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Perfect Journey: Where'd You Want to Travel?

Perfect Journey: Where'd you want to travel?


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Terra_Inc

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Hello, MSFCians!

Over here, the warm days of the year have begun. Time for a journey!
What is your ideal destination? Or, in other words, where would you travel to?

As usual, feel free to add your own ideas.

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Zelph

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I'm someone that loves history, so definitely somewhere that's got a lot of it. London or Rome maybe.
 
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I live in a tourist destination. Right on the beach. Literally walk out my front door across the street and I'm at the beach. People come here to escape from their regular world. The beaches, the ocean, the casinos all three draw tourists like honey draws flies. However, most of them are gone by mid October and the weather does not turn cold until mid November, so traveling to see someplace is not something I do at all unless it is someplace I really want to see.
 

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I think you need to also consider that some of us, are not in the Northern Hemesphere and it's winter, so the poll is a bit well not suiting for all members.
 

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I think you need to also consider that some of us, are not in the Northern Hemesphere and it's winter, so the poll is a bit well not suiting for all members.
Actually, the poll has nothing to do with the season. It was posted as a suggestion some months ago. It just happened to be particularly warm right now, so I worked that into my post. :oops:
 

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I chose the beach. You have no idea how long it's been since I've been to a warm beach. The Oregon coast is not a fun place to hang out unless you're in a restaurant or aquarium.
 

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Other because I am already on the perfect journey through space and time:cool:. Over the last 35 years I have lived and loved and laughed. I've made freinds and lost loved ones and learned much about the world. And yet I am still at the begining of my journey. It has brought me many places in cluding here and introduced me to many people including all of you. Just imagine where it will take me tommarrow:D
 

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I chose snow capped mountains because I lived in california and visited hawaii, and honestly, i like beaches, but I don't like saltwater, or the smell, and I really like cold weather better than hot.:sweat:
 

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other for I have all of these in my State

A snow-capped mountain hideaway
Sunny, sandy beaches and blue, blissful seas
A place rich in culture and history
A vast, open tract of green forest

Virgina as them all Snow mountain to Beach to enlist tracts of Forest. I have seen the world been to all but one content "Antarctica" I have seen the ruin of Babylon .Sat on steps of the Acropolis and seen the remains of Senate of Rome and walk on the Grate wall.

All and all there is No place like home and here I shale abide
 

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The last two choices. I'd like to visit Japan one day, but I also would like to spend at least one week in the endless forests of Canada.
 
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Well, if I could get a couple of thousand together I'd fly to one side of USA, rent a car and drive across it. What an experience! Also Canada, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Tibet... **** the world's an interesting place. You know I've lived in England my whole life and never taken the 4 hour train journey to Scotland...
 

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I've always wanted to visit a snowy place, I wonder how real snow feels like. :lol2:
 

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I've always wanted to visit a snowy place, I wonder how real snow feels like. :lol2:

Really? Personally, I hate snow and never really figured out why people like it.
 

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My simple reasons are that if it is super hot outside, you can only take off so many cloths. However, you can always put more cloths on to keep warm, with few exceptions(when you are on vacation anyway)

And, no matter how fast you go on a snowboard, powder is powder and will be soft if you hit it. Water on the other hand can feel like concrete if you are traveling roughly 40mph.

Snow over water, cold over hot. Thats all.:D

well, and I like snow better than sand. Hawaii's sand is great, but I just don't think you can beat good snowball fight, snowboarding, or even ice skating.

You can only build so many sand castles and you can still get a tan while its snowing...
 

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Really? Personally, I hate snow and never really figured out why people like it.

You never had a really cool snow fort did you:yum:
 

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My simple reasons are that if it is super hot outside, you can only take off so many cloths. However, you can always put more cloths on to keep warm, with few exceptions(when you are on vacation anyway)

You would not believe the amount of times I have had to use this same argument. It makes so much sense that the mind boggles over how many people disregard ir :confused:

Anyways, got to be history/culture for me. Hot and cold are aspects of temperature that can be found in many places, if I'm going somewhere it has to be the location itself that interests me.

And I'm in England. We don't get snow, we get major disruptions :lol2:
 

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You never had a really cool snow fort did you:yum:

No, but I was the only one who started turning blue when I was in Boy Scouts and we went to Mt. Hood, even though I had a couple more layers on than most people. There have been other times when I had trouble keeping warm too, and I'm slightly more tolerant of heat than the other people I know.
 

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Lol, I guess thats a good reason. I am generally very tolerant of cold. I have been known to snowboard in a T-shirt. :cool:

I don't like the heat though. I can't tolerate it nearly as well.(especially humid heat)
 

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You know I've lived in England my whole life and never taken the 4 hour train journey to Scotland...

You're not missing much...

Nah, just kidding - its a nice place to visit, the people you come into contact with as a tourist are lovely, the cities are beautiful (well, Edinburgh, at least... Stirling is nice too, Abredeen... ok... Livingstone, Dunfermline (in fact ALL of Fife, apart from St. Andrews) Glasgow City Centre and Inverness are best left to the wild, wooly locals...)

But for the best experience, go west, as the Pet Shop Boys Sang.. The Isles, Fort William, the beach at Arisaig, the hills, mountains and forests... Of course, the Laphroaig Distillery is not to be missed... ;)

And that was your message from the Scottish Tourist Board...

Of course, Norway is like Scotland, only with better weather and prettier girls... Norsk Aquavit is a good Whiskey substitute too...

I guess I'm in the same boat as Hellkite - Ive traveled around a fair bit, been on 4 out of the six continents, swam in the Med, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the North Sea, the English Channel, (yeah, I don't actually like sea water either...) but nothing gets me like Norway.

Where else in the world can you go to the beach, swim in the sea (Oslo Fjord is awesome in summer) chill out in the park in the beautiful sunshine, and also go skating (on the same body of water - Oslo Fjord is also great in the winter), skiing (Oslo has a large wild area all around it to the north and west) and sledging, all in the same city??

I might not be Norwegian, but I certainly feel more at home here that I have anywhere else...
 

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I voted "History" but that is not mandatory.
When I was young my mother and me were often in Greece in the Mediterranean Sea (is that even spelled right?). For the last few years I did not travel much...

... aside from serveral historic places in Germany (since I live in Berlin, I don't have to go too far since Berlin is a pretty historic place itself :lol: ) like Fulda Gap (Observation Point Zero), Nuremberg, Seelow Heights and Peenemuende Wehrmacht Weapons Research Facility (they have a Soviet Juliett SSK-sub there on display.)
Other than that I have been to Israel (nice place, a lot of people, a lot of soldiers, immense heat, great red wine and INSANE taxi drivers) lately and to the small Canarian Island of La Gomera (nice place, not many people).

I don't care much about five-star all-inclusive hotels. I wanna do something. Lying around near the pool does not satisfy me. Neither do guided bus tours.

Jetfreak said:
I've always wanted to visit a snowy place, I wonder how real snow feels like.
I remember that we had a guy from Saudi Arabia in our school when we did an international English project. It was in late fall and it was the first snowy day that fall. He saw snow for the first time in his life. Kinda cute to watch how courious he was about such strange weather phenomena. :lol2:

Hellkite said:
All and all there is No place like home and here I shale abide

Second that!
 
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