Thanks to Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas and Jadestone for suggesting this thread.
85 thoughts on “Exotic Places We’d Like to Visit”
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Thanks to Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas and Jadestone for suggesting this thread.
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I’d like to go to Denmark. Everyone is happy there.
Cool! Thanks for making this thread. I would like to visit Madagascar, and see some wild tenrecs. And the Galapagos, though it’s hard to get the chance to go there. I also want to go deeper into Mexico and Central America-and heck, South America, too. Machu Pichu (sp?) sounds awesome, so I think I’d go to Peru. Plus I’d like to go to a whole bunch of places in Africa.
And Iceland, home to future Muse Academy HQ of course!
Mars. And Venus. Jupiter sounds nice too. And I would go except for the whole No-you-can’t-you’ll-die-plus-we-don’t-have-that-kind-of-technology thing. *sigh*
No way, GAPAs! I can’t believe you actually did this for me! *hugs* *gives brownies*
Venice. This is probably the number one place I want to visit. Venice and its islands. It’s far away, it’s historic, it’s in a beautiful place. I could ride gondolas, visit the doge’s palace, see the mosaics on Torcello, get some lace and glass from Burano and Murano, check out all of those bright houses on Burano, visit the Isola de Morti to get some good ghost stories… the possibilities are endless!
I would also want to go to Japan. Not China, because they’re all Communistic and have a totally controlled way of life. But in Japan, there’s manga. And bonsai trees. And Mount Fuji. You can’t beat that.
India sounds like it would be really fun to visit, too. I just find the idea of being in a place so different from America very entertaining.
I’d really like to tour all of Europe. There’s so many things I could do and see there that I’d never be bored.
Oh, Australia, too!!! Australia is just cool.
Oh, and South America would be fun to visit, especially the areas dominated by Incan culture.
Ascension would be really interesting to visit, as would Madagascar with the spiffy baobab trees.
I’d enjoy seeing the better parts of Africa, as well.
*ponders* Do fictional places count?
1-Definitely not. Hello? They have teenage drinking problems beyond the wet dreams of Budweiser execeutives. Wait-you may be right. Just what is so unpleasant about being drunk?
My goal is to hitchhike through South America. The whole thing. From Yucatan to the tip of Argentina, and all the way back. Deserts to penguins. I’ll have fun, trust me. Plus, I can learn some Spanish, and buy a crazee parrot to bring back to the States!
canada.
(oh, shut up)
…im seriously thinking about moving there in…wow, only 5 years!
…and next year i might be going to a college thats minutes away from canada – w00t! guess id like to tour all the provinces, but thats not likely to happen.
Finland, Finland, Finland, the place where we really want to be…… 8 hot pink bunny points to whoever can identify where that is from. I’d like to go to Rome.
ITALY!!!
ive already been to india 4 times, or that would’ve been it.
My aunt + uncle live in Denmark, my uncle has lived in Turkmenistan, Russia, and Mexico, my aunt has lived in so many exotic places I can’t even name them all, but a few are: Armenia, Haiti, …. My grandparents have lived all around the world teaching English, and my cousin and aunt are from China.
and I’ve been to South Africa and Canada!!!
I have a Danish friend over the ent, and she talks asbout it like its paradise *shrug*
Iceland.
ummm..i think mars is as exotic as it gets.
*lurks blindly*
I’d really love to go to Hawaii.
I once went to Mexico, and we stayed in a quaint little village with a mansion (because it was an all-family vacation) and our own pool, and our own private lagoon, and two servants, and two golf carts (which I got to drive) and two little general stores, one with a cat, and one with a parrot!! I got my hair braided and also went snorkeling in the lagoon. There were rainbow fish, and zebra fish, and even manta rays and turtles!! It was so totally schweet. We were going to go there again this winter, but my zaide got sick and we had to postpone it.
I want to visit Prague; I’d love to go to college there. I also want to see Romania someday. I wouldn’t mind touring Rome again, either – I’m going there this summer, but there’s no way I’ll be able to see everything in just one trip.
I desperately want to go back to France. I lived there two years (two years seperately, and the first time I was really young, so it doesn’t exactly count). I want to go back, and travel around more.
I also think it would be interesting to go to Monaco, because everything’s so rich there and it’s tiny.
Austrailia.
The scientific bases in Antarctica are pretty amazing places. They’re almost like Mars colonies.
I’m one of the few Musers who has never been out of their homeland.
I suppose it makes me all the more wishful about traveling.
21 – Agreed. This will be my first time out of my homeland, and probably my last for a long time. All of my previous vacations have been in the US and I’ve always lived in Kentucky, with the brief exception of two years in Indiana (which really doesn’t count, since I spent most of my time in Kentucky during that time anyway).
Boston.
I was concieved in Thailand. Personally, I think that means I’ve been there, but my momo says otherwise. I’d like to go there, just to add it to my passport (which only has 3 stamps).
all over the place! so many places i cant list them all! and some fantasy places too.
but there would be language barriars
(26) all the more reason to learn more languages!
(20) Do you say this from personal experience, Mr. Coontz?
Yeah, maybe it’d be cool to go to research bases in Antarctica. Especially if I were doing to the type of research they do there. What do they research there, anyway? I guess I should just Wiki it.
I’m not sure I could handle the cold though.
Passports….I think I’m due for a new one…yeah, it’s been five years…
My dad once checked our passports the morning we were supposed to leave for Australia. Not a very good plan. My sister’s US one was expired and I think there was something wrong with my Australian one. We somehow managed, though. We had to get out tenants to fed-ex a new US passport to us in Australia so my sister would be allowed back in the country, though.
My dad actually is really smart, his organization system is just sometimes prone to flaws like this, that’s all.
my piano teacher went to the mountains in thailand and she said everyone there was really nice and that the only time she ever heard anyone raise their voice was when an american was yelling at his wife.
Oh boy, I’d love to go to the rainforest. It would be gorgeous. Also, when I’m there, I could plant trees!
Although I have to admit, the bugs are hopeless. Well, I’ll wear protective netting.
I’d love to travel the world and be an explorer. I love hiking and biking. I tried rock climbing once and found it thrilling. (It was a puny rock climb but still thrilling.)
But for some reason I can’t manage those plastic rock walls. I get like, a foot up and want to get down becuase of the wierd footing.
I totally agree with Capricious. If I went to a rainforest I’d probably never come back. That would be a disapoitnment to all human beings.
Thanks! Yeah! *Laughs* The bugs would bite me so much, I would never be able to walk! I still belive that the rainforest is a beautiful place that should be kept alive!
I think it would be awesome to visit Iceland too because you get fined if something emits carbon dioxide. Hah! It must be uber clean over there, and there are some pretty nice hot springs although the actual atmosphere there is not very warm.
I want to live in Utah when I’m older because it is infested with a multitude of beautiful fossils in plain sight, and the weathered and eroded rocks display beatiful arrays of sedimentary rocks as well as formations. =)
I went to a temperate (not tropical) rainforest in Australia twice. It was beautiful, and had the benefit of not being completely overridden with insects. I like the huge trees.
Rock climbing is so much fun! I also like bouldering, though I find it much harder. Inside rock climbing walls are often harder because the actual wall is quite smooth. On real rock, you don’t always need a foot hold, you can just press you shoe against the textured rock, but with inside gyms, it’s way too smooth to do that. So if there’s no hold, your kinda stuck.
Utah’s really pretty, though I haven’t been there since 1st grade.
heck. for me, someplace like New York City is a distant, exotic, ginormous, huge, mind boggling, exotic place.
climbing is the best thing in the world. mock rock is WAY easier than real rock.
I’ve been to a temprate rainforest but it was in the U.S. it was gorgeous with green and brown thriving and sprouting in all corners.
I’ve also been to the grand canyon. (Wich it seems that most people in the U.S. have.) But that was one of the best vacations ever.
And, there were lots of Kokopelli things there!!!!!!!
34-What, like your mouth and nose?
38-The Grand Canyon sounds sophomoric. What’s so special about loads of striped rock in an odd shape?
I want to go back to Haskamir. I miss my planet. The air was fragrant, the land was fertile, and the seas were more polluted than a sewer, but I really liked it and it’s my homeland and I don’t know anything that’s happened there since about five Earth years ago (3.456 of ours, they’re called saaions) when my transmitter broke and I can’t put it back together. Also, they burnt my palace down, destroyed my people, and killed most of my favorite friends, so I shouldn’t want to return but I do, and my headgear hurts like anything, and I’m all upset now because I’m lonely and homesick and I’ll never go back and I’ll never see any of my friends again. Console me, please.
SN (27),
I haven’t been to Antarctica yet. Many of my science-writer friends have, though (including the indefatigably peripatetic Gabrielle), and their stories are amazing.
39- The grand canyon and all it’s majesty! How can you not find it breath-taking!?
Did you know that they don’t allow dogs in Alaska?
True.
42- What? I’m sure that there are dogs in AK!!!
Capricious- How can that be? We need an opinion from Mechielle W. to verify THAT. Maybe its like that rumour that in Masschusetts, Quakers and Witches are banned.
Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender; Queenie J…
I will eat you one day for that comment. >.>
Maybe it was Antarctica…
45-Well, they DO emit carbon dioxide. I was entirely truthful. Sue me. (Sue me with your best shot! Sue me! Anyone like Ian Dury and the Blockheads?) And if you guess what my name means I’ll hand out extra bunny points. 42 extra, to be precise.
I don’t understand the Icelandic Horse Law, where if a horse leaves the country it’s not allowed to come back in. It makes no sense.
…something about flying?
I would like to go to France……….
47- Well Queenie J. Is a name. And Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender… well I know it’s german…
I tried to find it on the internet.
47-Does it mean song of the flying quail?
I’d like to visit the real Kokonino County.
Better known as: Coconino County.
I could take some pictures of the landscsape, so the Muse Crew would know what the sets for the Muse Movie should look like.
49-I like France. I have no idea if it likes me, but in France I get into lots of trouble and have to flee, Wooster-like, into Belgium where my mate Robin has a nice couch in his flat, and I have a key.
51-It means ‘The Flying Quail Song’, actually. My syntax is lousy, so know that I intended it to mean ‘The Flying Quail Song’, but it probably doesn’t. ‘Wachtelschlag’ was a title used by three composers, and the ‘Fliegender’ is a reference to the fact that I had to fly for my life after that coup seven E-years ago.
39- Queenie. Have you been to the Grand Canyon? Let me describe as best I can. You know how in pictures and descriptions, they always rant and rave about how huge it is? Well, it’s kind of like the way the Guide describes the universe. It’s IMMENSE. You may think the pictures make it look big, but the pictures are peanuts compared to the real thing. Everyone says “yeah the Grand Canyon’s gigantic” but you go there and you’re just like.
“F***. That’s big”. Imagine something HUGE, and then imagine something fifty grillion times huger, and then multiply that by 100,000 thousand, and then add some. That’s why it’s intersting.
Sorry. You didn’t need to hear all that. I have a love-hate relationship with the Grand Canyon. It’s beautiful, but everytime I go there, I end up dieing in a blizzard, halfway up the Bright Angel trail.
ANYWAY time to stop talking about the Grand Canyon.
Haskamir… *consoles* I’m sorry that you can’t go home… sounds like an excellent place. Other than the fact that people there tried to kill you.
34– Humans emit carbon dioxide.
39–I believe you mean soporific.
*offers consolation and coconut rice*
Just to let y’all know, contrary to the facinating name it posesses, Sedro-Wooley, Washington is probably the dullest town I’ve ever been to in my life. And considering where I live, that is saying something.
OK, not true….It was NEAR to the top of the list of The Most Excruaciatingly Boring Places I’ve Been In My Life, which also includes:
– Berea, Kentucky
– Pigeon Forge, Tenesse
– Silver City, Michigan (in the U.P., of course!!)
– Aspen, Colorado
– Flint, Michigan
– Gary, Indiana
– Hell, Michigan (it really exists! Not kidding!)
– Sault St. Marie, Michigan (also in Yupper Country)
– Burlington, Colorado
– Manton, Michigan
– Parchment, Michigan (speaking from 13 years experience, here…)
Not to say anything bad about the PEOPLE (for anyone living in any of these places – I am one of them)
These places are exotic, but not exactly in a good way. I was surprised I could find Burlington on a map.
hm. There’s a place called Bumblebee, and another place called Snowflake. I love funny town names.
I want to go to Malta (that’s where Maltese dogs and malted milk balls come from). It’s such an awesome little island-country. It’s only like 250-something miles wide, you could drive across one of the islands in less than an hour. Nobody notices Malta except the people who live there. Well, I notice you, Malta!! Yay Malta!!!
i mean like, 250 miles wide altogether. there are four little islands and they’re the ones you could drive across in an hour. I have done RESEARCH
It has a fascinating history, too. Most islands near important trade routes do. (Just the place for piracy, if you’re into that.) And the Maltese language is very odd.
Island nations would make an interesting history project. Malta, Crete, Venice, Bahrain, Zanzibar–not to mention the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
*hums POTC theme* JULY 7!
Oh cool;Im a pirate.
I wanna go to Pluto. I have a rocketship. ;-D
The Farthest ive ever been from home is Nags Head.
Terrance T., are you new? Pirates are cool! *pies with salty pie*
42-But they have a dogsled race. Do I wanna look in your eyes, Sharona?
55-Sophomoric. You just have to think like Queenie J and do some weird things, like sneak out at nights from the palace (NOT an easy thing to do, believe you me) and go dancing with your friends, then get caught by your Minister of Finance, who you found in drag. Apparently “undercover.” Yeah.
I hope to go home in ten years. I know I’ll be fine. You know what I just realized? I get space-sick on Earth because it rotates, and orbits. Simultaneously. I knew it did that, but I didn’t know that was why my stomach got so upset quite so often. Reminds me of the time Evan made casserole, we ate it, and then half an hour later Mel threw up on me and I vomited into a dried ficus plant. Great day.
Who are Cluadia and Terrance T?
Are they new?
If so… *Pies*
Ya kno, at the top it said that Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas suggested this thread, but I thought I did in post 3 of the Suggestion box thread…Well I guess she said it somewhere else before me. Oh well.
There was someone called “çlâúdïä” (3/19/06) on the Who’s Here page, but I did not find a Terrance T…
The farthest i’ve ever been from home is Beverly Hills, to visit my uncle. Don’t ask about it; I barely remember it and from what Ido remember its like a more upscale… whatever.
M-m-m-my Sharona….
S.M., I am new
Terrance Tomme is an anagram.
How would you like it if I called myself Terranco Temme?
My real name is “Mmttrrnc eeoae.”
I’m an Irplunian.(Thanks, Daire Gaj, for discovering us.)
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AAAKK!!
Pie with salt. Like pretzels or something. Yeah, salty pretzel pie.
ooooh! ooooooh!
i’d like to visit Vietnam
*poof*
wait a minute…
i am visiting Vietname this summer!
*cackles gleefully*
bye bye, suckers!
why are people throwing salty pies at each other??????????
Pirates. It started in comment 65. Because pirates usually operate on salt water, I assume.
56-pigeon forge, tennessee isn’t that bad. its where Dollywood is (Dolly Parton’s theme park). We go there for DI global finals each year because DI global finals are in Knoxville. anyway, dollywood has some pretty good water rides.
clarification: we do not go there because we like Dolly Parton. We go there because we like the rides
there are also two towns in Minnisota called Fertile, and Climax
For peculiar names, try England :
Cleobury Mortimer, Neen Sollars, Neen Savage, Hayton’s Bent, Knockin, Mamble, Snitterfield, Clungunford, Pinvin, Flyford Flavell, and my favourite – Wyre Piddle.
Pinvin! I like that. Whatsit mean?
Haha. Wyre Piddle. Crazee brits.
Cuz Potc 2 is coming out. POTC was AMAZING! Me loved! I know the entire script by heart. That’s really sad, isn’t it? Oh well, i also know Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, and a good bit of LOTR. Huzzah for me!
81 – UGH, those billboards got OLD after the first couple hundred.
i wanna go to:
europe (all over except the undeveloped eastern bits)
costa rica
wales WALES WALES WELSH YAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
the seychelles
83 — the princess bride has issues. but that could be because i saw it when i was in third grade and not yet desensitized