• sweet_cookie01 said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I am from the Philippines, in the Island of Luzon... we are surrounded by wonderful beaches and about 4 hours away from the famous Hundred Islands....

• silverwhisper said on Jun 26, 2007....

  i live in the US, in the eastern time zone, which is home to washington, DC; boston; maryland, philadelphia and of course new york. i'm not however interested in being more specific as i prefer to maintain a certain measure of anonymity.
  
  ed

• ohtidak said on Jun 26, 2007....

  i live in malaysia, a small country in south east asia. my land here are quite okay, not to say so nice cause i found lot more beautiful places around here. oh if you know the tallest twin tower, called petronas towers... it's somewhere here within 50km radius. Kuala Lumpur the place is.
  
  on the journey to work, i always feel happy cause my land is quite down the road... journew starting with the view of few hills left and right, green scenery, and beautiful houses built here and there (not too many) thus it makes me feel like a small country or village.. after the hills, then there were just a straight highway to my office.. best is that my office is built to be like a home... so it's like a journey from home to home.. :)
  
  apart from that.. thing that i hated most which i have to face everyday is.. high traffic congestion..
  
  that's is why i hope i can just be a problogger and at the same time doing my freelance web designing in fulltime.. thus i dont have to face that traffic everyday
  

• secretlife said on Jun 26, 2007....

  i'm in NJ - east coast USA.

  I live in a neighborhood with alot of families and young children and i like that alot because i have 3 of my own....

  The thing i like best about living in this town is it's not so crowded as other places i've lived.  Across the street from me is a camp ground for kids in the summers-  right now i can here them playing in the distance because i'm sitting outside.  there are lots of trees and wildflowers...everything is still very green here.

• jadestar said on Jun 26, 2007....

  sweet cookie & ohtidak, please one day tell me more about where you stay. I would love to see pics. in the meantime I'm going to google those places you've mentioned. Not now though. going to fetch my daughter then home. will see y'all in about 15hrs
   
  silver I understand & respect the anonymity stance. have i mentioned I'm afraid of psycho's. :) but really, I am...
   
  can't wait till the morning to see y'all again

• Actorguy said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I live in Ontario, Canada, about 100 kms from Toronto. In a park near our apartment is a floral clock.  It is gigantic and the face. numerals and hands are all made of potted flowers. And it actually keeps good time!

• genalonewolf said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I live in Ohio, and to the north there is lake Erie and to the south there is corn. Not a whole lot of anything but corn and a few hills well there is the serpent mounds down south. Ok there a re a few interesting things here like the Ohio caverns, they are pretty neat.

• missb said on Jun 26, 2007....

  Hey jadestar,
  
  I'm from jakarta, indonesia. I can't exactly tell you any good spot in jakarta, but i can tell you an island we all love. It's bali island. You can try and google about it. It's full of beautiful beaches.
  Right now i'm living in taipei, taiwan though :)
  
  Cheers!
  B
  

• Eilan said on Jun 26, 2007....

  There's more corn in NW Ohio than southern Ohio.  At least where I live in SE OH.
  

• uniquely-ironic said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I live in california in the San Francisco south bay.  I see a heavily wooded mountain ridge that gets this incredibly beautiful "blanket" of fog in the mornings.  There is a little inlet at the base of them that sparkles when it's sunny.  The most notable things to see in this area are the Golden Gate bridge, the city of San Francisco and of course the ocean and beach areas.

• skald said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I´m in Iceland. Could you put some pictures of your palce ? 

• lonely987 said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I'm from Kerala, in India. It's a beautiful place-tall coconut and rubber trees and lots of straw-thatched huts. What I like the best about the place is the rainfall. Small streams are abundant. I will post pictures once I figure how to...
   
  I love rain maybe because in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where I currently live, there's no rain. A cloudy day is happiness for us (unlike for you all where it spells gloom). A sunny day is dreaded and rain is a welcome sight.
   
  Attractions in Dubai are all mainly all indoors...though some events like largest trolley in the world, largest mattress in the world and biggest pillow fight in the world are held oudoors. As for scenery, there are some battered old mountains in Fujairah, but that is a far place from here.

• GrapeKoolaid said on Jun 26, 2007....

  City of Chicago Represent! 
  

• boyzmom said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I am in the desert, almost entirely surrounded by small mountains, and eager to visit the Grand Canyon this year. I am from Oregon where there are tall trees, rapid rivers, and BIG mountains compared to down here. Here I like that my allergies are not bad and that there are trees that look like giant pineapples! LOL In Oregon I loved the scenery but would love to visit other states also. I like the city and don't want to live out in the country somewhere, and I don't like bears and cougars that roam the mountains in Oregon. Oregon also has lots of bugs, more than I have seen here. In Oregon flowers are abundant and here there are cacti that are very pretty. Each area has it's own beauty.

• botoni said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I live in Calgary Alberta Canada.....Our city spreads through the Bow River Valley, up through Foothills and off onto prairie. When we look westward from most points in the city we see past the hills to a panarama of gigantic Rocky Mountains. ON hours drive west will have us moving through soft rolling hills covered with huge homes and populated with livestock, onward into tree lined roads with small clearings blessed with little lakes where wildlife often feeds and finally up into the towering craggy mountains. If we travel east we will move over flat level lands until we come to the Drumheller Badlands. The Drumheller Valley is an almost desert appearing series of strangly shaped hills where a plethora of prehistoric dinasoar bones of been discovered. South will take us to the beautiful Waterton Lakes and entrance to the USA. North takes us to Edmonton and the West Edmonton Mall.....one of the largest indoor shopping centers in the world.

• husbandhater said on Jun 26, 2007....

  Were beautiful come summer and freezing come winter. It put's you in a certain state of mind. Fall is miraculious here with the folege. I am from what state?

• minniemouse said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I am in Maryland on the east coast of the U.S.  I cross a bridge everyday and get to see the beautiful bay which leads to the ocean.  I get to see the sun come up over the chapel of the United States Navel academy.  Its one of my favorite parts of my day....I don't like when its cloudy or foggy because I can't see it.  Coming back in the evenings, the bay is full of sailboats and rowing teams from the academy.  I love living near the water.  :-)  MM

• CreativeWoman said on Jun 26, 2007....

  I am in the rural Midwest.  I have the lake that I love walking at.   In addition this time of year you see big bales of hay in all the pastures.  The corn is about knee high.  Everything is green and growing this time of year.
  
  CW
  

• lfbno7 said on Jun 26, 2007....

  i'm near secret life in nj.  i live in tony soprano's area, a little south of him.  the prettiest thing to look at may be the watchung mountains, where they say that lawrence taylor and mike tyson have, or had, homes, though i wouldn't know.

• Zayda said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I live in the in the US, in the Eastern Time Zone. We have the Great Lakes which are beautiful. The Cumberland Forest and the Blue Ridge Mountains which are fabulous. The Great Smokey Mountains, which have beautiful fall foliage. The Eastern Time Zone is home to Mount Vernon; Charlottesville; Blackburg; Cleveland; Atlanta; Miami; Nashville: Annapolis: Charleston, South Carolina (beautiful historic Civil War era homes); Hilton Head; Philadelphia, and, of course, New York.
  
  
  I prefer not to say any more specifically where I am located as I, too, prefer some measure of anonymity.

• destinydiva said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I live in England.... the NorthWest.....  my drive to work is really interesting.......kinda like the scene in Nottinghill......I see the same faces each day.....getting older....families expanding.....couples...loving...and the odd days...falling out....
  I'm a massive 'people watcher' and it fascinates me....
  
  

• jadestar said on Jun 27, 2007....

  missb: even taiwan is beautiful. I will google Bali island tho
   
  Eilan & genalonewolf: actually where I am in KwaZulu Natal is more corn than many other places in our country except we call it..........MIELIES!!!.......and everyone loves them.
   
  Lonely987: Kerala sounds beautiful. Actually on Sunday nite @ church, we watched a video of Reinhard Bonker in India & the scenery shots were breathtaking....not sure where it was though.
   
  Boyzmom: Bears!! Cougars!!! I've gotta get a ticket to THERE.!!! But I love the desert. We have a small desert here in SA - the Karoo - but I've only ever drove through it, one time, on my way to the Cape. Where I really want to go is to Namibia - I hear from friends that have been that it is breathtaking.
   
  Grape': one day you'll have to tell me more about Chicago.....
   
  Botani & Actorguy: believe it or not my daughter knows about Edmonton Mall...I think she saw it on Guiness World records...she's stoked & that's where she wants to go - Lord help me, she's not even a teenager yet. One of my dreams has been the Rocky Mountains - and I believe the lakes bordering US & Canada are beautiful too.
  I have a Canadian friend who says that people go all out with decking their homes with Christmas lights etc. You don't get that much here except for the really posh areas in Cape Town.
   
  HH: you'll have to give me some time to try & work out that one. (anyone out there got some hints............)
   
  Skald: give me some time to work out how to do the pics thing & then I'll get right on it. Also I never travel with a camera, so I don't have any of my own pics (not that my pics would do much justice I'm sure) I'll see what I can find from friends - maybe my dad took pics of our Kruger Park trip. No fair - you haven't told me much about Iceland - remember I'm not well travelled (and probably not that much well read) so pls give some info...though I've heard ironically it's not icy there but very green.....(?)
   
  Creative, MM, Zayda & uniquiely': the US sounds awesome.......I think every country in the world (well almost) is effected by different parts of your culture - what we see in movies, tv, media, etc. I'm sure that what we see is just a foretaste of the real thing. I think what is so striking about the US is that it is so big & so diverse. But I guess for our little country we're pretty diverse too - so many cultures & languages living amongst each other. What I like about what I hear, is that there is a great expanse of nature close to many cities there, from what I hear that is....MM's chapel & sunrise, Creative's lake & Zayda's Great Smoky mountain really sound beautiful...it makes my heary ache & my feet itch.... oh yes I REALLY envy you guys when it snows - never seen it. Bummer is it's snowing now in Kokstad & in the Transvaal & the 'Berg but they're all too far for me to take a drive & look (sniff)

• jadestar said on Jun 27, 2007....

  guys thank you soooooooo much for all these comments. I want to take some time & reread them all slowly - maybe google some of the places......
  this has been such a cool experience.......
   
  HH: only thing I can think of right now is the song "all the leaves are brown...", so - California? am I even close?

• jadestar said on Jun 27, 2007....

  guys thank you soooooooo much for all these comments. I want to take some time & reread them all slowly - maybe google some of the places......
  this has been such a cool experience.......
   
  HH: only thing I can think of right now is the song "all the leaves are brown...", so - California? am I even close?

• robtard94 said on Jun 27, 2007....

  grapekoolaid haha, Chitown is amazing ^_^
  Right now I live in central Michigan so there isn't much beauty unless you go to one of the two huge lakes which are a couple of hours driving
  
  
  

• mom said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I am from the state of confusion and as we all know that is in the great Northwestern USA. I don't work outside of home but I do taxi my kids around. There used to be a lot of pine trees and it was very green; but now with the constructive revolution, we have Walmarts, K-marts, Jiffy Marts, and Sears. The animals are being chased out of their homes and have been sighted in public areas. As I am driving out of town, I am lucky enough to pass the adult book stores, tattoo parlors, crack whores and pawn shops. 

   Where I live there is a bar directly across the street, and we get to watch the place come alive at night while our windows are rattling to the bass of the music blaring and screaming drunks in the parking lot.  Our entertainment comes late in the evening as the people swagger and stagger out of the bar when it is closed. 

  Right after we moved in here, someone went into our garage and stole all the tools, and believe me there was a lot.  They even took a compressor that weighed about 200 pounds.  My husband needed to make our garage more secure but didn't have the tools to do it.

  A couple of weeks ago, we had a felon run into our back yard while the police was in hot pursuit. Do I sound cynical?  I am not really, I still have it better than most people in other countries.

• robtard94 said on Jun 27, 2007....

  mom it's a shame how we've taken all of this seemingly endless beautiful land and destroyed it in the name of capitalism

• mom said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I hate it, and another thing I hate is when they clear land and build stores, but the buisness fails and the building stays vacant.  Instead of re-using those buildings, they build new ones.  In the mean time, the animals are actually coming into the city cause they have nowhere to go.  We lived in a cul de sac and one time we saw an Elk come down into our street, a few days after that a doe was spotted.  On the highway a deer was hit and killed, they shouldn't even be coming down that far. It is really sad.

• rupert7 said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I am in Perth Western Australia. It is winter here and raining hard,though the last few days have been like spring. I am in the same time zone as the Philippines 

• jadestar said on Jun 27, 2007....

  mom I'm sorry to hear about the robberies & all that you are exposed to.
  We have lots of squatter camps & shanty towns that just spring up on the side of the highway. There is one suburb/business area here in Durbs that had so many shanty homes spring up on the side of the road that many businesses have moved.
  There are "hot spots" where there are daily smash & grabs (side windows smashed & what ever has been carelessly left on the seat is taken).
  There are times when I don't want to open my mouth to speak because I am grieved at what happens here. A huge portion of our community was rocked by the killing of a young man. There was a 21st celebration at a restaurant which was raided by 3 men with guns staging a robbery. Someone broke a plate (it was a big party - half the people didn't know what hit them) apparently the robbers got spooked there was a struggle & shooting started. I was amazed at how much it effected the community - the guy that was killed was extremely popular
  The worst is that the fact that the area has been targeted for similar restaurant robberies was not made public until after the incident.
   
  sorry to be so negative - maybe it was reading the artemis thread that got me on a downer.
   
  After all that's said & done - this country is in the poo (I could go on about corruption, the Zuma scandal, the country being brought to its knees by a trade union with a Stalinist approach - even though the sriking workers have a case - I feel they are being exploited by "*" (communist trade union) - I respect Mbeki but I feel that many in his camp have an old school of thought - a communist approach that is failing so many other countries) Sorry to be so political - I worry sometimes about our future; I'm open to political views I guess to a point. Our RESPEVTED leaders, were people misteated (vast understatement) by an unfair fascist system - many of them exiled & educated in Russia - no problem there Mbeki our president was educated there & he is a gentleman by many standards - but he's a forward thinking man, & I'm worried some of his comrades are not.
   
  What is awesome is to be living in a time of giant heroes like Mandela that can lead a nation to forgiveness & reconciliation...it's not perfect never will be, but I love him & his ilk from saving our counrty from a bloodbath - I wish you could meet some of the people here. Coloureds, black, indian...previously disadvantaged - many of them carry such an enviable grace about them.....that i, who came from the priviledged background (education just because I'm white etc)... aspire to have...my God these people make me proud to be South African.
   
  Yes there's bitterness & rascism from all groups towards all other groups. There's crime. And worst of all poverty stricken areas.
   
  but there are heroes...
   
  I'm babbling...and possibly opening myself up to attack.........
   
  Well, let it be known.... I love this place, whatever happens, and I'm glad to be a part of an awesome history...to see changes from my early 20's till now...the removal of the Group areas act, the releasing of mandela, our first democratic vote.........Lord that was like........THE most awesome day of my life (ok, besides life changin things like my daughter & getting 'saved'/'born again'....opening myself up for attack again........boy, this artemis thing has me paranoid...)
   
  I'm going to stop babbling & go & love my country a bit.......

• hotaka said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I am right here where I left me. Didn't you notice?

  On my way to work I walk past the garbage drop and then past the new parking lot for the cheapy clothing store on the corner. If the light looks like it's going to turn green I walk to the corner and walk across the to liquer and tobaco shop, then walk past the sushi restaurant and stop at my building on the corner. Otherwise I go down a side street and pass some nice gardens on the left and the backside of the cheapy clothing store on the right. Then I cross the street at the next corner where I can sometimes see one or two cute women dressed for the office and rushing to the station. On the other corner is my building. Going up the stairs I look at all the junior high school students who always fill the entire sidewalk so no one can get around them. Then I look at the web of power lines and the tall apartment across the street before going to the door of our little school office.

  Such is the scenery during my four-minute walk to work in Higashi Omiya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

• jadestar said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I think I'd like the sushi restaurant........

• jadestar said on Jun 27, 2007....

  what I liked more than your 4min hike to work were the pics of your Tateyama hike - pretty awesome. And you chose to describe your 4min hike to work because......???

• Imladris said on Jun 27, 2007....

  I'm in the north of England, my drive to work starts with narrow, high hedged country lanes, followed by dual carriageway, high risers and city scape.

• hotaka said on Jun 28, 2007....

  Okay, jadebaby. Can I call you jadebaby? No? Fine. Jadestar, I'll tell you about one of my favourite places to visit in Japan. It's called Kamikochi, which literally means 'upper high ground.'
  
  This is the place where the crystal clear waters of the Azusa River (said to be some of the cleanest and most beautiful waters in the country) rush out below the ramparts of the group of peaks known as the Hotakas. The surrounding landscape is thick green forest with ferns and bunchberries, as well as all sorts of other wildflowers, skunk cabbage and larch trees near the river's edge. Kamikochi is a popular tourist site and so there are hotels and souvenir shops at the main area. But access is only by taxi or propane bus. No private vehicles are permitted.
  
  For me, Kamikochi is the gateway to the Hotaka/Yari Mountain Range. Here is a stretch of mountains that are possibly the most rugged and treacherous in Japan. Great blocks of andesite from an ancient volcano have been uplifted, eroded by glaciers and weathered by the elements. There are glacial cirques, long since vacated by their creators, and icy streams that run down form the melting snow that remains in steep shaded ravines all year. The hike to the crest of the mountain range takes you from Kamikochi along a gentle trail through thick forest with views of the river and the mountains. Then you cross the river over one of two bridges and begin the ascent of the mountains. One route is steep but takes you to a spectacular view of the Karasawa Cirque below the Hotakas and the Matterhorn-like spire of Mt. Yari. The other route brings you through a U-shaped valley with views of steep rocky cliffs and takes you to the Karasawa Cirque. Once in the cirque you are surrounded by views of Mounts Kita Hotaka, Karasawa, Oku Hotaka and Mae Hotaka. All four peaks exceed an elevation of 3,000 metres and Oku Hotaka is the highest at 3,190. It's a steep struggle with hands and feet to reach the ridge but once you are up you have an incredible view of other ranges and peaks and you can roam about from peak to peak, climbing up rocky paths and sometimes ladders. There are fantastic cliffs and dizzying heights.
  
  I have been there at least three times and last summer I got as far as the summit of Mt. Karasawa. I wanted to tackle Oku Hotaka the next day but the weather turned and I had to go back. I have a post about it somewhere and a link to photos too. I'll give you the Ringo link for photos.
  
  http://ringo.com/photos/album/photo.html?photoId=163717824&albumId=40593536
  
  

• moonriver said on Jun 28, 2007....

  jadestar -- i can't describe in detail the place where i am right now. (i have my reasons...:-) but i can give you an idea of some of best places i've ever stayed in my homeland. in two previous blogs, i wrote about bathing in rivers and waterfalls. you might want to take a peek... ;-)
  
  
  

• skald said on Jun 28, 2007....

  If you want to post pictures you have to get an account on flickr. It is free. Just go to flicr come. Then you get some upload tools. You upload from your camera. You click on the picture and you see all sizes., You choose a size and then under you see  1. Copy and paste this HTML into your webpage: that you highlight and copy  it. It is good to have two browsers opened you go to Soulcast and click on the flickr icon and past there and you should have posted a picture.
  
  I have some pictures from Iceland on my blog and I've  talked about my country there. There is really so much to say and therefore I did not say anything about my country in my comment. Hope you can use my imformation on how to post pictures.
  

• jadestar said on Jun 29, 2007....

  much better - hotaka.
   
  moonriver, will read those posts when I have a little more time. thanx, tho
   
  skald, like I said I don't have a camera so don't have many pic's. will ask my dad if he can send pics of our Kruger Park trip. Many thanx for all the info - will use for future reference

• hotaka said on Jun 29, 2007....

  Much better? That's it? Gee willikers, what do I need to get a reaction out of you? A third lover? Btw, it seems I am down to one now and I am drinking satsuma sake at one AM so... 

• AnaMay said on Jul 05, 2007....

  if he didn't say it, i'd say HH is from maine...?

• lyssa said on Jul 22, 2007....

  I am from Malaysia. There you go. Malaysia consists of 14 states and is in the South East Asia. We have the Twin Tower and also other amazing and gorgeous places to visit such as Langkawi - an island just about 4 hrs from where I am. Then there is Pangkor - our islands are just as gorgeous as the ones from other countries.
   
  Kuala Lumpur is our capital and it's a city that never sleeps, just like NY. Lots of lights everywhere and night life here is craaazzzyyyy!!!
   
  I hope you will have the time to google on Malaysia!

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