There’s a small mountain just 200 meters from my home. Tried to go up there once, but realized halfway that you need proper shoes for that. It’s in the middle of town, but still unsecured wilderness, so you feel like you’re climbing a proper mountain pretty quickly. Basically, the kind of experience that others will drive out into the countryside for.
And the thing is, I do have proper shoes at home. I’ve been meaning to head back up there and to the top, to get the proper outlook (which has got to be pretty fucking cool, since you can see the whole town even from halfway up).
But yeah, because I could head up there at any point in time, it’s always been a matter of “Oh, it’s too wet this weekend” or too icy or too hot or any other excuse.
Like, yeah, maybe don’t climb a mountain when it’s icy, but none of the other reasons would’ve stopped me, if I was here on vacation…A year ago during a visit to Ireland we found two small villages; Boston and Foxborough.
I grew up in Foxborough, MA(USA). When we told the Irish locals about where we’ve been while at local pubs, no one knew about those two places.
atlas obscura, my friend
Definitely. We check all the time when we’re out & about.
i always use it while traveling, but only recently i realized i could use it in my home country, too
what’s fun is when I finally went and used it at my hometown and thought “i hang out at those places all the time! what’s so cool about my favorite coffee shop? why are those places ‘interesting’?” (especially the one that was just this big piece of metal (that only a few of us oldies know the whole story of, and i only know half of it) in the middle of a park) and suddenly i thought about it for a minute and liked the website more.
good photographers have an eye for shooting “mundane” things in an interesting way too
(def not me tho)Not just country, this works on a city level. Sometimes you need to go on a vacation in your own city.
They might mean country as in like nation state.
That’s what I assumed it means here, I don’t even see what else it could mean in the context of the comic. I wanted to say that this also works on a city level. Tourists visit very different places in cities than the people who live in those cities, or countries or continents.
Oh yes. I agree. I initially read your comment as if OP was referring to “the country” as in outside of cities or in a rural area. lol
fuck
You can’t just say fuck on the internet!
I moved in my current city more than 15 years ago and sometimes I still visit places I’ve never been. Mostly when I have friends or family over, but also when I go kayaking around the archipelago.
Not being originally from the city I live in gives me some of the outsider’s perspective, but eventually when we live in a place for a while, we fall into a routine and don’t explore as much.
Also, I find it funny when tourists are taking pictures of famous places and buildings around, and I walk in front carrying my groceries. Not because I want to ruin their pictures; I just live here.
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