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    7 days ago

    Money is no object?

    Alpha Centauri. Build a spacious and comfortable Orion Drive ship for me and a few thousand of my best friends to go on a nice long trip.

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    I would love to visit New Zealand. I’m a canuk and I hear they are like a better weather version of my country…I’ve also never met a kiwi that wasn’t a stand up person.

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      If money were no object, I’d book a permanent vacation to New Zealand. But a vacation into the Sun has a certain appeal too.

      e: love your username btw

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    Money and time no object? I would do a tour of the Pacific islands on a 110 Wally sailboat complete with crew so I get to do the fun stuff like helming and none of the boring stuff I don’t feel like doing that day. Would hit at a minimum Galapagos, Tahiti, Fiji, New Caledonia and on down to the Sundays in Australia. Would take about 6 months although I could spend a lifetime there.

    If I was time limited to two weeks? Sailing in the Bahamas in a Outreamer cat, these are as large as I can safely handle with my partner and its a lot lot shallower than the Wally so I get to explore far more of the Bahamas. Shorter holidays I want less flight time, so direct like this is perfect.

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    A tour through the Nordic countries.

    I’ve only ever seen Sweden from the highway from Malmö to Stockholm to get to a boat to Estonia in time, and only saw bits of the harbor in Helsinki during that trip. I’d love to take more time to explore Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

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      Fly to Frankfurt for fairly cheap. Take the train to Munich and the train to Vienna from there and attend at least a few. Get a cheaper “stay” in the outer districts that are still connected via train. Check if there is offers on “Groupon” for it potentially. Could probably make it with 2k/2.5k

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    Probably Amsterdam or Copenhagen for a few weeks,

    properly experience a walkable city with good transit and cycling infrastructure

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      Having visited both and now living in Copenhagen, it could change your life to visit! Great places to be a tourist

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      It’s amazing. I recommend sitting outside the central train station in Amsterdam and people watching, as thousands of tourists attempt to bicycle or walk somewhere, and they’re just in everybody’s way. It’s hilarious. If you’re going to cycle (which, yes, you should) stay to the right and signal where you want to go. There are bike lanes there for you to take, don’t just be off in the middle of the street. Also, they want you to pay for an extra ticket to bring your bike on the train with you, I found that this can be ignored if you’re not a jerk about it.

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      lol… it’s what you say but as tourist you not wanna cycle there. You’ll be happy on weekends yo barely have the space to walk. It’s a beautiful city though. Visited it like 3-4 times

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        I think it’s fine to cycle here as a tourist, as long as you looked up the rules a bit first and were a decent cyclist.

        Stay to the right, signal turns and stops, the only weird part is what to do when you’re taking a left at an intersection, where you “park” to wait

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          Considering the intersection coming from noorddijk near loves tours. Nope (for me) . Even as an avid cycler seemed horrible. But anywhere else , especially Utecht , seemed nice

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    There’s a place out in Washington State called Dirtfish. They call it a “rally school”. For a bunch of money they’ll give you a kickass Subaru and let you tear around a dirt track for a few days. Looks awesome.

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    If pollution were not an issue, I would visit my sister in New Zealand. I live in the Netherlands.

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      Since money wouldn’t be an issue, I guess you could charter a sailboat round-trip. Hope you don’t get seasick.

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        I will answer for them. Because flying from the Netherlands to New Zealand in economy class will emit the equivalent of about 4 tons of carbon dioxide. Roughly equivalent to driving a car every day for a year or so.

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            Absolutely illogical. The flight is going because you created demand for it by buying the ticket. This is exactly the same as saying, “Why bother voting? Your single vote won’t make any difference”.

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              This is fair. Even though I didn’t create the demand for this particular flight, I contributed to the demand for the next one.

              I’ll find some wildly expensive way to travel that doesn’t cause pollution

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                Or go slow and make the trip the destination. I once did all of South America by bus. Very cheap! But you’ll need time.