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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (52545)	8/21/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Living in an apartment, being subjected to all the noise of my neighbors at all hours, I adore being in the middle of nowhere! The first couple of nights can be a bit odd--what a blasted racket those katydids and crickets make, not to mention the occasional owl! Although I've done it and enjoyed it, I am not really into backpacking either. Small country inns are more my style. Nor do I loll on the beach--it gets too boring and because I have very fair skin and suffer from rosacea, I couldn't even if I longed to do so. However, the fun at Kona, which was very private, was the ability to explore the Big Island and return to quiet and privacy, broken only now and then at 4 a.m. by a screaming peacock! LOL! At PSV there was the beach, of course, but there was also the TOTAL privacy. Honestly, there were people who spent a week there never putting on a stitch of clothing (e.g., Harry Reasoner, I believe). There is a flag system for room service, towels, etc., that even indicates whether one wishes not to be disturbed. And I love going to sleep hearing the sound of the waves breaking on the reef--segue to the scuba diving, which is marvelous! The only way to get to the place is by boat, which keeps the privacy very serious; boating people would sometimes dinghy in for a drink at the bar, but that is as far as they could venture. There is also a place I treasured in Martinique, whose name will probably awaken me at 4 a.m., that was remote and quiet. The "peepers" and a couple of nutty birds that insisted on flying around our room were a bit unusual but fun. As for partying and drinking, I am older than you, as you know, so partying lost its charm for me long ago except for special celebrations. On the drinking comment, for me it's the "really good stuff" or why bother? Remember my postings on my wine tasting group and single malts? All of this is a roundabout way of saying that living in New York, with all that it offers, I crave the opposite when taking time off. BTW, looking ahead to when you are in NYC, I am on the board of a small theater group that does some really fascinating stuff--plays that even your son might find interesting. Do let me know your next planned visit and I shall check our schedule to see if there is something on that both you and he might enjoy.