In this post, I'd like to know where you have already travelled to that you could recommend to others. My wife and I are taking 10 days in May and have yet to pick a destination. Any suggestions? What was your favorite place ever?
We all knew how to sail (I was raised on a boat) so we didn't have to hire a captain/skipper like most of the charters have. Later, we did Costa Rica (and later The Galapagos) via Adventure Life (http://www.adventure-life.com/tours/costa-rica-tours/) My family doesn't do resorts and lives a relatively simple life and neither of my parents drink. The guys at Adventure Life helped us plan the most perfect trip for what we wanted. My favorite place that we stay in Costa Rica was this little bed and breakfast type place with little electricity about 30 minutes from the beach. You trekked through the forest on a tiny little path with whatever surfboard or boogie board you could carry and then BAM! suddenly you were on a huge beach all alone with monkeys flinging their shit and some nice sized waves. This huge grandmother type lady cooked huge Costa Rican meals every night for us. It was amazing. I also moved to Australia (Sydney) 2 months ago, so if you want to know more about my experiences here I'll share. Now that I'm older and not with my family this time around so a lot more of my activities revolve around drinking. I've done some incredible hikes (Blue Mountains) here and other nifty sober stuff too.
All of the places you've mentioned sound great but the most appealing to me is Costa Rica. I've been wanting to go there for some time now. I like the idea of jungle, ocean and seclusion. Hell, even the monkey shit sounds alright to me. Huge granmotherly costa rican food... now you're talking! I would absolutely be interested in hearing about Sydney. How is it? What stands out so far? I hope you're enjoying yourself.
^ had to ask my mom for the name. I'll reply more later. It's late lunch and beer time!
If you're American, nobody really cares if you go to Cuba, as long as you keep your head down when you're going back through customs. It's much easier than most people think.
14 cities in 5 weeks.
London to Paris to Brussels to Amsterdam to Munich to Prague to Berlin to Venice to Rome to Florence to Nice to Barcelona to Toulouse to Quimper to Paris to London. or this one: 5 cities in 3 weeks.
Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
Great experience. I was there studying architecture. Belo Horizonte was beautiful. Love the old part of town. Met some students and partied with some homemade cachaça. Went out to Ouro Preto for the day to see the Rococo Churches. Amazing. Spent a day in Pampulha. Brasilia was, well, I don't think I'll be able to cohesively describe that one for a while. Weird, wonderful and disorientating. Stayed in Niemeyer's Brasilia Palace Hotel - recently renovated. I mean, just the images of that city being built - empty one year; full the next is just astounding. And Rio was incredible. Ipanema, Copacabana, Pao de Acucar, the Cemiterio, Leblon, Jardim Botanico - I walked all of it. Ended up in a few sketchy places for sure. Took a wrong turn deep into a bario but ended up getting a tour of the whole place by a community organizer. Went to a few clubs in Lapa but had to leave cause the girls that I was with were clearly too much for the boys to handle. Holy shit they are an aggressive bunch! I was happy to not be a female there for sure. And Sao Paulo was insane. Stayed a few blocks from Lina Bo Bardi's Museum of Modern Art on Avenida Paulista. Even went to her own home for a day. Caught a game at the Estádio do Maracanã (Flamengo lost). I had some friends continue on to Itaipu afterword, but I had to come home. I would love to see the rest of South America someday. Are you from there? And should you be Tchau not Caio?
=) Ah, yes. You see, we inherited tchau from Italy, when the immigrants came here, I think during WWII. There, it's ciao, with the I in front of the A. My name comes from the Latin Gaius (like Gaius Julius Caesar). So it's [ˈɡaiʊs] for Caesar and ['kaiʊ] for me. http://hubski.com/pub?id=3483 http://i.imgur.com/uXazF.jpg (mk, you rascal ;) You visited more places here than I have! The only one of those I went to was São Paulo, two times now. The last one was to see a Paul McCartney show.
It was Irnerio who first used them for legal simplification (Titius Gaius et Sempronius) in his works.
You were headed to Ghana as a trip with the UofM architecture school (I think) and you were on leave studying the buildings etc, Michael asked me where you were and I replied, He put out his cigarette and I emptied his ashtray a changed man. P.S. -One butt, two butt, three butt... your butt!Sounds_sound's is so lucky he's in Africa studying architecture, I wish I could travel like that
and Michael put down his 19th cigarette and said to me, you know Steve, you create your own luck in life
. -So true.
That was one of the better parts of the job. I would even drop lunch off in their back room / office space that always had an open bottle of wine and about one hundred pairs of $60 socks. They would wash the dishes themselves then drop them off IN THE KITCHEN. Just walk through the swinging doors and bam - no problem. Remember the heavy-set bald southern gentlemen who used to dress like Don Cherry humped Elton John? He, was a precious snowflake.
Remember the weird Romanian couple that used to come in and order a caesar salad with salmon every single day? They would have us turn off the ceiling fans because she was allergic to wind. So many bizarre regulars. I have many fond memories of that place.
Great memories! If you get a chance, go.
Reminds me of my encounter with Sleeping Bear Dunes. I remember walking up the first time and seeing a mountain of sand towering above me and thinking "Damn." I started scaling it and my heels were sinking back down at an uncomfortable angle as the sloped sand gave way under the ball of my heel. With some effort, I crested the top with a feeling of satisfaction... ...and then looked at the horizon and saw more dunes stretching for miles. I had to remember the shire many times over to make it to the lake shore where they ended.
ecib, you seem like the kind of guy that's likely been all over the place. Any favorites ouside of MI? There's a lot of beauty to be had in Michigan though, no doubt about it. Anyone that thinks otherwise has never been to the UP or even Mackinac Island. I love Michigan.