I’m talking about anything within a day trip of your location. That you’ve never been to.
Why have you never gone? What’s keeping you from going now?
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I lived in NYC for a few years and never went to see the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, or really any of the iconic touristy things.
Why? No idea. Never seemed interesting to me.
Yeah. Visiting the tourist traps in your city are always something that you defer until somebody comes to visit and you start to think well what are we going to do? I know we’ll take them to the tourist traps
I’m gonna use this as my excuse when people ask why I’ve never been to the popular places in my city. lol
Same. I only went to the Empire State building because it was a school trip.
If there is anything of significance I can reach in a day (or even 2), I only haven’t been there because I am completely unaware of its existence. I’ve been pretty much everywhere in California and even the surrounding states and parts of Mexico. From Jupiter down to San Diego. From every trail and POI in Yosemite National Park to the entire old highway along the coast.
I fuckin’ love this state, and I live pretty much right in the middle of it.
Painted desert, petrified forest national park, monument valley.
All places off great natural beauty, less than 200 miles away, and in 40 years of living here I’ve just never made the time. Nothing keeping me from going except my own procrastination.
I’ve never been to a Leafs game despite being so close to Toronto. I’m not really a hockey fan but it feels like I should go once just because I’m Canadian.
Canada. It is within a day’s drive and I’ve even been to Niagara falls as well as a camp in northern Maine that was on a lake sharing a border. Never been across that border though.
Almost went to Stonehenge after visiting family down south. They wanted £60 and wouldn’t let us take the dog in.
You can apparently get in cheaper if you’re a member of English Heritage. So we looked online to see if it was a fair deal and what other sites membership grants you.
Turns out that English Heritage are a bunch of robbing bastards (they literally stole seahenge!) that enclose our historic sites in order to charge money for access to them.
I won’t be visiting if I have to pay them.
English Heritage was set up by the government to protect historic sites, and then spun out as an independent charity to continue that role.
Protecting sites includes limiting the numbers who can visit, hence enclosing them. That allows visitor numbers to be capped and managed (which reduces damage from over tourism) and also prevents illicit access and vandalisn.
In the case of seahenge it was literally rotting away - the decision was made to excavate and preserve what was left. That was in response to press campaigns to do something to save seahenge; it was a controversial at the time and remains so now. They did this while still part of the UK government in 1999.
Stonehenge was gifted to the nation in 1915 and had been on private land up to that ppint. A lot of expensive work has been done to preserve the site including demolishing other structures to preserve the skyline, and even recently burying a section of road.
Visitor charges and subscriptions pay for English Heritage to continue their work and preserve our history. They’re not “robbing bastards”, they’re a non profit with an expensive role.
I’ve never been to the local school. A private school quite a bit away? Sure, have attended that, I even have recorded memorabilia from that if that’s looked for. But the public school one can walk to in a few minutes? Never stepped inside there and it actually feels unheard of. Those barbarians.
Keep meaning to go on the tour of the Shanghai Tunnels but then forget about it. Also Mills End Park, could prob do both in one day tbh.
Off the top of my head, I live less than a hour from the birthplace of Shakespeare, Darwin, Robert Plant, and Moseley Bog (Tolkien’s inspiration for Middle Earth)
I’ve only met Planty, for obvious reasons. Nice bloke but tight with his money.
Alcatraz.
I’ve lived in the SF Bay Area my entire life, SF proper for a quarter decade. I’ve just never gotten around to it.
Are you me?
Almost same, I only went because some friends were visiting and they wanted to go. It’s fine.
Funny thing is, I actually had to crew a barge that was provisioning the island. I’ve been tied up alongside, but never set foot on the rock.
The site of one of the most interesting historical battles I know of—赤壁之战/Battle of Red Cliffs—is about a 1.5 hour drive away from my home. Despite my fascination with history, and with both the history of and the novel of Three Kingdoms-era China, I haven’t ever been despite having lived within that 1.5 hour drive for over 20 years.
I’m not sure why I haven’t gone. Maybe mostly just not having anybody to go with who’s as interested in it as I am.
As a huge Dynasty Warriors and Three Kingdoms fan (I own a copy thats 2400 pages!) I’d go with you… but there’s the whole issue of the Pacific Ocean being in the way.
The upper peninsula in Michigan. Lived in SE Michigan for 45 years.
Sorry, you mean Canada, right?
Nope. I love our northern (southern) neighbors but the UP is ‘Murica for sure.
Correct. This is but a jab at Fox News. Or maybe we had just sent in some troops from the north, armed with fresh maple Fritters and poutine.
Ahhh ok, I’m an idiot. I get it now! Oh fox.
