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I'm not a person who travels. Had more than enough of it when I was in the Navy.
Someone wrote me the other day and said if I'm ever in Idaho...oh, yeah, I chuckled at that one. But it's not that far from Yellowstone. Is that the one with Old Faithful. or is that in Yosemite? Well, either way, I've seen it so often on TV that I don't have to go personally, and I feel that way about most places in the world. I can see pictures, or video, from that place, and never need to actually visit.
I'm not a person who travels. Had more than enough of it when I was in the Navy.
Someone wrote me the other day and said if I'm ever in Idaho...oh, yeah, I chuckled at that one. But it's not that far from Yellowstone. Is that the one with Old Faithful. or is that in Yosemite? Well, either way, I've seen it so often on TV that I don't have to go personally, and I feel that way about most places in the world. I can see pictures, or video, from that place, and never need to actually visit.
That's exactly the problem. People who know everything there is to know about Muslims from watching TV, so they never need to see the real thing. It makes it a lot easier to kill them, doesn't it?
Has it ever occurred to you that what you see on TV might have been edited, to show what someone else wants you to see?
Can TV show you what a polluted river smells like, or what Tucson feels like in July, or what it's like to have an African sitting in the truck next to you give you a gift, for some small gesture?
The reason you travel is because those things will not come to you, not even with the help of TV.
I thought this was about "places"..people are listing entire countries, a few have written off entire continents (Europe, Africa)? I can't even imagine being like that. How can you limit yourself away from one entire continent? Their loss.
I seriously cannot think of one place I haven't been to that I do not want to visit...well, maybe the blarney stone in Ireland. Hearing an acquantence talk about visiting it, getting lifted up by some amused Irishman to "kiss the blarny stone"...then hearing later that drunken Irish come out their in the middle of the night to urinate on it (probably the same bloke that lifts up the unaware tourist) was enough for me to turn me off of even visiting such a fake toursist site.
But I've seen it all, a few lifetimes worth of things, there is another posts months before on what you HAVE seen which I started with "watching the dead being burned...", the good and the bad, there are places and things I wouldn't want to see twice, but I won't give up the chance to see it and experience it once.
I don't think "place" needs to be defined as to narrowness or broadness. The Blarney Stone and Africa are both "places" and if someone doesn't want to go there, they've said what they need to say.
Bermuda, a tiny flat island out all by itself. Doesn't seem too appealing to me, but I guess there must be something to attract so many people but I think I'll pass, unless it's a free trip.
Far flung islands in the Atlantic, Pacific or the Caribbean scare me to death, just the idea of spending even a night there. I can even get a little nervous in Hawaii. It's just the terrifying thought: I'm so far away from the mainland and then feel like a prisoner!
What if I were there and I got caught up in a big airline strike, or got caught in the middle of a hurricane or typhoon?
I stopped off in Fiji, for a night, back in the late 80's en route to Australia, where two days earlier a typhoon all but devastated the island, every leaf was blown off the trees, bridges/roads destroyed. Yikes! To think if I had been there two days earlier!
Even tho' I've been to Ecuador, the Galapagos islands? Ain't gonna happen!
I'll stick to to the mainland!
I've no desire to visit any of the Middle Eastern and African countries, but this is more due to personal safety reason than anything else.
It's amazing how so many people get so caught up on the crime statistics/personal safety of places they plan to travel to, it's like looking at the leaves and not being able to see the trees.
In all my trips to Central and South America, what do I worry about the most before I go to sleep at night: Being caught up in a heart-stopping earthquake!
And, for whatever reason, I've always been lured to the parts of the world
with the biggest chances of seismic activity while I'm there.
I was in Concepcion Chile a couple years ago, which is where that last dilly 8.6 earthquake struck last year. No, absolutely not, if I had been there during that earthquake, I wouldn't be sitting here posting this, I would have stroked out before the ceiling fell in!
Being in a powerful earthquake or being mugged a dozen times on my journey, you know the answer!
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This is a really good thread, and has got me thinking.
I don’t want to visit anywhere that the entertainment is based on getting drunk, or getting food poisoning.
I don’t want tropical diseases.
I don’t want to be pestered by beggars or become a victim of crime.
I am interested in architecture, but don’t like cities, ( yes, I know that I have problems with that one ).
Also, I don’t want to lay on a beach and get sunburned, I can get sunburned at a tanning salon, but I don’t.
The nature of an area is of greater value to me than the manmade clutter, but it is good to have a comfortable and safe place to sleep.
I can’t take places that are too hot.
I am not a gambler.
Oh, and it’s good if the primary language of the place is English.
I think I have just ruled out almost everywhere.
Maybe I will stay at home.
The Siegal group just remodeled the Mt. Charleston Hotel, of course you're not going to hear of it, as the casino moguls want everyone to stay on the Strip. If MGM owned it, you'd have heard about it!
Also up there is Lee Canyon for skiing 5 months of the year and Kyle Canyon
which is an exclusive enclave, with very limited building sites, for the rich of Las Vegas who have summer homes up there (never gets above 85 degrees up there in the heat of the summer).
Some live up there year round, and put up with the occasional road closures and avalanches due to the snow.
It's most definitely, with its 20 mountains trails, Las Vegans great year round playground which tourists can enjoy as well.
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