"What is your favorite place?"
At this point in my life, it would be a toss-up between:
- Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe (a personal backpacking paradise)
- The mid-northern California coast, from Muir Woods to Eureka (my favorite spots in this area being Mount Tamalpais, Sea Ranch, St. Orres, and the town of Mendocino).
- My home town of Sacramento, California (mostly for sentimental reasons, but it is pretty much halfway between the other two favorite areas I mentioned)
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Where would you like to live?
If I had unlimited means and could move wherever I wanted to right now, it would probably be to Petaluma or some other small town near there (not far from Santa Rosa, California). Then again, I love Sacramento too, so ... hmm ... .
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Where would you like to visit?
1. Japan (again). Specifically, my birthplace (Camp Zama), Mount Fuji, Sekigahara, Osaka Castle, Kyoto, Nara, Musashi's grave site on Kyushu, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Sapporo, where my mother's side of the family still lives.
2. Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England; the Netherlands; France; Italy (the Tuscany region in particular); and Spain. One of my primary motivations for wanting to visit the UK, Netherlands, and Spain would be to meet and spend time with friends that I've made in this community.
3. For mostly hedonistic reasons (beaches, babes, beer, and Beauty etc.), I would enjoy visiting numerous islands in the Caribbean, Hawaii (Kauai again, and also the Big Island, Molokai, and Maui), Samoa, and the Fiji islands.
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