If you were given enough money to spend one month anywhere in the world...

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,809
edited January 2011 in The Clubhouse
...where would you go?


I'm thinkin' Bora Bora or Tahiti or some other island in French Polynesia.

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited January 2011
    Have to go with Iceland, or a remote lake in Canada to fish/hunt/hike/shoot photos....
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  • Big Dawg
    Big Dawg Posts: 2,005
    edited January 2011
    A clarifying question to your hypothetical: am I allowed to select any travel companion(s) I wish, or am I going alone?
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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited January 2011
    Australia or New Zealand.
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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,144
    edited January 2011
    Too many choices (China, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa, and Yosemite are just a few places on my list of places to see). However, I would probably go to Europe but spend most of my time in Italy and Germany. There is just so much to see in just one of these countries that I would never be bored.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited January 2011
    Big Dawg wrote: »
    A clarifying question to your hypothetical: am I allowed to select any travel companion(s) I wish, or am I going alone?

    Really?

    If I laid out a bunch of caveats all of you geniuses would have ignored them or made up you own and posted anyway. I don't put in any caveats and leave it open to interpretation/discussion and now you want them?

    I can't win!

    Bring whomever the hell you want, I don't care.

    I was just hoping people would post pictures of places they would like to go.
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  • steveducie
    steveducie Posts: 192
    edited January 2011
    Fiji
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,763
    edited January 2011
    Teaneck, NJ

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited January 2011
    I'd give all that I had to my neighborhood. There are plenty who are homeless, freezing and in need of help. I would choose to spend on others, rather than to receive for myself.

    Within one month, I could spend enough to get our area back on track and established as an example of what could become of a town with a one month of an unlimited resource benefit.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    What a dumb question.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited January 2011
    treitz3 wrote: »
    I'd give all that I had to my neighborhood. There are plenty who are homeless, freezing and in need of help. I would choose to spend on others, rather than to receive for myself.

    Within one month, I could spend enough to get our area back on track and established as an example of what could become of a town with a one month of an unlimited resource benefit.

    It's not unlimited though. I appreciate what you're saying but if all you needed to spend 1 month in Teaneck NJ was $8,000 then how far would that really go?


    I know how much it would cost me to spend a month in Bora Bora. It's close to 100G's but it's not unlimited.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited January 2011
    dorokusai wrote: »
    What a dumb question.

    Shut up, loser. Nobody asked you to post in or even read this thread.

    You should go find some traffic to play in while you repeatedly punch yourself in the jibbly bits with a brick duct taped to your hand.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited January 2011
    New Zealand is awesome, so is Hawaii.

    I would probably choose Hawaii because there's a good variety there, beaches, volcanos, snow and basically almost an entire island that's one huge preserve with waterfalls and all that.
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    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited January 2011
    Looks like you're getting some new light poles?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,763
    edited January 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    Shut up, loser. Nobody asked you to post in or even read this thread.

    You should go find some traffic to play in while you repeatedly punch yourself in the jibbly bits with a brick duct taped to your hand.

    Traffic? They've got that in Teaneck.


    So... here's a pretty cool place to spend a while (might not be a month's worth of fun there, though): the Isles of Scilly. 40 miles off the southwest coast of England, at the very northern fringes of the Gulf Stream; this semitropical archipelago is almost like Bermuda... but even a little more British.

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    The windward islands are a little more... umm... intense.
    All of these photos were taken on our trip there in 2006.

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited January 2011
    Sorry John, the question was "If you were given enough money to spend one month anywhere in the world, where would you go?"

    My answer was my hometown. While it may not be what you are looking for, my answer remains. I'd stay here and spend it here. If I had earned the money? That's a different question. :wink:
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited January 2011
    ESavinon wrote: »
    Australia or New Zealand.

    Same here
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2011
    The IDEA behind the question is if you were given money FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE of traveling anywhere in the world (IE, you can't just take the money and pretend you're the Jesus of Douchebagtown, NJ).

    I'd definitely travel around western Europe. I love the idea of a tropical island paradise and all, but a month? I've gone on tropical vacations, after a week I get antsy.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2011
    North Island Resort in the Seychelles
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited January 2011
    The beautiful island of Okinawa, Japan. No money needed, there already.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited January 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    You should go find some traffic to play in while you repeatedly punch yourself in the jibbly bits with a brick duct taped to your hand.

    I just spit Diet MD all over my keyboard and monitor at work...gotta stop reading threads like this here :biggrin:

    Now to go find a towel....
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited January 2011
    The Bunny Ranch!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited January 2011
    dkg999 wrote: »
    The Bunny Ranch!

    What?! No pics?
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  • shawn474
    shawn474 Posts: 3,047
    edited January 2011
    My buddy from high school owns this spot. Wife and I are planning on spending 2 weeks here in summer 2012.

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,391
    edited January 2011
    I would explore Japan from top to bottom, first class all the way.
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited January 2011
    One month.......without the little lady and the damn cats.
    Where ever that is i'm there. :cool:
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  • Ricardo
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    edited January 2011
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited January 2011
    South Pacific sounds nice, pick an island. Also Italy, Capri, Portofino....food, culture, beaches, wine, and of coarse,beautiful women.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited January 2011
    Like I said earlier. I would like to find an Island with lots of hot rich sugar momma ****. Some place warm year round. Also I don't want to deal with tons of insects or poisonous creatures. I would also like a place with some girls with some color. Not pasty white women that complain a lot and get board too easily. Who knows I may never come back:smile:
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited January 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I'd definitely travel around western Europe.
    Ditto.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited January 2011
    ben62670 wrote: »
    Like I said earlier. I would like to find an Island with lots of hot rich sugar momma ****. Some place warm year round. Also I don't want to deal with tons of insects or poisonous creatures. I would also like a place with some girls with some color. Not pasty white women that complain a lot and get board too easily. Who knows I may never come back:smile:

    When you find that place, let us know.:smile:
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