101 Places to visit

[Platypus]

I gave just a couple of simple rules.

Only two spots. Weed it down to your absolute favourites.

Not within your own country. Especially, Gabu, your own city

Ah well.

#39-Antactica

[MaC]

Not within your own country. Especially, Gabu, your own city

That's a tad too much to ask, considering most I've been out of my country is Toronto.  However I have been to many different states...

[Platypus]

You don't have to have bisited them. I certainly haven't visited antarctica.

[MODU]

37. Mackinac Island

I dated a gal who did archeological work on the island, as well as some underwater work a few miles off the shore.  I was quite impressed with the area.

[opebo]

too late - K11 (Svay Pak), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
#40 - Star of Light, Patpong, Bangkok. 

The former, a 'brothel village' of Vietnamese girls, was, hands down, the best place in the human world.  It was, of course, destroyed by the Forces of Social Control just a couple of years ago.  I managed to visit a few times before this occured - one of the things I'm most thankful for in life.

The latter has been for a long time the best BJ bar in the world.  It is still in existence, though I think not in existence for much longer.  Guys, if you have any interest in any hedonistic pursuits, please keep in mind that they will all be gone in just a few years - they are under more extinction pressure than the Orangutang or the Jaguar Shark.

[minionofmidas]

41 - Navajoland and New Mexico
42 - Afghanistan
43 - Laos and Cambodia
44 - West Africa
45 - Papua New Guinea
46 - Mexico

[opebo]

43 - Laos and Cambodia

Alas, too late.. been ruined.

[minionofmidas]

43 - Laos and Cambodia

Alas, too late.. been ruined.

I'm not really interested in cheap sex, you know. Laos always sounded fascinating.

[opebo]

43 - Laos and Cambodia

Alas, too late.. been ruined.

I'm not really interested in cheap sex, you know. Laos always sounded fascinating.

It is!  Lovely place, and is hardly any worse than before it began to be ruined.

I suppose I shouldn't post without adding one more place to visit:

#47 - Pattaya, Thailand. 

Just a wonderful beach and sex resort.  Come soon, as it is being ruined fast!

[MasterJedi]

#48 - Bonita Beach, Florida

[afleitch]

#49 - Rennie Macintosh's Glasgow School of Art - Glasgow, Scotland


#50 - Anstruther - Fife, Scotland

[minionofmidas]

Well, those wouldn't be hard desires to satisfy.

[Jake]

#51 Jerusalem

[© tweed]

# 52, La Bodega Hispana, Huntington Station NY

[afleitch]

Well, those wouldn't be hard desires to satisfy.

That's true. But it was more for the benefit of everyone else!

For me I would pick

#53, Boston, USA

[angus]

#54 - The (future) ArraBelle at Vail, Colorado.

ouch.  hideous.  Given that each of those folks are arriving in SUVs driving 90 mph, then I think you can add the North American Lynx (Lynx Canadiensis) to your list of endangered species, opebo.  Ah, well, first the Sioux, then the lynx.  Survival of the fittest I suppose.

54a.  Someone mentioned San Francisco.  I'd add that the beginning of the Chinese New Year is best for SF, assuming you don't mind the acrid constant smell of gunpowder and loud bangs.  (ancient chinese technology doesn't kill people;  people kill people.  Lewis:  that's a joke on the NRA, which is the moral equivalent of your anti-speedlimit lobby for the autobahn, basically.  Fortunately for both our societies, both those lobbies are winning out.  Score one for freedom!)

54b.  Any erupting volcano.  But do have a helicopter waiting very nearby.  This can be arranged for a price, but it's rather cheap in parts of central america.  I can give you some phone numbers if you're interested.

[opebo]

#54 - The (future) ArraBelle at Vail, Colorado.

ouch.  hideous.  assuming each of those folks are arriving in SUVs driving 90 mph, then I think you can add the North American Lynx (Lynx Canadiensis) to your list of endangered species, opebo.  Ah, well, first the Sioux, then the lynx.  Survival of the fittest I suppose.

I was just about to interject the remark I bolded above, when I saw you had done so, angus.  Yes, Vail sounds like the last place I would ever want to visit.  In fact I would only be pleased by Vail if it were removed by an avalanche.

[angus]

LOL.  actually, this is one of the few threads that has gone to page three without suffering acrimony or ill will, and I hate to think I alone started its downhill slide.  Seems I'm not alone though.  Thanks.  Yeah, I took one look at that monstrous blight on the mountain landscape and just couldn't keep my comments to myself.  As an aside, skiing is one of the most ecologically destructive sports there is.  Both NGM and Sierra (the magazine of Sierra Club) do articles about skiing from time to time.  Not that I'm a raging enviro-friendly beatnik myself, but the way that particular industry is run makes me proud to say that I've never engaged in the sport.  On the other hand, my own favorite sport, scuba diving, can be fairly damaging to the ecosystem as well, but at least there's a widespread movement among divers and diver education to avoid reef damage and overdiving.  Oddly, opebo, your favorite sport opebo is one of the few that doesn't seem to damage the ecosystem, even though it receives more bad press than either diving or snow skiing.

[opebo]

Oddly, opebo, your favorite sport opebo is one of the few that doesn't seem to damage the ecosystem, even though it receives more bad press than either diving or snow skiing.

Correct angus!  Poontang is a plentiful resource, and does not wear out.  Well, I mean, it does when it gets old, but it doesn't make any difference if you used it or not in the meantime!

[minionofmidas]

He does use a plane to get ot Asia though. Thankfully he doesn't scuttle to and fro every couple of weeks.

[opebo]

He does use a plane to get ot Asia though. Thankfully he doesn't scuttle to and fro every couple of weeks.

One round trip per year isn't too bad on the old environment.  Believe me I would live here year round if I could.

[MODU]

#55 - Padang, Sumatra (Indonesia):  I had a great time out there in the 90s.  In the small village that housed those that worked at the port, there was this one family that would allow us to come over, sit in their front covered porch, and sit back and drink/eat with them all night long.  Neither of us (the family and the crew) could speak each others language, but we were still able to have a lot of fun trying to express ourselves and looking silly in the process.  Fortunately, the area was spared following the earthquake/tsunami last year.  The coastal scenery was absolutely beautiful, and there wasn't too much in the town (outside of a Hilton and a Disco) to take away from the natural environment.