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Subject: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Bert Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:09 AM A spin off from the cello scrotum thread. How about Waggoners Wells, Hants, England. |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Remote places where you have lived From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:11 AM That intro to this thread is enough to make ones head spin. I haven't read the other thread to have some context. Just how remote and how strange are you looking for? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Bert Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:14 AM Anywhere that you have lived that you consider to be remote. Waggoners Wells is in the home counties in England and is 3/4 of a mile from the nearest road. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: VirginiaTam Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:20 AM Athens West Virginia when it was only Concord College and next to nothing else. and George W Bush Land - a farm house outside Midland Texas. God I hated it there. The best was Kent's Store, Fluvanna, Virginia. Church about 2 miles away from our house, General Store and (oddly) a Funeral Home about a mile away and a handful of farms in just over hollering distance from us, fields, and woods and stream. Just lovely. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Bert Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:49 AM Here are some pics Actually the it was half a mile to the nearest road and 3/4 of a mile to the nearest main road where you could catch a bus. which is really remote in South East England. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Barry Finn Date: 29 Jan 09 - 02:51 AM Lahina Roadstead, Maui. It was a 1/4 mile swim to the shore. After leaving a bars at 2pm, the 1/4 mile swim back to the boat/home was spooky, unless there were dolphins in the vicinity. I always kept a change of clohes & a bar of soap in the car just in case there was no dingy & sharks had been sighted. Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Peace Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:00 AM FGH. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Georgiansilver Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:03 AM Milton Damerel in North Devon... not that remote really but certainly the most remote place I have lived. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Jim Carroll Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:12 AM London - they don't come any more remote Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: CarolC Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:30 AM One place (in Garrett County, Maryland), the nearest neighbor was a mile away, and the nearest paved road was about two and a half miles away, but there was a dirt road that ran past the house. Our mailbox was also about two and a half miles away at that location. Another place (also in Garrett County), the nearest neighbor was about a quarter of a mile away, but so was the nearest road, and we had to walk the quarter of a mile from the road to the house in two or more feet of snow all winter, and the winters are very long in Garrett County. That house was literally in the middle of a cow pasture. The cows kept trying to get in the basement to get away from flies. Sometimes we would come home and find a cow with its head and shoulders in the basement and its big behind sticking out the door. In another place, we were the last house on Painter Hollow Road a few miles from Fort Ashby, West Virginia, and after us there was only trees and hills for miles and miles. The nearest neighbor before us was about a quarter of a mile away. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:45 AM Racine, Wisconsin. San Angelo, Texas Fresno, California You don't want to go to any of those places... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Michael Date: 29 Jan 09 - 04:41 AM The remote place where we live is down the back of the sofa. I'll get me cushion cover! Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: gnu Date: 29 Jan 09 - 05:45 AM Nain, Labrador. Makkovik, Labrador. When I used to hunt partridge, I would spend as much time as possible in a travel trailer way back near the bog country in Kent County, New Brunswick. Spent 6 weeks there once. Only saw humans (well, my relatives) on Saturdays. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Janie Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:22 AM Richie County, WV - 3 miles out a dirt track. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Leadfingers Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:44 AM Habilayn - Forward supply Airstrip in The Radfan Mountains - What usd to be the Aden Protectorate . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: GUEST,Cats Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:00 AM not seriously remote for down here but loads of people think we are.. We live in the hamlet of Rillaton on Bodmin Moor, 8 houses and 2 farms but what a fabulous community atmosphere especially at Wassail and Crying the Neck when the whole hamlet turns out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:13 AM Sidmouth. I've lived here for 8 years now. You can go into so many shops here for years and you don't get that friendly "Hi there! How ARE you!" (unless you come into our National Trust shop of course. :0) In every place I've ever lived, (apart from London), I've always got to know people really fast, but nope, not here. Never lived in such a 'remote' place, where people keep behind their doors or stay in little cliques..So weird. I was talking to two people the other day about the local GP surgery here. They were both telling me how unfriendly and cold some of the staff are. One lady told me that when she *was* actually treated really kindly by one of the receptionists, she burst into tears, as she was overcome with emotion at being shown such feeling. She's a former nurse, too. Sad, huh? Anyone wanna buy my house? :0) Went back to Dartmoor yesterday..now how 'remote' is that? Within minutes of getting off the bus.."HI! Where have you BEEN? Haven't seen you for AGES!" came floating out of one of the shops.....even the bus driver, on the return journey said a really cheery hello to me...and the last time I saw him was 9 years back, but instantly, there was the warmth and friendliness. I didn't want to come back here.. Ho hum.. Curse the housing market slump... :0( |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: VirginiaTam Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:22 AM Cats - I think I have been through there to see the Hurlers. We kept getting lost and going round in circles. Lucky you. Such a lovely area. Bert the photos are gorgeous. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:14 AM I live in a fairly remote location. It's 1/4 mile through the woods from my house to the paved road, three miles down that road to the nearest highway, ten miles to the nearest small town (population 500), twenty miles to the nearest town of any real size, and forty miles to the nearest real city. There are about twenty families that live either on our road or on adjoining spurs. That's probably enough to merit some sort of community name, but we haven't been dubbed with one yet. When describing where we live to others, terms like "a few miles north of" or "between X and Y" tend to figure into the conversation pretty regularly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:22 AM Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument probably fits the bill then. 150 miles from Phoenix or Tucson, where you did any major shopping. 35 miles from Ajo where you did overpriced shopping in little stores for bare essentials if you ran out and had to make a trip or right at the border was Lukeville, a really high-priced wide spot in the road with way overpriced gas and groceries. 2 miles across the border to Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico for groceries and dining when the border is open. Some groceries and other purchases can't be brought across the border. Nowadays Sonoyta is a rather dangerous place, but it was a sleepy desert oasis when I lived in the area over 25 years ago. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Desert Dancer Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:31 AM Kabul, Afghanistan. Suburbia there (at the time -- back when the King was still in), but pretty remote from what I as a 3rd-grader thought of as civilisation. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Jeri Date: 29 Jan 09 - 11:42 AM I've been places that were remote, but never lived anywhere very remote. I've had this fantasy of one day standing somewhere and looking in all directions without seeing some sign that people had been there before. Out in the Mohave desert, I could see power poles and roads. Same with the woods in New Hampshire. You think you've finally found it and then look down to see a bottle cap or look up to see a contrail or a plastic bag stuck in a tree. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: CarolC Date: 29 Jan 09 - 12:03 PM This is a good place to go for not seeing any signs of humans... La Verendrye Provincial Park At least it was when I was there in the early '70s. We were canoe camping, so we didn't even see any trails for most of the time we were there. We saw a couple of places where other people had camped, and trails at some of the portages, but most of the time (about ten days and about 100 miles), we saw no signs of human activities. Except sometimes at night, we could see Skylab traveling across the sky, but it looked more like a star than something man made. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Jan 09 - 12:27 PM I was travelling across Colorado into Utah and passed through Dinosaur National Monument during late fall, a quiet time of year. I drove up to a picnic area (I'm looking at a map now) called Escalante Overlook. I got out of the truck, the only person there, and got myself some lunch and looked around. I could see the highway down below, but at that time of year there were no insects or birds, no animals, nothing, no wind. It almost hurt my ears it was so silent. It's not even like in a cave, where you can hear your own breath and echo from steps and such. It was a wide open bright cool space without a speck of noise. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: HuwG Date: 29 Jan 09 - 12:35 PM Consolidated Muchison Mines; a mining camp in South Africa 30 miles from Tzaneen in one direction, but only 20 miles from Palabora (another mining town) in the other. OK, there were several hundred miners and some of their families living there, but for an expatriate Brit, it could get hostile, especially when the British Lions tour of 1980 produced some bad feeling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: bubblyrat Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:10 PM Not easy to find anywhere really remote in England, but---as a child,aged about 10,my family lived for a while in a remote cottage,on a hill,three miles from the village of Easebourne ,in Sussex.It had previously been inhabited by a Cowdray estate (for whom my father worked) gamekeeper . I don't know what you would call a "gamekeeper" in the USA, but in England,he is the man who rears and protects pheasants,partridges,etc.,so rich people can shoot them !! Anyway,the house had NO electricity,so we had paraffin (kerosene)lamps and candles at night.The water supply was at the end of a 3-mile plastic pipeline serving cattle-troughs on nearby farms----ok in winter,but in summer when the cows were a-drinkin'all day,we had no pressure !!There was only one other house anywhere near us, so I only had one friend (sadly,another boy !!).There was a deep well in the garden,which gave me nightmares !! But-----we were surrounded by quiet,peaceful forests,full of deer,squirrels,lizards,snakes,birds,and I could explore (which I did !) to my heart's content . .....And I LOVED every minute of it (except the well-dreams !). Go back there tomorrow if I could ?? You bet !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: artbrooks Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:18 PM Salt Lake City, Utah...a l o n g way from civilization. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Becca72 Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:24 PM Jeffersonville, Vermont. 5 businesses in town: gas station, hardware store, restaurant, PO and a UHaul. It was about 15 miles to the nearest grocery store. I moved there from the largest city in Maine (which still ain't sayin' much) and was kept awake at night by the sounds of peepers....and nothing else. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Ebbie Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:24 PM The remotest place I have lived - except in my mind! - was in the Oregon Coast Range. It wasn't all that far from a small town (Yamhill, Oregon, the town that Nicholas Kristof, the world-traveling journalist, is from) but we had no neighbors and the dirt drive leading to our cabin dropped sharply down from the gravel road above. I was 21 and lived there one winter with my two brothers. They had a rural milk route- their day began at 3:30 in the morning and they were home again before noon. We had a German Shepherd dog and a milk goat that thought she was a dog. Wherever the dog and I went in those woods the goat traeled along. Jeri, I had that experience of no sign of human habitation. I was camping with my brother in the Cascade mountains way, way high in the mountains. The first night I stood outside and there was nothing to say that humans had ever been invented, except the camper behind me. Just the black sky, silver stars and shadowed mountain peaks and deep dark valleys. Another time we were camping on the Wallowa river in southern Washington state. I went for a hike upstream on an old jeep trail. Three miles or so from camp I heard what I identified as a vehicle coming up behind me. I really didn't want to meet anyone so far from others and I thought fast - Should I head back briskly and when I met them just wave breezily and keep moving? Or should I go to the river's edge and pretend to talk with somone on the water? Or? While I dithered there, I suddenly realized what the sound was: an airplane. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: mouldy Date: 29 Jan 09 - 02:53 PM Living in a Land Rover/tent for nearly 4 months while travelling from South Africa to the UK. For example: northern Niger desert...camping about 300yards from a main route (tyre tracks which go from oil drum to oil drum, one km apart)....not even a blade of grass...no other vehicles for over 12 hours...peaceful! Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Rapparee Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:12 PM Line Papa, Korea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: GUEST,astro Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:53 PM Pleasant Valley Idaho...out in the boonies... I lived in a commune there in the early 70's in a mansion that had been built in the 1880's. There was French wood paneling that had been brought out in wagons, its own cemetery, and three stories. It was nowhere near any towns, but we had some of the wildest parties that I can't remember....ah, youth... astro |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Michael from Manitoba Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:58 PM Interesting topic, interesting posts. For me: A log cabin in the Klondike valley, Yukon Whale Cove (pop. 200) on the left-hand coast of Hudson Bay Currently, the middle of a square mile of Manitoba bush. Closest neighbors: jetliner passengers passing at 30,000feet |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Michael from Manitoba Date: 29 Jan 09 - 04:00 PM That should read [Hudson Bay] I've spent too long away from folks |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Michael from Manitoba Date: 29 Jan 09 - 04:02 PM Is there something wrong with me? I wrote 'That should read Hudson Bay' But the important bit didn't post. Duh.
-Joe offer, Forum Moderator- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Charley Noble Date: 29 Jan 09 - 04:54 PM How about Emdeber, Ethiopia, in the heart of the Gurage cultural area? I worked and lived there for a year in a traditional round thatched house from 1967-68, when I was serving as a Peace Corps teacher in their secondary school. Emdeber is about two hours southwest of Addis Ababa by reliable car, longer if not reliable. Oddly enough, I'll be making my first return visit there in a couple of weeks and will be soon posting an introductory thread with links to my website where I'll be posting some old pictures and hopefully some new ones. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:14 PM Oenpelli in Arnhem Land in the upper back blocks of the Northern Territory, Australia was pretty special. Living in a one room donga occasionally invaded by King Brown snakes - thank goodness for our Doberman. YIU gecko |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: JennieG Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:53 PM Rowan, are you reading this thread? I'm pretty sure Rowan has lived/worked in Antartica. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: kendall Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:03 PM If you don't count a month in the Davis straits (between Labrador and Greenland) in a ship, then my home village would be next. A place called Kennebec, a remote part of the town of Machias in Washington county, eastern Maine. Population, two hundred, 5 miles from town on a one lane dirt road. So far back in the woods, we had to come in to hunt. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Alice Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:53 PM Sihuapilapa, El Salvador, Central America in the middle of a forest, Sanders County, Montana |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Alice Date: 29 Jan 09 - 09:02 PM Sihuapiliapa is not a town. It is the name of a rural part of El Salvador along the la Litoral, the coastal highway. A satellite photo shows the lay of the land, forest over old volcanic flows. click for satellite view |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Charley Noble Date: 29 Jan 09 - 09:24 PM Alice- Looks pretty remote to me! How far was it from a good latté or milk shake? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Alice Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:40 PM had to be home made coffee and I didn't trust the milk. roasted coffee beans on a comal, ground coffee on a stone metate |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Donuel Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:50 PM Greene NY |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: katlaughing Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:53 PM SRS, Dinosaur Natl. Monument was one of my fav. places to go as a kid and was on the way to my dad's in his last few years. Love it up there when it is cooler, non-touristy-time.:-) About fifteen miles out of town which was in the middle of Wyoming. We were on the old Oregon Trail about a mile or two off the two-lane-paved-turned-to-gravel-just-before-our-turn-off road from town. It was tough to get to in the winter when it snowed and and the wind blew, but our kids all say it was one of the best, more fun places they've ever lived and we loved it, too, esp. the critters and acreage we had. We had three neighbours on the dirt last mile, but in a WY blizzard they might as well have been on the moon.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Jan 09 - 08:52 AM Alice- The coffee procedures sound familiar. Where I was in Ethiopia the villagers also grew coffee bushes. They would process the berries, char them on a griddle, and than mash them up with a wooden mortar and pestle, and drop them into a clay jug of boiling water. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: artbrooks Date: 30 Jan 09 - 09:16 AM Well, I can't really say I "lived" there, but I'll contribute Guard Post Ann, in the Korean Demilitarized (hah!) Zone, about 400 meters southwest of Panmunjom. It was (and still is) a small hill with 30-40 US soldiers on it at the end of a 1 kilometer dirt road. I was assigned there for six months in 1969, one week on and one week off. Our mission was to die as slowly and loudly as possible when the North Koreans invaded. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: 3refs Date: 31 Jan 09 - 09:03 AM Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut Canada. I was there for 6 weeks and I tell people I was outside twice-the day I arrived and the day I left! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Jan 09 - 10:04 AM As an afterthought where I was in Ethiopia seemed only "remote" to me; the indigenous agricultural system supported population densities in access of 300 people per square km. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Remote places where you have lived From: Naemanson Date: 31 Jan 09 - 08:26 PM I was going to throw Talofofo, Guam, in there. We are about 3500 miles west of Hawaii and 1500 miles southeast of Japan. But I have plenty of neighbors and that seems to be the ruling criteria here so I guess I'm not remote at all. Of course, on my first trip out here I sat on an airplane for what seemed like forever and then when we changed planes in Hawaii the guy in the seat next to me commented that we were halfway there. If we are going to talk about remote then I could throw Van Buren, Maine, into the mix. If you look at the map of Maine and follow I-95 with your finger you get to the Canadian border. Leave the interstate and follow Route 1 north until you get almost to the top of the state. You'll see Van Buren. |
