Other countries
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Paul Watson wrote: So is that true of you? Have you no interest in visiting other places? Are you happy in Hickville and maybe at a stretch visiting Aunt Edna 200 k's away in Hickton? My wife and I both love to travel. In fact last summer we trekked to Machu Pichu via the Inca Trail. This year we are going to the Nicaragua and the Yucatan to visit the Mayaian ruins. Paul Watson wrote: Imagine visiting the Galopogas Islands? Did that too. It was pretty damn cool. If you want any advice on the matter I'd say just start planning your next trip. It is a great distraction from the daily grind and gives you something to look foward to. Fill me with your knowledge, your wisdom, your coffee.
Chris Austin wrote: In fact last summer we trekked to Machu Pichu via the Inca Trail You might have met a friend of mine there, who made the same trip at the same period :) World is small, isn't it ?
Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop
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Ted Ferenc said "The world is fascinating, BUT only if you have seen some of it." Now for me that is not true. Ever since I could first understand that here was not all I have wanted to visit all. See the pyramids, go down the Mississippi, float over the GBR, climb Kilimanjaro, visit the Great Wall, trek through Africa (the bits one can), visit New York, New York. Cross Russia by train (that is if it is still going.) Gaze at Machu Pichu, get bitten by various snakese in the Amazon. Meet a real American, in America. Frankly having visited London, once a big dream, the interest has waned. Nice to see the Queen, the buildings and the duck pond, but you know, it is really just a big, dark, crowded city. Probably have the same thing happen to me in New York one day. So is that true of you? Have you no interest in visiting other places? Are you happy in Hickville and maybe at a stretch visiting Aunt Edna 200 k's away in Hickton? My sister is perfectly happy being here and not all. So I realise there are people like that and that while at first I thought they were... well... sad, I now realise they aren't, they are just different and thats that. But still... Imagine visiting the Galopogas Islands? How can you resist??!?!?!
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: Meet a real American, in America. Better hurry, there's damn few of us left. Paul Watson wrote: So is that true of you? Have you no interest in visiting other places? Are you happy in Hickville and maybe at a stretch visiting Aunt Edna 200 k's away in Hickton? Cities hold no fascination for me, but I would like to see historic sites - Rome, Athens, Hadrians Wall, Egypt, etc. I've lived my entire life between the Rockies and the Appalachians. I've been through LA a couple of times, visited San Francisco, Chicago a couple of times. My favorite place is the Great Plains. I could drive up and down the plains forever. God never made more beautiful country. "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art." Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
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Tim Smith wrote: Places I want to go: UK/Ireland New Zealand Alaska Aren't you interested in discovering other countries than american dominions :rolleyes: ? What about other cultures?
Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop
KaЯl wrote: Aren't you interested in discovering other countries than american dominions ? What about other cultures? What? And deal with you Frrrrrench? No ways mate, sticking to good old Americanised, caramalised, Britneyfied countries thank you very much... ;) I hear South of France is lovely. You live in Paris?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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Mike Mullikin wrote: ...and in the end, there's no place like home.* Absolutely. Though the shores of Kariba in Zimbabwe come very close to beating Cape Town for me. You have not had a real beer until you have been fishing on Kariba. :-D Mike Mullikin wrote: For some reason Asia just doesn't appeal to me. I wonder why that is. I love the sound of Thailand and India. If it is not a daft thing to do I want to hike through most of those areas. Also the Himalayas and Tibet, visit the prayer wheels, breath the rarified air. :-D p.s. Russia is in Asia... right? ;)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: You have not had a real beer until you have been fishing on Kariba. Oh I don't know... drinking Guinness in Northern Ireland was pretty damn good. Paul Watson wrote: Russia is in Asia... right? Yeah, I suppose it is, but in my mind I've always considered it part of eastern Europe due to politics mainly. Mike Mullikin :beer:
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. - Emo Philips
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Paul Watson wrote: You have not had a real beer until you have been fishing on Kariba. Oh I don't know... drinking Guinness in Northern Ireland was pretty damn good. Paul Watson wrote: Russia is in Asia... right? Yeah, I suppose it is, but in my mind I've always considered it part of eastern Europe due to politics mainly. Mike Mullikin :beer:
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. - Emo Philips
Mike Mullikin wrote: Oh I don't know... drinking Guinness in Northern Ireland was pretty damn good Oh I am sure, definitley want to go to the Guiness factory one day... I was just being the usual "My experience is the best in my mind so it is best for everyone" type :) Still, relaxing on a boat a few metres off the shores of lake Kariba, rod in one hand, beer in the other, blazing sun above and some good mates, amazing experience. Kariba is amazing, to me at least :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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Ted Ferenc said "The world is fascinating, BUT only if you have seen some of it." Now for me that is not true. Ever since I could first understand that here was not all I have wanted to visit all. See the pyramids, go down the Mississippi, float over the GBR, climb Kilimanjaro, visit the Great Wall, trek through Africa (the bits one can), visit New York, New York. Cross Russia by train (that is if it is still going.) Gaze at Machu Pichu, get bitten by various snakese in the Amazon. Meet a real American, in America. Frankly having visited London, once a big dream, the interest has waned. Nice to see the Queen, the buildings and the duck pond, but you know, it is really just a big, dark, crowded city. Probably have the same thing happen to me in New York one day. So is that true of you? Have you no interest in visiting other places? Are you happy in Hickville and maybe at a stretch visiting Aunt Edna 200 k's away in Hickton? My sister is perfectly happy being here and not all. So I realise there are people like that and that while at first I thought they were... well... sad, I now realise they aren't, they are just different and thats that. But still... Imagine visiting the Galopogas Islands? How can you resist??!?!?!
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Well, I have always wanted to travel. But I do not want to be rushed when I do. So that has limited how much has been done for the time being. My hobby is genealogy and I want to go back to the East Coast USA and travel the paths my ancestors did migrating into the great western unknown (that’s from Philly to Maryland and western Virginia.) After I accomplish that the next step is to travel to the Palatinate region in Germany and Switzerland and see where they started. So we will see. "I will find a new sig someday."
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Megan Forbes wrote: why don't you save up and come along? So long as you are not schedule obsessed travellers then absolutely :-D *Paul goes off to Google*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: So long as you are not schedule obsessed travellers then absolutely Definitely not, but the train might be :~ The best thing I've seen to do on the train is to spend a couple of days with a Siberian family. Eat their meals, go hiking into the wastes of Siberia to places where there are caves with hot springs - sounds like something that has to be put in the plan! :-D
A pack of geeks, pale and skinny, feeling a bit pumped and macho after a morning of strenuous mouse clicking and dragging, arriving en masse at the gym. They carefully reset the machines to the lowest settings, offer to spot for each other on the 5 lb dumbells, and rediscover the art of macrame while attempting to jump rope. -Roger Wright on my colleagues and I going to gym each day at lunch
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Well, I have always wanted to travel. But I do not want to be rushed when I do. So that has limited how much has been done for the time being. My hobby is genealogy and I want to go back to the East Coast USA and travel the paths my ancestors did migrating into the great western unknown (that’s from Philly to Maryland and western Virginia.) After I accomplish that the next step is to travel to the Palatinate region in Germany and Switzerland and see where they started. So we will see. "I will find a new sig someday."
Michael A. Barnhart wrote: My hobby is genealogy and I want to go back to the East Coast USA and travel the paths my ancestors did migrating into the great western unknown (that’s from Philly to Maryland and western Virginia.) After I accomplish that the next step is to travel to the Palatinate region in Germany and Switzerland and see where they started. Interesting way to travel, with real purpose and goals. My genealogy would lead me back to Scotland, a place I want to visit one day. Thanks Michael. Odd how on a previous post the whole American isolationist tendency was strengthened with people saying they live and play in the US borders and that is all there is to them. But then this thread has shown the complete opposite with plenty of Americans revealing how they want to travel the world, and, *gasp*, that they even know the names of other countries. I don't think there is any one general type to Americans :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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Chris Austin wrote: In fact last summer we trekked to Machu Pichu via the Inca Trail You might have met a friend of mine there, who made the same trip at the same period :) World is small, isn't it ?
Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop
Quite. :) Fill me with your knowledge, your wisdom, your coffee.
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KaЯl wrote: Aren't you interested in discovering other countries than american dominions ? What about other cultures? What? And deal with you Frrrrrench? No ways mate, sticking to good old Americanised, caramalised, Britneyfied countries thank you very much... ;) I hear South of France is lovely. You live in Paris?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: You live in Paris? Thanks God, I don't. I lived there for some years, doing some studies, and a part of my military period. Nice to travel, but horrible to live. Frankly, I hate this city and its neighborhood. Too crowdy, too stressed, too unpleasant. I've lived in several towns all over France, from North to South and East to West, and Paris is still the #1 city where I don't want to go back. I now live 700 km Southern, in the lovely town of Toulouse[^], not that far from the spanish border. To sum up, there are two "Souths", the Western and the Eastern. Both have lovely landscapes, with a great variety (From seas to mountains, and in between wonderful and varied countrysides), but I prefer the mentality of people in the South-West, they are warm as well but IMO less superficial. About the landscapes, France is fantastic for that, it may be so beautiful. We concentrate a wide variety in a "small" area, every part is different from another.
Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop
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Paul Watson wrote: Ted Ferenc said "The world is fascinating, BUT only if you have seen some of it." I must say, my eyes nearly popped out my head when I saw that earlier, but then I read something similar the other day - if you live in the US, you have everything. Still, I can't understand it - the joy of being different! I want to go everywhere, and I mean everywhere! My biggest problem right now is juggling annual leave to see places. This year we will probably get to Malta, Lapland (north of the artic circle - can't wait!!), Prague, and SA - again. Big problem - we love SA and family are there, but right now it's eating up waaaaaay to much of our leave! With any luck I will convince my husband that the first week of this December should rather be spent in Tanzania on our way home, but it seems unlikely. I must say, once I've trekked the Inca trails, been to a hawaaian volcano, gone kayaking with whales off Alaska, hiked around Alaska, and done the Trans-Siberian railway (yes, it's still going, and you can see both Russia and the Great Wall in the same fantastic trip :-D ) I will be somewhat more satisfied... Not at all demanding are we? ;P
A pack of geeks, pale and skinny, feeling a bit pumped and macho after a morning of strenuous mouse clicking and dragging, arriving en masse at the gym. They carefully reset the machines to the lowest settings, offer to spot for each other on the 5 lb dumbells, and rediscover the art of macrame while attempting to jump rope. -Roger Wright on my colleagues and I going to gym each day at lunch
Megan Forbes wrote: gone kayaking with whales off Alaska They make them that size? Gavin Greig "Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye." Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: My hobby is genealogy and I want to go back to the East Coast USA and travel the paths my ancestors did migrating into the great western unknown (that’s from Philly to Maryland and western Virginia.) After I accomplish that the next step is to travel to the Palatinate region in Germany and Switzerland and see where they started. Interesting way to travel, with real purpose and goals. My genealogy would lead me back to Scotland, a place I want to visit one day. Thanks Michael. Odd how on a previous post the whole American isolationist tendency was strengthened with people saying they live and play in the US borders and that is all there is to them. But then this thread has shown the complete opposite with plenty of Americans revealing how they want to travel the world, and, *gasp*, that they even know the names of other countries. I don't think there is any one general type to Americans :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: I don't think there is any one general type to Americans No there is not. IMO we really are a mixture of heritages not found elsewhere (even in Canada.) FYI I work with a Irish man who was born and raised in Scotland. I have no problem talking with him but have difficulty with those from say Massachusetts and New York! Paul Watson wrote: Odd how on a previous post the whole American isolationist tendency was strengthened with people saying they live and play in the US borders and that is all there is to them. >>>> Well this is the lounge so I take a lot of comments are made without thinking to hard. And that is fine. Any chance you will wind up in Fort Worth or that city back east (Dallas) anytime? The weather was great today. Was able to leave an hour early (went in at 5:30) and enjoyed the sun:). "I will find a new sig someday."
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Greg Carter wrote: Spain, Italy, Greece, Australia, France, Canada, Hawaii, New Zealand, Germany, Daytona, Sturgis, Mount Rushmore, Niagara Falls, Aztec ruins. Great list! Except Daytona... unless you mean the motor speedway. And where the heck is Sturgis? *Paul feels ignorant* :-D The mediteranean and bordering countries are a big one for me. To sail those waters... oh man, can't wait. Greg Carter wrote: There was an article about South Africa in my local Sunday paper and between that and the talk here on CP I'll be adding it to my list. SA is incredible to visit. It is not Africa though (to tourists), so don't expect to feel it very much. Need to go up to Zim, Zambia, Botswana, Malawi etc. before you get that feeling properly.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Sorry it took so long to reply. I got called out of town suddenly. Everything is fine though. Daytona - bike week. Between the bikes and bikinis it couldn't be bad. Sturgis is in South Dakota. They have a week where bikers take over the town. http://www.sturgis-rally.com/[^]