The 10 places I would most like to visit before I die all are remote, with sandy beaches or giant trees, remote jungles or secluded mountians, and people are totally unnecessary...

Well, 9 of them are. I also want to go to a whorehouse.

"Well, 9 of them are. I also want to go to a whorehouse."

Any 19 year old sailor can find a whorehouse on a beach.

Now that I think of it, any house a 19 year old sailor finds usually turns into a whorehouse.

Reminds me of the 2nd wife, who talked about hiking in CO and such, until I suggested going to a wildlife area I know: "What? There's ticks and stuff there!"
"There is in Colorado, too."
"Uh, another time."

Some people dream of visiting the Great Barrier reef, others Grand Canyon. Me New York or Hong Kong.

I can take nature and apprecciate it, but I love me city.

I don't like to be next to dirt.

I take it then that the idea of "Private Alkon, U.S. Army" received not even the remotest consideration growing up?

Fran Lebowitz said:

"To me, the outdoors is what you must pass through to get from your front door into a taxicab."

I like it all. I'm itching to get hiking again, we haven't done much for a couple years. This year, I gotta go up a mountain.

The first hike I want to do this summer is Le Menhir de Tremeley which I surely spelled long but am too lazy to google. It's a menhir in the pre-Alps. I want to go for the summer solstice as it apparently casts a cool shadow.

I like cities, too. I also like Paris. People keep talking about Prague.

I like cities, too. I also like Paris. People keep talking about Prague.

Posted by: NicoleK at February 2, 2012 11:52 PM

Prague IS glamorous. However, it's lacking in one respect that you don't expect in famous, glamorous cities......

True story: An American moved to Prague temporarily. His Czech friends asked:

"So, how do you like the city?"

"Oh, it's great."

"What do you think of our women?"

"Oh, they're lovely."

"What do you think of our food?"

"It's fine."

"No, what do you REALLY think?"

(P.S. There's one exception - the beer there is world-famous.)

"I get itchy being more than 100 feet from concrete at any time."

Barf. This from the woman bitching about big SUVs. You and they are exactly alike on this issue.

Conservation doesn't start with picking a car. It starts before the bulldozers arrive, in many cases to put in a strip mall to be rapidly abandoned.