Sunday, May 29, 2022

The Sunday Five - Random Thoughts


 We were headed north to Geysir, and there was a sign for something scenic on the right side of the road.  We pulled in, paid 400 krona each, and had no idea what we were going to see.  The anwer, a volcano crater with water in the bottom.  You never know what random things you will see. 

1: Have you ever rented a car in a foreign country? 

2: Have you driven on the opposite side of the road as you learned to drive on? 

3: Would you feel comfortable living across the street from this crater? 

4: What would I be surprised to find near where you live?

5: Have you seen a volcano? 

My Answers: 

1: Have you ever rented a car in a foreign country?  Several times 

2: Have you driven on the opposite side of the road as you learned to drive on? Twice, the first time in London, then in Ireland, not for the faint of heart. 

3: Would you feel comfortable living across the street from this crater? I was surprised at the farms houses literally across the road, I guess this one has been dormant for a long time. 

4: What would I be surprised to find near where you live?  George Washington had dinner on this hilltop a week before he died. 

5: Have you seen a volcano? A couple of them, that was on my bucket list.

Please share your answers in the comments.  

20 comments:

  1. 1. Nope
    2. Not on purpose.
    3. I'd feel comfortable as long as it stayed dormant.
    4. I have no idea.
    5. I've seen a volcano or two while cruising in Hawaii. The ship was travelling at night and the volcano was mildly erupting on one of the islands. It was very beautiful!

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    1. Wow! Number 5 sounds amazing

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    2. Oh, it was! So romantic, too (this was a while back).

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  2. 1: Have you ever rented a car in a foreign country? Yes
    2: Have you driven on the opposite side of the road as you learned to drive on? No, and I don’t think I ever will.
    3: Would you feel comfortable living across the street from this crater? I’d need more information.
    4: What would I be surprised to find near where you live? 2,000-year-old Roman ruins. Only from a distance or from the air.
    5: Have you seen a volcano?

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    1. Roman ruins, I know some people who would be excited by those

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  3. Anonymous5/29/2022

    1. Yes, rented a car in England. English drivers are so courteous, they are a danger.
    2. Not driven on the wrong side of the road. I would have when I was younger if needed, but I wouldn't now.
    3. Yes, but why live there without a view?
    4. A memorial plaque attached to a tree where several years ago a high flying Aboriginal student died in a vicious attack. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-12/kyle-zandipour-jailed-over-joshua-hardy-murder/7588686
    5. No and I can't imagine now ever visiting somewhere where there is a volcano.

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    1. Ah it is the right side of the road, or the opposite side of the road.

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  4. 1. I rented the car in Vermont, but drove it in Canada. Does that count? If not, then no. No I haven't.
    2. I have not.
    3. As long as I don't sleepwalk, I should be fine.
    4. The end of the Underground Railroad, right at the shores of Lake Erie is here.
    5. I've seen Mt. Rainier.

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    1. I wonder if there were boats across the lake. My late mother-in-law told stories of booze runs across lake Erie by her Uncles.

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  5. 1: Have you ever rented a car in a foreign country? I have not.

    2: Have you driven on the opposite side of the road as you learned to drive on? Not because it was the law.

    3: Would you feel comfortable living across the street from this crater? Yeah.

    4: What would I be surprised to find near where you live? Lots of Civil War sites and old Southern mansions ... a Quaker cemetery ...

    5: Have you seen a volcano? I have seen Mount St. Helens after she blew, and I have been to Crater Lake--another volcano filled in with water--and we always took visitors to the top of Haleakala when I lived on Maui.

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    1. Hawaii! We haven't heard about that adventure

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  6. 1. Yes, we've rented cars in Italy and in the United States.
    2. I've never personally driven "on the wrong side of the road." I would be scared that I wouldn't remember to do so and would get in accidents.
    3. It wouldn't be my first choice of local scenery, no.
    4. I don't think there's anything surprising in Edmonton. We have a huge replica of the Stanley Cup that locals and tourists alike take photos of themselves with.
    5. Yes, I've been to the Haleakala volcano crater in Maui a few times.

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  7. Have you ever rented a car in a foreign country? Yes...with friends.

    2: Have you driven on the opposite side of the road as you learned to drive on? Been in the car bit not perosnally driven. Not sure their ready for my Cruella Devil driving.

    3: Would you feel comfortable living across the street from this crater? Yes.

    4: What would I be surprised to find near where you live? A one room church dated back to 1732

    5: Have you seen a volcano? Yes. When we went to Costa Rica

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    1. It is not good to scare the locals with your driving, been there done that

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  8. 1: no

    2: no

    3: no

    4: no

    5: finally a yes

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  9. 1: Have you ever rented a car in a foreign country? Nope...never been to a foreign country, save for Canada, and we drove there so had our own car.

    2: Have you driven on the opposite side of the road as you learned to drive on? Not on purpose.

    3: Would you feel comfortable living across the street from this crater? Better that than horrible neighbors, so I say yes.

    4: What would I be surprised to find near where you live? I think you'd be more surprised at what you wouldn't find...which is anything of interest. I guess the oddest thing near us is a funeral home...with a swimming pool out back.

    5: Have you seen a volcano? Not in person.

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