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| Leezard |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 08:58:46 AM
I have got this crazy desire for Rome and the country of Italy in general. My nanny family took me to Rome with them for vacation a few years ago and I fell head over heels in love with the place. I love the history, the ruins, the churches and all the other buildings. I love how the place has been there for ages and it's still standing. I love the romance of it, the cars and mopeds zooming by, the shops and sites to see all within walking distance. I think most of all I love the lifestyle and although I'm not a city girl I'm almost jealous of them for it. Can you imagine being able to walk to any shop you needed to visit? Going to the market everyday to purchase that days groceries, fresh breads, fruits and veggies. As I said, I don't care much for city life here in the States but there it's a whole different experience. Plus all the public transportation, being able to take the train out of the city anytime you wanted-that's an added bonus.
I've found a webcam that overlooks one of the piazzas we walked through a lot and I pull it up just to see what's going on there every other day or so, sometimes a few times a day, and another that's got shots of a few different places that we visited while there. I just love it and dream about going back someday. If I could handle living that far from my family I would even consider moving there but I don't think I could handle the homesickness I'd get.
So, where do you dream, long, desire to go to?
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| mima |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 07:22:31 AM
MAUI!!! sigh, to live in a little shack and swim in that wonderful warm water every day.... You could have a fabulous garden there too with all the soft rain..... |
| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 06:22:00 AM
I love the "States" there is so much to see here. I like visiting other places but never to live. I want to be home. There are so many states that I love, have been to all but 12 mostly in the northwest & I will get there. But to say where in the states I want to live, I'd have to say where the horses ride free. I love the west. I know its changed since I've been there & these awful Mc mansions are spring up everywhere but I still love the west. America is where I want to live.
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| fallsfarms |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 8:11:31 PM
I just LOVE the coast of Maine!
But, I REALLY wanna go to Alaska!
DH says he will take me there!
I'm waiting..........
~Joy |
| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 2:04:27 PM
Vermont. I seem to always have a pull toward Vermont (or New England in general, where I have discovered that my family has roots beginning in the 1600s). I love visiting Vermont and thinking about visiting Vermont and looking at pictures of Vermont. But where I am is just fine too. 
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
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| Patsy |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 1:12:07 PM
I have a dream of living on five acres or more. I have written all what I want in a little booklet and add to it often. I will call my little farm Angel Acres and I will have fruit trees, grape arbors, a garden of course, chickens, clothesline, cellar, peonies, windmill and I could go on and on. I travel there in my mind when times are stressful and sometimes just to have a wonderful place to visit.
Blessed are those who love the soil,
Patsy
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| Celticheart |
Posted - Mar 03 2007 : 12:52:25 PM
Another vote for Scotland. I've been there twice and would go tomorrow in a heartbeat.(Are you ready Winona?) Most of my ancestors left there 300-400 years ago but it is an incredible place.
That being said, I live in the southern Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest....very rural, on our own little 7 acres. What we've dreamed of and worked toward for several years.
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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| kitchensqueen |
Posted - Mar 01 2007 : 1:39:05 PM
Lately I really just want to be out on Route 66 doing a road trip with my husband. No sense of time, something new every day, being outdoors, warm weather and summer dresses, diner food, kitcsh, good music... we did it for our honeymoon back in 2005 and it was the best trip of my life. Oh, to have 2 weeks and an extra $3000 again!
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| happymama58 |
Posted - Mar 01 2007 : 05:59:26 AM
I have two dreams, one I sort of consider my "dream" and the other I think of as my "Dream" 
dream -- to be living here; house, garden, chicken coop, yard with some flowers *all done*, with the deck on the house and the lake out back all done
Dream -- living in a small cottage in a small town on the Eastern seaboard, surrounded by books, writing for a living, walking almost everywhere I go
I am working on the dream, but the Dream is probably destined to remain a fantasy, but that's okay
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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| TheSoapMaven |
Posted - Mar 01 2007 : 05:20:29 AM
I love visiting new places...but I am happiest right here at the end of this country road.
Susan
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| Libbie |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 11:21:53 PM
I have to say, I really dream of being right here in Central Utah - or a bit south with more redrock sandstone. It's sort of my "special" type of rock. There is nothing more calming, centering and restful to my soul than lying on a big, hot sandstone slab in the middle of the desert. I just love it. Jo - I can realte to the wide open spaces thing - ahhhhh....
XOXO, Libbie
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 11:10:00 PM
I love Arizona, those cacti! wide open spaces........
"life is drab without a lab"
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| theoanne |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 5:54:12 PM
I LOVE THE MOUNTAINS! The rockier and more colors of rock the better. The Appalacians are wonderful,but the Rockies are magnificent. Arizona is my favorite,but then I've not seen the northwest.
TEDDIE
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 5:28:05 PM
My dream happened, I've been all over the world, went to Rome a year and a half ago and I couldn't wait to get home. I dream about fly fishing streams with the summer hatch, the green of June that I've never seen anywhere else but here. My secret of happiness.......... finally knowing I was home and home and my dreams were the same thing........ but go looking for your dreams....... and I hope you realize they're right under your nose!! The problem with all the exotic places in the world is that everyone is scrambling towards them! jo
p.s. provence was definitely breathtaking.
"life is drab without a lab"
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| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 5:02:17 PM
Jonni, I just visited Tinagel a few weeks ago! It was so easy to fall in love with it. My ancestors come from Cornwall, and standing out there on the cliffs just gave me the most amazing feeling- love? home? peace? I could have stayed there for a very long time..
There are days when I dream of packing up and leaving to romantic places - but eventually I always remind myself that when I was in Tuscany or Provence or London I longed for the mountians, lakes and countryside of Canada. It will always be home to me.
That being said, when I become very well-off through lucky lottery winnings or very successful investing  I shouldn't mind a little cottage along the cornish coast or up in yorkshire. A place to spend the summers...
I love the small town ease and accessibility of Europe and the UK, I wish there were more places in North America like that. I think all us farmgirls need to found our own village and make it just like that!
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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| Leezard |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 3:53:05 PM
Ellery, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that got so hooked on Italy. I can't even explain it to most other people, they just look at me like I'm nuts...lol But it's as you said, it gets in your blood and you long to go back.
Thank you all for sharing your place, it's so interesting to see what gets to other people :)
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 3:44:52 PM
Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It is beautiful, I have friends there and I still have a ton of genealogy to do! Plus- Eating fish and chips at Aldeburgh, sitting on the sea wall, fighting off the seagulls; driving through charming villages with names like Rattlesden,Brettenham and Hadleigh; walking through ancient churches and actually feeling their history;shopping at Sainsbury's for McVitie's Oaties, Robertson's Apple-Black Currant drink and Cadbury Flake bars; having a sausage roll at the Butter Market;taking a ghost tour of old Ipswich (not very scary!);walking on the heath; castle-hopping;going to the Five Winds Farm butcher in Melton for lamb and mint sausages- mmmmmm; having a Brie and bacon sandwich at The Bell in Kersey; driving down the narrowest of roads and finding a lay-by just in time.... The list goes on and on!! I have to go back!!! :)
Karin |
| Persephone |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 3:23:42 PM
Provence. Before I'd been there, I was attracted to Provence-esque things, without realizing that they were all from Provence! When I went there, I felt like I'd come home. Now I seek out Provence themed things, because I love it so much there. Seriously, if reincarnation is real, I think I lived a past life as a farmgirl in Provence. :) |
| 73gypsy |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 3:10:20 PM
Oh Gosh, give me Tuscany any day! I lived in Italy for 6 months, I studied the language for 3 in Manciano, and I went to Siena for 3 months for a stained glass apprenticeship. There is not a day that goes by that I don't talk to myself a little bit in Italian and think about the people I met and the things I did. Those memories feed me, but my hunger for Italy is insatiable. I can remember the first time I saw the Roman Forum, I cried. The sun was setting and the light on the old stones was a peachy pink. I spoke with my art history professor years after I had been and he said the problem with Italy is that if you've been, it gets in your blood and you have to go back. I think that's true.
I also love that I can walk almost anywhere I want to go, and if I can't walk, I can take a train or bus! And I couldn't agree more about eating fresh foods everyday, the fish market, the meat market the poultry, vegetable, fruit and bread markets. The wine....I could go on!
In love with Italy,
Ellery
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 12:45:12 PM
Oooh Italy! Bellisimo! We were there for a week and I didn't want to leave! Although we watched Flicka last night and Oh Wyoming was beautiful! and no people for miles...........
We never made it to Scotland when we were in Europe but I wanted to.
Germany & Austria are of course beautiful as well!
and the beach....
Ok so how do I combine all of those????;)
I too miss the slower pace and the city life is DIFFERENT for sure. The farmers markt on the weekends and Sunday's when everything is closed and familys are out walking in the park!
Holly
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| goneriding |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 11:25:58 AM
Back to Scotland. I loved the palace and went to the Loch Ness (didn't see the monster tho) and just everything about the country, I'm in LOFF with. Even the Shire horses are just uber spectacular. The Royal Mile was to die for. A lot of American ex-pats live there cuz they keep their American citizenship and don't have the pay the crushing Scottish taxes. Where I was stationed, they didn't have crime at all. I swear my hotel room had a ghost in it!! Queen Victoria stayed there years ago!! We went everywhere on the train and if we did drive, it was on the other side of the road. I had a heckuva time getting used to the right side when I came back. I tried my level best to squeeze in every bit of site-seeing that I could while there!!
A friend told me that in past lives I lived there. I don't know about that but I have since found out that my Lowland (as opposed to the Highlands) ancestors kidnapped King James V and held him till they got a ransom. My friend is a descendent of said King James!! Anyway, I felt so totally at home there!!
Happy Trails :-)
Don't sweat the small stuff...
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| grace gerber |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 10:57:55 AM
It is so strange because I have been having this conversation with many people in the last year. I find myself at a cross road in life where I am not sure I wish to continue here in the states and if I might want to wander. I love what I do but everything around me has changed into something I do not like. The McMansons out here with their own golfing holes placed in their over fertilized lawns are killing our water tables and their huge SUV's driving into town each day so they can eat fast food is enough to drive this Funny Farm gal nuts. I wish to enjoy the piece of the life I made without having to post signs everywhere not to hunt, throw trash, climb into our pastures or for the forth time purchase a new mail box because the drunk kids find it amusing to bash the mail boxs out here off their posts. I have been researching for the past year of where I might wish to relocate but have not settled on anything.
It is great that now I can see what attracts others to different places and how knows I might get a great idea. My biggest hurdle is that my Great Pry's would have to either spend 6 months away from me to live somewhere else and I know they could not survive it nor could I. So keep those dreams coming - I am excited to hear your dreams too.
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
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| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 10:34:47 AM
the Palouse sounds so beautiful. I love the pics from MJ Farm w/ the rolling wheat fields. I have to see it at leasr once.
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 09:35:40 AM
Move back home to the CT shoreline. It is a dream of mine and someday, I know, I will be back there..
The ocean is always romantic to me (think that is why I joined the Navy). It has always called to me. The little cottages by the oceanside...I hate to see the developement has ruined so many.
I also want to visit Cape Cod- I have never been there but would love to see it. |
| Rosemary |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 09:29:53 AM
Nantucket. In June. In the meantime, I can pull into the landfill on Saturday mornings and watch the seagulls. *sigh* |
| Past Blessings |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 09:20:32 AM
I just dream of being in the rolling wheat fields of the palouse . . . I get to drive there everyday as I take the kids to school and we go to the borrowed property to take care of our pigs. But then it is back to our suburbs. While I have always wanted to travel . . . I'm almost 44 and have never left the Northwest! . . . my main dream is just for the peace and solitude of the country. But I am a big history lover and have always wanted to go back to New England and Pennsylvania, etc. and see the works of our founding fathers. That for me is a dream.
Brenda
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