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Are you on a roadway?
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gd, now you're getting the jist of it...though I'm not on a "road"way.
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Grand Canal?
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not the Grand Canal...and not related to water in any direct way.
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Qingzang railway?
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BaShi Railway?
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wow, good one, Tul. That's where I am. You're up, bud.
The Qingzang railway, Qinghai–Xizang railway, or Qinghai–Tibet railway is a high-altitude railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in China. The line includes the Tanggula Pass, at 5,072 m (16,640 feet) above sea level the world's highest rail track. The 1,338 m Fenghuoshan tunnel is the highest rail tunnel in the world, at 4,905 m above sea level. The 3,345-m Yangbajing tunnel is the longest tunnel on the line. It is 4,264 m above sea level, 80 kilometres north-west of Lhasa. More than 960 km, or over 80% of the Golmud-Lhasa section, is at an altitude of more than 4,000 m. There are 675 bridges, totalling 159.88 km, and about 550 km of the railway is laid on permafrost. The carriages are specially built and have an oxygen supply for each passenger. http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...delevation.jpg Tanggula railway station, located at 5,068 m, is the highest elevated in the world: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...1061434_-_.jpg The bridge on permafrost: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lwayBridge.jpg Criticism Opponents of China's Tibet policies claimed that the railway was built to strengthen its political control over Tibet. It is alleged by these opponents that the railway will encourage further immigration from the rest of China, reducing the proportion of Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Tibetans find it increasingly difficult to compete in the job market against skilled Han workers (most of the workers on the railway were of the Han ethnicity). Tibetans independence supporters have also expressed concerns that the Chinese government will use the railway to strengthen its military presence in the Tibet Autonomous Region as well as to further exploit Tibet's natural resources and damage its environment. As a result, Bombardier Transportation, a Canadian company, has faced international criticism from some pro-independence organizations for its involvement in constructing rail cars for the project. |
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...we can all at play this game, unc. |
I'm in the SW Hem.
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country?
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I'm in a specific home, in a town in a country.
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landlocked country?
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Are you in Isak Dinesen's home in Kenya?
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Are you in Chile?
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a palace-like home?
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in peru?
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Are you in Polynesia?
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Are you in Bora Bora?
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Are you on Tetiaroa where Marlon Brando lived?
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South Sea Island, Fiji? ...this looks like a nice house:
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Not Fiji, nice house though.
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Tul,
Are you at the Phillies game? http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...oPhillies2.jpg ...I purposely omit mentioning "Dodgers" ...errrr I mean LA, since they are just about down the toilet. ...ok, this ? is just to soothe my Philly ego... OK, are you in the Solomon Islands? |
No, I'm still Polynesia. In a house. A famous author lived here. Also died here.
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Are you in Samoa?...this is Robert Lewis Stevenson's grave...I love his writing more than the Phillies.
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...a_RLS_Tomb.jpg To an Island Princess From Songs of Travel Since long ago, a child at home, I read and longed to rise and roam, Where'er I went, whate'er I willed, One promised land my fancy filled. Hence the long roads my home I made; Tossed much in ships; have often laid Below the uncurtained sky my head, Rain-deluged and wind-buffeted: And many a thousand hills I crossed And corners turned - Love's labour lost, Till, Lady, to your isle of sun I came, not hoping; and, like one Snatched out of blindness, rubbed my eyes, And hailed my promised land with cries. Yes, Lady, here I was at last; Here found I all I had forecast: The long roll of the sapphire sea That keeps the land's virginity; The stalwart giants of the wood Laden with toys and flowers and food; The precious forest pouring out To compass the whole town about; The town itself with streets of lawn, Loved of the moon, blessed by the dawn, Where the brown children all the day Keep up a ceaseless noise of play, Play in the sun, play in the rain, Nor ever quarrel or complain; - And late at night, in the woods of fruit, Hark! do you hear the passing flute? I threw one look to either hand, And knew I was in Fairyland. And yet one point of being so I lacked. For, Lady (as you know), Whoever by his might of hand, Won entrance into Fairyland, Found always with admiring eyes A Fairy princess kind and wise. It was not long I waited; soon Upon my threshold, in broad noon, Gracious and helpful, wise and good, The Fairy Princess Moe stood. Tantira, Tahiti, Nov. 5, 1888. Bob's house: http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...c/vailima2.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lsmansion2.jpg |
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I'm at the house though, not his grave. I was looking around my photos for a shot of his house. I know I took several. It's late can't find them now will post them when I find them. You're up Nick. |
OK folks, where in the world am I?
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WH?
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yes WH
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NH?
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city?
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not NH and not a city
I'm in the Western Southern Hemisphere and standing in the middle of an interesting geological formation which I can see all around me as far as the eye can see...see? Si. |
SA?
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In the Andes?
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