Eric Meets World (no Topenga)
Places I've gone to sleep and woken up in, for at least one night.
The thing is I'm still hankering for more. I will go soon, very soon. It's amazing because as I put this together I couldn't help but be reminded of all the stories from each of the discoveries I made in each place...
Surreal locales like the steeples of Notre Dame looking out over Paris, spring break in Atlantis on Paradise Island, climbing the William Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland or drinking the tastiest pint of Guinness straight from the brewery on a rainy day in Dublin.
Personal encounters like watching my friend Will get engaged in London on the Millennium Eye thru the eye of a camera as I took pictures, my grandfather's traditional burial in Korea on our family plot, celebrating Christmas with my friend Dearan's family in Newport, Wales, or bunking with my friends in a hostel in Amsterdam and laughing about girls until it hurt.
Intimate ventures like hiking thru the vineyards of Cinque Terra in Italy with my friends Bradley and Chris, buying Belgium chocolates - in Belgium, going to a Playboy function in Chicago, or meeting one of the most profound girls I've ever known in Chapel Hill, NC.
I think I could go on for days talking about this... maybe one day I will.
EDIT - So, it seems I've missed a few places. I will amend this post by god... I will amend this post like our nation's Constitution.
A few more places I've found myself waking up in...
1. Iowa City, IO
2. Winston-Salem, NC
3. Bristol Temple/Meads, United Kingdom
4. Royal Blue Reserve, TN
5. Georgetown, VA
6. Alexandria, LA
7. Weaverville, NC
8. Buena Vista, CO
9. Pittsburg, PA
10. Philadelphia, PA
11. Niagara Falls, NY
12. Buffalo, NY
13. Cambridge, United Kingdom
14. Key West, FL
I'm sure more will come to me...
1. West Palm Beach, not West Palm Springs... soon though
(thanks Nicole)
1. spelling correction - Terre Haute, IN
2. spelling correction - Cinque Terre, Italy
(thanks Tim)
The thing is I'm still hankering for more. I will go soon, very soon. It's amazing because as I put this together I couldn't help but be reminded of all the stories from each of the discoveries I made in each place...
Surreal locales like the steeples of Notre Dame looking out over Paris, spring break in Atlantis on Paradise Island, climbing the William Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland or drinking the tastiest pint of Guinness straight from the brewery on a rainy day in Dublin.
Personal encounters like watching my friend Will get engaged in London on the Millennium Eye thru the eye of a camera as I took pictures, my grandfather's traditional burial in Korea on our family plot, celebrating Christmas with my friend Dearan's family in Newport, Wales, or bunking with my friends in a hostel in Amsterdam and laughing about girls until it hurt.
Intimate ventures like hiking thru the vineyards of Cinque Terra in Italy with my friends Bradley and Chris, buying Belgium chocolates - in Belgium, going to a Playboy function in Chicago, or meeting one of the most profound girls I've ever known in Chapel Hill, NC.
I think I could go on for days talking about this... maybe one day I will.
EDIT - So, it seems I've missed a few places. I will amend this post by god... I will amend this post like our nation's Constitution.
A few more places I've found myself waking up in...
1. Iowa City, IO
2. Winston-Salem, NC
3. Bristol Temple/Meads, United Kingdom
4. Royal Blue Reserve, TN
5. Georgetown, VA
6. Alexandria, LA
7. Weaverville, NC
8. Buena Vista, CO
9. Pittsburg, PA
10. Philadelphia, PA
11. Niagara Falls, NY
12. Buffalo, NY
13. Cambridge, United Kingdom
14. Key West, FL
I'm sure more will come to me...
1. West Palm Beach, not West Palm Springs... soon though
(thanks Nicole)
1. spelling correction - Terre Haute, IN
2. spelling correction - Cinque Terre, Italy
(thanks Tim)
8:51 AM, July 14, 2005
Don't forget Iowa City, IA.
9:43 AM, July 14, 2005
You're right. How could I have forgotten my trip past Terra Haute!
9:47 AM, July 14, 2005
Well actually - now that I'm thinking about it this morning I think I forgot to put down several places... eh, oh well.
10:27 AM, July 14, 2005
you went to Pisa too, Eric.
10:36 AM, July 14, 2005
You also forgot a certain hyphenated city in North Carolina.
Perhaps trips involving Ferrarises are not memorable? Surely not the case. ;-)
2:20 PM, July 14, 2005
eric - what about all your time in Philidelphia?? Hmm, forgetting me already??
3:35 PM, July 14, 2005
I know you stayed at Frontier in Buena Vista, CO. Didn't you also go on Wilderness? And for that matter...Windy Gap in Weaverville, NC...Sharp Top Cove in Jasper, GA...and maybe more!
3:36 PM, July 14, 2005
You also seem to have this problem with changing "Terre" to "Terra"...e.g. Cinque Terre becomes Cinque Terra and Terre Haute becomes Terra Haute.
Hmmm...
3:46 PM, July 14, 2005
Seriously Eric, you're not that old. How is all of this possible???
3:54 PM, July 14, 2005
You say terre, some say Tara, I say terre.
3:55 PM, July 14, 2005
Ok, I think I've surmised so far (people - stop e-mailing me and just post on the site, s'rusly) that I've missed about 20 places. And to that I say... oopsy.
7:10 PM, July 14, 2005
Eric, when you visiting the REAL SOUTH!!! Nice posts and dude you got some great taste... just like me. Hahaha. Take Care.
ps: guess who
10:36 PM, July 14, 2005
this is my first time "posting" on a "site" of these sorts... liberating really. i digress, the point is that i can't believe you've been to so many places but no CALIFORNIA? what is all this travel if you haven't come to the best state in the union within your united states of amerrrica... though it does look like you wish to have come here as you've labeled West Palm Beach as West Palm Springs ;)
11:08 PM, July 14, 2005
Hell Eric. When are you coming to the homeland? Wales is waiting my fine friend. My 'sis is fancying a date.
12:23 AM, July 15, 2005
You've managed to travel to twenty times as many places as I have. I don't even know how to comprehend that.
- Andrea
7:11 AM, July 15, 2005
I'm sure my sister would be surprised to know that she is attending law school in South Carolina and not actually North Carolina.
10:26 AM, July 15, 2005
I'm an absent minded bufoon...
WHO ARE ALL THESE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE??
WHO IS VALMONT??
10:41 PM, July 15, 2005
Go to Russia, it looks lonely.
1:44 AM, July 16, 2005
holy smokes Eric...