Trying to decide where to go this winter.

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  1. bevspark

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    My Brother just spent a couple of months in Vietnam. He loved the local people, the food, the villages, & the cost. He did not want to leave. It is somewhere I would love to visit one day.
     
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    I want to go to Vietnam!! I love the food. To me it's much better than Thai food though I enjoyed what was available in Thailand. I was on a plane one with someone who spent two weeks on a boat trip down the river and he loved it. He was a frequent traveler and said it was his most enjoyable trip.

    Daniel you've got to learn to aquire and accumulate frequent flyer miles. I rarely pay for a flight and right now I have enough for a 1st class ticket anywhere in the world.

    Rule one is stick with one airline or it's miles partners. If you traveled to Australia you must have a boatload of points, expecially if it was Business Class. Business Class doubles your points. Unfortunately I'm teathered to home by my kitties...and a bad shoulder.


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    And the movie "The Island"...and the first "Survivor" TV season was near
     
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    Koh Samui & Koh Pangon in Thailand are my favorite.
     
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    I'm pretty sure we warned you that kitties would take over your life. Alas, too late now

    I thought you had the shoulder fixed already? Wasn't it a bad rotator cuff or a tendon?
     
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  7. daniel

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    Though I've never been to Asia, I've eaten in both Vietnamese and Thai restaurants, and much prefer Thai, which resembled Indian, whereas Vietnamese resembled Chinese.

    My Qantas miles have expired. :mad:

    That's why I don't have a kitty.

    You are making Thailand sound very nice. The large number of tourists in Phuket means that it's probably safer, but also less unspoiled. I am definitely going to continue researching it. I'd probably go there without a second thought if I had someone to share the long and arduous journey with.

    As for Vietnam, I have real qualms about going to a country where there are still people horribly disfigured by my own country's dropping of napalm on women and children!
     
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    Oh, you only want to visit countries that haven't been visited by the US military? That narrows it down. ;)

    What suggestions has your travel agent made?
     
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    No, I just think Vietnam was an especially egregious case, since we went in explicitly to maintain western colonial control over a country that had been our ally in WWII, and our war strategy was openly to terrorize the civilian population through the use of such illegal weapons as napalm and booby traps designed to attract children.

    Mostly the standard scuba diving places: Fiji, Cayman, etc. But I found the dolphin place on Bimini through her, and Playa del Carmen (which I enjoyed) was her suggestion. I don't remember if she suggested Cozumel, or if I got that suggestion from the scuba chat board. And Atlantis Resort at Nassau was her suggestion. That was a mixed bag. The aquariums there are fabulous, but the accommodations and food were mediocre and overpriced. (I'd recommend staying somewhere else but paying for a day pass to enjoy the water park and aquariums.)
     
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    That must have been a fake Vietnamee resturant. I'm not a fan of Chinese food but love Vietnamese food.

    Thailand is very safe. The worst danger is a Tuk Tuk driver scaming you for an extra dollar.
     
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    The surgery didn't help much. The surgeon said he'd see what's really wrong when he gets inside :eek:

    He was thing of cutting my bicep tendon....I have 2! Then I could spend 6 hours a day in a Continuous Passive Motion machine and be out of work for 6 weeks. Scarry. PT and time are helping

    I went to Thailand for a Muy Thai training camp. That's out now and I can't dive anymore because of an ear problem.
     
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    The restaurant was run by a Vietnamese family.

    There was a movie about this girl. Somebody put drugs in her suitcase, intending to recover them by stealing her suitcase on arrival in the U.S. But she was caught, and spent the rest of her life in a really horrid prison. I think it was Thailand. Scary! :fear: :scared:
     
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    I remember that movie. Claire Danes I think.

    But if you're gonna base your choices on movies I have one word for you.....Jaws
     
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    Tuche.

    Thailand has definitely moved up on my list, from "no way" to very possible. Not sure yet if it will happen this winter. I have a lot of research to do, and it's still a lot of hours on airplanes and a lot of hours waiting in airports between the four or five flights to get there.

    This is where a companion, to share the long journey and for company, would be nice.
     
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    Tahiti or maybe the Bahamas.;)

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    When I was a young boy
    My mama said to me
    There's only one girl in the world for you
    And she probably lives in Tahiti

    I'd go the whole wide world
    I'd go the whole wide world
    Just to find her

    Or maybe she's in the Bahamas
    Where the Carribean sea is blue
    Weeping in a tropical moonlit night
    Because nobody's told her 'bout you

    I'd go the whole wide world
    I'd go the whole wide world
    Just to find her
    I'd go the whole wide world
    I'd go the whole wide world
    Find out where they hide her

    Why am I hanging around in the rain out here
    Trying to pick up a girl
    Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears
    When there're girls all over the world

    Is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere
    Underneath the tropical sun
    Pining away in a heatwave there
    Hoping that I won't be long

    I should be lying on that sun-soaked beach with her
    Caressing her warm brown skin
    And then in a year or maybe not quite
    We'll be sharing the same next of kin

    I'd go the whole wide world
    I'd go the whole wide world
    Just to find her
    I'd go the whole wide world
    I'd go the whole wide world
    Find out where they hide her
     
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    Oh that sucks. My rotator cuff surgery went fine, everything seems properly reassembled except for that extra part dangling off my arm

    What is the next step?
     
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    ??? :confused:
     
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    jayman Senior Member

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    Um, that was a joke. I was trying to make a funny

    :rolleyes:

    Guess I better try harder ....
     
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    Well first I turn into a crippled couch potato. I can't afford 6+ weeks off of work again. Indians who don't need medical care are waiting for my job.
     
    #59 Dave_PH, Oct 6, 2009
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    Good point
     
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