What's your "Paradise"?

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,808
edited May 2010 in The Clubhouse
This place is boring and quite negative today so lets have some audience participation!

Everybody has a place that is their "paradise". The place where no matter what is going on, life in this one spot is grand no matter what! So be good little boys and girls and share with the group.

It doesn't have to be a single spot. You can have multiple places where it's "paradise". It doesn't even have to be a physical spot, it could be just a state of mind or even the company you keep at that time. Just tell us about it. You don't even have to write any words, just post a picture.

Just tell us about that "happy place" you love so much and maybe why.



Me, I have lots of places that are "paradise" to me. Some are full of noise and an assault on the senses to others but just pure bliss for me. Other places have no people at all.

paradise = sailboat (or any boat) out on open water, no one around
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paradise = at the drag strip
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paradise = sunny afternoon at the Phillies game (especially if they are winning!)
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Lotsa places can be paradise!
Expert Moron Extraordinaire

You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2010
    I'm not even that big a baseball fan, but I agree a warm summer afternoon at Fenway ... just doesn't get much closer to perfect than that.

    A hot sunny day on a long empty road on my bike with a full tank of gas... oh ya.

    Having just set up a campsite with a group of close friends, miles away from any civilization? That's paradise.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited May 2010
    I could use a paradise today with everything....

    mostly just when I'm out water sking with a friend on a lake they have a spot on. When the sun goes down and its just peaceful and I can sit out on the dock and just relax and not have anyone or anything bug me, ask me for money, or worry about work its just the best. That and being able to talk to my friend about just stupid crap to when he's getting married is nice as its just guy time with no stupid GF's around to interupt ect.

    ahhhhh would love to do that today...
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  • Polk user
    Polk user Posts: 311
    edited May 2010
    I would be banned for telling you guys where my paradise is.:D:D:D:eek:
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited May 2010
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    Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited May 2010
    Gotta say one of mine is Moose Lake and surrounding areas in Sequoia National Park. Backpacking there and listenting to Going For The One, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Close To The Edge and some other recordings is phenominal. One of the best places on earth that I have been to. I'll be heading there again this July.

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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited May 2010
    The drag strip. But without Mustangs, please.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited May 2010
    Here with my Wife. Appomatox Va.


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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,164
    edited May 2010
    Being on Long Lake, near Hayward WI. Fishing and living away from the hustle and bustle of a large city.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited May 2010
    One of my favorite places to go was Lake George in upstate NY. Every Memorial day weekend a group of us would rent an island campite and a boat and camp out for the weekend and do alot of fishing.
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  • thuffman03
    thuffman03 Posts: 1,325
    edited May 2010
    Anywere not cold with a cold beer or other choice drinks and a good cigar.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited May 2010
    Camping up in the mountains. peaceful, relaxing, great food, good drink. Here's Bev takin a break while we're setting up at Riggs Flat, in the Graham Mountains, Safford.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited May 2010
    Anyplace where I can't see artificial light at night and the stars look so close you think you can reach up and touch them.
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  • j allen
    j allen Posts: 363
    edited May 2010
    There a park on one of the dams around here. Well, there are parks around all of the dams around here, but there's one that's especially pretty, and almost always vacant. I like taking my dog out and just wandering, or just sitting by the lake. It's especially nice to not have other hikers trying to talk to me... Maybe this is a little to simple, but I'm poor :)
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  • Polkitup2
    Polkitup2 Posts: 1,621
    edited May 2010
    I have 4 happy spots:
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited May 2010
    Oh yeah! ATV'ing...I feel ya, Bev & I on our KingQuads:
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  • DeusExa
    DeusExa Posts: 491
    edited May 2010
    The Bay Area seems to be an innovation paradise (from a purely practical standpoint).

    I haven't been to either (yet), but Australia/New Zealand and Switzerland seem to be fantastic places. Hopefully visiting the former this summer.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited May 2010
    Switzerland is spectacular.
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  • searay40dad
    searay40dad Posts: 82
    edited May 2010
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    anywhere on my boat


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    tied up w/ the gang
    Thanks!
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  • DeusExa
    DeusExa Posts: 491
    edited May 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Switzerland is spectacular.

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    I've heard that Zurich was named the city with the best quality of life in the world as well as the wealthiest city in Europe...=0
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited May 2010
    In Tokyo. I'm a technology geek...and there is nowhere as tech-full as Japan.
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  • DeusExa
    DeusExa Posts: 491
    edited May 2010
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    In Tokyo. I'm a technology geek...and there is nowhere as tech-full as Japan.

    Whatever floats your boat.. >_< (cough bizzare Japanese stuff) Although the last time I visited I was barely in elementary school...

    Has anyone been to the Netherlands? i'm like totally in love with Janine Jansen..she's an amazing violinist, too =0

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    ...and the Amsterdam canals are stunning.

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  • grimmace19
    grimmace19 Posts: 1,429
    edited May 2010
    My paradise is a warm summer night at an O.A.R. concert... most notably Red Rocks. Just getting lost in the music, atmosphere, and weather it puts me in a calm I can't experience elsewhere.
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited May 2010
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  • cnoat
    cnoat Posts: 315
    edited May 2010
    My sweetspot.With tunes on and no one to tell me to turn it down.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited May 2010
    I've got a few also.

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    Fishing up north.


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    Snowmobiling



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    Me and my wife at the Blue Note in N.Y. listening to Chris Botti

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    Flying a powered parachute


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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited May 2010
    Up in the mountains...the higher and more remote the better. If I go for a day or two without seeing another human...that is just fine with me.

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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,079
    edited May 2010
    Down at any old fishin' hole.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited May 2010
    +1 with the fishing. a nicely manicured golf course works for me too
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited May 2010
    Two things for me; the SDA sweet spot and when my wife and I just hold each other in bed and just talk.:)
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  • HB27
    HB27 Posts: 1,518
    edited May 2010
    Majorca
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