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sar_anon, but I wanted to grow it a bit...
For the first 15 years of my life I always had the mountains surrounding me, and water available. I didn't really think about it. If I walked down the driveway and looked down the hill, I'd see I-5 and the Cascades. Look the other way? A hill, and beyond it the Olympics. Walking to school, riding my bike to 7-11 to get comics, the mountains were there.
Summer weekdays we'd go to Green Lake, Haller Lake, or Lake Washington to swim. Most Saturdays we'd drive to my aunt's in Federal Way on I-5. The Cascades and Lake Washington on one side of the car; the Olympics, Lake Union and Puget Sound on the other.
Vacation would be a trip across Puget Sound on a ferry, then driving across the Hood Canal bridge, in and out of tall evergreen forests, and getting glimpses of the Sound and the Straits on our way to Port Angeles. If Grandpa was fishing (commercially; he had a small trawler) we'd drive further on 101 to La Push on the Pacific. One glorious summer we followed a week at La Push with a lazy trip down the coast to Astoria before heading inland.
Later I traveled a bit further, down to LA, eventually to other places, but I've always lived here.
Part of why I do enjoy visiting Manhattan is the buildings help fill the horizon, so I don't notice the lack of mountains as much, and that it's surrounded by water. I enjoy that you can walk just about everywhere, and the relative flatness helps the walking (for those of us who don't do 10-mi hikes regularily ;)
Alternatively, the Orlando area is alien. Humid, which is welcome after a plane trip, but flat, with hardly any trees - and those that are there are strangely....short. I've enjoyed my visits there (backrubs fromroyha, the Space Center and Disney World will do that to you) but even seeing the ocean at the Space Center was strange. How can I be at the ocean if I don't have mountains at my back?
I could see living in Manhattan for a year or three, but that's the only other possible home I've seen. The northwet feels 'right' to me, and nothing else will do.
sar_anon, but I wanted to grow it a bit...For the first 15 years of my life I always had the mountains surrounding me, and water available. I didn't really think about it. If I walked down the driveway and looked down the hill, I'd see I-5 and the Cascades. Look the other way? A hill, and beyond it the Olympics. Walking to school, riding my bike to 7-11 to get comics, the mountains were there.
Summer weekdays we'd go to Green Lake, Haller Lake, or Lake Washington to swim. Most Saturdays we'd drive to my aunt's in Federal Way on I-5. The Cascades and Lake Washington on one side of the car; the Olympics, Lake Union and Puget Sound on the other.
Vacation would be a trip across Puget Sound on a ferry, then driving across the Hood Canal bridge, in and out of tall evergreen forests, and getting glimpses of the Sound and the Straits on our way to Port Angeles. If Grandpa was fishing (commercially; he had a small trawler) we'd drive further on 101 to La Push on the Pacific. One glorious summer we followed a week at La Push with a lazy trip down the coast to Astoria before heading inland.
Later I traveled a bit further, down to LA, eventually to other places, but I've always lived here.
Part of why I do enjoy visiting Manhattan is the buildings help fill the horizon, so I don't notice the lack of mountains as much, and that it's surrounded by water. I enjoy that you can walk just about everywhere, and the relative flatness helps the walking (for those of us who don't do 10-mi hikes regularily ;)
Alternatively, the Orlando area is alien. Humid, which is welcome after a plane trip, but flat, with hardly any trees - and those that are there are strangely....short. I've enjoyed my visits there (backrubs from
royha, the Space Center and Disney World will do that to you) but even seeing the ocean at the Space Center was strange. How can I be at the ocean if I don't have mountains at my back? I could see living in Manhattan for a year or three, but that's the only other possible home I've seen. The northwet feels 'right' to me, and nothing else will do.
