Longitude: E 150° 40.812
After the jump, a few of the random places (and I mean random literally) that I visited vicariously last month that are "off the blue roads".
- in New South Wales, at the 1000 metre mark on the rowing course of the International Regatta Complex, which had been established at Penrith Lakes for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games
- in Göss, a district of the city Leoben in Styria (Austria) not far from the Gösser Brewery, where the world famous Gösser beer is brewed
- in Maryland, atop a crest overlooking the construction site of a planned community, "Brickyard Station"
- behind an apartment complex in southern California, near a depression that looks like a flood-control basin, which contains a set of horse corrals with at least five horses
- southeast of Melbourne, in the Highlands horse stables, a beautiful lush, green property with a driveway that extends more than a kilometre
- in a horse paddock west of Melbourne, in a semi-rural area that suburbia is beginning to encroach
- in the parking lot of a Home Depot outside Chicago, a rural area giving way to suburbia ("The stretch of road nearby the point has over 68 restaurants in a 3 mile stretch.")
- in the parking lot of a shopping center in southern California, 300 meters from a Panera Bread restaurant ("an enjoyable, nay, pleasurable waypoint")
- amidst a glorious display of red, pink and white rhododendrons surrounded by tree ferns in thick brush west of Melbourne
- down Rabbit Road in Illinois farm country, in a checkerboard of fields, some plowed with exposed soil and some with light-colored corn stalks cut only a foot from the ground but not yet plowed under
- in Springfield, Illinois, behind a two-story contemporary house with an old fashioned TV antenna on the roof
- on the right bank of the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, in an abandoned and overgrown area that once was the scene of industrial activity
- on Arizona State Trust land below a long bridge over the dry river basin
- in Estonia, in forest near the Karujärve (Bear Lake) camping site, closed down for winter and nearer to an abandoned Soviet military missile base (Dejevo), where a ski resort is now
- in Elmwood, Nebraska, home to Bess Streeter Aldrich ("I can't remember much about her except that she was a writer.")
- and in Germany, in the fields of Lichtenhorst ("there lives a stork at the rim of the fields there, alone cause the rest of his swarm is already gone to Africa. Strange!")
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