What is the strangest place you have ever been? (2 Viewers)

[Bleu Raeder]

And why was it strange?

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

She told me not to tell.

 

[Madmarsha]

My head. Self-explanatory.

 

[boutrous]

One of the strangest places I've ever eaten was Dobbin House Tavern in Gettysburg. I still can't get the old smell out of my head. Everything had a strong sage flavor. It was kind of cool, but also every different than any other place I've eaten.

 

[bclemms]

Big Island of Hawaii during the volcano eruption last year.

In order to stay behind police barricades I had to find fissures as they opened up before USGS. This mean 2am adventures through the thick forest overrun with wild boar using only a flashlight from my phone chasing the faint glow of lava when the brush was thick enough you could see a few feet in front of you. Sounds like a jet engine mixed with these booming explosions from the eruption with the smell of SO2 thick in the air. Would run around looking for new cracks in the ground as well as lava shooting up out of the ground. The boar got defensive because they were trapped between the lava on one side and me on the other so they would get aggressive. Thankfully there were volcanic rocks everywhere and they didn't like it when you threw rocks at them.

After 3 weeks of people being evacuated from homes, shelters and a crappy government trying to control the situation with bad information it started getting really weird. The area of the island has high drug use, high mental illness and many people were now without medication. It seems like the collective minds of the area were lost and things just got so weird I ended up grabbing my stuff and heading to the airport.


Child's Glacier Alaska. From Cordova, Alaska it's 35 miles down a dirt road to get to million dollar bridge and Child's glacier. Only problem is the road is washed out in several places so the only way to get there is by jet boat. I took a jet boat to the lodge out there with a guide. It's late summer so it never really gets dark. You are isolated 30 miles from the nearest person and bear are everywhere, both brown and black. I'm sandwiched between Child's Glacier which calves constantly with these massive sounds of crashing ice while the glacier is constantly creaking and popping. A mile south of me is Miles Glacier which is constantly making huge cracking sounds. A few hundred feet from me is Million Dollar Bridge, a once major feat of engineering and spectacular bridge but there is no traffic because roads are washed out leading to it.

Nazare Portugal is this sleepy little beach town that transforms into the big wave surfing capital of the world when the right conditions come along. This very quiet and sleepy little town is interrupted by what feels like tiny earthquakes and large booming explosions about every 18 seconds as giant 80-100' waves crash a half mile away at the beach. Standing on the point at the lighthouse your mind simply can not explain how waves can get that high.

Chile-Argentina border there is a road that winds through a valley in the Andes with copper mines everywhere. It's a pretty rural area then all of the sudden you hit this section of road that has like 19 switchbacks as you climb to over 15k feet. At the top is this absolutely amazing ski resort with incredible views. The wind rips down this valley going from calm to instant hurricane force with no warning and then back to calm as trucks try to manage the curves on the road with the crazy descent and incline. The backside of the mountains are in rain shield areas creating a desert and the rocks, some of them the size of large buildings sit on top of ground that looks like it came right off of Mars. Everything about this place was testing the senses.

Abaco Bahamas right after Hurricane Dorian. Like I was the first one to step foot on the island with winds still howling and seeing ground zero of what was very obvious a high casualty situation. Walking around hearing zero signs of life in what was a busy tourist town just a couple days before knowing there were bodies in the rubble and nothing you could do to help. Walking into the government building where all the people on the island that survived where packed in like sardines in human filth. Knowing I'm standing there with enough food and water for me to survive a couple days or just enough food and water to get me killed.

Windsor, Ca during the Kincade fire a couple months ago. I'm no stranger to evacuated towns and cities but Windor took it to a new level. They literally had 100% evacuation of the city. I went hours in what is normally a very populated area without seeing a person as the winds ripped through town blowing loose trash around. It was a pure Walking Dead look to it. In the background the top of the hills and mountains were all on fire.

 

[gboudx]

bclemms drops the mic.

 

[livefromDC]

Using 'what' instead of where makes me think any answer I would give would be totally wrong.

 

[Mojomajik9]

Strange but in a good way would be Bisbee, Az. Part Old West town, part dried up mining town, full of ghost stories and a pinch of hippie art community.

 

[Moon]

Big Island of Hawaii during the volcano eruption last year.

In order to stay behind police barricades I had to find fissures as they opened up before USGS. This mean 2am adventures through the thick forest overrun with wild boar using only a flashlight from my phone chasing the faint glow of lava when the brush was thick enough you could see a few feet in front of you. Sounds like a jet engine mixed with these booming explosions from the eruption with the smell of SO2 thick in the air. Would run around looking for new cracks in the ground as well as lava shooting up out of the ground. The boar got defensive because they were trapped between the lava on one side and me on the other so they would get aggressive. Thankfully there were volcanic rocks everywhere and they didn't like it when you threw rocks at them.

After 3 weeks of people being evacuated from homes, shelters and a crappy government trying to control the situation with bad information it started getting really weird. The area of the island has high drug use, high mental illness and many people were now without medication. It seems like the collective minds of the area were lost and things just got so weird I ended up grabbing my stuff and heading to the airport.


Child's Glacier Alaska. From Cordova, Alaska it's 35 miles down a dirt road to get to million dollar bridge and Child's glacier. Only problem is the road is washed out in several places so the only way to get there is by jet boat. I took a jet boat to the lodge out there with a guide. It's late summer so it never really gets dark. You are isolated 30 miles from the nearest person and bear are everywhere, both brown and black. I'm sandwiched between Child's Glacier which calves constantly with these massive sounds of crashing ice while the glacier is constantly creaking and popping. A mile south of me is Miles Glacier which is constantly making huge cracking sounds. A few hundred feet from me is Million Dollar Bridge, a once major feat of engineering and spectacular bridge but there is no traffic because roads are washed out leading to it.

Nazare Portugal is this sleepy little beach town that transforms into the big wave surfing capital of the world when the right conditions come along. This very quiet and sleepy little town is interrupted by what feels like tiny earthquakes and large booming explosions about every 18 seconds as giant 80-100' waves crash a half mile away at the beach. Standing on the point at the lighthouse your mind simply can not explain how waves can get that high.

Chile-Argentina border there is a road that winds through a valley in the Andes with copper mines everywhere. It's a pretty rural area then all of the sudden you hit this section of road that has like 19 switchbacks as you climb to over 15k feet. At the top is this absolutely amazing ski resort with incredible views. The wind rips down this valley going from calm to instant hurricane force with no warning and then back to calm as trucks try to manage the curves on the road with the crazy descent and incline. The backside of the mountains are in rain shield areas creating a desert and the rocks, some of them the size of large buildings sit on top of ground that looks like it came right off of Mars. Everything about this place was testing the senses.

Abaco Bahamas right after Hurricane Dorian. Like I was the first one to step foot on the island with winds still howling and seeing ground zero of what was very obvious a high casualty situation. Walking around hearing zero signs of life in what was a busy tourist town just a couple days before knowing there were bodies in the rubble and nothing you could do to help. Walking into the government building where all the people on the island that survived where packed in like sardines in human filth. Knowing I'm standing there with enough food and water for me to survive a couple days or just enough food and water to get me killed.

Windsor, Ca during the Kincade fire a couple months ago. I'm no stranger to evacuated towns and cities but Windor took it to a new level. They literally had 100% evacuation of the city. I went hours in what is normally a very populated area without seeing a person as the winds ripped through town blowing loose trash around. It was a pure Walking Dead look to it. In the background the top of the hills and mountains were all on fire.

OKAY YOU WIN

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Unless I’m really blanking on something
My house post Katrina
It was like some parallel dimension

Much of NO was like that, but a house is more differenter

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Florida

 

[LafourcheSaint]

Snake and Jake's around 6:00 AM on a Thursday.

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

Big Island of Hawaii during the volcano eruption last year.

In order to stay behind police barricades I had to find fissures as they opened up before USGS. This mean 2am adventures through the thick forest overrun with wild boar using only a flashlight from my phone chasing the faint glow of lava when the brush was thick enough you could see a few feet in front of you. Sounds like a jet engine mixed with these booming explosions from the eruption with the smell of SO2 thick in the air. Would run around looking for new cracks in the ground as well as lava shooting up out of the ground. The boar got defensive because they were trapped between the lava on one side and me on the other so they would get aggressive. Thankfully there were volcanic rocks everywhere and they didn't like it when you threw rocks at them.

After 3 weeks of people being evacuated from homes, shelters and a crappy government trying to control the situation with bad information it started getting really weird. The area of the island has high drug use, high mental illness and many people were now without medication. It seems like the collective minds of the area were lost and things just got so weird I ended up grabbing my stuff and heading to the airport.


Child's Glacier Alaska. From Cordova, Alaska it's 35 miles down a dirt road to get to million dollar bridge and Child's glacier. Only problem is the road is washed out in several places so the only way to get there is by jet boat. I took a jet boat to the lodge out there with a guide. It's late summer so it never really gets dark. You are isolated 30 miles from the nearest person and bear are everywhere, both brown and black. I'm sandwiched between Child's Glacier which calves constantly with these massive sounds of crashing ice while the glacier is constantly creaking and popping. A mile south of me is Miles Glacier which is constantly making huge cracking sounds. A few hundred feet from me is Million Dollar Bridge, a once major feat of engineering and spectacular bridge but there is no traffic because roads are washed out leading to it.

Nazare Portugal is this sleepy little beach town that transforms into the big wave surfing capital of the world when the right conditions come along. This very quiet and sleepy little town is interrupted by what feels like tiny earthquakes and large booming explosions about every 18 seconds as giant 80-100' waves crash a half mile away at the beach. Standing on the point at the lighthouse your mind simply can not explain how waves can get that high.

Chile-Argentina border there is a road that winds through a valley in the Andes with copper mines everywhere. It's a pretty rural area then all of the sudden you hit this section of road that has like 19 switchbacks as you climb to over 15k feet. At the top is this absolutely amazing ski resort with incredible views. The wind rips down this valley going from calm to instant hurricane force with no warning and then back to calm as trucks try to manage the curves on the road with the crazy descent and incline. The backside of the mountains are in rain shield areas creating a desert and the rocks, some of them the size of large buildings sit on top of ground that looks like it came right off of Mars. Everything about this place was testing the senses.

Abaco Bahamas right after Hurricane Dorian. Like I was the first one to step foot on the island with winds still howling and seeing ground zero of what was very obvious a high casualty situation. Walking around hearing zero signs of life in what was a busy tourist town just a couple days before knowing there were bodies in the rubble and nothing you could do to help. Walking into the government building where all the people on the island that survived where packed in like sardines in human filth. Knowing I'm standing there with enough food and water for me to survive a couple days or just enough food and water to get me killed.

Windsor, Ca during the Kincade fire a couple months ago. I'm no stranger to evacuated towns and cities but Windor took it to a new level. They literally had 100% evacuation of the city. I went hours in what is normally a very populated area without seeing a person as the winds ripped through town blowing loose trash around. It was a pure Walking Dead look to it. In the background the top of the hills and mountains were all on fire.

Sounds like you're a globe trotting looter. Shame on you.

 

[FLEA]

Yemen.....

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

And why was it strange?

Sober or under the influence of something?