Someone is visiting you for a few days, and they have never been anywhere near your part of the state/country/planet. What’s one thing that you make ABSOLUTELY SURE they see or do before they head back home?
Greetings, Programs!
Welcome to my outpost on the Interweb! I write SF, fantasy, and horror for fun and profit. Other interests include music, nature, science, humor, food, bib overalls, and pie throwing (metaphorically AND literally). About Me Comments Policy Photo Gallery My Books: The Song of Forgotten Stars
Other BooksHow to make Buffalo Chicken Soup A Pie in the Face is a Wonderful Thing!
Where to Find Me On Social Media Facebook
(rarely updated)
BlueSky Threads Tumblr Instagram Flickr YouTube Tiktok (pending) My Substack: Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars SUPPORT!
CONTACT
Email:
kelly AT forgottenstars.net
Emails assumed publishable
unless requested otherwise.-
Previously
- Scenes from a Winter’s Week January 25, 2025
- Something for Thursday January 23, 2025
- Tone Poem Tuesday January 21, 2025
- Never forget: January 20, 2025
- Under the hood (and above it) January 19, 2025
- No, John Williams did not rip off Dvorak! (a repost) January 18, 2025
- Something for Thursday January 16, 2025
- The Hammerman January 15, 2025
- Tone Poem Tuesday January 14, 2025
- It’s Tab-berific! January 13, 2025
Recent Comments
- Roger on Never forget:
- ksedinger on Something for Thursday
- Roger on Something for Thursday
- Roger on Something for Thursday
- Roger on “He’ll never amount to a thing”
Categories
- A Very Public Service Message
- Amongst the Stars
- and General Matters of Style
- Born On This Date
- Commentary
- Fandom
- Fashion
- Guest Posts
- Life
- Meta
- music
- Newsletter Announcements
- Occasional Fiction
- Occasional Quizzes
- On Art
- On Bib Overalls
- On Books
- On Buffalo and The 716
- On Cats and Cat Life
- On Character
- On Clothing
- On Dogs and Dog Life
- On Drinks and Drinking
- On Exploring Photography
- On Food and Cooking
- On general matters of WTFery
- On History
- On Memories
- On Movies
- On Music
- On Nature
- On People
- On Pies In Faces
- On Poetry
- On Science and the Cosmos
- On Song
- On Sport
- On Tech
- On Teevee
- On Things I Find Funny
- On Tools of Various Trades
- On Travels and Adventures
- On Visual Arts
- Orion's Huntress
- Passages
- Photographic Documentation
- poetry
- Random Linkage
- Reading
- Seaflame!
- Sheesh
- Stardancer
- The Chilling Killing Wind
- The John Lazarus novels
- The Song of Forgotten Stars
- The Wisdomfold Path
- To Rant Is Divine
- Uncategorized
- Vlogging
- Writers
- Writing
Tags
- "National Poetry Month" (32)
- Anger and Rants (95)
- Bad Joke Friday (168)
- books (268)
- Buffalo (213)
- Burst of Weirdness (358)
- Comics (68)
- Daily Dose of Christmas (347)
- Daily Life Stuff (474)
- Events of the Day (242)
- Fantasy (97)
- Fiction (43)
- Food (178)
- Football (100)
- From the Books (49)
- Geek Stuff (267)
- Lazy Linkage (50)
- Meta-blog (277)
- Movies (327)
- Music (245)
- Nature (33)
- overalls (149)
- Passages (186)
- Photography (the subect) (51)
- Photo Posts (508)
- Pie in the Face (64)
- poetry (90)
- Politics (117)
- Quiz-Things (149)
- Saturday Centus (69)
- Saturday Symphony (69)
- Science (96)
- Sentential Links (380)
- Skiffy (232)
- Something For Thursday (704)
- Space Opera (141)
- Sport (82)
- Star Trek (32)
- Star Wars (158)
- Teevee (152)
- Tone Poem Tuesday (344)
- Unclassifiable (74)
- Unidentified Earth (90)
- Wednesday Dichotomy (303)
- writing (226)
Search
Archives
Meta
I suppose Niagara Falls would be the obvious answer. Being one of those natural wonders of the world and all, but I'm not really sure I would do that. At least not the way most folks would think to do it. Everyone says that Canada has the best view of the falls. To this I say "Nay!"
And then say "I hope you don't have issues with elevators, because it's a long way down. In a confined space with a lot of other people. With dripping water overhead. And countless millions of tons of rock, that is not entirely stable. Oh, did I say that? So sorry. It's safe! Really."
"Well, mostly. I do hope that you aren't wearing anything that might become translucent when wet, or you might get rather embarrassed. Get a poncho if you feel uncomfortable. I don't. I like feeling the Falls. Oh, didn't I tell you? We're going to get up close and personal with billions of gallons of water. Welcome to the Cave of the Winds!"
Visiting the State Capitol; interesting piece of history.
I give the people what they want: The Mall of America.
The Grand Canyon.
It's funny, when you're born and raised in Arizona you tend to think of it as "that big over-touristed hole in the ground." It's only looking at it through a visitor's eyes that you realize how jaw-droppingly amazing it is.