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ok, jenny and i were talking about vacations, and I have more than two weeks of it that will expire at the end of the year if I don't use it, and I know I will go to New York, because I love it and I have more than one couch I can surf while I'm there so it's always cheap. New York loves me.

But fuck all that. Given unlimited time and money, where would you go?

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

I'm kinda thinking Sequioa Natnl Forest + hiking on Mount Whitney.

http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/california/images/s/california-mt-whitney.jpg

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny also said -- and I'd never thought of it like this before -- you don't even have to leave America to see some of the most amazing shit on Earth.

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

I guess other countries know that, but Americans forget it.

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

One starting today and lasting the rest of my life.

― Aimless, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

I want to go to Hawaii, although this train trip across the Canadian Rockies that was in one of the travel brochures that I picked up today looks totally sweeeeet. I love trains and mountains.

ALTHOUGH if we were really talking unlimited time and money, I'd go just about anywhere outside of the US because I ain't been many places.

― Jenny, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

...outside the US. I've been all over the 48 contiguous, except North Dakota.

― Jenny, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

see, that's what i'm saying, given enough time and money, i might still want to stay in this country. It's massive and amazing, and NO ONE has seen it all.

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

1. road tripping across America for a couple of years. Visit all 50 states, see everything there is to see. Will commence just as soon as I win the lottery.

2. Lesser road trip of cool baseball stadiums, Fenway, Wrigley, Pac Bell + assorted minor leaguers.

3. about a month in the UK - time enough to see as much of rural England, Scotland, Wales, etc. as possible

4. two weeks in New York

― milo z, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

I can save you one trip: Wrigley is no cathedral. It's old and tiny and not a great place to see baseball. And an even worse place to see the home team win.

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

sailboat + coastal BC + ski touring

― river wolf, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hush, Kenan. Wrigley Field is fantastic, especially if you are nostalgic for days-of-baseball-gone-by and want to pretend that every other park isn't a big, shiny, sterile corporate sponsored MEGASTADIUM. And besides, if the wo/man wants to take a ballpark focused field trip, NOT visiting the second-oldest active MLB park would just be insane.

― Jenny, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

true dat

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Still, I feel about Wrigley like I feel about old movie theaters with balconies and regular floor seating and etc. It's fun in an old-timey kinda way, but it's harder to see the movie, and nobody goes to the movies because their seats are so comfy. Stadiums have improved since Wrigley, even if they're called dumb-ass things like "US Cellular Field."

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

B-b-but before all the soulless corporate megaparks, park of the fun of baseball was dealing with individual stadium's quirks, like stupidly placed bleachers or bad wind or a giant wall or a random lump in the outfield. It's part of the joy. Or was, anyway.

I don't know, I am just afraid they are going to stop using Wrigley Field and that will be the second awesome old ball park that I've lived next to and watched die. I'm not even a real big baseball fan (I realized the other day that I don't love baseball so much as I love the way other people love baseball, if that makes any sense) but I am sure that I will shed real and heartfelt tears on that horrible day.

xp - I'd rather see a movie in the Music Box than in a slick and shiny multiplex almost any day of the week. I hate plastic fake looking public venues. There's no life in them! It's just safety and sterility and it's so fucking boring. No matter where you go, it's the same crap. No heart, no soul, no regional quirks and variations. Bleh.

Okay, sorry. Back to dream vacations!

― Jenny, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

ok i take it back, a little, because an up-front balcony seat with a huge-ass movie screen is NIIIICE.

Stadium seating makes every seat a balcony seat.

xpost

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny OTM, for the record. I wish I could have seen a game at War Memorial.

― milo z, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'd rather see a movie in the Music Box than in a slick and shiny multiplex almost any day of the week.

I would not, Modern movie theaters have better seating, better sound, and better projection. Progress = good.

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Baseball is a whole other may=tter, I understand, bu I will try not to wade into that.

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Milo, my husband and I lived a just under half a mile (it was actually the closest bar to our house) from War Memorial Stadium and saw the Greensboro Bats play there all the time. $5 tickets and $1 beer night... God I love minor league baseball.

Now the Greensboro Grasshoppers play at the shiny new First Horizon Park, but we moved before that opened and haven't been. I'm not sure I'd really want to. It just wouldn't be the same.

― Jenny, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

ok, extreme vacation: Easter Island. The least accessible place in the world. No place has that much ocean in every direction.

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

5. some kind of fishing village in New England or North Carolina w/ a nice boat

― milo z, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.rssc.com/rss/ships/PAU/PAU%20Destinations%20DL/Bora-Bora%20lagoon.jpg

― kenan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Yes plz.

― Jenny, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

One starting today and lasting the rest of my life.

OTM. If money was no object I'd never work another day, and I'd start train-ing and roadtripping all over the US. And when I got tired of seeing the States, I'd take long trips to
Ireland
the UK
All over Europe
Aus/NZ
Canada
Vietnam
And I'd take my wife to that cloudforest in Costa Rica that she fell in love with.

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 21 April 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

all over south america. buenos aires, santiago, lima, sao paulo, curitiba, bogota, the galapagos.

― get bent, Sunday, 22 April 2007 08:01 (eighteen years ago)

How is it that I live in Massachusetts and have never been to Fenway? I'm lame.

― aimurchie, Sunday, 22 April 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

The Amanyara Spa in Turks & Caicos
http://www.wayfaring.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/turks-and-caicos-5.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Phi Phi Leh Beach, Thailand
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/04/25/phiphi_wideweb__430x294.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Tikehau, Tahiti
http://www.luxuryhideaways.net/images/tahiti/Tahiti-tikehau.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Mount Merapi and surroundings, Central Java, Indonesia
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060517/060517_merapi_hlg_10a.h2.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

the Isle of Iona, off of Scotland, home to St. Columba's monastery:
http://www.iona-bed-breakfast-mull.com/beaches_mull_iona/iona-Traigh-Mhor.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Rio
http://www.belobrasil.ch/brasil/brasilien-cities/st%E4dte-cities/rio%20de%20janeiro/rio%20-%20corcovado%20e%20pao%20de%20acucar.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

and finally, a little closer to home: Glacier National Park, Montana
http://www.censusfinder.com/images/Montana.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

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