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oxsan
I've been everywhere, babe

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I'd really like to walk along the Great Wall of China, and be at the foot of The Pyramids in Eqypt. Pyramids would be first choice, definitely.

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Awesome.

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The only one of those places listed I've been to is the Grand Canyon, to which I've been several times and would like to raft or kayak some day. Flying into it in a helicopter was pretty cool though.

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"It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar."

-Henry David Thoreau

It's not like you're missing out on much, especially considering the costs involved (time and money), if you don't see all those places considered by the majority to be unique or unusual. The fascination of nature and culture is a relative not an absolute concept.

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Oxsan has terrorist written all over him.

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I've been a lot of places, but never Egypt. The Victoria Falls are truly an awe-inspiring site, and make Niagara look like a garden hose by comparison.

The Namib desert is frightening in its desolate grandeur. I took the car train across to Walvis Bay, then drove south down the Skeleton Coast on one excursion. On another I traveled north, and then eastward into the Camprivi strip. The Okavango delta south from there is truly beautiful, as well.

The Grand Canyon I've seen, from several points. I think the most interesting was where Cruise Director and I went 2 years ago. It is a fascinating place, anywhere you look at it.

The closest I got to the Ngorongoro Crater was looking down on it from a Twin Otter. We orbited it twice, but when the guys we overflew the first time shot at us the second time, we left.

Of all the "scenic wonders" that I've seen, I still like Crater Lake National Park best. Many fond memories of hikes and cross-country ski expeditions there.

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Very nice,Oxan. [p]
Niagra falls. That's it. Rode the maid of the Mist and all that jazz.
The fond memories I have though were not spectacular places. It was more rural. The crocodile in the Philipines my next door neighbor had where I fed it chickens from my other next door neighbor.
The birth of my children. The day my dad and I drove to Colorado for school.
The day I was to drive back to Colorado after leaving my awesome job to be with my wife and son again.
I drove alone. One stop for sleep. It should have been three stops.
I would love to see these places myself,but the way the world is anymore,I'm oh kay with watching it all on the telly.

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I understand your meaning LF. I have often been thankful that I did most of my world travelling in the years 1968 through 1974 although I did a bit in the nineties too. That particular niche in dates was fairly peaceful in the world---at least the hatred of America overseas had not congealed at that time and I was able to travel on all five continents in relative safety. I got out of Iran a few days before Khomeini returned to power, I was in Indonesia
just after the replacement of Suharto with Sukarno--or was it the other way around. The company I worked for built all of the electronic installations in the Sianai to keep the Egyptians and the Israelis apart but the only thing I had to watch for there was where I stepped ---to stay off the land mines.; We built a major antenna installation in Lebanon but it was in one of those "valleys of peace" times I got knocked down and robbed in the Milan train station one time and lost $800 I had in my pocket but it was an isolated incident of crime not rebellion, I was in one rebellious riot in the Piazza Republica in Milan and got pushed around a bit but convinced the crowd that was beating up Americans that I was a German, I was robbed of $200 dollars by a Zaire customs officer who threatened me with "body cavity search" and a charge of "currency manipulation" unless I left all the French francs in my wallet on his table, which I did and considered it part of the trip expense-----but all in all it was a peaceful career of travelling. I don't think that I could go to all of those places today.

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I forgot also that I had to plead guilty to smuggling in Peru and pay a $200
"fine" to get our antenna off loaded from the ship it went down there in. In Indonesia once I also had to hire the Minister Of Transportation as a "guide" to go back up into the hill country near Bangor but it was comforting that he took about a platoon of soldiers up in a truck behind us and a jeep in front of us so it was a good investment.

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Oxsan, you are one cool guy. Your presence here is Mugtoe's only redeeming quality. I reckon Jesus was right when he said, "By their fruit you will know them."

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