Strange Places You Have Been.

[Von Smallhausen]

As above, where are some of the stranger and more remote places you have been ?

For me It would have to be The Little A' Le Inn in Rachel which is a tiny outpost in the Nevada Desert. Also, Death Valley in California had an eerie sort of beauty to it.

http://www.vons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/roadtorachel1.JPG
This is the Extra Terrestrial Highway. Rachel is to the left but not in view and the road cuts through the mountains. I took this picture in October 2005.

http://www.vons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/littlealeinna.JPG
This is me outside of said inn. The people who run it were great crack and the ice cold Coors went down well.

http://www.vons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/meandmailboxa.JPG
Some of the nerds here may know the significance of what I'm leaning on ?

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Von Smalls takes a stroll into the desert in Death Valley, California.

http://www.vons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reg.jpg
Anything comical about the reg of the hire car ?

[petemc]

I once did a photoshoot in the toilets of an old building. They had been left untouched since about 1940. That was different.

[Feek]

How is it possible to drive that road and _not_ put your foot flat to the floor and leave it there?

[Lomster]

How is it possible to drive that road and _not_ put your foot flat to the floor and leave it there?

Faysh did on a road not dissimilar to that in Florida and got busted by a fat, hick Sheriff with a gun. $150 :(

[Jonny69]

Great pics but why are you wearing so much black gaffer tape?

[Fayshun]

Great pics but why are you wearing so much black gaffer tape?
It's his gimp mask.

[Mark]

Was this an excuse to show off some recent holiday snaps then? :p

Anyway, nice. I've been to Nevada as well but have to admit it didn't even occur to me to find those landmarks. I was much more interested in Vegas and the Grand Canyon for some reason. :)

PS - since you asked...

Stange? Crocodile-shaped hotel (http://www.ozhorizons.com.au/nt/kak/gch/gch.htm)
Remote? Stuart highway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Highway) (and yes, I went before the speed limits :p)

[Goose]

I want to go to the States now. :(

My strangest (and favourite) place is probably the northern tip of Finland. No photos as my hands went numb every time I tried to work my camera. Nice to be in a place so quiet the only thing you can hear is the blood in your ears.

[Von Smallhausen]

It's his gimp mask.

Mmmf mmmf !!!!

[HollyThirtyFive]

Last week I had an odd band practice. It was in Brighton in a renovated underground toilet. You would never have guessed it was there the top of it looks like the "above ground graves" and the toilet down there stank and obviously was the original old toilet. Good sound though!!

[Garp]

Anything comical about the reg of the hire car ?

Don't know about the reg of the hire car, but the shirt of the photographer is highly suspect.


I'll have to do some digging around for photos next time I'm home as I don't have them scanned in, but I've been to this beautiful place called Memaliaj (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memaliaj) which is nestled in a valley in Albania. Its in amongst some of the most beautiful countryside I've ever seen. The town isn't great, a dusty place barely looked after, but looping around it is this beautiful crystal clear mountain spring fresh water, and surrounding it are these wonderful hills and mountains. Geographical view:
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AL/45/Memaliaj.html
A reasonable photograph of it (but still doesn't quite to it justice):
http://bliss.paulgraydon.co.uk/Memaliaj.jpg

[Darrin]

Me?

Dubai long before it could have been considered a tourist area. It was a dump back then.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They weren't too interesting until word got out amongst the locals that I was Canadian (versus those American thugs on the navy ship, which I was one of but didn't offer that little fact up). Then things got quite nice. I was invited to several people's houses for sake and such, but declined them all.

Olongapo, Phillipines. Better known as Subic Bay. (14*50'00"N - 120*12'00"E for those looking on Google Earth) Got to see it immediately after Clark Air Force base got wiped out by Mt Pinatubo. Our battle group was the evacuation task force for both Clark and Subic. Was my 2nd experience with an erupting volcano. The first being Mt St Helens of course.

Diego Garcia. A very strange place. A tiny little island surrounding a lagoon out in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Nothing more than a logistics stop for military.

I'll be showing my age with this one, but I worked at the World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now, nothing unusual about Vancouver except there is absolutely NOTHING left of where I worked. There's a multi-story apartment complex building that's fully occupied and considered "old" now on the exact locale of my employment. (49*16'17.62"N - 123*07'16.88"W) (http://www.mainframe.org/photos/expo86/expo112x.jpg what it looked like when I worked there).