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On 10/15/25 12:50 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>wrote:
>>> On 9/27/25 9:10 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.timeout.com/travel/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world-2025
>>>
>>> Two things I noticed is how many places have hideous overhead wires,
>>> and how much signage is in English.
>>>
>>
>> And they are usually terribly crowded. Why do people want to feel like
>> sardines in a can? To me the coolest places are right here where we live:
>>
>> https://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG
>>
>> You can only get there by mountain bike, by kayak or on foot. On foot it
>> takes a lot of hours. Mountain biking there isn't for the faint of
>> heart. Even an experienced rider turfed it on the way out there.
>>
>> My MTB has panniers and I brought homebrew IPA plus Dixie cups so we
>> hung out there for a while when I took that picture. The plop of a
>> Grolsch bottle echoing back from the valleys is a heavenly sound :-)
> 
> Are there any bush fires there?
> 

Yes. One time when I rode my mountain bike through there a large area 
both sides of the river was black and still smoldering, with some smoke. 
It was eerie and probably a bit dangerous. This is one of the 
"autobahns" I am using there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5cjAW_nrl4

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-14 22:40 -0700
  Re: ot coolest places Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2025-10-15 07:50 +0000
    Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 09:31 -0700
      Re: ot coolest places Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2025-10-17 17:01 +0000
        Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 12:04 -0700
      Re: ot coolest places ehsjr <ehsjr@verizon.net> - 2025-10-17 15:32 -0400
        Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 13:09 -0700
      Re: ot coolest places Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-10-18 04:21 +0200
        Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-21 16:03 -0700
  Re: ot coolest places john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-10-15 07:29 -0700
    Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 09:35 -0700
  Re: ot coolest places ehsjr <ehsjr@verizon.net> - 2025-10-15 14:59 -0400

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