Travel Meme

[drplokta]

1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own country?

Sunriver, Oregon, a couple of months ago. In the "High Desert" (although it has an awful lot of pine trees for a desert) that occupies much of the US west of the Rockies. And technically inside the largest volcano in the continental US, which occupies over 500 square miles.

2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while travelling?

Possibly being held up for two hours on the M6 north of Birmingham in a snowstorm because a lorry full of sheep had overturned, and the sheep were wandering around the carriageway.

3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?

Mars. You were serious about money and time being no object, right?

4. Do you prefer travelling by plane, train or car?

If it's just a question of which one I enjoy more while actually travelling, it would be train. But really, whichever one is quickest.

5. What's the next place on your list to visit?

Does this one have to be foreign travel too? If not then Walthamstow on Sunday morning. If so then Paris, four weeks today, for four nights.

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[fishlifter.livejournal.com]

1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own country?

Madison, WI, for Corflu Badger in April.

2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while travelling?

I lost my knickers on the Eurostar, if that counts. Or the disintegration of my underwear at Adelaide airport.

3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?

Australia. Melbourne and/or Adelaide and/or Canberra. Every year from the late May bank holiday until the August bank holiday. I want to fly south for the winter. Especially now.

4. Do you prefer travelling by plane, train or car?

Car if I have lots of luggage, train if it's a direct route and/or a long journey (subject to comfortable seating and a lack of restless children or uncontrollable adults who aren't my friends). Planes have good opportunities for non-guilty reading time and enable me to get to Forn Parts relatively easily, but the endless hanging about and potential for other people to screw up my travel arrangements -- not to mention guilt about the environmental impacts -- makes it less good overall.

5. What's the next place on your list to visit?

Toronto, for the Worldcon, flying out in just under a fortnight. Or if this means the list of visits I haven't sorted out yet, probably Haverfordwest. If it's somewhere I've never been but would like to try to go to, maybe Islay. Or Iceland seems nice at this time of year.