Tell us about someplace or thing in your area.

The biggest thing in my immediate area is ice cream. I live in the Ice Cream Capital of the World. That's just the name we got by law, but my hometown, Le Mars, is home to Wells Blue Bunny. I find it entertaining, though I'm not proud of it. Among my crowd, it's something of a joke, because the Wells family all live in these mansions, while the rest of us can barely afford the rent. And everyone who works at Wells hates their job, and we all dread being so down on our luck that we have to spend our days in a freezer packing ice cream cones.

 

the river that flows from lake tahoe to pyramid is about a block and a half from my door, and there's a walking biking path along the other side of it, but you'd almost never know it was there, surrounded as my lodgings are by light industrial pavement. no pictures of my current immediate surroundings on line anywhere. you can google satalite of course, 4th and sutro, then south on sutro to the bridge is right there, after a steel recycler and waste management. a couple of blocks further south then that is big multi-block hospital, and before you get to that, the last resting place of the local newspaper, where it was printed.

couple of pictures of norden, on top of donner summit, where i last lived before leaving home in 1968, that's, if i remember right, about 33 miles west of here. as it looked then, before all the company houses were torn down while i was living up in oregon.

did someone mention snow? by themnax
and this was about half a mile from my house when i was growing up in colfax california
the trains we used to ride by themnax

there's a montage i put together of me over the years, i think i've already linked it in another thread a while back
there's also one of multiple scenes at norden at different times of year.
that was the one i was looking for, i'll post when i come across it.

well here's another shot of where i lived at norden
my favoritist place i've ever lived. by themnax

 

Explore the picturesque landscapes of Bavaria on your own personal hunt for Nazi treasure.

Based on the best selling book by Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting, this tour explores the region of Bavaria where much of the Nazi Reichsbank gold was buried at the end of World War II.

I have already converted the tour prices to American dollars. you can come and visit me in my town, we can go treasure hunting together.

From only $242.85 per night.

Alright who's in?

 

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Fine. Don't become filthy rich then. But the treasure is definitely around. Only few years back a whole cache of paintings was unearthed right in our town.

I've always fantasised about metal detecting on our farm and uncovering a bunker of a treasure trove, and stupider things have happened.

 

And the selling point was spending time with me treasure hunting by the way. that's worth like 224 of those dollars.

 

This is a rural town where I live, farming and cattle, sub-10,000 population. The fields here mostly grow oat, rye, and wheat. To my south, I can see some of said fields. To my west, there's a forest, pines and spruce trees, split by a road that turns into a dirt road, after about a mile from my place. About a mile and a half more, a forest trail connects to the road. This trail is very good for barefoot hikes during the summer, albeit there are gnats aplenty in June, so I need a hoodie. But nobody else really goes there, so I don't have to deal with anyone, or explain myself, which I think is for the best.

This place is about as podunk as you can get, but I stay here because the rent is cheap, and I'm on a bit of a limited budget. More people are moving out, rather than in, so the landlord is happy to have anyone. A railway connects us to the bigger cities, so I'm not exactly cut off from civilization, and hey, eBay and the postal service deliver everywhere now. Beats being homeless, and the nature is nice, clean. Things could be worse.

 

The Olympic temperate rainforest is an awesome riot of green vegetation. As the name implies, it is often raining and almost certainly dripping. Rain slickers advised.

 

pretty countryside. a bit deeper then my pockets, but i'm sure there's a cheaper way. guided tours aren't usually about the kinds of things i'm interested in.

 

Yes the selling point was to come treasure hunting with me.

 

i'd be happy to do that, just not spending a whole bunch of money i don't have.

 

I live across from Amazon's headquarters, where they hand out bananas to anyone walking past.