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The challenge and adventure. How many people can say they've been to 43 cities in a month? It may well be a miserable way to spend a month, but I think it's co
by paulgb 17y ago
The challenge and adventure. How many people can say they've been to 43 cities in a month?
It may well be a miserable way to spend a month, but I think it's cool that someone is trying. Let me put it this way: I'd rather be the one traveling the planet than the internet cynic talking about how miserable he will be.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoHe's not traveling the planet. He's traveling airports in the US. And just because something can be done doesn't mean it should and sure as hell doesn't mean that it's not a waste of time. Next up: random internet guy tries to spend ten years visiting every trash dump in the world and spending a night on a pile of garbage. How exciting!
- hughprime 17y agoReminds me of the guy who was trying to visit every Starbucks in the world. He'd get pissed off when they didn't offer him free coffee.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agohe's traveling only in the sense that his body will be transported many miles. seeing the inside of airports and planes for a month doesn't strike me as being worth the cost, monetary, physiological, or psychological.
- hughprime 17y agoGoing to 43 cities in a month is reasonably easy (for a reasonably generous definition of "city") if you go on a road trip. You'd almost certainly see a lot more, and have a lot more fun, if you set out to visit the 43 largest cities in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by... ) in one month. On the downside you'd also spend a bunch more money, and you wouldn't get the warm fuzzy feeling that only comes from taking maximum advantage of a cheap offer.
- davidw 17y agoA road trip sounds like way more fun. Even more fun: riding your bike across the country, or north to south, or some similar trip.
- sehender 17y agoI recently read a book called "An Absolutely Outrageous Adventure" written by two travel mates who visited every WHO recognized country in the world in one year. It was one of the worst books I've ever read because most of their experiences revolved around airport hopping from country to country. Give me a month in any given country and I'll be satisfied. It takes that long just to settle in and learn enough culture not to look ignorant. I will say that 30 days on a plane does increase your chances of joining the mile high club though...(I digress) Top travel choices for next destination - Argentina, Thailand, Bolivia.
- schammy 17y agoPaul, he's not traveling in the normal sense of the word. If he was visiting 43 cities in, say, 90 days, he would actualyl get to experience each city for at least 1 full day/night. And yeah, that would be cool. But what he's doing here is just going from airport to airport, with pretty much no time to do anything except worry about catching the next flight. He's not going to get a chance to even leave the airport, save maybe once or twice. It's going to be horrible, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs a serious reality check.