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January 19th, 2016

tielan: four lemming toys at the grand canyon (travel)
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 09:49 am
[personal profile] jenab: If you had unlimited funds where would you travel in the world? What have been some of the most memorable places you have visited?

I would take one of those 'three months on a cruise ship traveling around the world', and I would hire a cabin or a suite, and then pay for people to come travelling with me for various legs of the trip, because travelling is always more fun when you have other people to share it with.

Or I would do a road trip across the US - again, doing 'legs' of the journey with various people as their time and budget allowed.

Or I would travel across Europe-Asia - from the UK all the way over to Russia, and then down through Asia and back home.

Africa. I want to see Africa, but it feels like something you should do with people, not just by yourself.

Basically, my big issue in travelling is that 75% of the time I have nobody to travel with, so if I had unlimited funds, I'd pay for other people to come travelling with me (they put in, say, $1000, and I'd pay the rest). And I'd go everywhere, man!

memorable places from my travelogue )

Sorry for taking a break from this. One of the questions required graphics and I never remember until I'm in no position to actually create graphics for it.

I'll be back in, posting again every couple of days. I promise...
tielan: (don't make me shoot you)
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 11:55 am
Bugger. I need to rewatch the prequel trilogy for canon research purposes. I barely remember Ep2, and I wandered in and out of Ep3, so...yeah, it's going to be a slog to actually pay attention.

Also, why don't I yet have any Star Wars icons, dammit?

Funny story: I havea quilting group I attend a couple of weekends a month, and there's a woman at them who is seriously focused on doing things the right way. I am a "does it work? y/y? Then it's all good!" kind of person, while she is a "but am I doing it the right and proper way?"

At Saturday's group, it was mentioned that she was going to see Episode VII, and someone talked about doing a rewatch of the old one.

One of the women at the group said (in her typical, I-am-absolutely-certain-of-this way) "the order to watch them in is 4, 5, then 1, 2, and 3, and then Episode 6, that way you get to the end of the revelation, and flashback to Anakin Skywalker's history in 1-3, before continuing to Episode 6. And then you can watch Episode VII."

Needless to say, the lady who Likes To Do It Right was very anxious that she'd been watching it 'the wrong way'. I tried to reassure her, but she was quite intent on writing down the 'proper order'.

I'm good friends with the Absolutely Certain woman, and I love her very dearly. But man, sometimes I think that there's no halfway with her.
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