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- Iceland
- Angkor Wat in Cambodia
- Hanging Rock in Australia
- the Pyramids of Egypt
- Dublin, Ireland

Et vous?>

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

the congo
iceland
cornwall
sicily
tibet
india

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bottle City of Kandor

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

just about every place I haven't been yet. Except Oklahoma.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

that new planet they discovered
eldorado
atlantis!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

More...
- The Giant's Causeway, Ireland
- Easter Island
- Loch Ness
- Chichin Itza,

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Chichin Itza is supposedly not too well preserved. I haven't been, though. Tulum is nice (and the only Mayan site on a body of water).

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~kcobb/images/feature2_2.jpg

The Palmyra Atoll and Tristan de Cunha! Remote islands!

(...and maybe Jerusalem.)

― andy, Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

tristan da cunha

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

ah yes! jerusalem!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

my parents recently visited the Galapagos and Macchu Piccu. I am fucking jealous, you bet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Chichin Itza is supposedly not too well preserved.

That a fact? That's depressing. I hear Angkor Wat is being slowly damaged by too much tourism as well.t

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

white cliffs of dover before they fall into the sea

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Fenway Park

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Fenway's overrated. Wrigley's better.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Loch Ness was nothing like I expected. There were shopping centers and major roads!

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd also love to see the Uffington Horse.....

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/images2/uffingtonstyle.gif

...and not just because I'm an XTC fan /

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Loch Ness was nothing like I expected. There were shopping centers and major roads!

That's too bad.

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain is right next to some pretty shoddy lookin' real estate. Not quite as atmospheric as I was hoping.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm visiting Barcelona for the first time in a couple of weeks. Top of my list is Japan - very expensive, and I would rather not go alone, so not just yet. When my wife and I split, we had been planning a holiday in Bangkok and Cambodia, the latter to see Angkor Wat, and I'd still like to do that. I've not been to Italy at all, and very much want to see lots of Bernini's magnificent sculptures in Rome, in particular. There are dozens more - I have travelled some, but the world is full of glorious things to see.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oak Island, with the most advanced excavating/spelunking tools known to man.
The pyramids in Egypt and South America.
Funkytown.
Beirut, Lebanon, en route to the countryside on the Leb/Syria border my family hails from.
Mecca, Saudi Arabia. During whatever they call that big thing they do there.
Belize, Mexico (I probably spelled it wrong).
Whatever beach it was on whatever that little island was in Hawaii where my dad found those weird statues.
New York City.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

New York City! Who ever heard of a picante sauce made in New York City!!??

― andy, Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Dublin, Ireland

Alex, whenever you're ready!

Mine are-
New York (loads of places in America really)
Ibiza
Taize (want to go back)
Cologne
Pompei
Berlin
Paris (properly, with lots of cash)
Egypt (pyramids, specifically)

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

When in Barcelona, GO SEE THE SAGRADA FAMILIA. It'll blow a new part in your hair. It's fucking huge and entirely bizarre looking

Nickalicious....you're Lebanese? My wife's family (on her father's side) is Lebanese.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wait, I was thinking of Inverness as being nothing like I expected.

Loch Ness was cool. You can still go there, Alex. You can get your daughter a shirt there that says "I am a wee monster."

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell are two must-sees in Barcelona.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You can get your daughter a shirt there that says "I am a wee monster."

That would be entirely boss!â‰¥

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Japan
More of SE Asia, maybe Vietnam?
Brazil
West Coast (Washington, Oregon, California)
New Mexico/Arizona
Some generically tropical islands
Canada

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

of places I haven't been, I'd like to visit paris and berlin and tokyo, mostly.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I got the Lebanese in me. My grandma Emerald was from there. I'm really curious about it, as that's the only place I have familial roots that I've never been to. And because it's supposedly really beautiful.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha I like how CANADA is one place

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Sagrada Familia was definitely the most incredible building and work of art I have ever seen, or expect to see.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It is one place. A place called Canada!

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd love to go to Beirut (the Paris of the Middle East, don'tcha know)...although possibly the climate isn't quite that friendly in that region these days.

"Lost in Translation" cured me of my desire to goto Japan. hahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I so want to go to Lebanon. Beirut's much easier to go to now than it was, say, 15 or 20 years ago!

I spent 10 days driving across Canada from Winnipeg to Victoria and still only saw a minor portion of it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Aussie
NZ
Argentina
Scandanavia
Italia

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is kinda creepy.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

why?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you bothered by the "before your time is up" part? I thought that sounded a little less ominous than "before you die".a

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

BTW I was joking about Canada being "one place." Despite being American, I realize there's a lot of Canada up there to love.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Iceland, Japan, Russia, Italy. And more from there too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nara, Kyoto, Osaka, and Nikko in Japan are amazing!

I would love to go to Angkor Wat, Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, Petra, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Kenya, Portugal and Greece.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never been west of chicago.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Kobe was amazing before the earthquake; I have no idea what state it's in now.

Kyoto was also really, really great.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Queens

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and moscow, I guess.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

you are supposed to say Asbury Park.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to Asbury Park in 1992, and it was singularly depressing

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

it's on an upswing since then.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Japan
Scotland
New Zealand
Florence
Barcelona
Moscow

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

asbury park, too, and soon.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Asbury Park is the new Fire Island, or something. Maybe I should go open a disco there.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Moscow is probably the most interesting place I've ever been. I saw dead Lenin!

Top 5:
Berlin
New York
Beijing
Barcelona
Cuba

I'll probably go to at least the ones beginning with B in the next few years. What a great thought.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll probably never make enough money to go any of the places on my list.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved BerlinÃ³

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish it was spelled BerlinÃ³ instead of Berlin.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I swear I'm not doing that on purpose. My crappy office computer is haunted.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I know you're not Alex, it's just that BerlinÃ³ looks so pretty.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Cuba
The Caucasus
Japan
India

& many, many more.

― the krza (krza), Thursday, 29 April 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

nepal

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 29 April 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

norway - the sun never setting! the trolls! the legends! the black metal murders! what more could you want?!!!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Proper Mexican food.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, yeah, I guess the place I want to go the most is around northern scandinavia.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

everywhere, but top 5 is:
Aus/New Zealand
Italy
Japan
Argentina
S. Africa

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Beirut, Lebanon, en route to the countryside on the Leb/Syria border my family hails from.

All right! Another A-rab in the house! My parents went to Lebanon etc. on their honeymoon and my mom said it was postively breathtaking. But that was a long time ago. A lot has changed. And not for the better.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

antartica

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinshasa and Kisangani
Solomon Islands
Ethiopia
Glasgow
Trinidad
Cuba
most of West Africa

a whole bunch more that I'm probably forgetting

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never been anywhere. The farthest west I've been is Austin, TX. I'd like to go to California so I can see the Pacific Ocean. I'd like to see Frida Kahlo's house in Mexico and some pre-Columbian ruins. Italy, Spain, Bora Bora, Egypt, Australia.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

beirut, talinn, helsinki, istanbul, hong kong, budapest, shanghai, tierra del fuego, cornwall, montreal, st. petersburg, mexico.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to see the whole world but i'm completely serious in a visit to Antartica being one of my life's goals.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

south america. all of it. preferably over a lazy couple of years.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I cant believe only one person mentioned Petra in Jordan.
Kudos Michael White.

― yesterday's zero, Friday, 30 April 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to visit:

Italy
Ireland
Japan
Australia
Phillippines (I should be doing this soon)

I've already been Egypt and gone inside the pyramids. It's a steep climb and your legs will be tired. Mine were fine the next day, but my mom and grandma were complaining on and on about the pain. I unfortunatly got bitten by about 80 masquitoes. Yet, my mom and grandma got sick off of food.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hanging Rock is the biggest letdown. It's just a rock in a boring park.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 April 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

did you have a picnic and get lost though?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 30 April 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My neighbor's back yard where his wife does her sunbathing. While she's sunbathing.

After that: The Southwest end of Australia.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 30 April 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Top of my list right now:
Switzerland
Tokyo
New Zealand
Savannah, Ga
Africa, but I don't know exactly where
Goa, India
Baja

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 30 April 2004 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

North America Top 20...
San Francisco/Napa/Sonoma/Humboldt
Outer Banks of NC/Chincoteague/Assateague
Yosemite/Sierra
Southern Utah
Glacier NP/Yellowstone/Missouri Breaks
Santa Fe/Taos/Pueblos/Hopiland
Coastal Georgia/Northern Florida
Western Dakotas
Oregon Cascades/Desert
New Orleans/Mississippi Delta
Nashville/Memphis/Natchez Trace
Kansas
Boston/Cape/Vineyard
Pittsburgh/Cleveland/Eastern Ohio
Tuscon/Sonoran desert
Idaho
Iowa/Southern Wisconsin
Banff/Jasper
Newfoundland/Nova Scotia
Baja

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 30 April 2004 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Aus/New Zealand

Theres always a spare couch at my joint for you to stay at Oops ;)

Autumn: did you at least run around like a fatty shrieking MIRRAANNDAHHH!!!!! I would have!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My list:
Montreal
San Francisco/NYC/New England/Seattle/New Orleans (I guess I could do all of the above in one big road trip or something)
Italy
Iceland
Broome (I know this is in my own country but its about as far away from Melb as it could be and still be on the same continent)
Umm... I cant think of anything else.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Autumn: did you at least run around like a fatty shrieking MIRRAANNDAHHH!!!!! I would have!

Ahahaha! No, but I did go to Kangaroo Island and scream 'MR PERCIVAL!! DON'T DIE!!'

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

*hysterics*

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Moose Jaw, Saskatch-- oh, wait.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Europe:
Berlin
Lisbon
Prauge
Paris
Sofia
Bolgna
Tatina (Estonia?)
Helsinki
Edinbourgh

Africa
The Mud Mosques of Timbuktu
Addis Ababa
Atlas Mountains
Tripoli
Zanzibar if it wasnt for the politics
Cape Town
Cairo

Austarlia/Ocenia
Fiji
Bora Bora
Tonga
Sydney
Darwin
Toowoomba
Christchurch

Asia
Beruit
Damask
Ankara
Istanbul
Babylon
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Jerselum (sp)
Goa
Darjeling
Chaduagh (sp) Punjab
Hanoi
Angkor Watt
Ulan Bator
Gaung Zahau
Xian
Shanghai
Toyko
Osaka
Seoul

South America
Rio
Barcelona
Lima
Santiago and the pilgermege of Saint Joesph
Easter Island

North America
Alert
Forbisher Bay
Saint John
Frediction
Mexico City
Saint Johns
Charlotte Town
Bangor
Miami
Toronto
Montreal
Aluetions
D/Fw
Marfa
Omaha
Taos
San Antonia
The Keys
Atlanta
(the island off georgia w. the west african language patterns...)

Caribbean
St Kitts

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Storm Boy" starring Mr Percival was filmed at the Coorong, near Goolwa in SA. But no need to spoil a good story with fact.

― Colin Thiele, Friday, 30 April 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Coorong's not interesting. I didn't even know what it was until 2.4 seconds ago.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Awww. It looks as though the only participants in any future S.A.-area FAP will be Anthony E. and me, then. Thank you, hon, for saving me from sitting by myself somewhere locally and staring at a glass of some potent or non-potent potable while wondering if this was indeed a good idea. Conversation always works best when two or more people are involved, anyway. :)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to go t souh america to take shrooms itll be awesome!

― animal, Friday, 30 April 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

primrose hill

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 30 April 2004 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Scandinavia is still number one.

And Egypt. But I'm so paranoid I can't even make it to the supermarket let alone go to Egypt to see my favourite pyramid.

And Japan.

And maybe New Zealand to see the weird cretaceous era plantlife.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Antarctica and the Northern Lights are on my wish list. Plus Angkor Wat and Madagascar.

Contray to upthread posts, Chichen Itza is one of the best preserved of all the Mayan sites, but also the most visited. Go early. If you're interested in the Maya, Tikal in Guatemala, Palenque in Mexico, Copan in Honduras and Caracol in Belize are the most impressive cities.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 30 April 2004 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

San Francisco/NYC/New England/Seattle/New Orleans (I guess I could do all of the above in one big road trip or something)

That would be one hell of a road trip! You might as well check out Chicago too *ahem*

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

New Orleans
Uluru
South America (yeah, most of it)
Norway
Syria
Morocco
Thailand
Isle of Capri

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 30 April 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.magicmouse.com/fc_b/space.gif

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

my goal is to spend at least 1 month in every continent....i have asia, north america and europe covered but still need to hit south america, africa and australia. in specific, i already have plans to go to south america next year. then my next goal is to visit morocco, tanzania, seychelles, reunion and mauritius.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Friday, 30 April 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

oslo
tromslo
gulf of finland
stockholm
anchorage
port stanley
milan
dunedin
copenhagan
glasgow
new york
toronto
stone henge
tokyo
gotland
bornholm
tallinn
murmansk

this is all way hypothetical.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

in the US:

New Orleans
New York
Yosemite
Yellowstone
Idaho, Snake River
Alaska
D.C.
Olympic Nat'l Park
Bryce/Arches/Canyonlands
the middle of Nevada

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Antarctica
Patagonia
Isla Margarita
Distrito Federal, Mexico
Machu Pichu
The Amazon
Shanghai
Mumbai

― Pinche Pendejo (Pinche Pendejo), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

China is the one place I'm curious about.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Is China curious about you?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 May 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Playboy Mansion
Six Flags Ohio
Tokyo Disneyland
Parc Asterix

― CRW (CRW), Sunday, 2 May 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the best things about Japan is that young women like wearing mini skirts in the winter time.

― Pinche Pendejo (Pinche Pendejo), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

My wife has been to Japan. Funny, she didn't tell me about that.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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