Chill out! Damn! What a question. Where would I not want to go? Well, let’s start at the top. Gitmo – that’s Guantanamo to the uninitiated. Yeah, it was in the 1960’s but from what I’ve heard, it’s still on the list of the Pits. Maybe even worse.
Beyond Gitmo, there are any number of disepitiomable, despicable, and low-down small towns and cities that, if I never again pass through them, will make me ebullient with glee. Have I been clear enough? Places that you might have nightmares about.
You would like me to enumerate? Well, at a glance, I do not have the appendages needed to enumerate them accurately. Trust me, I’m afraid to. In some may still reside people who’d love to know my current whereabouts. Why? Just the sort of exaggerated idiocies of a mispent youth. I didn’t burn anything down. But why take a chance, eh? It was all innocent fun… and lynch mobs are so déclassé.
No, I’ll stick to bland, neutral places. They see my grey hair and see a lovely older gentleman. No reason to dissuade them from that little fiction. Is there?
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Gee, I was there 3 times after 2001 and brought back a cute stuffed iguana for my daughter. Sent from my iPhone
During my stay there was just a barb wire enclosed “beach”, and bad beer.
“Beach” and Bad Beer — that’s a short story title.
Oof, I’m sorry you had to be there. Just the infamy of the place would make me uncomfortable the whole time. The suffering of the inmates must send a dark energy permeating through the place.
None of that existed in the 1960’s just a very dreary awful naval base. Now it would be truly horrifying.
great article
Never been there and not on my list to go. Mine is Munich. Drove by Dachau on our way out. Every hair on my body stood on end and I hit the gas pedal…hard. Was willing to get a ticket to get away from the area. No, I didn’t visit it. Felt too much like dejavu.
I understand.