7 thoughts on “264”

  1. you can spend 2 weeks and see virtually everything that the US has to offer, niagara falls, the grand canyon, old faithful, mount rushmore, the st. louis arch, the space needle, what’s left of new orleans… two weeks wouldn’t put a dent in just what’s worth seeing in the UK alone. i’m one of the few who holds a passport, primarily because i’m scared that i might need to leave the country soon, regardless of the cost, but apart from canadada, which you don’t really need a passport to visit from the US, i haven’t used it at all. i’ve heard it said that america is a place where 100 years is a long time, and europe is a place where 100 miles is a long way.

    china would be good, too, but india first.

  2. i remember watching a part of one of these modern reality shows where they send brats to camps in the US to do some team building and camping. there was an english lad, very pompous from a rich family and he was in a argument with an american and he shouted “i’ve got dining room chairs older than your country!!!”

    you have a country that takes two weeks to safely drive across, niagra falls might be nice, but i’ve visited victoria falls so it’s not like i’ve not seen at least one giant location in a similar vein.

    you have massive skyscrapers in your cities. my city has planning laws denying any building over 3 floors and an attic on top of that really. i’d love to stand on the pavement and stare up and see the sun move between the buildings.

    my brother who did army training in the US said you could drive through all weather zones in a day. from snow to temperate to desert pretty much. we simply have weather here.

    most of the places to visit are admittedly outside of the US and only a small percentage of americans actually hold passports, but don’t ever think we have enough special interesting locations here to keep us entertained 24/7. we wouldn’t have the drink problems that have become exasperated in recent years if there was something better to do!

    where would i like to travel to? china! i’d love to see the landscape, the bustling cities, the society and clothing.

  3. also, i’d like to say that your comment about being “down in Salisbury,” as though it’s a place where you can go virtually any time you like with little expense, makes me very jealous. i cannot visit ruins that are more than 100 years old or so, and that’s if i want to go see the seattle “underground,” and fight off the tourists. if i had the money, i would come visit you for a few months, and go to india for a few months and then see how long i could stay before someone threw me out. north america is so boring…

  4. if we’re lucky and this is an “avarage” year, this snow won’t last longer than today, and we may have one more snow like this in early february… nothing like the winter of ’96, when we had, literally, three feet of snow that lasted four days. it shut down the whole city.

  5. i’ll trade you. i hate snow… but that is very likely because i spent a pivotal part of my childhood living in buffalo, new york, which is the snow capitol of north america… we had at least 6 inches of snow from late september-early october until the middle of may, and somethimes as late as early june.

    snow should stay up in the mountains where it belongs.

  6. in the UK where i live we virtually never have snow anymore. a few weeks ago i was down in Salisbury, where Stonehnege is and it got very cold and fold leaving everywhere in a dreamy off-white colour. unfortunately the car driver wouldn’t stop to allow us to take pictures, they sort of matched the dreamy snow images above and where just breathtaking due to our lack of snow nowadays.

    i have to watch my kids growing up never knowing the joys of a proper snowball fight 🙁

  7. Cool photos. You have snow like that there? Nice. I remember snow from when I lived in Auburn for a year when I was 9-10. I loved it.

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