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Aug. 8th, 2003 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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lovesbitca a happy natal day -- I don't know you yet but have read your LJ for a long time, so happy b-day!
1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?
Outside the state and country would be my last trip to Vancouver, BC in Canada, about a two and a half hour drive from Seattle. It's one of my favorite places to go, and it's like taking a mini-holiday abroad, because it's so very familiar in being somewhat Americanish, but mostly different, with its huge past influences of Britishness, and now the influx of people who've moved from Asian countries. Wonderful, cosmopolitan city, and you can go hunting for filming sites for all kinds of fannish TV shows.
2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling?
I don't think I've ever actually had anything truly bizarre or unusual happen besides the usual stuff that happens to many people (although probably the cross-country saga of my suitcase that the Paramount Hotel in NYC gave to someone else and its misadventures on its way back to me makes people laugh, even though I still can't laugh and it upsets me too much). Mostly what happens to me is annoying and frustrating and sometimes downright tragic. I have bad travel karma, but it doesn't stop me from going places.
3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?
The UK, as always, because it has my favorite places. The Continent, everywhere even up to Russia, because maybe if money were no object, I could get someone to come with me that way, and I really don't like travelling around a lot of places alone -- it gets lonesome. I'd love to see Japan and Thailand and Viet Nam, though I'm not sure how well I'd do over there. The Caribbean -- Belize and then all those magnificent islands, Curacao and Antigua and all of that.
4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?
I love trains, but they're not always practical. I adore the trains in the UK. And I despise, loathe, abhor, hate flying. Hate hate hate it. I used to love it when I was younger, but a near-miss accident at LAX and being ten feet tall and trying to cram myself into a flying Vienna sausage can has made me despise it, and I'm getting more and more afraid as I get older. Hate the lines, the security, the scariness, the cattle-car treatment, everything. I feel like an animal in a cage. So cars! I love driving on long road trips.
5. What's the next place on your list to visit?
I'm heading to Chicago next week for Vividcon, the vidding fan con. I've never been to the Windy City before; it's one of the few places in the midwest we never traveled to as a kid. I'm sad that I won't see any of it as I'll be out at a hotel by O'Hare, but if I'm lucky and my plane isn't late, my friend will pick me up and take me to her house in the 'burbs, and I'll at least get to see where she's lived the past ten years.
lovesbitca a happy natal day -- I don't know you yet but have read your LJ for a long time, so happy b-day!1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?
Outside the state and country would be my last trip to Vancouver, BC in Canada, about a two and a half hour drive from Seattle. It's one of my favorite places to go, and it's like taking a mini-holiday abroad, because it's so very familiar in being somewhat Americanish, but mostly different, with its huge past influences of Britishness, and now the influx of people who've moved from Asian countries. Wonderful, cosmopolitan city, and you can go hunting for filming sites for all kinds of fannish TV shows.
2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling?
I don't think I've ever actually had anything truly bizarre or unusual happen besides the usual stuff that happens to many people (although probably the cross-country saga of my suitcase that the Paramount Hotel in NYC gave to someone else and its misadventures on its way back to me makes people laugh, even though I still can't laugh and it upsets me too much). Mostly what happens to me is annoying and frustrating and sometimes downright tragic. I have bad travel karma, but it doesn't stop me from going places.
3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?
The UK, as always, because it has my favorite places. The Continent, everywhere even up to Russia, because maybe if money were no object, I could get someone to come with me that way, and I really don't like travelling around a lot of places alone -- it gets lonesome. I'd love to see Japan and Thailand and Viet Nam, though I'm not sure how well I'd do over there. The Caribbean -- Belize and then all those magnificent islands, Curacao and Antigua and all of that.
4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?
I love trains, but they're not always practical. I adore the trains in the UK. And I despise, loathe, abhor, hate flying. Hate hate hate it. I used to love it when I was younger, but a near-miss accident at LAX and being ten feet tall and trying to cram myself into a flying Vienna sausage can has made me despise it, and I'm getting more and more afraid as I get older. Hate the lines, the security, the scariness, the cattle-car treatment, everything. I feel like an animal in a cage. So cars! I love driving on long road trips.
5. What's the next place on your list to visit?
I'm heading to Chicago next week for Vividcon, the vidding fan con. I've never been to the Windy City before; it's one of the few places in the midwest we never traveled to as a kid. I'm sad that I won't see any of it as I'll be out at a hotel by O'Hare, but if I'm lucky and my plane isn't late, my friend will pick me up and take me to her house in the 'burbs, and I'll at least get to see where she's lived the past ten years.
