Show us interesting things of where you live!!!

[Southern_Heart]

San Antonio, A great vacation spot in Texas. San Antonio, is one of America's most fascinating cities, has a rich, colorful past. I think we have it all here.

We have Sea World, Fiesta Texas, The River Walk with lots of places to shop and eat. Take the tour on a boat on the river. You can even order meals on the boat and have a party. The Tower of the Americas, where you ride to the top and can see forever, The San Antonio Zoo, The Japanese Tea gardens, The Alamo, All the missions. hike the Mission Trail. This place is full of history. Splashtown Water Park, Buckhorn Saloon Museum. Ride in a horse and carriage threw town pick ups infront of the Alamo. The Witte museum. The museum of Art. Did I mention lots of food places to eat and eat and shopping till you bust! Then just north of us you can ride the rapids on the river or go inner tubbing. Gosh theres just to much to mention

Not a boring place thats for sure. The city never sleeps. Glad I live on the far county line in the country, where its very nice and peaceful.

Sorry no pictures it would take me all night here!

Joyce

 

[Matt73]

Jill....

Marsha Cassada...WOW!!!! I looked at that picture for a while thinking "Well I suppose its better than looking out your window at your neighbors brick wall..." And then I saw the CAT! LOL

What kind is that? I cant imagine seeing something like that close by...how cool!!!

Looks like a lynx. Beautiful.

 

[Trinity Farm]

Ok You All are Lucky!! There is like nothing interesting in Memphis!!!!

Ufff!!! Amelia

 

[minimule]

There really isn't anything in the immediate area here BUT.....

New Mexico has:

White Sands National Monument - miles and miles of pure white sand

Carlsbad Caverns - one of the 7 wonders of the World

VLA (Very Large Array)

The City of Rocks (formed by volcanic ash and shaped by wind and water)

Gila Cliff Dwellings

Chaco Canyon

Roswell - known for the UFO landings.........

We have lots of Indian ruins all over the state. We also have the Malpais, which are huge lava flows that are solidified.

And yes.....I still want to leave this state

 

[Intexas2stay]

Minimule,

I lived in Taos and Questa for a few years as a teen. My mom is a rock hound, and she found Literally hundreds of pounds of pottery shards and artifacts there. She even slept with these thing.... Well they covered her bed where she slept LOL

SHe was also a victim of the Taos Hum..... But shes a nut, maybe it was the aliens transmitting to her! ( I love my mom to death, and therefor I can make fun of her!!!!)

LisaF... I also lived in Independence Mo.... (hated it) But I am 4th cousin to Harry Truman, and my mom thought it would be nice to live there because of it!!!! First time I ever saw a Black Squirrel was in Mo. They had long tufts of hair coming out of their ears! Beautiful!

 

[Sterling]

I am really enjoying this thread!!! I hope more people post and share. Am really loving the historic west!!!

 

[Erica]

Greers Ferry Lake - 10 miles away from the house

On the lower side of the dam at the lake is the Little Red River, famous for trout fishing, runs in front of the Sugar Loaf Mt

Old Swinging Bridge on Red River

Collings Creek

World Champion Card Board Boat Races are held here as well (Greers Ferry Lake)

About 25 miles north, we have the Blanchard Springs Caverns and Falls

The Old Mill in North Little Rock, little over an hour south.....in the opening scenes of "Gone With the Wind

Goregous pictures of some AR national parks and just can't get them to post over here as images

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cormackphotos/2308025167/

 

[Hosscrazy]

I live in Agua Dulce, CA which is famous for Vasquez Rocks - a popular filming site for tv and film including Arabian Nights, Zorro, Bananza, Big Valley, The Lone Ranger, Wild Wild West, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Battle Star Galactica, Buck Rogers, McGyver, Hunter, Jingle All The Way, Planet of the Apes, Rat Race, Star Trek and the Flinstones! The list goes on and on, but that's just a few of the highlights!

Liz R.

 

[TN Belle]

I LOVE TENNESSEE!!

I live just outside of Chattanooga and have access to EVERYTHING.

The city is like a hub of a wheel, only two hours to Knoxville & the Smoky Mountains, two hours to Atlanta, two hours to Nashville, two hours to Birmingham and a decent drive to Memphis and the Gulf coast. We have gorgeous mountains, great rivers, flat farm land, gorges, lakes, and no income tax!! HA

Very close to the city we have an awesome Civil War Battlefield, the famous "Rock City", "Ruby Falls", "Incline Railway", "Lost Sea", and the TN Aquarium. We also have the home plant for Little Debbies, M&M/Mars, Maybeline, Maytag, Mayfield Dairy, Reinsman, and lots of others. We just found out yesterday that we are also getting a VW plant in Chattanooga.

Marty is right too, Fall Creek Falls is one of my favorite places to go and I also love the huge yard sale, she is only about an hour from me.

http://www.thelostsea.com/

http://www.seerockcity.com/Flash/index.htm

http://www.rubyfalls.com/

http://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/things2do.htm

 

[dgrminis]

Very close to the city we have an awesome Civil War Battlefield, the famous "Rock City", "Ruby Falls", "Incline Railway", "Lost Sea", and the TN Aquarium. We also have the home plant for Little Debbies, M&M/Mars, Maybeline, Maytag, Mayfield Dairy, Reinsman, and lots of others. We just found out yesterday that we are also getting a VW plant in Chattanooga.

When I was younger we lived in GA and we would often vacation to TN and I loved Chattanooga... We went to Ruby Falls and the TN aquarium a ton of times and Rock City -- it was all great...

There are really a lot of nice places around there to visit...

 

[Miniv]

I know........I know........MORE of the NORTHWEST............What's nice is that it's so varied......and we love it. (Dive an hour or so, and the geology totally changes!)

This is a view of Mt. Hood which people on both the east and west side of the state can enjoy. In the summer it doesn't have quite as much snow, but since it's a "glacier" mountain, it always has some. We are fortunate to have a view of it from our property as well.........

An aerial view of Crater Lake, just south of us. Once considered one the "wonders of the world".

This is a portion of Smith Rocks........considered one of the best rock climbing sites in the country. Again, we are fortunate to have a view of it as well.......

The little white mound beyond Smith Rocks is Mount Bachelor........a popular ski area in the northwest.

 

[AppyLover2]

Beautiful pictures guys. Loving it. Wish I had something to contribute.

Oh wait.....guess maybe I do have. I live about 15 miles from Fulton, Mo., which is where Winston Churchill made his famous Iron Curtain speech. (I can't believe I couldn't even find a decent picture of it.

)

Bozley, is that the lighthouse where they filmed Forever Young? Sure looks like it.

 

[Bozley]

Beautiful pictures guys. Loving it. Wish I had something to contribute.

Oh wait.....guess maybe I do have. I live about 15 miles from Fulton, Mo., which is where Winston Churchill made his famous Iron Curtain speech. (I can't believe I couldn't even find a decent picture of it.

)

Bozley, is that the lighthouse where they filmed Forever Young? Sure looks like it.

No, The Nubble Light House is gorgeous but the one used for the movie "Forever Young" was the Point Arena Lighthout in CA.

 

[nootka]

Since Astoria is the oldest US Settlement west of the Rockies, there is a TON of interesting history, here, as well as the scenery...it is amazing, here, and I think we take much of it for granted.

I live just a few miles from the Winter of 1805/6 Lewis & Clark expedition's encampment, and the picture above is the fort replica built at the National Park monument. They have a great exhibit, there, as well as over on Cape Disappointment, the first place where the Corps. of Discovery got to see the Pacific Ocean.

Cape D itself is just breathtaking. It is where the USCG has their Motor Lifeboat School because it is known as the Pacific Graveyard (terrible weather, currents and difficult to navigate overall). Over 2000 shipwrecks are in the region, and the number keeps climbing, even today, though the majority lost are smaller fishing vessels. (my previous post had a picture of a shipwreck in it).

Since we are on the corner of Oregon and where the Columbia R. meets the Pacific Ocean, there's just an overwhelming amount of things to see.

Astoria's nickname (among many) is the Sunset Empire:

Taken from atop Coxcomb Hill (home of the Astoria Column) and looking West over the Megler Bridge. Astoria is in the foreground, and Washington can be seen on the left side...the Columbia River meets the Ocean in the center of the pic. Warrenton and Hammond, OR are visible as the land mass to the left/center.

I live just off the picture to the far left of the pic.

The Astoria-Megler bridge, finished in 1966. There was a ferry that took cars across to Washington, previously. This picture was taken from our River Walk just a few days ago, looking West.

The boatyard near the edge of town (West side). Many boats sit on stand or blocks here while they are maintained. This boat happens to be one that my husband crabbed and fished in Alaska on for many years. I believe it is 62' long and looks HUGE out of water. If you watch Deadliest Catch, this boat is owned by the same man that owns the Aleutian Ballad.

The river delivers some interesting things, and this time it was the USCG Eagle, a barque used for training Coasties. In this photo, we are in Hammond looking back to the East as a Jayhawk HH-60 escorts the Barque out of the river toward the mouth. These pics were taken this past June as there were a few tall ships in town.

This is the HMS Bounty, a historic replica (built for the movie, Mutiny on the Bounty) that is in town right now...she stopped over on her way from the Tall Ships festival in Seattle area and BC on her way to San Francisco and San Diego. Amazing history on the water...

A not-so-great pic if the waterfall just near our house. It is a short hike down the road to get to it. This is a historic stop on the L&C tour, also, as they discovered and mapped these falls when they camped near here.

Near the mouth of the river is a jetty built to help control the erosion and channel of the river and make the navigation safer. This was taken during a Winter storm...interesting place to stand and the most NW point in Oregon, where the teeth of a storm meets land after raging over the open sea. It's exhilerating and humbling, both. Easy to see how this could indeed be a "graveyard" of ships and lives.

This was taken one November evening looking West from the place my son works, a small eatery/boat launch known as Tidepoint. Easy to see how it could be a sunset empire, too! Many gillnet fishermen work from here.

These are just a few and what I happened to have hosted on my site. This is an amazing, beautiful place and our pride is growing as our downtown and riverfront are rejuvenated....

Liz M.

 

[Gini]

I live in Arizona which in itself is a beautiful State. Here are just a few of the sites.

Grand Canyon

The falls are at the bottom of the canyon.

A lone tree with the canyon in the back ground. The canyon is magnificant a must to see!!

Sedona

The next is the all famous Sedona with the red rocks. Any where you go in its canyons there are

breath taking rocks, streams and scenery

Kartchner Cavern is a work in progress. This was discovered approx 10 years ago and kept a secret

by the 2 men that discovered it. Caves ecosystems are very delicate and the possibility of the cave

being destroyed by the public was too great a risk. After all safety things were put into place very carefully the public was let in. Only so many per week. Months that the caves were shut is mating season of the bats etc. Quite the place to go to see beauty as it is evolving.

 

[Emily's mom]

Wow, there are some really beautiful places I did not know about!!

I don't have many pictures of my town, but this is a nice one of our waterfront....

 

[Maxi'sMinis]

I live a couple miles from the National Battlefields and the C & O Canal. These are both really interesting national monuments. A great place to visit. There is also Harpers Ferry where the Shenanda and the Potomac rivers merge, Very scenic.Will add some pics.

Link to Battlefields

http://www.nps.gov/anti/

Link to C & O Canal

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_nhp/md_cando.htm

Link to Harpers Ferry WV

http://www.nps.gov/hafe/

 

[joylee123]

[SIZE=12pt]I live about 7 miles from Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado. This is a picture of one of the kivas.[/SIZE]

Joy