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The travel thread

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How can this site not have a section on travel?

Well, heres the thread for it. Where have you been? Where are you going?

I generally do independent travel - book everything on my own, and ditch organized tours, etc. My idea of a bad vacation is a cruise.

My last international trip was for work, and I was in Dubai. Interesting, but I wouldnt bother with it again. Not my style.

The trip before that was to Turkey, and that was awesome... especilly poking around the old Greek/Roman ruins on the coast.

Next trip? Not sure.

Heres a classic Dubai pic:
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And Turkey:

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Great pictures.

What was the original purpose of the area and structures in the bottom picture?
 
Best trips:

Italy - Mostly Tuscany. Spent a couple of weeks eating great food, drinking great wine, seeing great art and architecture, hanging out with wonderful people.
Puerto Rico - Not so much a trip but a 6 mo assignment. Lived in a house on a world class wind surfing beach. Again, great people but the food had nothing on Italy.
Cold Lake, Alberta - Another assignment. Nice people and AWESOME fishing.

I also enjoy cruises but mostly because once I hit a particular port I can get an idea of whether or not I want to go back there to see more.

Places I wouldn't go back to any time soon:

Honduras - Interesting place and maybe it was the circumstances but I wasn't a big fan of getting shot at.
Amsterdam - A really pretty city but not the most welcoming.

Still on the list:

Australia
Thailand
Eastern Europe
 
Here are some shots of Kuwait City.

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If you think it actually looks fairly pleasant here, keep in mind that this is the "nice" side of town near the ocean, where all the Oil Sheiks and "citizens" live.

If you go just a few blocks over, the desert starts to show through.

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And then the slums...

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And finally this...

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Fun place, Kuwait. :roll:

I wish I'd gotten some photos of the camels and Bedouins I saw in the deep desert, but it didn't really occur to me at the time. :doh
 
Lutherf said:
Best trips:

Italy - Mostly Tuscany. Spent a couple of weeks eating great food, drinking great wine, seeing great art and architecture, hanging out with wonderful people.
Puerto Rico - Not so much a trip but a 6 mo assignment. Lived in a house on a world class wind surfing beach. Again, great people but the food had nothing on Italy.
Cold Lake, Alberta - Another assignment. Nice people and AWESOME fishing.

I also enjoy cruises but mostly because once I hit a particular port I can get an idea of whether or not I want to go back there to see more.

Places I wouldn't go back to any time soon:

Honduras - Interesting place and maybe it was the circumstances but I wasn't a big fan of getting shot at.
Amsterdam - A really pretty city but not the most welcoming.

Still on the list:

Australia
Thailand
Eastern Europe
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Cold Lake. I gotta look that up. You weren't up there on USAF assignment were you?
 
Gathomas88 said:
Here are some shots of Kuwait City.

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If you think it actually looks fairly pleasant here, keep in mind that this is the "nice" side of town near the ocean, where all the Oil Sheiks and "citizens" live.

If you go just a few blocks over, the desert starts to show through.

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And then the slums...

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And finally this...

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Fun place, Kuwait. :roll:

I wish I'd gotten some photos of the camels and Bedouins I saw in the deep desert, but it didn't really occur to me at the time. :doh
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Here are some photos of me in Kuwait City (5 image limit per post :2razz: ).

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Risky Thicket said:
Cold Lake. I gotta look that up. You weren't up there on USAF assignment were you?
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Indeed I was.

My job was to make sure that nobody ran off with one of our F-16's in the middle of the night. The cool part was that since I only had night shift and night only lasted from 10:30pm to 2:00am I had quite a while to fish. There must have been 100 lakes around there and you damned near needed to beat the Pike over the head with an oar to keep them out of the boat.
 
ChrisL said:
You're a smoker Gathomas? It doesn't look like it. You actually seem a little unnatural with that butt hanging out of your mouth. :lol:
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Only socially. :mrgreen:

The point of that photo is actually the water fall. We were hanging out having a smoke outside of the Kuwait City Aquarium, and we noticed the artificial waterfall nearby. We thought it was a funny thing to see in Kuwait, of all places, so we got a photo.

The face is because I was telling them to shut up and take the damn picture already. :lol:
 
Gathomas88 said:
Only socially. :mrgreen:

The point of that photo is actually the water fall. We were hanging out having a smoke outside of the Kuwait City Aquarium, and we noticed the artificial waterfall nearby. We thought it was a funny thing to see in Kuwait, of all places, so we got a photo.

The face is because I was telling them to shut up and take the damn picture already. :lol:
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You have a cute little baby face! :mrgreen:
 
ChrisL said:
Except for the butt hanging out of your mouth that is. :lol:
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I believe my mother said something similar. :mrgreen:

You'll probably love my Oktoberfest pic as well.

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Smoking and wasted off my ass. It's a winning combination. :lamo
 
ChrisL said:
Lol! It looks like you had a good time at least. Hopefully you weren't too drunk and sick. :mrgreen:
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Nah, I was good. I drunkenly stumbled into a Turkish brothel that I thought was a night club on at least one occasion (it was full of Iraqi guys - I seriously thought I was going to die! :lol:), but I don't believe I ever got sick on any one.

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That I can remember, at least... :lamo
 
Gathomas88 said:
Nah, I was good. I drunkenly stumbled into a Turkish brothel that I thought was a night club on at least one occasion (it was full of Iraqi guys - I seriously thought I was going to die! :lol:), but I don't believe I ever got sick on any one.

That I can remember, at least... :lamo
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You were by yourself?
 
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