December Daily: places in the present, places in the past

james - Top 5 places in the past you would like to visit. Top 5 places in the present you would like to visit.

I love this prompt!

In the present:

5. I'd like to see Italy. Not so much big cities, but -- like, my brother and his ex honeymooned in a little house in the middle of a field of lavender, and that sounds lovely.

4. I've been to Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California, but I'd like to go again. It was winter when we went, and it was cold and the daylight was short; I'd like to have more time. I'd like to pick one tidepool and sit and look at it for an hour, just to see what came in and out of it.

3. I don't know if St. Vith, Belgium, is otherwise a pleasant place to visit, but there's a sourdough library there. I read an article on it once, and unaccountably it told me everything except what it smelled like.

2. What is it with me and Belgium? I have no general interest in Belgium, though I'm sure it's a very nice country. But I'd like to go to Brussels with enough time to make multiple visits to the Magritte Museum.

1. I'd really like to see Skara Brae. It's a place on the Orkney Islands in Scotland where an entire stone age village was preserved, buried by a storm, and then another storm uncovered it. You can look down into actual dwellings -- the hearths, the stone boxes and dressers and frames that supposedly held bedding. Where they laid their hands. Where they put their pretty things.

In the past:

5. Skara Brae when it was inhabited!

4. I don't have the delusion that I'd find Dickens' London very pleasant, but I'd like to see it just the same and see what it smelled like and what the food tasted like, what that noxious fog looked like. Go into a shop and closely examine how the clothes were made.

3. A North American tallgrass prairie.

2. I'd like to see the Milky Way the way my ancestors saw it before artificial light.

1. I'd like to go back and go to one of the family reunions that happened when my brother and I were babies. Meet my parents when they were young, and all my wild and crazy aunts and uncles. I've seen pictures. It looks like a good time.





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