If money was no limitation,what'd your ultimate vacation be?

If money wasn't a limitation, what would currently be your ultimate,
no expense spared dream vacation and please elaborate (separately,
for each locale named) on what you'd most like do and get up to,
in each locale named.

Purchasing at 50-foot sailboat (teak decks, lots of room to lounge) and hiring a crew (handsome and rugged) to sail it at a leisurely pace around the world. Crew would have to include a gourmet cook and a masseuse. This assumes time also is no issue.

Antarctica - via Georgia, Falklands and all the other little islands on the way to see all that pristine wildlife and spectacular ice formations. It is sooooo expensive. I am saving but i reckon its going to take me 10 years!! LOL

I'd probably spend some time wandering. I've been wanting to go to central Asia for quite a while - there's a 6 week tour from Beijing to Istanbul that I've had my eye on, one of only a few tours that actually interest me. And then hang around Turkey for a month or two...love Turkey.

After that, who knows?

Zuleika wrote:Antarctica - via Georgia, Falklands and all the other little islands on the way to see all that pristine wildlife and spectacular ice formations. It is sooooo expensive. I am saving but i reckon its going to take me 10 years!! LOL

Ooooh, how does one go from little island to little island? I lurve little islands.

Ooooh, how does one go from little island to little island? I lurve little islands.

If money is no object, you'd probably go by private yacht. Otherwise...you can always try for the mail ship. If your real lucky not only will it go where you want to, it might even do it the month you were hoping to go.

Buy a yacht with room to stow a motorcycle, outfit it with dive gear, and sail it out of Duluth for warmer climes. Forever.

There's a big difference in my mind between vacation and travel. On long term trips, I have actually taken a vacation from my trip. So, that said, If I had endless money...

I would take off a couple of years to travel in Asia. I'd spend about two months moving around probably in a middle-range budget (because I hate to waste my endless money I'm imagining), then I'd splurge for a week or two and do something really upscale and resorty. And I'd repeat this until I tired of it and returned home. Or bought an apartment on that ship that endlessly sails around the world.

It's almost too hard to imagine...

Ok; Tfravel? Ditto on the ship, and I'd learn to sail eventually. Or perhaps just a plain old 200 foot yatch with crew. I can tow the sailboat behind the yatch until I feel adventurous.

I'd go all over the world and wherever I went, I'd hire a personal translator.

Alaska, Patagonia, Cinque Terra in style, galapagos, africa expeditions to see lots of animals, etc. I'd not shoot them, just take pictures.

Then I'd do the most extravagant thing I can think of. I'd hire someone to carry me up to the highest point of Mount everest I could get. I'd never actually get good enough to CLIMB it myself. Helicopter myself up there to get to the peak, just to do it. Or maybe even k2, who knows.

Then there is space. 60 million gets you a slot on the space station, or at least a nice rocket ride. I can get a near space experience with the new rocket service in town.

Now: Vacation.

Right now I'd settle for a month or more in Bhutan. At 200+ dollars a day for permit to stay in the country, I'd need a lot of money even to be there.

Its one of the few purist Buddhist countries in the world, god bless it.



Vacation?

Zuleika wrote:Antarctica - via Georgia, Falklands and all the other little islands on the way to see all that pristine wildlife and spectacular ice formations. It is sooooo expensive. I am saving but i reckon its going to take me 10 years!! LOL

Only I would start in Iceland & the Faroe Islands!

I'd fly to America and then ride the Amtrak from sea to shining sea. Next I'd do China and South East Asia for a couple of months, probably with a specialist travel company that focused on the historical aspect. Then the same thing in India for another month. Then back home.

God, thinking about vacations I can't afford makes me depressed.

I guess I'm lucky cause most of the vacations I want to go on I can afford, but then again, i guess my limit is I can't do them all the time or as often as i want, but my next big trip, other than my upcomeing trip to Shanghai and Viet Nam, is to organize a trip next June to Peru to search for and find an undiscovered Inca Ruin. I'm going to take at least one of my daughters and perhaps a good friend and hire a guide, some muleteers, a chef, and some extra machete wielders to hack our way through the underbrush. I can do the whole trip for about 100 bucks per paying person per day. It would even be less, but for the brush clearing crew.

The trick I think is to find things that you can enjoy that don't cost an arm and a leg.

I learned this a long time ago, when once i went to a small BYOB party and i took along my Jack daniels black, and met this quite rich guy who was drinking some fairly close to rot gut scotch, and i was kind of giv ing him a bad time for having bad taste, and what he said to me, was that of course he knew what the "good stuff" was, as defined but everyone at the time, but he didn't need to prove anything to anyone by drinking it. 'Rather he said the trick was to find something to drink that was alright and not expensive. He was rich. He didn't need to prove it by drinking an expensive drink.

That sunk in as i realized that ordering "black jack rocks" at a bar, as i was want to do, was just a macho bravado, putting on airs kind of thing that I was doing and all it was really doing was enriching the bar and impoverishing my wallet.

Now it 's grey goose, or God knows what - if you want to be cool.