http://www.the-islander.org.ac/webcam/The middle of nowhere is a place I am very interested in being today, although I must be anywhere but there today as I enter edits into my last dissertation chapter. Wish I could combine the two. Thankfully, there are many places that are still in the middle of nowhere. Here is one that is of interest, as of late...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_Island
I think this interest stems from my parents' love of the middle of nowhere - finding a remote place of peace and beauty. I feel as though they were in a constant search for the middle of nowhere, a common passion that they had. We spent at least a month each summer at our camp which was truly almost in the middle of nowhere, at least not much car sound, rural area, no electricity, no plumbing, no phone, not a lot of contact with the outside world. We also spent a lot of time searching for out of the way places in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Grand Manan Island, Newfoundland...and my mom and I took an amazing voyage around Scotland, visiting some truly out there places (Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Kirkwall in the Orkneys). Indeed, I think their mission of exposing us to this world worked, as I yearn for the peace of it now too, as much as I am a creature of the city. This one is quite hard to get to, but perhaps there is one closer to you.
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