Lowe Mill in Huntsville, Alabama. It’s like a giant collaborative art space in an old factory building. Pretty much the most anarchist space I’ve ever been to, although that’s a very low bar for me.
PAX - before there was PAX Prime or PAX East.
<3Pretty much anywhere in Provence
Hire a convertible Fiat 500 and just drive
My wife and i went to Tortola in '99. Everything went wrong, and we still had a good time. If things had gone right, we might have never left.
That said, the off-trail areas of the state parks of north NY, NJ, PA, up to Canada and into Vermont) are where I feel most at peace. A quiet cabin on a lake ten miles from a small town would be a perfect place to retire to.
Lake Tekapo, NZ. Just look up some pictures and you’ll know why
I really enjoyed sitting out on Suomenlinna drinking long drink while chilling on the rocks.
Utter contentment and peace.
My home and my best friend’s home, not much else aside from those too.
This has strong Always Sunny energy
I definitely try.
Iceland, followed closely by Finland.
I loved quiet Eastern Thailand so I moved there. Of all of the places I have lived on the planet, this has been far & away the most ‘home’-like place I have been. Previously when I would travel & return to my domicile, I would be filled with a sense of something wrong if not dread, but here when I get back to my province or city, I generally get excited & happy every time.
My grandparent’s cottage on a lake in Maine. I arrive and instantly am 100% relaxed. The challenges of the interpersonal dynamics of a few dozen relatives are no match for the raw vibes.
Aulani. Beautiful, peaceful, just… made my soul happy.
Amed a small town on the north coast of Bali. Spent all day snorkeling the reef.
Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada. And the Jungfraujoch, Switzerland. Just stunning.
Cardiff, Wales. One of the few places in the world that felt like a Real City while also having its own distinct culture and feel. Every other city I’ve been to feels like the same sort of dull corpo-district monoculture.
Old Montreal also has a bit of this, but only the central city areas, the outside periphery quickly devolves back into the “this could be anywhere in North America (version francaise)”
Porto, Portugal.
That said, it was a great place to visit, but I don’t know if I would want to live there.
