This is just for fun. Answer with as many details as you'd like to share, but please give the city and country in which it happened. Then feel free to let us know all about it if you'd like. And also feel free to add your own "Where did you..." questions if you want. I'm bored and thought this would be fun to do to celebrate the many places in the world we've all seen and experienced.

...have the best meal of your life?

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

...have the best meal of your life?

Probably a birthday dinner served to me in San Diego, California, by a close friend who is a chef and a genius at throwing together things I would never dream of pairing. I'm not even sure what we had, but it was amazing.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

Mykonos, Greece. I went with three great friends and we all had the time of our lives. I wanted to move there immediately.


...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

Prague. I got totally lost while wandering around by myself and walked very far out. I couldn't find anyone who spoke English, and I couldn't figure out which direction I was heading in. But when I finally got my bearings, I loved it because I saw beautiful parts of the city I never would have seen otherwise.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

Sadly, I don't have an answer for either of these.


...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

Probably the top of Montserrat outside of Barcelona, Spain. The view at the top was amazing.


...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Probably the same answer as above.

...have the best meal of your life?
You know, I’ve had lots of best meals of my life (and many were homemade) but the one I’m gonna list is one of my favorites. There’s a group of 4 of us that I absolutely LOVE to eat with. We’re all vegetarian and we all love great food so whenever we all eat together it’s an extravaganza. We were in Chicago a few years back and stumbled upon this breakfast place called Yolk. Super yummy breakfast items. We all ordered our own breakfasts and I think there were 2 more things ordered “for the table” cause we wanted to sample as much as we could and we all shared. YUM.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

4 weeks in Thailand was as good as it gets. I got crazy city life and remote island life and stuff in between. And orgers to hang out with (and teach me scuba diving) to boot.


...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

When I was little I thought any time I couldn’t see my house I’d get lost. My family thought it was hilarious – every walk or bike ride they’d wait for me to start to get worried. These days I have an awfully good sense of direction and if you hand me a map I can get anywhere.


...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)
No irrational experiences but I’ve been profoundly moved lots of times. I’ll mention the time I saw Radiohead at Glastonbury and the awe of being in a field full of strangers having a powerfully transcendent moment together.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

Thailand’s the furthest - besides being over a day of flights to get there I took another flight to a taxi to a van that crossed water on a ferry, drive across an island and took yet another ferry to another island. And I took a baot ride about an hour away from that to scuba dive. It was pretty insane.

I went hiking on Mount Rainier a couple of years ago. We drove most of the way up the mountain and hiked at a park there. It was gorgeous out (70+ degrees) and we still ran into snow at one point on our path. Pretty crazy.


...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Iceland is easily my favorite. Soaking in the blue lagoon in hot spring waters w/lava rock formations all around you was pretty darn amazing. There are a million other sites that are gorgeous there, but I’ll just leave it at the one for now.

Efan said:

This is just for fun. Answer with as many details as you'd like to share, but please give the city and country in which it happened. Then feel free to let us know all about it if you'd like. And also feel free to add your own "Where did you..." questions if you want. I'm bored and thought this would be fun to do to celebrate the many places in the world we've all seen and experienced.

...have the best meal of your life?

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Hey now! I like these questions.

Off the top of my head, I guess I have the fondest memories of New Orleans. But, like Howard, I now hate to travel and consider the best vacation a vacation at home.

I don't think I've ever worried that I wouldn't be able to find my way back home.

I've never had an experience I couldn't rationally explain. Moved me profoundly? Besides therapy, maybe seeing a CNN report about facial deformities. They showed a guy who had a prosthesis for his whole upper face. Helped me snap out of my self-pity and appreciate immensely what I have.

The furthest I've been from home is France.

Prettiest, non-human thing I've ever seen? Maybe uptown New Orleans?

Forgot the "best meal" question. Hmm...

I dunno. Probably just a simple meal with my family at one of our favorite restaurants.

...have the best meal of your life?

I've had a lot of great meals. But probably my favorite is when Sweetie and I went to Spoon Food and Wine in Paris - Alain Ducasse's fusion restaurant off the Champs d'Elysees. Apart from the food being wonderful, it was a 3-hour dinner that felt like it passed in the blink of an eye. After that, we rode the Ferris wheel in the Place de la Concorde and went to the Buddha Bar. It was a magical evening.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

The one above, which also included London and a wedding in the Midlands.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

This happens most often in my dreams. The other night, I was in a building that was supposedly my parents' new home and I couldn't find a way out of it. It just went on and on. And all the doors were too small for me to get out of and all the staircases were incomplete.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

When I was in London in 1983, I was looking the wrong way while crossing the street and almost got hit by a taxi. Someone or something grabbed the belt of my trench coat at the last second and pulled me out of the way. I don't remember seeing anyone behind me - nor does my friend, who remembers the incident, but never saw anyone, either. Makes me think there may be such things as guardian angels.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

It's neither of those things, but pretty much my peak experience as an actor is doing the entire cycle (three plays) of Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests in repertory during a single run.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

I've been in parts of Arizona that I think are breath-taking. I just love the high desert. The sky is huge.

...have the best meal of your life?
Not the best meal ever, but fresh in my mind was the first and only time I had foie gras. RenHoek described it best when he called it "hot sex on a cracker".

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

Christmas in Paris and then took a train to Belgium and spent a day in Bruges. I LOVE Bruges. Especially around Christmastime.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?
The gf and I were in Grasse, France and didn't know where to catch the bus back to the train station. No one we asked could tell us and it was getting late. We eventually walked until we found a bus terminal and waited there until a bus going back to the train station pulled in.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)
A particularly surreal moment was when I went with friends to the Whitby goth festival in England and I left the venue early because I had a terrible cold. That same night the thickest fog ever had blanketed the town and I could only see a few houses in front of me. My head was already in a fog because of my cold and I found my way back to our hotel purely by instinct. The whole experience was very dreamlike.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?
Furthest away from home I've traveled was Australia (around 20 hours of flight time ).

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)
One of the most beautiful views I've seen was the Twelve Apostles rock formation in Victoria, Australia.

...have the best meal of your life?

--Probably in my mom's kitchen.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

--So many...Australia (Sydney, Hamilton Island), Spain, Greece (Santorini) come to mind first...

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

--When I was 18 and got lost in NYC lol...I ended up like 30 blocks away from where I wanted to go and walked through a bunch of rough neighborhoods, just wandering around. Finally found my brother's apt (somehow, not real sure how I did)...

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

--Had an out-of-body experience when I was around 12...was sitting against the wall of my house in the backyard with a soccer ball between my feet, just being lazy. Next thing I remember was looking down at myself for about 3-5 seconds, saw the entire backyard.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

--Not sure about highest physical summit...maybe somewhere in the San Bernardino mountains(?). Farthest I've traveled from home? Australia...long-ass flight, about 15 hours I think.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

--Village of Oia on Santorinii ...that place is absolutely, insanely beautiful--both surrounding landscape and architecture.

...have the best meal of your life?

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Most of these experiences happened in the same place: my first trip to Amsterdam in 2006. A friend made me a simple sandwich of egg salad and Dutch cheese but I loved it and it remains my best meal.

It is also my best vacation and the furthest I've even been away from home.

Most beautiful landscape as well.

I never get worried that I won't find my way home ever since I learned north and south, east and west. I even found my way around in Europe in 2009.

And I have had many experiences I could not explain, two of them involving Prince and the Musicology shows in Chicago in 2004.

...have the best meal of your life? Chicago; Family dinner.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on? Brazil; Got stung by a jellyfish, but nevermind. lol.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home? Paris. I checked into my hotel, dropped my bags in my room, then headed for the shops without remembering to get the name & address of my hotel so that I could get back. Same thing in Japan - I was just so excited to go out.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.) Singing.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home? Australia? What is farther than there from the States? Maybe there.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.) Dubai.

have the best meal of your life? I love the 42nd st cafe in Long Beach Wa. The owner is a French chef, but his menu is diverse and changes to what is in season. I always have a good meal there.

enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on? I don't have a favorite vacation per say. I just enjoy myself and take it easy.

get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home? When I was a kid in a store.

have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.) I have had several experiences that have moved me and changed my situation that I can't rationally explain. Whether out of body experience, intuition, or death, I've experienced a lot of weird things. As for the death part not officially pronounced dead, but stopped breathing.

reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

Mt Rainier is the highest summit. Furthest away the Florida Keys. Although, I will be going to Europe sometime in the next 5 years.

see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.) Probably some random view point in the Olympic Mountains from which I can see a valley(s).

...have the best meal of your life? Marrakesh Restaurant, Epcot Center, Florida.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on? Paris and London, 2001.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home? Been lost countless times, but honestly have never felt I'd not find my way.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.) Once at an amusement park when I was about 8, I encountered a family with a boy, about 10, who had some sort of very severe palsy. I recall watching his parents pushing him around in a wheelchair, then placing him in the seat of a carousel and cheering and laughing with him like they were having the time of their lives. The entire time, the boy, "Carl" (I'll never forget his name), had a singular blank stare on his face, and I was crushed at the thought he was trapped in some inpenetrable fugue while his parents tried so hard to engage him like the other kids, who were laughing, jumping, playing. I was so affected that I ruined my own family's day at the park, and I remember hiding from my mother and father that I was crying and praying that night in bed that Carl had a good time.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home? Farthest away was Hawaii. Highest elevation was probably Monteverde, Costa Rica.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.) Wow. Tough one. Possibly a misty morning driving through the rolling hills of Napa Valley wine country just before the grape harvest.

...have the best meal of your life?

Probably the Avalon in Miami South Beach. The make an incredible mushroom salad there. The meal cost $200, but it was worth it.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

Well, I am very lucky in that I travelled a lot as kid, and as an adult. So, it's really difficult to say. My most enjoyable vacation was back when I was poor and in the military. It was a simple trip to Key West with 3 really good friends. It was 4 days and 3 nights of constant drinking, laughing, and bonding. A special trip.
Paris and Singapore come in very close seconds.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?
no. I've been dropped off in Haiti, roamed the streets of Port 'o' Prince. So, no.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

When I was a kid, our front door would often be completely unlocked and open several nights a week. None of us sleep walked. And you had to unock two locks to get the door to open. My mom is super-paranoid about burglaries, so it was locked every night. I've witnessed her lock it the night before, only to have it unlocked in the morning.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?
The Rockies when I was younger. Or, the Zugspitze in Germany.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)
I've seen high mountains, tropical island shorelines with caves and crashing blue waters, the grand canyon, etc. But, the prettiest had to be in Alabama when I was a kid, and had walked through the woods and stumbled upon a place in the forest that had low lying shrubs. It was fall and everything was gold, red, and yellow---I can't really describe it adequately to explain how beautiful it was. And, I was alone when I saw it.

Stymie said:

...have the best meal of your life?

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Most of these experiences happened in the same place: my first trip to Amsterdam in 2006. A friend made me a simple sandwich of egg salad and Dutch cheese but I loved it and it remains my best meal.

It is also my best vacation and the furthest I've even been away from home.

Most beautiful landscape as well.

I never get worried that I won't find my way home ever since I learned north and south, east and west. I even found my way around in Europe in 2009.

And I have had many experiences I could not explain, two of them involving Prince and the Musicology shows in Chicago in 2004.

I understand the black pants he wore at the House of Blues caused many people speak in tongues.

Efan said:

This is just for fun. Answer with as many details as you'd like to share, but please give the city and country in which it happened. Then feel free to let us know all about it if you'd like. And also feel free to add your own "Where did you..." questions if you want. I'm bored and thought this would be fun to do to celebrate the many places in the world we've all seen and experienced.

...have the best meal of your life? Many great meals made by my wife.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on? Renewal of wedding vows in Hawaii, tied with Golf Trip of The Century (Pebble Beach, Spyglass, Cypress Point, Olympic Club - all in one week!)

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home? When I was 16, I got lost on Loop 610. Luckily, it's a loop so I ended right back where I started. Still had to call my dad to figure out how to get off the Loop, LOL.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.) When my father-in-law was healed of cancer through faith. I can rationally explain that, but it moved me profoundly.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home? In heighth? I guess either at the top of Pike's Peak, or some other mountain in Colorado or New Mexico. The farthest I've ever been away from home is Hawaii.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.) I am amazed by every single thing I see. I am blessed to have had my eyes opened so that I see God's handiwork in everything. But my favorite view is from the mountains.

...have the best meal of your life?

At a restaurant.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?
I went to restaurant once. It was awesome.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?
Here, on the org.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

Here, on the org.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?
On a Under The Cherry Appreciation thread over in the Prince: Music & More forum
Here.
On the org.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Over in the Music Non-Prince forum. Someone posted a pic of Ice T's wife's cameltoe.

Visionnaire said:

...have the best meal of your life?

At a restaurant.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?
I went to restaurant once. It was awesome.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?
Here, on the org.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

Here, on the org.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?
On a Under The Cherry Appreciation thread over in the Prince: Music & More forum
Here.
On the org.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Over in the Music Non-Prince forum. Someone posted a pic of Ice T's wife's cameltoe.

...have the best meal of your life?
I would have to say at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was at the hotel that my ex & I were staying at...the 2nd year of being married (like a 2nd honeymoon). It was my first "expensive" meal. Nothing crazy...steaks, mashed potatoes & some vegetable...but it was GOOD, and this meal has always stayed at the forefront of my memories.

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?
I would say that Myrtle Beach last year with my family.
The start of new memories. Seeing my parents enjoy themselves for once was a blessing.

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?
Never been in such a situation. I've gotten lost on the Jersey Turnpike trying to find my way back to New York (this was before GPS) but I always knew I'd get back home. Not even driving across the country did I ever feel hopelessly lost.

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)
Probably any my "ghost" stories/experiences.

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?
Up in New Paltz we hiked up to the top of the mountain at Minnewaska State Park.
Furthest from home? When I drove to Texas I suppose.

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

I would say, the view of the jungle while standing atop the main pyramid at Chichen Itza in Mexico. Probably.

I'm enjoying these responses. Thanks, all!

Efan said:

I'm enjoying these responses. Thanks, all!

It's a fun thread.

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have the best meal of your life? reykjavik iceland. best fish in the world

enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on? backpacking with the kids in new zealand

get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?

went off road in a micra & got lost in the olive groves middle of greece somewhere. didn't think we'd get it out alive

have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)

clapping eye to eye with my bloke for the 1st time, deeply primal experience

reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?

a mountain somewhere in new zealand. it overlooked queenstown & was the most stunning view i can remember

see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

i love a vast landscape, scottish highlands, a great isolated beach, british countryside, amazing architecture, stately home, castle ruins, the snow & i adore london, edinburgh & nyc

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...have the best meal of your life?
God, too many to choose! I like the fancy kosher sushi rolls from the outside place that isn't there anymore which were similar to Hanabishi. I make an effort not to eat bland, boring or average food generally, so I have many MANY great meals, usually in the same week! I made goulash once and that was spectacular too many…

...enjoy the best vacation you've ever been on?

Nearly all the ones I've taken WITHOUT kids 2009 trip to USA is a highlight. Actually when I travel alone is always awesome

...get the feeling that you were lost and worried you wouldn't be able to find your way home?
Has never happened (yet)

...have an experience you couldn't rationally explain? (Or, alternatively, have an experience that moved you profoundly.)
Birth

...reach the highest physical summit you've ever been to and/or travel the furthest away from home?
Anywhere is far from home when you live in Australia!

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Iguazu

CarrieMpls said:

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Iceland is easily my favorite. Soaking in the blue lagoon in hot spring waters w/lava rock formations all around you was pretty darn amazing. There are a million other sites that are gorgeous there, but I’ll just leave it at the one for now.

Iceland is very high up on my list of places I want to visit. I want to stay there for a while and go as far north as you can. I think it would be amazing.

Byron said:

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

--Village of Oia on Santorinii ...that place is absolutely, insanely beautiful--both surrounding landscape and architecture.

Santorini was indeed magical. I have never felt water like that in my life. Swimming in the ocean there felt so incredibly relaxing and comforting. It was beautiful.

Efan said:

CarrieMpls said:

...see the prettiest (nonhuman) thing you've ever seen? (I.e., the most beautiful natural landscape, vista, view of nature, etc.)

Iceland is easily my favorite. Soaking in the blue lagoon in hot spring waters w/lava rock formations all around you was pretty darn amazing. There are a million other sites that are gorgeous there, but I’ll just leave it at the one for now.

Iceland is very high up on my list of places I want to visit. I want to stay there for a while and go as far north as you can. I think it would be amazing.

We were only there for 3 days as a stopover on our way home from England and it was far too little time. I definitely want to plan a longer trip some time in the future.

CarrieMpls said:

Efan said:

Iceland is very high up on my list of places I want to visit. I want to stay there for a while and go as far north as you can. I think it would be amazing.

We were only there for 3 days as a stopover on our way home from England and it was far too little time. I definitely want to plan a longer trip some time in the future.

Future Org invasion????