Duuuhhhrrr ... Repeat ... Reordered for chronology and Turkish towne correction ...

Texas ... Clear Lake City is home towne: I miss the ocean, the forest, the bayou, my hideaways, my first great kiss, the oldest of my friends, the touchstone buildings that contained me as I experienced 0 to 26, the departed family I had -always close, never forgotten - that I'd like to hold and speak to/laugh w/ ... Dreamt my brother was alive again last night, waking up sucked! I'll never miss the heat, humidity, bugs or prejudice ...


Plon, Germany: The lake freezing and crossing it by foot on Xmas to a lil cafe that was only open that day. The street markets under my flat - going to get fresh bread, cheese and coffee at each respective shop, daily - Breakfast there was the best! SO clean and crisp was the winter air there ...


Amsterdam: Tolerance, incredible food and chocolates, Bob's Youth Hostel, world visitors, the walks, the coffee shops, the boats, the canals, the great friends, travelling all of Europe and Scandinavia w/ this as base camp ... Tulips? Yeah, sure, tulips ... ???


London, England: I miss every single thing, except the food/cooking and black schtuff in my nose... The sweet hospitality, all of Europe's finest there practicing their English, all the folks from the British colonies there to reek havoc (Aussies, Kiwis,etc.), fast transpo to anywhere by train, red double deckers or tube, zero need to drive/own a car, my dear friends and ex who is my very best friend in life, my school, my colleagues, my clients, the long walks, the pubs, my favourite clinic I've ever had, my flat w/ the entire roof as garden, the parties, the comedy, the theater, the flea markets, the street markets, fresh flowers sold cheaply on every corner, travelling the entire UK from there ... Much, much, infinitely more!

Dalaman,Turkey: Small sleepy fishing towne on the river Dalayan near the Med, no cars and only accessible by boat, half hr. only by boat one way was a secluded spot on the Med that no cars could access, half an hr. the other way was also an only accessible by this boat, ice cold, secluded lake w/ ONLY a hot spring - housed in a mosque-like structure that also had one lil tea/beer house conjoined to the bldg. This was also base camp to travel all of Turkey ...


Waterford, Eire: Amazing people, the greens were the most flourescent greens I'veEVER seen, the music, the accents, the sessions, the tight knit camaraderie, village life, the laughter, the rain, the epic walks, the smells, mashed pos/carrots/turnips, oatmeal bread, the amazing day trips, the nature, the moors, the poetry that flowed from me w/ ease, the REAL Guinness (doesn't taste the same anywhere else!) ...


London Again ... Texas Again ...


NOW - Boulder, CO: Clean air, clean water, majestic nature, dynamic scenery, views and horizon, highly educated, clever and awakened folks, very liberal, very tolerant, very activist, very green, very healthy, very free concerning my trade/Natural Medicine, more entrepreneurs per square mile than any place in US, the creek through the towne, life in a vacation destination, 5 mins to anywhere in towne, 20 mins to Denver, 20 mins to some of the most epic places in the US, great programs for kids ... The platoons of trust funders (also the most per square mile in US!)? No thanx - me no likely so much, ugghhh ... I also miss the ocean SO badly ... FIRST time to EVER live in landlock, who knew!? *huge sniff and sigh*


Life and the Planet have been good to me - - I still want more! I reckon it is the half Norwegian, Viking~Gypsy in me!?



Edit: Onward, on up ... ... Great question, (((Joel)))!

*Bump!*

Wow - This is such a great topic!

I wish more would answer ...


Like Beach - I'd truly love to hear the goods and not so goods of life in other places, others' memories and lives, also ...

Maaaate...stoked is not an exclusive Cali word....it's a surf word....


I spent years on the road...I live in a tiny tourist town now where the bulk of people are transient, most of my friends are transient....and I love it....the six degrees of separation thing?...doesn't happen, more like one and a half degrees...anywhere in the world I bump into people I know, through this town...

I loved being blown around the country in whatever direction the wind chose to send me...and loved the whole newness of experiences and people...

I do like being the old lady of the sea here having watched young un's be bellys on their mothers, learn to walk, to swim, to run, to surf, grow up and have their babies, and do it all again..

Being 'here'...wherever I am...is what's cool about my new 'place'...

Love you (as always Lee).

Yes agreed. Unless "incredibly tramatic", I've been mostly at home where ever I have lain my head (grammar? )

However, I don't have a single friend from school I'm still in contact with. Sometimes feel I'm missing out (but spared) that P.I.T.A. friend. You know the one. The one that you've grown to disagree with. The one you "ABSOLUTELY LOVE" but still kind of dread when you see them coming..........The friend that knows EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU and is always an absolute grounding delight (unlike previous sentence/description).........

No grammar issues...perhaps a spelling one...traUmatic perhaps???





Hmmm the blast from the past friend??

They knew OF me...and yep I was all of their recollections and a whole lot more...and yes, I do love when they attempt to pull me back to where their perspective of me lies...as it shows me how far I have moved forward..

I love those friends who need to reside 'back there'...for they present a challenge of being dragged, friendship and all...to 'here'.

b!tch

F..8ckface!!!!





I lurve it when you talk dirty....gets me all hot...

I hope spelling isn't traumatic for any of you. or that other g word.

well or any g words ... well or any words at all...
its nice to have a fluent feel nice vocabulary reaction to all colloquialisms etc.

I miss Guelph more than Toronto ... the easy walk to a club or pub at 10:30 and easy walk or stumble home.

the live music all over the place every week pretty much.

I don't miss Toronto lineups and parking/traffic congestion at all

I love the country with fresh air and animal sounds and space.

Luvinya...leavin ya! (gotta work)

Say something effin MEANINGFUL!!!!.....I'll see when I get home.



You really SUCK sometimes!!!




EDIT: especially when you edit after the fact.....K...Bye Love!

Yeah gotta go too...back to work...kisses clever man...and hurry up with the visit thing...grab Kate and Ky and get your scrawny arses over here...

love you gorgeous man, ( in that weird arsed warped psuedo gay way)...have a fine one!

size 42 comin to you

Sorry I missed this Chica...unless you're going to be a PITA like Lee!...OK....pfffffft "work"

Well, yeah, that lil nuisance work ... At least ya got to catch Lee in 'Real Time'

... I'm currently resigned to a FB breadcrumb trail while she's whipped sloggin' her guts out on that miracle we all call Asylum!

Meh, that would be the 'A's' call ...

I'm usually only P.I.T.A. When the falafel is flirtin' w/ me hard ... Heavy on the secret sauce!

Makes my lettuce wilt though ... *thud*

My best towne???

I also lived on all the National Forests rivers, 4 months out of each year, for about 6 years (20 to 26)

Camped almost every state and French Canada ...

Almost unspeakable to describe how great that was and what I loved ...


(((Nature!!!))) ... And ... (((Friends and Family's Hearts!!!))) ... ... Best Towne, final answer!!!