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Topic: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness

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Cincydawg

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #420 on: August 27, 2020, 05:25:20 PM »
I just cite PF and MB as two places least likely to expand your horizons as a traveler, unless you're French.

I drove through PF with the wife once and she told me "NEVER bring me back here again ever."

I remember when it was bucolic.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #421 on: August 27, 2020, 05:25:49 PM »
Yeah, there are always the people who say "Oh, I *love* traveling to Mexico" and what they mean is "I love getting off an airplane, taking the resort transportation to the very cushy resort that is in no way representative of the culture, sitting by the pool drinking margaritas and ordering 'the help' around, and then going straight back to the airport."

No, that's the kind of travel that can only expand the waistline, not the perspective. 
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #422 on: August 27, 2020, 05:28:17 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on August 27, 2020, 05:25:49 PM
Yeah, there are always the people who say "Oh, I *love* traveling to Mexico" and what they mean is "I love getting off an airplane, taking the resort transportation to the very cushy resort that is in no way representative of the culture, sitting by the pool drinking margaritas and ordering 'the help' around, and then going straight back to the airport."

No, that's the kind of travel that can only expand the waistline, not the perspective.
I engage in that sort of travel too. It's just usually pricy local fried food and greasy diners. 

(Real talk, I don't think I've been anywhere all THAT touristy outside LV. Unless you count just going to a big city and wandering. Even touristy New Orelans is its own thing, and I tried to not spent that much time in the cliche spots. It helped I had family that believed in a certain brand of random road tripping)
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #423 on: August 27, 2020, 05:28:48 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 27, 2020, 05:25:20 PM
I just cite PF and MB as two places least likely to expand your horizons as a traveler, unless you're French.

I drove through PF with the wife once and she told me "NEVER bring me back here again ever."

I remember when it was bucolic.
I've only driven by. It sounds exotic, but in a bad way.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #424 on: August 27, 2020, 05:51:33 PM »
I've been to Pigeon Forge. I think I stayed in a moderately priced hotel there on the way to the Smokey Mountains National Park. It seemed unremarkable--other than as part of Dolly Parton's personal history.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #425 on: August 27, 2020, 05:55:59 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on August 27, 2020, 05:28:17 PM
I engage in that sort of travel too. It's just usually pricy local fried food and greasy diners.

(Real talk, I don't think I've been anywhere all THAT touristy outside LV. Unless you count just going to a big city and wandering. Even touristy New Orelans is its own thing, and I tried to not spent that much time in the cliche spots. It helped I had family that believed in a certain brand of random road tripping)
I love wandering around cities. My wife knows that any time we travel she'd better pack her walking shoes--and probably expect that I'm going to drag her somewhere not quite on the guidebook maps. 

I just can't get into the resort life. It's too sterile. If I get on an airplane to go somewhere, I want to experience that place. I don't want to get the exact same resort experience that could be shown to me anywhere on the globe. 
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #426 on: August 27, 2020, 05:56:03 PM »
I like traveling to the deep interior of Mexico and exploring.  I've been doing that all my life, my grandfather was a trader out in West Texas and during the summers I'd go with him as he'd haul his 32' flatbed trailer and cart the oddest things from the USA into Mexico to sell them, and then return with even odder things. :)


But, I also enjoy spending a week at a tourist-oriented resort in Playa del Carmen, too.  It's beautiful, it's cheap, it's a quick trip by airplane, and the diving around Cozumel is fantastic.

Variety is the spice of life.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #427 on: August 27, 2020, 05:58:42 PM »
My travel now is oriented to culture and history almost entirely, with a little bit of relaxation thrown in.  I'm pretty relaxed here at home.

The wife loves to go to Hawaii.  We stay at a resort there.  It's nice.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #428 on: August 27, 2020, 06:11:33 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 27, 2020, 05:58:42 PM
The wife loves to go to Hawaii.  We stay at a resort there.  It's nice.
The first ever vacation with my wife, was Hawaii. We stayed at a resort. So I dragged her on a 10.5 mi hike of the Haleakala crater lol...
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #429 on: August 27, 2020, 06:14:40 PM »
The wife says I tried to kill her in Zion NP, which is really something to see I think.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #430 on: August 27, 2020, 06:18:58 PM »
Our Board Meeting in Tennessee (was it 2013?) headed back to Knoxville via the main drag of Pigeon Forge. I thought Panama City Beach was the Redneck Riviera. I was wrong.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #431 on: August 27, 2020, 06:45:20 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 27, 2020, 06:14:40 PM
The wife says I tried to kill her in Zion NP, which is really something to see I think.
You trying to kill her, or Zion?

Zion is one of my favorites, which is saying a lot as the national parks are pretty generally amazing.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #432 on: August 28, 2020, 06:07:45 AM »
Zion is amazing, but I took her on a trail that was ... amazing, and she claimed I didn't tell her ahead of time so she'd have proper shoes.  It was a bit scary.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #433 on: August 28, 2020, 02:12:19 PM »
Angels Leap, or something like that? When we went we thought our kids were too young to take that hike, but I hear it's amazing. The Narrows blew us away.
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