Where are you?

[Vinayaka]

Had to look that up. Apparently, its an hour east.

At one time I wanted to go there. Your country has so much beautiful scenery, but your state lacks on that compared to elsewhere I think. Boss and me were really impressed with upstate NY, and anywhere along the Appalachians looks scenic. Your place, not so much.

 

[Vinayaka]

I'm worrying about the stuff going on in Israel. As I spent years as a Noachide this feels really close to me and on this forum I'm hearing lots of anti-Israel sentiment so I don't really share my pro-Israel views. But even from my bed in my tiny pink bedroom in a small village with generally straw and hay covered roads, I worry.

It just seems like something really bad is going to happen, doesn't it? God, I hope not.

 

[Rival]

It just seems like something really bad is going to happen, doesn't it? God, I hope not.

I pray God it doesn't!

 

[JustGeorge]

At one time I wanted to go there. Your country has so much beautiful scenery, but your state lacks on that compared to elsewhere I think. Boss and me were really impressed with upstate NY, and anywhere along the Appalachians looks scenic. Your place, not so much.

I read once that Iowa is the most modified state in the US. I believe it.

In its natural state, Iowa would have been breathtaking... but as it is, its just full of fields, and it smells bad from the farms.
(what it is supposed to look like, in most regions)

But you're right, otherwise the US is breathtaking. My husband is from the East Coast. I found him in Oak Island, North Carolina. Beautiful sights, and a wonderful drive, scenically, especially if one takes the backroads.

 

[WalterTrull]

I don't like that kind of heat, I'm so used to Canuckistan. We get like 3 days a year like that. 70 is about right.

You get used to being wet.

 

[Vinayaka]

I read once that Iowa is the most modified state in the US. I believe it.

In its natural state, Iowa would have been breathtaking... but as it is, its just full of fields, and it smells bad from the farms.
View attachment 50516(what it is supposed to look like, in most regions)

But you're right, otherwise the US is breathtaking. My husband is from the East Coast. I found him in Oak Island, North Carolina. Beautiful sights, and a wonderful drive, scenically, especially if one takes the backroads.

Backroads are awesome, but much longer. Depends on purpose of trip for me. If I want to get there, I stay on the Interstates, but otherwise back roads. The drive up to Virginia City from Reno, and the Oregon Coast are memorable for me. Have yet to do many backroads down east, but maybe. We're getting a new car, and that might motivate Boss to tag along.

 

[ChristineM]

D57 is no highway, it's a paved trail. My walking trails here are almost that wide. The landscape is beautiful though. So rural, and moist, at least on the day the google cameras went by. Odd how we would think a place is always wet, because of one day.

I can spend hours watching big trucks trying to navigate the village. The road was first used over 1000 years ago (possibly much further back than that), the oldest buildings partially date back to celtic times . First metalled in the 1970s, it was made for walking or horse and cart, not 40 ton trucks. A lot of the buildings have scars to prove it.

From February to about now (counting the days) it can be every wet, two months ago we were stranded for a few days because the river Dordogne burst its banks and flooded several roads, plus rock slides blocking roads.

But then it gets hot and dry, the rivers can get to a trickle, the grass gets parched but the trees keep their green.

 

[Vinayaka]

You get used to being wet.

First time I went to Hawaii was in summer and we joked that you had to shower to get dry. There was some truth in that. The hottest winter of my life was a summer (their summer) in Mauritius. +34 C and wet wet. A cyclone narrowly missed the island, and they had flooding.

 

[WalterTrull]

At home, somewhere in central Israel, nighttime, wondering if I'll get some sleep before the next airstrike alarm.

I so do not understand. Prayers. if that helps. How do we dispel hate?

 

[Vinayaka]

I can spend hours watching big trucks trying to navigate the village. The road was first used over 1000 years ago (possibly much further back than that), the oldest buildings partially date back to celtic times . First metalled in the 1970s, it was made for walking or horse and cart, not 40 ton trucks. A lot of the buildings have scars to prove it.

From February to about now (counting the days) it can be every wet, two months ago we were stranded for a few days because the river Dordogne burst its banks and flooded several roads, plus rock slides blocking roads.

But then it gets hot and dry, the rivers can get to a trickle, the grass gets parched but the trees keep their green.

I would definitely be a walker there. Maybe an electric bike.

 

[ChristineM]

I would definitely be a walker there. Maybe an electric bike.

We walk a lot and used to do a lot of cycling, not electric. But there area lot of them about.

 

[Jainarayan]

63F. 19:11 EDT. Jackson Twp, Ocean County, Union of Soviet Socialist Counties of New Jersey. 40*7’22” N 74*16’42” W.

 

[Vinayaka]

We walk a lot and used to do a lot of cycling, not electric. But there area lot of them about.

So here's another question ... if a non-French speaker like me rented a VRBO rental in rural France somewhere for two to three weeks, would I get along okay without French?

 

[Daemon Sophic]

Stopped at a gas station in central New York State, on my way home from work. Currently I’m about 25 miles (40km) south of Rochester NY. The sun has set on a clear spring day, and the temperature is falling from the mid 60s to the upper 50s F. (Roughly 15 C.).

 

[stvdv]

in my Reality it's 3:08 in the afternoon, it's +20C and I'm on the extreme south side of Edmonton, Alberta Canada.

Vinayaka, Yesterday at 11:11 PM

As you can see, it was 11:11 PM where I live, when it was ca. 3:08 PM where you live

Sometimes I wonder "Am I really connected or disconnected while connecting using the internet"

 

[Vinayaka]

Vinayaka, Yesterday at 11:11 PM

As you can see, it was 11:11 PM where I live, when it was ca. 3:08 PM where you live

Sometimes I wonder "Am I really connected or disconnected while connecting using the internet"

It was 3:08 and 11:11 because it takes me 3 entire minutes to type 3 words. I told you I was a slow typer. Why are you up at 4 AM?

 

[stvdv]

It was 3:08 and 11:11 because it takes me 3 entire minutes to type 3 words. I told you I was a slow typer.

That is quite fast, finishing your OP in 3 minutes, usually it takes me much longer ... I must be very slow

Why are you up at 4 AM?

It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday, and I laid down on the grass, suddenly it was many hours later

So, after sleeping a few hours at night added to the ca. 5 hours in the daytime, I was done sleeping for a while

 

[Salty Booger]

I am in the Willamette Valley where the Willamette River and Columbia River meet, just west of Mt Hood and just east of the Pacific Ocean. The Spring weather has been beautiful these past couple days. I am hoping it holds through the weekend.

 

[Aupmanyav]

New Delhi, India 7:30 in the morning, wife has not yet woken up (none of the family have woken up since there is nothing to do), Delhi is under complete lock-down till at least May 17. Weather - I would term it as nice for us, 82 F, a little hazy due to clouds, wind 7 mph, humidity 58%, temp. likely to go up to 95 in the afternoon. Not the usual harsh May.
300 deaths, Corona infections down by 1000 at 82,700. But raging in Karnataka where my granddaughter is studying (Manipal / Udipi), and the course does not allow her to take a break. Wish she might not have taken up her master's course.
Edit: Delhi Muslims celebrating Eid today. It will be a muted Eid. Their clerics have advised them to observe restraint.

Udipi Sri Krishna temple - Sri Madhvacharya

 

[darkskies]

Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
About 25℃ at 8:15 am.

Started raining in the evenings these past few days, summer turning into monsoon.
Temperature doesn't change much throughout the year- never too hot or too cold.
Humidity rising. Mosquitoes, moths, spiders, and flies increasing in number.

The connectivity doesn't fascinate me as much as it used to.