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04-14-2011 , 03:03 PM

#1176

THAY3R

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Looking very forward to going to the Galapagos Islands!!

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04-14-2011 , 03:04 PM

#1177

Mittens

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PM'ed NYC999

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04-14-2011 , 03:26 PM

#1178

nyc999

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Will pick soon

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04-14-2011 , 03:29 PM

#1179

BobboFitos

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Originally Posted by chim17

Israel is by far my favorite country I've visited.

The people are the nicest I've ever seen (at least to Americans with money!), and the population is the most beautiful I've seen.

I want to go back to Israel so bad.

wait... what? israelis are notoriously rude.

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04-14-2011 , 03:30 PM

#1180

BobboFitos

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Originally Posted by Biesterfield

Apologies if asked before, but has it been established who we are taking with on these "vacations"? I assume it is up to individual poster. Value fluctuates depending on if with significant other/college buddies/alone.

just yourself (I assume a wife or the like if you've got one)

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04-14-2011 , 03:33 PM

#1181

BobboFitos

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Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

I thought my writeup and educating about how many (unique) things there are to do in Galapagos would win people over more but people still underrating it

oh well, it's my trip and not everyone wants to scuba and surf and see animals and stargaze and sail around and lounge on the beach with sea lions, etc

I don't drink, club, or go to fancy restaurants; I don't care how hot the locals are since I'm married. So my choices will likely be very different from most here.

Hey nicholas, for the record, I thought you had the best (or 2nd or so) writeup of the draft. It was so good that in my mind you won - I will be going to the galopogos islands!

now the only question is when should I take this trip?

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04-14-2011 , 03:34 PM

#1182

BobboFitos

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Originally Posted by Bigindiemen

Like the Tel Aviv pick

yah me too. by and large people have made great picks. there have been a few flops (boston, dunedin, dubai, brighton) but a lot of great ones.

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04-14-2011 , 03:37 PM

#1183

BobboFitos

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Originally Posted by hanster

Basically the two cities i was deciding between. Great choice

Yeah, I like Toronto. I actually was a little surprised Vancouver went so far ahead of Toronto - I thought people thought Toronto was the "superior" city?

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04-14-2011 , 03:38 PM

#1184

nyc999

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Heading into a meeting, will have a more detailed writeup later.

Let me know if this is too broad, if not, I'll narrow it down, but it lacks a major city...

Spoiler:

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04-14-2011 , 03:38 PM

#1185

Mittens

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Originally Posted by BobboFitos

Yeah, I like Toronto. I actually was a little surprised Vancouver went so far ahead of Toronto - I thought people thought Toronto was the "superior" city?

I think it's because the surrounding outdoorsy stuff you can do in VAN is better than what you can do in Ontario. City limits vs city limits Toronto is better.

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04-14-2011 , 03:39 PM

#1186

Mittens

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I'm a little surprised that's the first Italian coastline taken...

Last edited by Mittens; 04-14-2011 at 03:43 PM. Reason: meh makes sense now that I see everything that includes, I'd have chosen the other famous one first though.

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04-14-2011 , 03:43 PM

#1187

72off

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Originally Posted by BobboFitos

Yeah, I like Toronto. I actually was a little surprised Vancouver went so far ahead of Toronto - I thought people thought Toronto was the "superior" city?

like Mittens said, Vancouver has much better variety of things to do, and is a more laid-back and probably fun city, and has better weather. Toronto is like a wannabe NYC or Chicago.

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04-14-2011 , 03:44 PM

#1188

nyc999

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Originally Posted by Mittens

I'm a little surprised that's the first Italian coastline taken...

Was actually looking at Nice first, but the Riviera was definitely ahead of other Italian coastline for me.

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04-14-2011 , 03:45 PM

#1189

BobboFitos

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Is the "entire italian riviera" an actual destination? if it just spans a bunch of sq miles, that isn't really fair, and needs to be narrowed down to 1 particular town or city along the coast.

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04-14-2011 , 03:51 PM

#1190

nyc999

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I believe it is, it's about 100 miles long, but very narrow. I don't think people who visit the area stick to one town, much how people who visit cities venture out a short ways in different directions.

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04-14-2011 , 03:51 PM

#1191

amoeba

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think its pretty fair. Even if you pick a single city, you pretty much get the rest of it anyways.

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04-14-2011 , 03:51 PM

#1192

WaterWalker

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Writeup for 2nd pick:

Spoiler:

Last edited by WaterWalker; 04-14-2011 at 04:14 PM.

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04-14-2011 , 03:58 PM

#1193

loosekanen

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Just did some reading on Salvador. Sounds like some sort of Rio lite where you get the same things, just less of them. Similar pros/cons. Only 2.6 million people as opposed to Rio's 6m+ so that might be a good or bad thing depending on what you want.

And as hot as Adriana Lima is she's the exception rather than the rule. 80%+ of the chicks are of afro descent so if you like black/native chicks this place is def for you.

Cool location iyam.

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04-14-2011 , 04:01 PM

#1194

Oski

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Originally Posted by BobboFitos

Is the "entire italian riviera" an actual destination? if it just spans a bunch of sq miles, that isn't really fair, and needs to be narrowed down to 1 particular town or city along the coast.

For vacationing purposes, its usually divided into Genoa and west of that and the Cinque Terre portion of the Ligurian Coast.

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04-14-2011 , 04:03 PM

#1195

MrWookie

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A reasonable radius around Genoa would include most of the Italian Riviera and not really exclude anything else that anyone might consider a "destination." The Italian Riviera seems pretty reasonable.

Edit: Well, unless it is logically divided into two regions. I'm not really familiar with the area.

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04-14-2011 , 04:07 PM

#1196

WhiteGoose

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LOL TORONTO

WORST CITY EVER

AHAHAHHAHAH nothing against you WW but it is my duty to chirp Toronto as the crapopolis it deserves.

People come here from Europe and actually think the public transport is some form of joke, so gg for a vacation here. Not that if you rented a car it would matter, since Toronto is commonly listed among Brazilian and Chinese cities of 20M for the worst traffic in the world. Torontonians are elitist when there's nothing to be elitist about. But at least we have hockey right? Nope, not a single arena has been built in the city of Toronto proper since the 1970s. Blah blah blah etc terrible city.

edit - wow, you're from TO too. To each his own I suppose.

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04-14-2011 , 04:12 PM

#1197

Oski

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Originally Posted by MrWookie

Its logically divided into two areas in the sense that you will choose to either go to one or the other. For the purposes of this draft, I suppose you would select Genoa and get the whole thing. Of course, you could choose "undrafted" and get a good portion of the Italian Riviera and all sorts of other non-beach things.

I'm actually surprised it wasn't done that way because it would have been a first round choice (or at least value) for sure.

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04-14-2011 , 04:13 PM

#1198

BobJoeJim

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Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

yeah, i'm a family man and was never into clubbing, drinking, etc so I'm not looking for one of the 27 cities with a good night life for a top round

one of my life-long dreams has been to travel the world for 2-3 years staying 3 months in each place, so i'm gonna be looking for how i would do that if i had one year with 2 months each per this draft (perhaps when my kids go to college that's what we'll do)

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Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

i'll take Amazon Rain Forest

Of course the Amazon doesn't work in this format, but I would absolutely love to go there. As for the Galapagos, it's a facemelter that wasn't on my list, but that I'm now convinced is a top-5 destination in the world (and is now the only tropical-island type of location in my personal top 50). One question, since you've been there, is how is the food? Anything noteworthy?

My reasons for traveling to various places are pretty different from most ITT, something like:

#1: Food
#2: Wildlife
#3: Geographic beauty
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#8534: Clubs that I'll never ever go to

Generally tropical islands don't appeal to me, since I hate warm temperatures (anything over about 70 is getting uncomfortable to me), I can't swim, and I don't like sand. However the wildlife + stargazing combo sounds amazing, and I could totally put up with being on a tropical island in order to have access to those elements. Especially if there is good food. Unlike me, my girlfriend *does* see the appeal of tropical islands and has hinted that she'd love to travel to some, eventually. I think you've given me the perfect compromise option!