If you could go anywhere. . .
Clairbell's mother makes her an offer she can't refuse.
So, if you had passports, several weeks, and a blank check to ANYwhere and back with your favorite close relative, where would pick, and why, specifically?
My wife and I play this game, but we've never even gotten passports. (Feel free to laugh and point at the pathetic hicks. We don't mind; we're used to it.)
Labels: dreams, family, international stuff, vacation
posted by Matt G @ 11:33 AM
12 Comments:
New Zealand. Stunning scenery, low population density, and some of the coolest damn birds on the planet. Almost every plant and animal would be unfamiliar; it would be AWESOME. Little blue penguins! LITTLE! BLUE! PENGUINS!
Also, lots of diving and surfing, which would make the spouse happy, though I'd rather stay on the beach with binoculars.
Back to Scotland. Specifically Oban, Mull and Iona.
A toss up - either England (to visit my Aunt and Uncle, and hang out in London and Newcastle) or to Austrailia (never been...)....But if I didn't HAVE to use my passport, then it'd be back to Arizona and my desert!!
Um...er...meant AUSTRALIA....sigh.
A cabin in the hill country with a pond or creek nearby and a huge, comfy bathtub and nice linens. Lots of books, beverages and lots of fantastic food to cook. Hammocks, big porch with swing and rocking chairs. Handheld tennis-racket bug zapper thingie. Yeah, and booze. Did I mention booze?
OH, not within 100 miles? Um, same description, mostly, only a little cabin in Scotland, in the highlands. Good hiking gear. Off-season so fewer tourists would be about. Fall or late Fall.
I always wanted to go to Scotland, rent a bicycle, and cycle from Scotch distillery to Scotch distillery sampling single-malts.
Yeah, it's confusing, but what she meant was: Go anywhere in the world, not to roam more than 100 miles from there during the vacation. So, visit Idaho, don't Kayak the length of the Snake River.
That's a lot of riding, Tom, among a rough terrain. While we all think of Scotland as a wee bit o' a country, it averages 150 miles wide by over 250 miles long, all of broken land. Straight lines there are impossible.
Vancouver, B.C in the summer or San Francisco in November. Both are beautiful cities with truly screwed up politics and gun laws (can you imagine out-lawing celebrating Halloween?)
Still and all, San Francisco is like someone threw the contents of a jewel-box into a dung-heap...so very much wrong with it, that it's easy to miss the gems.
Vancouver, B.C. - well, what can I say? They do have weird laws up there, but its' easy to soak up a week in BC (double your drinking budget if you drink..it's pricey up there) - but the city is beautiful, Victoria is a mere ferry ride away, and you're within shouting distance of Whistler for the ski'n'woodsy sorts, dependent on season.
I'd go back to Thailand. In a heartbeat. No questions asked...`
Wonderful people, and some truly breathtaking scenery (once away from the cities. That, and I could then visit mom's final resting place: a nest of spitting cobras (dad has a sense of humor)..
I would do a combined trip of Ireland and Scotland for the castles, scenery, culture and the whiskey and scotch.
Steve
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