cow dung huts and head carrying women.
Indonesia?
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cow dung huts and head carrying women.
Indonesia?
another toughie...
Sukarno, Suharto, fez type hats without the tassle, Islands
Guatamala?
my friend who adopted two kids from there! the first season of survivor that I watched won by Danni Boatwright who I might have had a little crush on, jungles, ancient mayan ruins, and bananas.
how about I change the letter of the law and go a little bit with the spirit:
Nevada?
Nevada, eh?
Temples: Reno, Las Vegas; bowling, alkali deserts, Winnemucca, family, Lake Tahoe, Sparks, icthyosaurs, UN, UNLV, "Biggest Little City in the World", Atomic testing sites, Area 51, shows, Virginia City mint, silver, gemstones, Mt. Rose: skiing...
Shangri-La ?
i would add pawn stars and American restoration (which I just love!)
Shangri la: mythical places, xanadu, Himalayas, heaven on earth, and the subtitle of a book I just read:
https://www.scribd.com/book/92294313...for-Shangri-la
still bending rules:
antarctica?
True. I thought of ChumLee after posting... forgot AR and Counting Cars.
Snow men, icicles, International scientific studies, The Thing, James Arness, Space ships (various examples), dogs & dog sleds, crevasses, Aurorę, snow storms
Back to topic: Portugal
dancing
Brazil
beach volleyball, the amazon river, the rain forest, brazil nuts, the Olympics, the Christ statue, and a friend of mine's wife.
japan?
Mt Fuji, Tokyo, Hello Kitty, cherry blossoms, transistor radios, computers, mushi-mushi, Samurai, geishas, kabuki, Emperor, Land of the Rising Sun
Denmark ?
oh im glad I got Denmark! ive been there a couple of times and having been thinking about it because its in the book I am presently reading.
blonde people, Vikings, Copenhagen, the little mermaid, hans Christian Andersen, Tivoli gardens, old castle ruins on Bornholm, and a ferry boat ship trip to England.
new Zealand?
kiwis, hobbits, earthquakes, North Island, South Island, Maoris, tattoos, war canoes, taboos, and moa...
Netherlands ?
spent a couple of weeks ago there many years ago. im half dutch on my father's side.
windmills, canals, tulips, Amsterdam, the anne frank house, hans brinker, and speed skating.
Iceland?
Tectonic rift, volcanoes, thermal energy, Reykjavik (spell checker loved this), ice (go figger)
Qatar ?
vague place in the middle east that has a peculiar and seemingly unsettled-upon pronunciation, gulf wars, arabs, and sand.
going off the reservation again:
paris?
DieterM, Eiffel Tower, some In-Seine people, baguettes, France, Louvre, Tuileries Gardens, funky berets, Brigitte Bardot (excuse me - my heart just palpitated), Ratatouille (the movie by Pixar), barges, Duncan MacLeod (The Highlander), prolly #2 of my top 10 places in the world I would like to visit (Twickenham and its environs being #1 {it's a family thang})
Let's stay off the reservation a while longer... San Francisco
tailor ive gotten to be in paris a couple of times, once for 5-6 days or so, had a great time, what a wonderful place to visit! if you ever get to go, and you like art, I really recommend the rodin museum. and oh, if you can be there during the final stage of the tour de france, my goodness!
san Francisco: rice-a-roni (the san francisco treat!), trolley cars, hills, gays, liberal, the golden gate bridge, chinatown, the giants (baseball), Alcatraz, an old roller derby team from when I was a kid---the san Francisco bay area bombers, and star fleet academy!
the Mississippi river?
Flows upstream in major earthquakes (earthquakes being one of my interests), "Mark Twain", steam boats, Nauvoo, part of the Louisiana Purchase boundary, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans (I've been to Baton Rouge and Minneapolis... always wanted to go to St. Louis for its bowling heritage, Memphis for its music,... and would love to visit Nauvoo for its history), fur trappers, beavers, delta...
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Next: Yosemite
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(lol) My beloved skated Roller Derby in Oakland; I used to watch it on the telly w/ my dad. It's likely I'll never be able to leave Northern California ever again, well, maybe Nevada, Oregon, and Washington state to visit family. I have many wonderful memories of San Francisco: art/science/work/family/zoo/food (Oh heavens, what food)/Coit Tower/49er's/Giants/Warriors/piers (including 39, 49, etc)/Alioto's/ferries/Miyako Hotel/BART/Exploratorium/aquarium/Japanese Gardens/Ripley's Believe it or Not/driving the hills/beaches/Golden Gate Park (in general)...
ah how did I forget the 49er's! and that's pretty neat I reminded you about your roller derby connection. smiles...
hmm Yosemite---of course I have to say half-dome, el capitan, rock climbing and ansel adams. kirk, spock and McCoy camping there. bugs bunny's nemesis Yosemite sam and even though his home is the fictional jellystone park which sounds like yellowstone, I think of yogi bear too. yogi just seems more from California than Wyoming.
the great lakes?
Hiawatha
Czech Republic
Jan Hus!
Frau Gormly, one of my German language instructors back in the day, was from the old Czekoslovakia.
I will defer to Pompey Bum for the next "country".
tailor I think pompey rarely comes here. its been mostly a duet with you and I lately...how about you go ahead and pick the next one if he doesn't come back in a day or three?
Okay..
bumping this up and hoping someone joins in:
the amazon river?
Piranha, Brazil, rain forest, fresh water dolphins (if I recall correctly), floods
Egypt ?
pharaohs, pyramids, camels, Cleopatra, king tut, mummies, moses and the plagues and the exodus, and the nile river.
korea?
south and north
ilness and unness
kimchi n' nukes
Jumpin' in the wayback machine: Upper Volta
boy I had to look that up! but now that I saw it, I think I had a map of the world when I was a kid that had that on it. I half think the country was pink on my map, laughs...
all I can say is French and land locked and that Burkina faso sounds like the name of an Italian model I might like to date.
although, volta made me think of Volga, the river with the great song about the boatmen.
monte carlo?
James Bond, gambling, bourgeoisie, Chevrolet, Mike's Mom
Oakland ?
(nix Oakland... in honor of the Pluto [and beyond!] mission)
Any country with "stan" in it... and "Stanford" doesn't count.
I liked this game and hope by resurrecting it, some other folks will join in.
islam, beards and independence from the ussr.
mount Everest?
klondike bar
Nunavut
inuit, eskimo, arctic circle.
death valley
Hot, California desert, Death Valley Days, Ronald Reagan, 20 Mule Team Borax, skeletal remains (generally an ox head), sand, hot, cactus, hot, lizards: who are hot
Iceland:
Lately, a spate of interesting pop groups and films, and volcanism to satisfy the most ardent lava enthusiast.
Northumbria:
Treaty of York, 1237. England/Scotland. Lindisfarne gospels. Beautiful.
Rotterdam
Willem de Kooning
Romania
Transylvania, Count Dracula, the site of one of history's most appalling (ongoing) atrocities against children
Glen Coe
Whisky
Finland
Homeland of sharks and all other finned creatures.
Yukon: