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    Travel time question

    Okay, let's play the what-if game..its fun to play pretend.

    So lets say some random philanthropist walks up to you and says he will give you and one other person a one month ALL expenses paid trip to ANYWHERE you want to go. Where do you go?

    For me, since basically it is having the brass ring in your hand, I would go for someplace way out of the way.

    It would come down to either Mongolia, Greenland, or Russia. Wild places in all three. Great adventure abounds, skiing/kayaking/trekking, and amazing local culture in all three. It would be a hard choice...

    But if it was all expenses paid, I would have to throw down for a month travelling around Russia. I've spent time in the Kamchadal and Kamchatka regions and want to go back. And there are other amazing parts of that country, which is a freaking cool ass country.

    So how about the rest of you?

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    Brazil --> South Africa --> Madagascar --> Goa --> Thailand --> Australia --> NZ.



    Oh wait, that might happen next year.

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    why do you need a sugar daddy to do this?
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    Where ever its snowing and not crowded.
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    Quote Originally Posted by _Aaron_ View Post
    Where ever its snowing and not crowded.
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    Here's a biking in NW Mongolia report from a friend of mine who tragically died in a kayak accident about a month ago. Sounds like a different experience

    http://www.nsmb.com/trail_tales/mongolia_10_07.php


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick Pappagiorgio View Post
    Brazil --> South Africa --> Madagascar --> Goa --> Thailand --> Australia --> NZ.



    Oh wait, that might happen next year.
    Goa? You're 15 years late. Go somewhere in Kerala.
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    Sorry to hear about your friend, Lee. Condolences.

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    Colombia > Guyana > Suriname > Brazil > Chile > Argentina > Iran > Russia


    that would be tough to do in a month though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nanuq View Post
    Okay, let's play the what-if game..its fun to play pretend.

    So lets say some random philanthropist walks up to you and says he will give you and one other person a one month ALL expenses paid trip to ANYWHERE you want to go. Where do you go?
    I'll tell you what I'd do, man: Two chicks at the same time, man.
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    Nanug: You get an all expense paid trip to the Padded Room you JONG
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    skiing is hiking all day so that you can ski on shitty gear for 5 minutes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Summit View Post
    Nanug: You get an all expense paid trip to the Padded Room you JONG
    I hereby declare this the month of Summit!
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    I'd get him to pay for a ship with a heli and unlimited fuel and visit Iturup. On the agenda would be Berutarube, Atsonupuri, the Bogatyr Ridge and a few others.

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