Where will you choose as your special get-away nest?
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February 10th, 2016
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Congratulations! A long lost relative loved you like their own, from afar. I think their name was S. Marner. No, wait, D.Madden? F. McMurry? Anyway, they left you money in their will with the stipulation being: you were to have the estate attorneys buy you a small place to own, as a special ‘get-away’. Not huge, just location, location, location. It will be furnished, yet smallish, just enough for you and one other person. No wild parties to be had in this place! Too small. Yet enough.
Where will your small get-away place be located?
Specifically as you can, please. City, view, landmark or area?
And Why?
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A mile or two off teh road in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado. Close enough to go into Aspen for dinner, but far enough away for peace and quiet. A place with a view of Mt Sopris from a number of rooms.
I have this Nigerian cousin – he is a prince and he keeps telling me i have 289 million dollars that he will send me.
But he never does….
I don’t particularly care what state – my requirements are simple:
- in or near a forest
- on a hill or mountain so I have a view
- ideally, the view would have some body of water (lake, river, etc.,) nearby
Bonus points if there’s an active railroad track in the line of vision.
It’s a Victorian cottage in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, within a block or two of the ocean. Most of those houses aren’t winterized, but they don’t need to be. They exist for magic summers by the sea.
42°02’41.75” N 71°50’49.96” W
The new owners have built a large and apparently posh McMansion in keeping with the current standards for permanent housing to replace the former three-room lakeside wooden cottage with stud walls and no insulation, which is what I would have actually preferred. It’s where I grew up, after all.
I’m afraid to share the locations for fear others will get there first and develop the bejeezus out of them, but my desired features include:
Ocean beach
Forest
River / stream
Public access to wander and explore the above
No crowds of other people
Nice nearby hamlet
Close enough access to larger town/city and/or airport
Can I have this one? Tanera Mor off the coast of Scotland.
Paris, within a circle of 2 kilometers centered at the Eiffel tower
Do I also get the funds to travel to this magical location?
If so, I want a cell on Skellig Michael, Ireland.
@CWOTUS Could you be a little more specific? ;-) Let me know when you get it. I can be there in 6 hours.
Gorgeous!
A log cabin ranch on Fontana Lake NC
Ah, well, @LuckyGuy… I did have it, sort of. My grandfather built the original three-room wooden cottage there in the 1920s and 30s (he was a teacher at Boy’s Trade High School in Worcester, and he supplied the materials and had some of his classes do the building, plumbing and electrical work as part of their course work). Then my mother and father bought it from her parents in the 1950s, but with their passing in 2003–04 we had to let it go, since none of us kids could afford to buy it out from the others for anything like market value.
I would take my daughter to a small place in New Orleans. It looks like it would be a place that it would be fun and the people seem friendly. I wouldn’t live there where the water covered. Maybe a place on stilts. I hope it doesn’t go underwater again with the ocean getting higher. If not there, then some place like it. Inland.
A cabin in the woods within hiking distance of a general store. Walden Pond, say.
The Scottish highlands as close to Loch Ness as possible. It’s my favourite place in the world.
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