OT: World Politics

[Cal Gal]

Muir Woods was a surreal experience. Something about the air just felt peaceful. Hadn't even intended on proposing there but I had the ring in my camera bag anyway and it just felt right. Happy that I did it there, beautiful place. A calmness and quiet in the atmosphere there that I had never experienced before and haven't since. I've been to a bag of other national parks/forests as well, and nothing felt the same. I keep meaning to head to PNW or coastal BC to see if maybe that's just how old growth forests feel.

I'm prejudiced, but "Giant Forest" (Sequoia National Park, in my hometown's "backyard") might knock ya out. Redwoods are so DAMNED BIG!! Just walking around one of 'em is a trip, and there's a bunch of 'em. Another kind of cathedral that you can, quite literally, get lost in.

PNW, coastal and forest-wise nothin' to sneeze at, too. Maybe one day. . .

 

[LeafGm]

I've basically accepted that it's unlikely I ever set foot in their country again. There's a chance that they wake up, do the right thing and resist this well enough that they're able to get back to something similar to normal, but I don't know if it will be in my lifetime, and there's a big world to see. I've seen most of the stuff I wanted to see in the US. Sucks though, had some good times with the wife before she was the wife that we wanted to revisit eventually. We got engaged in Muir Woods outside of San Francisco. Our "are we maybe getting back together" trip like ~13 yrs ago was meeting up in New York.

I haven’t set foot in the US in over 25 years, and I haven’t been to many places there.

Honestly, if I don’t ever go back there, I don’t have many regrets about it—I don’t really give much of a shit about seeing any of their major cities in person or many of their big tourist destinations.

But the one thing I’ll regret if I never go back there is hiking one of their big west coast trails, or visiting one of their national forests with old growth redwood trees. I can only imagine that it’s pretty magical.

But hell, Trump & Elon will probably sell off those national parks anyway to some evil fuckwit in their circle of friends and have them clear-cut in order to reduce forest fires or create paper mill jobs, or some dumb shit.

 

[worm]

I've been to pebble beach and Augusta national
Nothing else to see in the USA.

Tokyo Disneyland here I come!

 

[MindzEye]

I've been to pebble beach and Augusta national

Found the racist.

 

[lecoqsportif]

They’ll just privatize the most iconic national parks and make them playgrounds for the oligarchs.