klimtology
Footballguy
The contrast between the Red Rocks and Blue Skies is amazing.
nirad3
Footballguy
This kinda-sorta reminds me of my honeymoon on Maui. We arrived late, drove 20-30 minutes to our B&B right on the water but woke up to an absolute spectacle the next morning.My wife and I had our honeymoon in Moorea (1 week) and Bora Bora (1 week) in 2002. We flew from the east coast to LA and stayed overnight and then had a 7-8 hour flight to Tahiti and then a connection to Moorea. We landed in Tahiti after dark, connected to Moorea and checked into our room pretty late at night. The thing about the South Pacific in 2002, there were no streetlights and almost no lights anywhere. There was almost no info online about each place but there was a warning to bring flashlights. The reason I mention that, Is because we really couldn't see a thing. That is until the first morning of our honeymoon when we walked out onto the deck of our overwater bungalow, that was quite a sight.
FairWarning
Footballguy
I’ve been to both.
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