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If you were given free tickets to anywhere in the world, EXCEPT a "traditional vacation destination" (Like Hawaii or the Bahamas, etc) where would you go and why?
 
Only a couple of places I ever really thought I'd like to go to.

Australia, but not the cities.

England/British Isles, but not the cities. I used to drive .. A LOT. I wanted to drive around Britain, the back roads.

Antarctica, just to say I'd been there, but didn't stay long.

Maybe a few of the South Pacific islands like FSM.
 
Germany(for various reasons), Scandinavia( Viking lore and scenery) and Switzerland (for the scenery)top my list because I’ve already seen South Korea, Japan, Canada, Mexico and everything east of Los Angeles to Niagra Falls only to find my way back to Georgia.
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The husband and I want to go to Switzerland and visit that part of Europe.

Why, because of the beauty.
 
Been to 15 different countries throughout Europe
Switzerland, Italy, France, etc, coast to coast in Canada
Last trip was to Iceland

Next trip has to be to the far north to see my first grandbaby, like, north of thor

After that...I'd be happy with remote fishing destinations
 
If you were given free tickets to anywhere in the world, EXCEPT a "traditional vacation destination" (Like Hawaii or the Bahamas, etc) where would you go and why?

There's a lot of places that I'd like to go to that are not traditional vacation destinations.

I might drive the Land Cruiser up to Tuktoyaktuk this coming or next summer, just because. I have a burning need to do another 21 day trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon sometime. I'd like to do some fishing in Russia. I wouldn't mind going back to Nepal if as long as I didn't have to stay in Kathmandu for longer than it takes to acclimate after travel-lag. I did not have enough time on Hokkaido, when in Japan two years ago. There are just a lot of fun things to do out there!

I don't care if I ever go back to any Disney or other theme park crap unless, I'm taking my grand daughter. Then, the company is much better than the destination. Likewise, I have no desire to take a cruise on a boat with a 100m buffet table.

But, If I have 10 days to 2 weeks free in early to mid June, I'd like to go to the island that my great grandparents settled on when they came to Alaska. I'd like to walk the crumbling boardwalks and listen to my grandpa and my mom's stories being retold in my head. I'd like to hike about the place and explore. Perhaps I'll find great grandpa's Aquavit bottle in the 4" stove pipe in the basement? I'd like to hike over the hill to the next harbor and perhaps up to Hardscratch. And, over to the mine to do a little fishing. Don't want to go too late in the year when the pushki get too big.

You have to dropped off on the beach by boat or plane. The dock is long gone. I'm not looking to take anything other than memories and photos. I'd be just fine going alone. I don't think I need a guide. I might bring a portable electric fence for the fucking cattle that some asshole let go wild on the island.
 
If you were given free tickets to anywhere in the world, EXCEPT a "traditional vacation destination" (Like Hawaii or the Bahamas, etc) where would you go and why?

Norway. I want to ride the Trollstigen road.

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Or New Zealand. I hear the South Island is a motorcyclist dream.

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Comshaw
 
I should have added my own desires to my OP.

For myself, I would like to go to Japan to visit a couple of places. The oldest known inn is in Japan, Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan. It's been around since 705 A.D. and has been owned by the same family for the last 52 generations.,

I'd also like to see the suicide forest on Mt Fuji, and Sengakuji Temple, site of the graves of the 47 Ronin.

And, of course, Venice the first week of February.
 
There are many places I'd love to go that are not typical tourist destinations, but right now I'm fixated on Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island (in the summer, though).

I'm attracted to this place because of its natural beauty and its remote location.

And Thor Peak!!!
 
i would fly into Lima and out of SĂŁo Paulo, exploring the southern half of South America. i want to compare the coasts of Chile with the coasts of Argentina. a month or two of travel time would be required.
 
If you were given free tickets to anywhere in the world, EXCEPT a "traditional vacation destination" (Like Hawaii or the Bahamas, etc) where would you go and why?

I'd go back to New York, hands down.

I obsessed about the place before I went and when I got to go I was on my own and I killed it - only wish it was longer and that I knew how to drive at the time - would've rented a car and visited my other American brethren. I'm a city girl, I don't do beach holidays :)
 
Borneo to see and play with the orangutans before they go extinct.

Nambia to run with the cheetahs.

Komodo to hug a komodo dragon.

This all assumes I don't have to be treated like a criminal by the TSA just to see these places.
 
See, I like touristy crap. I was trying to think of somewhere I'd want to go just to... idk be there or whatever and it's like... I would probably sell the tickets so I could use the money to go a tourist location. I'd pick space, like to the genie or whatever, get tickets for that civilian space shuttle, because though I am fucking terrifying of the unknowable cosmic void that could kill me in a fucking second if I got a tear in my suit- for some reason a lot of people will pay a lot of money for that horror show.

Then I could take a touristy trip around the world and look at all the art and architecture. I'd take my kid to Disney World, then head to Japan for an otaku paradise- go to the Kyoto national forest and the ghibli museum, take in some traditional sentos, book time with some geisha, all that touristy crap- oooh tea ceremony! I don't even like tea but I wanna climb in the little house and do the thing.

Then we could hit Hawaii because we're so close and take a tribal tour- we've been really really wanting to do that for a while, go see all the sacred sites and end with a loau.

Hop over to Europe and take in every goddamn art museum they have so I can come home and never shut the fuck up about I went to the Louvre and now I'm better than everyone I know, even though I've heard that you only get to look at each piece for like one second because it's so crowded. While we were in Germany I'd go to Neuschwanstein and try my best not to be myself- because being me means sneaking away from the tour and pretending to be the dude a prince would build a fairytale castle for in my gay fairytale until someone finds me and kicks me out, but hiding for a considerable amount of time pretending to live there. You know, connecting with my roots.

And of course Romania. No goth worth his hottopic collection would go to Europe and not see every single thing Vlad Dracula ever touched- we'd hit Bathory's estate and the museum while we were in Hungary, too.

I'd probably have blown through a big chunk of my half a million dollars by now, so after the European art tour it'd be back to the states for a coast-to-coast roadtrip to see every hole-in-the-wall theme park and tourist attraction. I'm talking some Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota shit. Some Area 51 shit. Some Statue of Liberty, Grand Canyon, Kennedy Space Center, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" kind of road trip. The kind where 99% of it is sitting in a car thinking about how that big hole you're gonna see is probably gonna be super cool and you sure hope your dumb ass don't fall into it, telling yourself that you didn't fall into the volcano when you were in Hawaii so it's probably fine.

And then, when I'd standing at the Canadian border, looking at all that water falling, I'll be able to look back and think, "God damn a lot of this trip has been me trying not to fall into shit. It's been really fun."

And then I'll probably fall. And I will die content.

Because I actually love toruisty crap.
 
You know, reading this thread I think I misunderstood what the OP meant by "tourist attraction". Like... national forrests and the oldest inn in Japan are tourist attractions.

I thought he meant like when you're on the Price is Right and you get that really, really shitty showcase that nobody wants. Like, "You're going to Nowhere Vermont!" And you're like, "...ok but I get a car, right? Did I win a car? Please tell me there is something worth having in this showcase. I passed on Florida. I fucked up."
 
When the threadstarter names typical tourist destinations as her choices, its a free for all.

I went to Mauritius, not because it was a tourist attraction, cause I wanted a French speaking beach.

Where I would go with a free ticket, somewhere without a shitload of tourists, and interesting stuff to look at when I feel like a drive.
 
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