Those are definitely some beautiful locations. I would like to see Alaska, minus the eating of raw fish right out of the river. And, that sunrise in Japan is spectacular.

Right now the biggest vacation that I’ve been wanting to do for a while has been to spend about a week in DC to check out all of the monuments and historical locations. As well as the Smithsonian. Some friends and I went about 12-13 years ago and spent a day. It was not nearly enough time.

One aewsome trip I’ve done was to Gettysburgh. Man, just unbelievably moving. The whole town and park has done a really fantastic job imo memorializing that place. I couldn’t reccommend it more to anyone near the area.

Those are some crazy surreal pictures. It’s hard to believe some of them aren’t from a video game or something. I don’t have anything to add other than my thoughts on Alaska. My grandparent-in-laws took the whole family on an Alaskan cruise. I don’t think I’d ever go on a cruise again (speaking of surreal), but Alaska was amazing. I kept taking pictures of stuff, then wondering why I thought the picture would do it justice. It pretty much has everything from mountains to glaciers to great hiking and fishing to a beautiful coast. It’s such a large expanse and so few people are there, even during the summer. It would be a great place to go out and experience the wild, not just tiny natural preserves surrounded by development. I’d love to take a couple weeks and drive up the Alaskan highway and go backpacking up there or sail up the coast. When I make my millions and retire to Seattle, maybe (“it’s a jump… to conclusions mat”).

Being a military officer I have had the opportunity to visit many battlefields and take many tours of historical locations, (See above two comments), some on the governments dime, some on my own.

The most amazing place was Normandy, France. I hated Paris (minus the louve(SP)) and it’s people, but Normandy was quite different. The people there actually like Americans.

The tour itself was fabulous and took three days to complete with all of the battlesites, beaches, hedgerow country, cemeteries, museums, and small towns.

Seeing Omaha beach after watching the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan was a mesmerizing experiance.

Visiting Patton’s grave, which is ironic that he was buried at Normandy since he didn’t arrive in country until after the invasion, as he was used as a decoy.

I know that not everyone is a military history buff, but if you have an interest in that sort of stuff I highly recomend Normandy, France as a place to visit.

I just got back from Greece a few weeks ago, that was incredible. The Acropolis is definitely one of the most incredible places I have ever visited. Random places I would love to visit would include Australia and Antartica.

for what it’s worth, blitz, my roommate is 5 months into a 6 month work visa in dubai. i gmail w/ him a lot and talk on skype pretty much every weekend. he’s got mixed reviews (you pretty much have to be loaded to live there, which he’s not).

i thought it was interesting that he traveled halfway around the globe to live in the desert and the first week he was there he went skiing…

Israel is incredible and for such a small country there’s so much diversity of things to do. Jerusalem is obviously one of the most historic places in the world, Tel Aviv is a great modern city on a beautiful beach, and then there’s deserts to hike, Masada, scuba diving in the Red Sea and all kinds of other cool stuff to do as well.