Many of you are geographically minded so I figure you would understand this feeling. Have you ever looked at a map, or read about a place, and there's something about it that stays with you for an unknown reason? It's not a traditional tourist location, such as New York or Paris, instead it's the smaller towns and spots in wilderness areas.
I have a few.
1. Morgantown, West Virginia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown,_West_Virginia I think I stumbled on it by reading about its university. The Appalachian region has always interested me, and I like the contrast between that and a college town with a unique people mover system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit. Sometimes I think about if I had gone to college there, of all places. It just looks like a wonderful place to live, if only for about a year or so.
2. This spot: 40898 N Side Rd, Lucerne Valley, CA 92356 (look in google maps)
I remember dreaming about this particular spot and in the dream, I walked off the road and toward the east. I came to a great hole in the ground and there was something very disturbing, almost evil, that was inside but I didn't look. When I woke up I used Google Earth to explore that area, and in the area just east of that spot, just like in my dream, there's
an abandoned mine.3. Eureka, CA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka,_California Another odd place. I think it's because it has lots of old buildings and is the largest coastal city between San Francisco and Portland. But it's also heavily isolated from the rest of the state. It just feels like one of those towns that's lost in time.
