not battery park...you gotta go about 12 miles up the river.

van cortlandt park?

nope, not v.c. park....I'm close enough to the Hudson River that I can literally throw a stone into the river and the word "park" is not in the description of this place.

Think more along the lines of museum.

the museum of the city of new york?

Nope, wrong museum. I'm about 5 miles farther north up river, right on the river (ie, next to it, not in the river). Take another shot and then I'll start dropping heavier clues.

are you at the Hudson River Maritime Museum

the museum of art and origins?

Not at the Hudson River Maritime or the Museum of Art & Origins.

OK, here's a huge clue: unicorn

oh, shit...the cloisters?

a haaa...yes the Cloisters! I love that place. It's right on the Hudson River just above the George Washington Bridge. I highly recommend spending at least a few hours here if you haven't already.

OK, unc. You're up...go hide.

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The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages. The Cloisters is located in New York City, USA, specifically Fort Tryon Park near the northern tip of Manhattan island on a hill overlooking the Hudson River. The Cloisters include the museum building and the adjacent 4 acres (16,000 m²).

Collection
The Cloisters collection contains approximately five thousand European medieval works of art, with a particular emphasis on pieces dating from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries.

Among the famous works of art held at the Cloisters are seven south Netherlandish tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn, Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece, and the Romanesque altar cross known as the Cloisters Cross or Bury St. Edmunds Cross, which was acquired under the curatorship of Thomas Hoving. The Cloisters also holds many medieval manuscripts and illuminated books, including the Limbourg brothers' Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry and Jean Pucelle's book of hours for Jeanne d'Evreux.

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The building housing the collection is itself a work of medieval art. It is a composite structure, incorporating elements from five medieval French cloisters: Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Bonnefont-en-Comminges, Trie-en-Bigorre, and Froville. These disassembled European buildings were reassembled in Fort Tryon Park (1934/38) in a setting with gardens planted according to horticultural information culled from various medieval documents and artifacts. Notable works of architecture include the Cuxa cloister, with an adjacent Chapter House; and the Fuentidueña Apse from a chapel in the province of Segovia (Castilla y León, Spain).

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way back i was going to guess fort tryon park...

ok, where am i?

WH?

yup...

USA?

yup...

east of miss r?

nope...

midwest?

gd -?

in a state that borders the Pacific?

nope...

Are you at a park of some kind?

nope, just a municipality...

Jackson Hole WY?

nope...

Don't be so negative, unc. Throw us a "yes" once in a while.

Are you in Arizona?

i'm not in arizona but i've heard rick wakeman...

Well I've never heard Rick Wakeman live, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Are you in New Mexico?

nope...

are you in Colorado?

in a more than "roundabout" way, yes...

Are you in Utah?

*

earlier girl asked, "Midwest?"
unka said, "gd?"

Please let me clarify with the following map :
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/midwestus.pdf

i don't understand...

i'm in colorado...

lll try again next round.

roundy round round? What's with Colorado and all the roundness? I found that there was a Transportation Research Board National Roundabout Conference in Vail, Colorado in May 2005...man, I'm sorry I missed that one!

Then in Loveland, Colorado, there is something weird going on with RoundaboutsUSA RoundaboutsUSA - Loveland, CO Roundabouts so having seen this, I now know more than I ever would want or need to know about roundabouts.
http://www.roundaboutsusa.com/images/figure2.jpg

Around here we just call them circles...traffic circles that is.

So unc, are you in Loveland, Colorado? ...and if so, why?

Here they're known as "glorietas" and they are everywhere.

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Wow! that's a big image... sorry.

nick - the references to "roundabout" and "rick wakeman" were to let you know that i do know how to say "yes;" however, i'm not in loveland...

sorry unc...I guess I didn't stay in Holiday Inn Express quite long enough.

Are you at the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya near Red Feather Lakes, Colorado? ...I didn't think so.

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you could be warm...but, nope...

Are you at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs?

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...if not, next I'm guessing Pikes Peak or the U.S. Air Force Academy.

none of the above...

think north, warm, and wet...

hmmm, northernish Colorado, warmish and wetish...

Are you in Steamboat Springs?

...maybe wacking that little white ball around at Sheraton Steamboat Golf Club?

steamboat...what a guy...

you got it, nick...

Sorry it took me so long to get the my next place but I'm getting shorter on inspiration. I did hunt around online a lot, searched all sorts of possible ideas. Maybe some beautiful genie needs to rub my magic bottle until smoke comes out.
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OK, where in the world am I this time?

tehran?

No, not until a regime and attitude adjustment over there.

NH?

yes NH

WH?

yes WH

canadia?

europa?

US?

Are we looking for a city?

Hey Tully Mars! Good to see you!

Where are you, badboy?

Thanks, it's good to be king... I mean back.

Now where is that Nick?

Hey, nice to see all you folks back here helping unc find me.


Yes, I'm in the U.S. So obviously the other guesses are a no.

This time I'm not in a city. I'm on a significant geological feature.

left of mrs. sippy?

since I'm facing south, yes left of the mrs.

For the directionally compromised (ok, I admit it, I'm never lost even if I have no idea where I am) I'm east of the mrs.

landlocked state?

no

stone mountain, georgia?

right idea, wrong place.

luray caverns, va?

nope. Think back on "mountain" but in a different state.

the "notch" near franconia, nh?

nope. south from there.

bear mountain, ny?

south from there.

mt. holly, nj?

There are no mountains in Mt. Holly...though I do recall a couple soft round mounds in Mt. Holly, but she dumped me :(

Nope, keep going further south.

rocky mount, nc?

Getting very close, unc. At least you're in the right state.

on top of old smoky?

TNJN - Take a hike: Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Actually I thought I might be in Great Smoky Mt. National Park, but I musta been smokin' sumptin since looking at a map I'm actually about 70mi. east of there.

black mountain?

Pilot Mountain?

not Black, not Pilot.

IMO it's not just any old beautiful mountain, I'm on the most significant of the lumps.

mt. mitchell state park?

you're soooo good, unc. I'm standing on Mt. Mitchell. You're next.


Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in eastern North America, excluding island summits.

The mountain was named after Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who determined its height in 1835 and fell to his death at nearby Mitchell Falls in 1857, having returned to verify his earlier measurements.

Elevation 6,684 ft (2,037 m)
Location Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Range Appalachian Mountains
Prominence 6,089 ft (1,856 m)

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god, i'm good...

ok, where am i now?

North America?

yup...

US?

yup..

see, i can be positive on occasion...

You're like a big old car battery, unc. Sometimes positive, sometimes negative, just don't touch them at the same time. Everyready or DieHard?

West of Old Miss River?

diehard...

oh...yup...

coastal state?

negatory...

Are in one of the Dakotas?

nope...

are you in Missouri?

nope...west of missouri...

are you in Kansas?

Rocky mountain state?

nick - no

tully - yes

Colorado?

Wyoming?

'tis a park in colorado...

Mueller?