The Syndicate

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:00 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:28 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:15 am I'm going to southern Ontario in a couple weeks. Thank goodness. Get me out of this country.

When and where exactly?

Some little place called Harrow starting August 3rd.

Neither the time nor the area that I'll be around, never mind then!

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:15 am I'm going to southern Ontario in a couple weeks. Thank goodness. Get me out of this country.

When and where exactly?

My brother has been living in Thailand for the last year and I asked him to get me a t-shirt with horrible english on it, but he has not yet returned to America so I haven’t seen it yet. He should be back in a few months, but I will have moved away by then.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jul 07, 2018 3:47 am found in a souvenir shop in taipei



@Vompatti @A Person @Marmot uhh idk who else says ture but hey syndicate meme

Great find, I guess dreams really do come ture.

did you see any hobbits?

The White Mountains are my go-to destination in the region. You can pretty much park your car anywhere and find a great hike in the area.

Our shortest hike was 3 hours and we also spent as much as 8 hours on the Wrong Trail hike up Mt Adams. Generally we'd go about 5-6 hours hiking each day, up a mountain for lunch and then back down.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:35 pm I've seen grass and trees like, really close up.

Are my pictures huge? They're showing up as a normal size for me.

Acadia would be an absolute paradise if not for the massive swarms of people and mosquitoes. It's the least New Englandy place I've ever seen in New England. I felt like I was in a different country.

Hey look I uploaded some photos.

Vermont
New Hampshire
Acadia National Park (Maine) Massachusetts I'll probably continue uploading things later, here's the full album so far if anyone wants to look at more pictures of things I saw.

I have many photos, but they've not yet been uploaded anywhere.

I traveled and now I'm back. Hello. I finally crossed Vermont off my "Never Been There Before" list, and also made stops in other New England states and climbed lots of mountains, sometimes taking harder trails than I was supposed to. It was fun.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Iowa is always my go-to state when I need to make fun of a boring place, which is terribly unfair since I have never actually been to Iowa. That story could have certainly ended worse though.

It's mine too, but I feel fully justified in my treatment of it. Up yours, Iowa.

Sloonei wrote:The Cliffs of Moher are the single most impressive/terrifying natural feature I've ever seen.

When people kept ignoring the signs and walking right out to the very edge I was holding my breath. They're glorious, no doubt.

I was walking around there with two of my school chums when we first arrived at the cliffs, all of us just soaking in the view. Then the two of them decided they wanted to dangle their legs over the edge. They did that, I took a seat 10 feet back. I still get lightheaded thinking about it. I distinctly remember looking down and seeing tiny little white specs that were seagulls flying around a hundred feet below me.

I've lived in Massachusetts all my life and I love mountains but I've never once set foot in Vermont.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Sloonei wrote:My first real travel experience was a school trip to Ireland 3 years ago. It was an amazing place and I've been itching to go back ever since.

I was in Dublin and Galway about a year ago. Ireland is a lovely place; I felt like I was missing the core of the experience though as a non-drinker. If I go back I will probably leave that particular conviction at home.

Sloonei wrote:Iceland and Scandinavia are my most desired locations to visit in the world right now.

Of the countries I've seen, Iceland and Norway are the two I'd usually call my "favorites". You can't go wrong with the Nordic countries.

I had never had a sip of alcohol until a few weeks before I left for Ireland. I felt it was an essential part of the experience and couldn't miss out.

The Cliffs of Moher are the single most impressive/terrifying natural feature I've ever seen.

I'd like to talk about Iowa for a moment, because I may be one of the few people on this earth who can say they have an honest to God Iowa Story. On Day 2 of the aforementioned roadtrip across the US, my friends and I were driving straight through Iowa, because what's there to see in Iowa after the World's Largest Truckstop (which we reached at around 4 AM the night before)? We drove through the night and into the day, not stopping until we reached the Rockies in Colorado. Around mid-morning, still laboring our way through the everlasting cornfield called Iowa, I am dozing off in the backseat beside Friend A, Friends B & C up front. Friend A, bored as one is to be in Iowa, decides to hold his GoPro out the window of the car and start filming the last exciting moments of our trip as we rush down the interstate.
On that morning, somebody in Iowa on that highway behind us saw this, and decided to mistake Friend A's camera for a handgun, and made the bold leap to believe that he was firing it out the window while whipping down the highway. So naturally they called the state police on this maniac. We, of course, were blissfully unaware, still driving toward our destination until suddenly a police cruiser comes flying up behind us, sirens going. We pull over, expecting them to fly past us. They don't. They stop behind us, two police officers step out, and they're each carrying full assault rifles. They start walking towards us, as we all look on, confused as we've ever been. They get to the car, look at Friend A and see that the thing in his hand is not a gun but a GoPro camera. They yell at him, tell him that was stupid, and say something about how in Massachusetts they would have had us out of the car and on the ground. But in Massachusetts I find it hard to believe that anybody would ever think that we were firing a handgun out the window on the highway. Such a thought would never enter my mind, and I'm still baffled that it happened.

In the end the cops apologized to us and were friendly enough once they recognized the error, and we were off on our way. But I've resented the state of Iowa ever since.

My first real travel experience was a school trip to Ireland 3 years ago. It was an amazing place and I've been itching to go back ever since.
The following summer I went on a roadtrip around the US with some friends. That was an incredible experience. We camped out, either in National Parks or wherever we could find a spot to pitch a campsite for the night, woke up at sunset every morning and would be off on adventures. Probably the best couple weeks of my life.
And my girlfriend and I live in separate countries for the time being, so seeing each other always involves travel and adventure. We're planning a roadtrip around New England and parts of Canada this summer, so I'm looking forward to that.

Iceland and Scandinavia are my most desired locations to visit in the world right now. I'd also love to go to parts of southern Europe (Italy and Greece particularly because I'm a sucker for historicality) and/or South America, and the hobbit in me longs to explore New Zealand. It would be excellent to get to the Himalayas and eastern Asia at some point as well. The world is full of things I want to experience.