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My home town! Where I grew up..Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
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So...Takamatsu, Japan...with a population of 670,000 it is located on the island of Shikoku.
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Useless Loop .....is located in the Southern Region of Shark Bay Western Australia. Shark Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which also home to the more famous Monkey Mia. Useless Loop is a closed company town, servicing the Solar Salt Operation Shark Bay Salt which has been in operation since 1968 and whose salt is among the purest in the world. Useless Loop has won awards recent years due its support of programs to protect and relocate Australian endangered mammals including the Burrowing Bettong.
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Peru, Massachusetts - yes, you read that right. There is a town in Massachusetts named after another country, as well as one named for a color, and one named for a state ...
Peru, Massachusetts is a small town in Western Massachusetts, nestled in the Berkshires. With a population of 838, it also has the highest mean altitude of any town in the state. It's pretty small, and only one state road goes through it - so you kinda don't go there unless you intend to. Lots of trees ... which is a plus in my book.
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Ulan Bator is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. I'ts population as of 2008 is just over 1 million. Located in the north central part of the country, the city lies at an elevation of about 1,310 metres (4,300 ft) in a valley on the Tuul River. It is the cultural, industrial, and financial heart of the country. It is also the center of Mongolia's road network, and connected by rail to the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Chinese railway network.
The city was founded in 1639 as an initially nomadic Buddhist monastic centre. In 1778 it settled permanently at its present location, the junction of the Tuul and Selbe rivers. Before that it had changed location 28 times, with each location being chosen ceremonially. In the 20th century, Ulan Bator grew into a major manufacturing centre.
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Roanoke Virginia Has a Metro Population of around 300,000. It is located in the Blueridge Mountains with the Blueridge Parkway and Appalachian trail going right through a part of town. I lived in Roanoke 3 seperate times a year at a time. Roanoke is the only place other than the "Over the Mountain Area" of Birmingham that I considered as a Retirement location. I have lived all over the World and Roanoke would have been my second choice, Both areas are in the Appalachian mountains with Chelsea being at its Terminus in the foothills of Double Oak Mountain.
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Ekaterinburg -is the third largest Russian city, the capital of the Ural and the center of the Ural Federal District. Ekaterinburg is situated on the East side of the Ural Mountains on the Iset River.
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Godthåb (Nuuk), Greenland. The city has a population of 15,047 people. It was founded in 1728 by the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede. Egede named the city Godthåb which means Good Hope. Today, the people of Nuuk are mainly Inuit and Danes.
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Bozeman is a city in and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States in the southwestern part of the state. With a population of 27,509
For thousands of years, Native Americans tribes including the Shoshone, Nez Perce, Blackfeet, Flathead, Crow Nation and Sioux traveled through the area, called the "Valley of the Flowers" , though the Gallatin Valley was not permanently held by any particular tribe.
I traveled to Montana on 2 Bicycle trips, the "Cycle Montana" sponsored by Adventure Cycle out of Missoula Montana. My second trip had Bozeman as our start/finish point for our trip. I was a ride leader and ended up leading many excursions in Montana ,Colorado and Virginia.
Montana is without doubt one of the most beautiful states in America. The Big Sky nickname
is well deserved. Everything is so open you lose perspective on distance and size. A must see
place indeed. I have so many stories about my trips there I could fill a few books. Pity I can't write
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Montana sounds like a beautiful place, but probably too cold for me - I like warmer places. Because of the name, I would assume that Montana has quite a few mountains, so it's definately not a place I'd like to cycle. ;)
Kokopup, you should write a book about your many cycle trips there! There are so many cycle enthusiasts who would love to read such a book. :)
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Inverness! The most northerly city in Scotland. It is a fairly new city and I was there yesterday. I'm struggling to say very much else about it though.
South Lake Tahoe, CA
We have a condo there and it is a beautiful place. The lake is fun for boating, swimming and parasailing in the summer. And the mountains are great for skiing, snowboarding and just having fun in the snow during the winter.
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Elroy Wisconsin - a city on the Baraboo River. It is a small one north of Madison...
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Youngstown, OH. Once known as a center of steel production.
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The Lake area is also great for Mtn Biking.. I was at Lake Tahoe for Xterra in 2003 and the Rim trail overlooking the lake is unreal. It did take a skillset that I needed, namely riding in granite sand.Quote:
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South Lake Tahoe, CA
We have a condo there and it is a beautiful place. The lake is fun for boating, swimming and parasailing in the summer. And the mountains are great for skiing, snowboarding and just having fun in the snow during the winter.
Lake Tahoe is a very beautiful area. I had an Aunt that Lived in South Lake Tahoe when I was young and never got around to visiting her even though she ask me to come out many times.
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis.
It was the advent of the Grand Ole Opry in 1925, combined with an already thriving publishing industry, that positioned it to become "Music City USA".
The Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park is a full-scale reconstruction of the original Greek Parthenon.
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