Dyxum travel guides - requests for new threads

Update done to the Toledo guide!

alpha_in_exile wrote: Just a note: I think one benefit here is to have comments from personal experience about photographers' accessibility to different places in each locale/area, such as 'best time of year to go' or 'when to go to avoid having approx. 1.2m tourists between you and the good stuff' or 'they do/do not allow photography here'. There are, MacDonaldJ2 mentioned, all manner of guides & directories on the internet, so we should strive to provide info that might be more obscure/not generally mentioned in other guides. (all this goes without saying, of course, but thought I'd post a reminder, esp. as it has been awhile since anyone has contributed) e.g. I think someone mentioned awhile back, Antelope Canyon has an upper & a lower part; the one is most often clogged with tourists, the other is not & affords more freedom for photographers

@Matt, That is exactly what I thought of when the idea popped up in my head. There are so many special conditions yoou don't know anything about until it's too late!

Swede66 wrote: where members can add their mini guides of places with more focus on photography. What to shoot, where, special conditions and so on

Thanks for contributing

Two other boringly technical questions: if we have something ready for an as yet missing country, do we just post for example "Travel Guide: Utopia" as a new topic aka thread title and get started? How about big states/provinces like California that are likely to get more contributions and responses than many smaller countries, would we have separate threads/travel guides for those?

Not that I'll have my own act together right away for posting some of these, just trying to avoid myself and others going off on confusingly different tangents.

Edited by pdeley - 08 January 2011 at 17:09

pdeley wrote: Two other boringly technical questions: if we have something ready for an as yet missing country, do we just post "Travel Guide: Utopia" as the thread title and get started? How about big states/provinces like California that are likely to get more contributions and responses than many smaller countries, would we have separate threads/travel guides for those?

Currently, we have some country threads & some place/city threads. In the US, bear in mind, each city/place, even within one state, is likely to be as far apart from each other, as whole countries in Europe. As a result, I've avoided raising the very question you brought up, mainly because I couldn't what my own opinion would be.

But, note that the Guides are threads, not just posts, so anyone can come along & add more info. So, to Italy, someone could add: Pisa, Rome, etc.

Arguably, Toledo should be put in an Ohio thread & Philly in a Pennsylvania thread, but again, if you're traveling, the distances are so great that you're not too likely to visit both Cincinnati, OH, & Toledo, OH, in the same trip. The nature of travel in the US is a bit different. I don't know of anyone who travels from Europe to see the highlights of the entire state of Ohio, but they may visit cities sprinkled around, like Chicago, NYC, LA, etc. Someone traveling from the US to Europe, by way of comparison, might spend a few days seeing all the major cities in Italy, then a few more days in France, then a few days in Germany, and so on.

In short, personally, I don't know how the Guides should be organized.

Edited by alpha_in_exile - 08 January 2011 at 17:20

I had originally thought that the guides would be posted as threads here, but no reason not to link to stuff elsewhere, so I've linked Brian's Cruise page...

We can always move threads around later, the key thing is to write the info down and capture it!

Hey Matt,
Contact LECHER (Jack Fronce) he moved to the PBurg area this past summer, he had a couple of Dyxum meets when he lived in the Boston area.Kefkafloyd attended one of them and had a grteat time. Jack can be a "hoot".

TOM

I was thinking of maybe doing one for my bits of London...