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Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World?
An anonymous reader asks: "Is there anyone besides me who likes to travel and look at engineering projects? When I first read Neal Stephenson's Wired article on his trip around the world to watch an intercontinental fiber cable being built from England to Japan (still available at HotWired) I knew this was what I wanted to do with my vacation days. Space launch sites, high-speed rail lines, container ports, technology museums - I've tried them all. Does Slashdot have suggestions for destinations, or for web sites where people share their experiences."
If you haven't been to Yosemite National Park in the United States, you absolutely must. A couple of years ago, I went the last week of November for a few days. The beautiful part...no on there...the next best beautiful part...most of the people that were there were not Americans.
I was lucky enough to find a small cadre of folks that were there just for the sheer wonder of the place. Mountain climbers and hard-core hikers. Now, I'm a fat-arsed computer programmer, but I still made it to the top of Yosemite Falls. Got some great pictures.
Also, try not to drive into the valley if you don't have to. It cuts down on pollution to have less cars there, plus, those granite walls are so amazing that it's too hard not to just stop in the middle of the road and look...