Saturday TeaDay 5/22/10 Where in the world are you?!?

[Chip]

Welcome one and all to TeaDay. Come brew a pot and share what is in your cup with all of us. Frequent updates are a plus. Be dure to check out what everyone else is sipping as well. You can reflect back on your TeaDay if you need to.

Yesterday we discussed TeaChat influence in your teaware. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

Today, is an official "Frivolous Post Day" all day long...if you call getting to know your fellow TeaChatters as frivolous. So, where in the world do you live? Share as much or as little information as you want here today. Does your town have a claim to fame? I hope you have some fun with this topic today.

Not sure of your region...check it out HERE

I am looking forward to sharing this TeaDay with everyone. Bottoms up.

[karmaplace]

I just graduated from college, so I've been staying at my parents' house for the past few days in central New York. There's nothing particularly famous about my hometown, but it's near Ithaca (where Cornell University is at and where most of the old, old Tarzan movies were filmed).

I plan to move back to Korea and live there for long term, but, for now, I'm technically homeless and am therefore "living" wherever I am at the moment, which currently is near Ithaca, NY.

[omegapd]

In the deep south of the US...Omega, Ga. We're about an hour and a half North of Tallahassee, Fl.

[entropyembrace]

I live in Edmonton, Canada

and I don´t watch hockey which is probably all most people know my home town for xD

well other than the mall....you know the biggest one in North America...I DO like that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Edmonton_Mall

there´s a handfull of good tea shops here too

btw, Chip there is no option for Mexicans...Mexico is part of North America the divider between North and Central America is at the border between Mexico and Guatemala.

[debunix]

I am in Los Angeles, with some very excellent tea shops in close proximity--Chinatown has Wing Hop Fung and TenRen, there are several Chado's, Hankook has a store in Koreatown, and we're still waiting eagerly for a reopening of Tea Habitat in a new location. And while I haven't found a physical storefront for Den's Teas, they're local and my orders arrive super fast.

Friday started with two teas purchased over the internet, and ended with two teas bought from Hankook's brick and mortar store.

[dooble]

This is a interesting topic. Currently I'm living in Europe, Finland, in Turku. Turku is going to be the culture capital city of Europe at 2011... I think the city is going to fail . But well... I'm probably moving to Helsinki soon anyway, if I get admitted to the uni.

[chittychat]

By those options it looks like in the US there are the heaviest tea drinkers in the world and to lump Asia and Africa together reminds me of Palin who thought Africa was just one country.

[NikkiM228]

I've been living between Maui, Hawaii and Orlando, Florida. With all of the hot weather I drink hot tea sparingly but I love experimenting with iced teas.

[Skippyandjif]

I'm a college student, so depending upon the time of year, I'm either living in Albany, NY (for school); New York City (if I'm staying with my father during a break); or Bath, ME (if I'm staying with my mother during a break). The only really famous place out of the three is New York City. The Chinatown there is great for tea! (Albany has...a Teavana. Well, it also has one or two really good, really tiny tea shops, but those aren't accessible to someone with no car. The next town over from Bath, meanwhile, used to have an actual tea house, but it closed. )

Looseleaf pu-erh in my cup this morning. I think I'm going to age the beeng I just got. ^_^

[JBaymore]

I'm here in the Northeastern USA, in Wilton, New Hampshire. In the south central to south western part of the state called the Monadnock Region. It is "Small town, USA."

Claims to "fame" around here......

Mount Monadnock is located quite nearby. I get a stunning view of it from about 2000' A.S.L. by driving 5 minutes west from my home/studio. It is supposedly the most climbed mountain in North America and the second most climbed one in the world.
http://www.monadnockmountain.com/ http://nhstateparks.org/uploads/Monadno ... ilsWeb.pdf

There is the water powered shaker box maker Frye's Measure Mill that makes handcrafted "firkins".... or wooden measure boxes. It's the only remaining water-powered wooden measure mill in the USA.
http://www.fryesmeasuremill.com/

The tiny Wilton Town Hall Theater is a landmark that movie goers all over the region know about. It shows not only first run films, but also screens art films. It was the PERFECT place to got see Pearl Harbor when it came out or to see any WWII era movie; the theater just reeks of that time period.
http://www.wiltontownhalltheatre.com/

Then there is Andy's Summer Playhouse. It is a summer theatre program for children of all ages. It is suprsingly sophisticated. My older daughter spent a lot of time here, and it resulted in the Theater minor for her in undergrad school.
http://www.andyssummerplayhouse.org/

Peter of "Peter, Paul, and Mary" has a house here.

And of course there is Wilton's famous ceramic artist!

best,

..................john

PS: No sources for tea in town.

[laura99]

I reside in Southeast USA - Concord NC. This town would be best known for Nascar racing. Nearby Charlotte (where I work) just opened the Nascar hall of fame this month. In fact racing is in town this weekend through next.

For me, all that means is to stay home and away from the traffic!

This morning a nice pot of Yunnan golden curls.

[geeber1]

If I were making that map, I would have put Washington, Oregon, and Idaho into their own Pacific Northwest region.

I live in Oregon, about 4 hours from Portland. Our town is a few miles from the Washington border. Its claim to fame in the past was as the "Pea Capital of the World," since peas were one of the main crops grown here. There are also many, many orchards. Mostly apples, but also cherries, plums, peaches, and nectarines. Walla Walla, Washington, which is 10 miles away, is becoming a well-known wine producing region so there are a lot of vineyards, wineries, and tasting rooms. Pendleton, Oregon is south of us and they are a big wheat growing region.

Enjoying some "Three Brothers" tea from TeaSource this morning.

[artmom]

We live in Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee. Its claim to fame is that we are located about 25 minutes from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Sam Houston, a "...19th century American statesman, politician, and soldier" taught school here before becoming a soldier; and present U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander, who also was the Governor of Tennessee, was born here in Maryville.

Also, Maryville College, founded in 1819, is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the U.S., and the 10th oldest in the Southeast. Pellissippi State - a two year community college also has a campus located here. The new Clayton Center for the Arts, supported by Maryville and Alcoa is situated on the Maryville College campus.

http://www.claytonartscenter.com/

Maryville is a twin city; it abuts right up to Alcoa, which originally was North Maryville, until the Aluminum Company of America opened a plant here in 1919. The two cities are located about 20 minutes south of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Blount County, where Maryville is located, abuts the border of North Carolina with which it shares the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm

I love living here; it was a great place to raise our boys; has excellent medical care available now, and it has four distinct seasons, none of them unbearable.

[LauraW]

Greenville SC. 3ish hours from Charleston, 2.5 hours from Atlanta, 1 hr from Asheville (and the Biltmore house), and about 2 hours from Charlotte. Close (enough) to everything, which explains why there's nothing of note here. A couple little teashops, but nothing overly awesome.

Wuyi this morning. Not sure what's next.. got some baking to do, and then a couple errands to run, then back for tea and dinner before work.

[brad4419]

I live in Ohio, which is in the mid west region. I go to college in Chillicothe(1 hour south of Columbus) and thats where my family lives so it works out great but I definately plan on living somewhere else after school.

Chillicothe is most famous for the Native American History and mostly Tecumseh. Chillicothe has an outdoor drama about Tecumseh every year. I went to the drama many times as a kid and remember it being very good but haven't been in several years.

Second famous thing is our agriculture(corn basically)

and third and most funny is our annual motorcycle rodeo. A whole bunch of motorcycle riders around the country gather in Chillicothe and have a huge party at the fairgrounds. You wouldn't belive how many times I go on trips and when I tell people Im from Chillicothe they say "isn't that the place with the biker rodeo."

Oh yea almost forgot Chilli was the first capital of ohio. Lots of old historic buildings downtown and history.

Trying to drink up last years teas before starting on the new so Im having last years Bai Hao yin zhen surprisingly its still very tastey