What famous pilgrimages have you made around the world? I've been to Jim Morrison's grave. We didn't

[applegrove]

find people sitting around it though - I was told you could often find young adults sitting around his grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery. I was really disappointed. I guess the year was 1995 so it was quite a while after his death.

[HopeHoops]

1. We took the kids to see the Old Man in the Mountain before he collapsed.

I think he was just tired.

[Tikki]

2. We went to visit Jeffry Hyman AKA Joey Ramone's grave site..

a few years back.
I played "In The Sun" by Blondie for him.


Tikki

[MrCoffee]

3. Graceland

Totally worth it.

[MorningGlow]

4. Yasgur's Farm on the 20th anniversary of Woodstock

before they held new concerts. Just lots of 20-years-older hippies reuniting. It was sweet. I took some dirt home in a tiny clay pot. I still have it.

I also took the train to Henley-on-Thames to peer through the gatest of Friar Park (George Harrison's home), but I chickened out. Had a terrible lunch in a bad pub (those are few and far between but I found one) and went back to London.

[Bucky]

5. Mount Vernon. Twice.

[RebelOne]

6. Went to Dublin, Ireland just so I could

sit in a pub and have a Guiness Stout on tap.

[Aristus]

7. Here's me at Jim Morrison's grave in 1993.

There were lots of young people around. Maybe you were there on a low-traffic day...

[applegrove]

13. We were there in December. That may be why.

[mopinko]

8. i rode the yukon express in alaska

the railroad that the 49'ers rode.
i've been to the taj majal.

[pink-o]

9. Pere Lachaise is the burial place for a lot of luminaries.

My favorite site is Oscar Wilde's of course! It has lipstick kisses all over it, and tributes to rival Morrison's.

I love Paris a whole hellubba lot!!!

[applegrove]

14. I love Paris too.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Alhondiga de Granaditas - Cradle of Mexican Independence.

[sakabatou]

11. Several places in Israel

Western Wall


The Dead Sea


Hezekiah's Tunnel (not me in the photo)


Masada


Tomb of Absalom


Ein Gedi


Shrine of the Book


I may have gone to other places, but I don't remember

[applegrove]

15. I should go to Israel and Egypt. I get all excited when I travel to North American cities that

are 300 years old. I bet you I would be on cloud 9 to be in that part of the world.

[sakabatou]

19. I bet

^_^

[madamesilverspurs]

12. Brick Bar (Northern Exposure)

in Roslyn, Washington. Probably 15 years ago, just stumbled across the town. Gotta say, the TV show made very good use of camera angles!

[femmocrat]

16. The Kennedy gravesites at Arlington Cemetary.

The Viet Nam Wall in DC.

Probably more that I can't think of right now.

[pa28]

17. In France I went to go exploring around the battle of the Somme site.

I spent a couple of days driving around the back roads and exploring the places I'd only read about. Even after all these years the unplowed areas are still cratered and littered with battle debris.

[mysuzuki2]

18. Beethovens grave in Vienna.

It is also the gravesite of Schubert and Brahms.

[Kali]

20. I didn't go here as a pilgrimage but others do

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevlana_Museum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi

[clyrc]

21. I went to Colettte's grave at Pere Lachaise

I was thrilled to see it. More along the pilgrimage line, though, I went to Bruges to see the Jerusalemkirk, Anselm Adorne's family church, because it was the setting of the author Dorothy Dunnett's hero Nicolas' first marriage. Bruges was gorgeous.

[cliffordu]

22. Went to the grave of the man I'm named for.

Pretty heavy. Just an uncle, but still....

[HeiressofBickworth]

23. Dachau

While I lived in Germany (many years ago), I went to Dachau. It was a mere 20 years after the war was over. I remember the most dramatic scene. The former administration building was set up as a museum. The very last picture in the museum was a large mural of the courtyard of the camp shoulder-to-shoulder with people. You then open the door to step out side and there is the very same courtyard, totally devoid of people.

[XemaSab]

24. I'm a birder

There are a bunch of places that EVERYONE BUT EVERYONE goes to.

I've been to:

*The Everglades, Tortugas, and Keys
*Baxter State Park and Acadia National Park
*Southeast Arizona including the Arizona/Sonora Desert Museum, the Chiricahuas, Patagonia, Madera Canyon, the Huachucas, and California Gulch
*Yosemite
*The Lower Rio Grande Valley and Texas Hill Country
*Sandia Crest and Bosque del Apache
*The Channel Islands
*Sanibel
*Monterey Bay
*The Salton Sea
*Skagit and Ocean Shores


I haven't been to:

*Cape May
*High Island
*Point Pelee
*Churchill
*North Dakota (big place, I know)
*The Sax-Zim bog
*Machias Seal Island and Monhegan
*The Pribilofs and/or St. Lawrence
*The outer Aleutian Islands
*Big Bend
*Colorado for grouse
*Denali
*Platte River
*Hawk Mountain
*Witless Bay
*The Outer Banks


There's something about knowing that tens of thousands of birders have been there before you that's kinda awe-inspiring. Like I've read travel journals from the 40s and the 70s from people who went to these places and birded there and saw a lot of the same stuff.

[Tikki]

25. Hey XemaSab...do you see the California Condors up that way?

They are majestic....


Tikki

[dogknob]

26. When I called my grandmother from Richmond, VA...

... a place I had never been, or planned to go to, but we had a gig there...

... I told her where in town I was and she knew the place. She asked me to go across the street and kiss the statue of Robert E. Lee for her.

As far as she knows, I did.

[Lasher]

27. Monument Avenue

I've been there.

[Lasher]

28. The Alamo, the place in Dallas where Kennedy was shot, the Golden Gate Bridge,

The Washington Monument, Niagara Falls.

[JCMach1]

29. Falling Waters

[era veteran]

30. Walked across the Pyrénées twice

Was hitching to Pamplona from Biarritz.
Ran with the bulls a couple of times. Ahhhhn misspent youth.

[Bolo Boffin]

31. Valley of the Kings

Went into Tut's tomb, a couple of others. Ramses VII was the nicest. Then Karnak Temple. Our tour didn't include Hapshepsut's temple or the Luxor Temple, but we drove by.

Then got the Pyramids in a couple of days later.