didn't we just have a travel-themed friday five?
first, happy (slightly late) birthday donutsweeper! fellow watcher of canceled time-travel shows. >.< i'm glad it was a good one! but was there cake? :D
dancing boys: *two-step*
second, and also slightly late, the friday five.
1) What famous landmarks have you visited?
the empire state building, the statue of liberty, rockefeller center, carnegie hall, carnegie deli, central park, (does the bronx zoo count?), the brooklyn bridge, the old world trade center, the guggenheim, the metropolitan museum, faneuil hall, the old north church, the gateway arch, the grand ol opry (it counts), the grassy knoll, lafayette cemetery, the french quarter, the robie house (shut up, it counts), the sears willis tower, coit tower, the golden gate bridge, lombard street, alcatraz, venice beach, the hollywood walk of fame, the washington monument, the lincoln memorial, the jefferson memorial, the white house, arlington cemetery, the vietnam memorial, and probably others i'm forgetting.
...i started listing places i've been outside the us and gave up. >.< there's a bunch. i mean *points to icon* the basilica de san marco, for one, with and without flood.
2) How has travel affected you?
it's made me want to do more of it? the more places i go the more i realize how much there is to see.
3) What are the best souvenirs you’ve ever collected while traveling?
bottles? :D (i have coke bottles from china and israel, a cheerwine bottle from the dallas wincon, a bottle that held something brutally sweet and blue that i got one of the times i went to see wrenlet, and a water bottle from a belgian restaurant called belgo in london.) probably the most random shit - i always buy postcards, especially of things/places i can't photograph, and i keep everything (brochures, entry tickets, train tickets, whatever) because i used to make scrapbooks, back when i had a film camera and would get my photos developed, and i get magnets. i have a blue and gold mask from greece and a print with two bunnies and a full moon that i got in japan, but mostly i buy stuff and it kind of melts into the general amount of stuff in my house and i can't remember where i got it. oh, and i always try to get stamps when i'm in a foreign country.
4) What is your fantasy vacation?
didn't we just have a travel friday five? and i said morocco? there. :D or peru, so i could climb macchu picchu. or a month in china. i have very romantic ideas about the orient express that i don't think are borne out by reality, and to be honest i don't think i could handle a long train trip without frequent stops - i'd get so bored - but if luxury train travel to exotic places was a thing, and it was a thing i could afford, i'd do that. but also? a road trip across the us would do me just fine. a month for that too.
5) Would you want to be a space tourist?
in a hot second. i think i'm a tch agoraphobic (i went to western colorado once when cicirossi was still living there - the flat part of colorado, not the mountains - and there was so much sky i couldn't cope) so shooting me far enough into space that i could see the curve of the earth - never mind the whole earth - would probably freak me right out, but it's space! and if i had the opportunity you bet i'd go.
third, now that bigbang summaries have been claimed, i can share mine!
The New Mexico territory in the 1870s is a vast and wild place, all scrubland and hills and mystery, home to gunslingers and miners and working girls and scattered native tribes. Jared and Jensen live in a little mining town called Pluto, keeping the peace for a brothel and occasionally checking up on the mine. The land around them is full of secrets and stories, which Jared is eager to learn and share.
And then one night Jensen vanishes and Jared sets off through the desert to find him. A herd of ghost ponies brings him to the devil's front door, and even though the devil is not what Jared was expecting, he still thinks they can make a deal so he can get Jensen back.
it's called when the devil came to pluto, and amberdreams is doing the art. this makes her only the second person to have picked my summary whose art i already know. i'm excited to see what she does.
fourth, i got my hair cut today. i'm pleased. and not as fluffy. :D
fifth, i keep getting emails from kate spade, and her stuff is THE CUTEST. i want this bag. and this completely adorable coin purse. and it's probably good that i don't have an iphone, or i'd be tempted by this phone cover or this one. what about a card holder with cactus on it? or if you have $500 just laying around and you really love me, this cactus bag is really cute. i am overcome by cactus. and, uh, price tags.
dancing boys: *two-step*
second, and also slightly late, the friday five.
1) What famous landmarks have you visited?
the empire state building, the statue of liberty, rockefeller center, carnegie hall, carnegie deli, central park, (does the bronx zoo count?), the brooklyn bridge, the old world trade center, the guggenheim, the metropolitan museum, faneuil hall, the old north church, the gateway arch, the grand ol opry (it counts), the grassy knoll, lafayette cemetery, the french quarter, the robie house (shut up, it counts), the sears willis tower, coit tower, the golden gate bridge, lombard street, alcatraz, venice beach, the hollywood walk of fame, the washington monument, the lincoln memorial, the jefferson memorial, the white house, arlington cemetery, the vietnam memorial, and probably others i'm forgetting.
...i started listing places i've been outside the us and gave up. >.< there's a bunch. i mean *points to icon* the basilica de san marco, for one, with and without flood.
2) How has travel affected you?
it's made me want to do more of it? the more places i go the more i realize how much there is to see.
3) What are the best souvenirs you’ve ever collected while traveling?
bottles? :D (i have coke bottles from china and israel, a cheerwine bottle from the dallas wincon, a bottle that held something brutally sweet and blue that i got one of the times i went to see wrenlet, and a water bottle from a belgian restaurant called belgo in london.) probably the most random shit - i always buy postcards, especially of things/places i can't photograph, and i keep everything (brochures, entry tickets, train tickets, whatever) because i used to make scrapbooks, back when i had a film camera and would get my photos developed, and i get magnets. i have a blue and gold mask from greece and a print with two bunnies and a full moon that i got in japan, but mostly i buy stuff and it kind of melts into the general amount of stuff in my house and i can't remember where i got it. oh, and i always try to get stamps when i'm in a foreign country.
4) What is your fantasy vacation?
didn't we just have a travel friday five? and i said morocco? there. :D or peru, so i could climb macchu picchu. or a month in china. i have very romantic ideas about the orient express that i don't think are borne out by reality, and to be honest i don't think i could handle a long train trip without frequent stops - i'd get so bored - but if luxury train travel to exotic places was a thing, and it was a thing i could afford, i'd do that. but also? a road trip across the us would do me just fine. a month for that too.
5) Would you want to be a space tourist?
in a hot second. i think i'm a tch agoraphobic (i went to western colorado once when cicirossi was still living there - the flat part of colorado, not the mountains - and there was so much sky i couldn't cope) so shooting me far enough into space that i could see the curve of the earth - never mind the whole earth - would probably freak me right out, but it's space! and if i had the opportunity you bet i'd go.
third, now that bigbang summaries have been claimed, i can share mine!
The New Mexico territory in the 1870s is a vast and wild place, all scrubland and hills and mystery, home to gunslingers and miners and working girls and scattered native tribes. Jared and Jensen live in a little mining town called Pluto, keeping the peace for a brothel and occasionally checking up on the mine. The land around them is full of secrets and stories, which Jared is eager to learn and share.
And then one night Jensen vanishes and Jared sets off through the desert to find him. A herd of ghost ponies brings him to the devil's front door, and even though the devil is not what Jared was expecting, he still thinks they can make a deal so he can get Jensen back.
it's called when the devil came to pluto, and amberdreams is doing the art. this makes her only the second person to have picked my summary whose art i already know. i'm excited to see what she does.
fourth, i got my hair cut today. i'm pleased. and not as fluffy. :D
fifth, i keep getting emails from kate spade, and her stuff is THE CUTEST. i want this bag. and this completely adorable coin purse. and it's probably good that i don't have an iphone, or i'd be tempted by this phone cover or this one. what about a card holder with cactus on it? or if you have $500 just laying around and you really love me, this cactus bag is really cute. i am overcome by cactus. and, uh, price tags.