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[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

There's a place out in Washington State called Dirtfish. They call it a "rally school". For a bunch of money they'll give you a kickass Subaru and let you tear around a dirt track for a few days. Looks awesome.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vienna. The opera season this year couldn't be better, I'd stay the year and go every night.

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[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Tokyo. Splurge in Akihabara and eat some authentic ramen.

[–] Curmudge_john@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 months ago

Italian wine tour for a couple of months

[–] ArcRay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

I'd book a trip on a tall ship. I found one a while back called the Bark Europa. It's one of the few ships that goes to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote civilization in the world.

Its already expensive ($10,000+) and even more expensive if you want to go to the arctic. Unfortunately, I have celiacs, so the only way I'd be able to do it, is if I paid a stupid amount of money.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

novosibirsk russia

Super expensive to travel there and looks like some nice architecture. Just need to hire a team of security specialists.

Ticket prices $36,000 usd round trip from Minnesota. First class.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Iceland. My kid took a geology class and was excited about Iceland. This is actually college: he never got his passport so I said, “sure I’ll take you if you apply for your passport”

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lancaster Pennsylvania, lots of folk punk stuff going on over there and LNL is throwing another folk punk flea market in late June.

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If money is NO object then I’d buy the US government and make the US visitor friendly. I mean I’d really like to see the pained desert, New Orleans, New York, New England in the fall, hell there’s heaps of the US I’d like to visit and it seams to me that you can buy the US government for a couple of hundred billions.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Royal Caribbean cruise on an Icon, Quantum, or Oasis class ship (to the Caribbean, of course).

I don't care how much Lemmy hates cruise ships, nothing beats waking up to a different view out of your balcony every morning. Not to mention the unlimited gourmet food. You could eat a dozen lobster tails in a single sitting if you wanted to.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

New Zealand

[–] portageinclusion@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Road trip across Canada, coast to coast. Just before starting it though I’d fly to the Yukon.

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did something a little bit similar last fall - Vancouver to Vancouver Island, through BC over the Rockies to Edmonton. Then flight to Montreal and up to Saguenay, down to the cantons de l"est, back to Montreal.

The whole cross country thing is on the list, bit will have to wait. This country is big...

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[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

Sailboat, Caribbean, and all the food and sunsets in between as long as I can make it last. Maybe I'll end it by heading straight at a hurricane, or maybe I'll just try my luck at getting to Europe. It would be amazing to get to Gibraltar under sail from the Caribbean.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Probably Amsterdam or Copenhagen for a few weeks,

properly experience a walkable city with good transit and cycling infrastructure

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Mount Blue Sky, Colorado. Home of the highest elevation optical astronomical observatory who's operators I share a language with

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Probably Polynesia.

There are places where you can go and slum it and still have a great time, just visiting free attractions and going everywhere on foot and by pubic transit.
But then there are places where the luxury itself is the attraction, so cheaping out doesn't really make sense.

I can afford to get to Japan and then just stay in cheap hotels and explore local attractions in Kyoto and Tokyo.
I can afford to get to Bora Bora or Tahiti, but I can't afford the luxury stay, which would be the point of the trip.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Money is no object?

Alpha Centauri. Build a spacious and comfortable Orion Drive ship for me and a few thousand of my best friends to go on a nice long trip.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

I was going to say Mars, just to get there before fElon, but Alpha Centauri sounds nice!

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was a knitting cruise I looked at before. Took you around Europe and had events to spin your own yarn and there would be workshops with masters. I think I would do that.

[–] ChaosCoati@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

This sounds amazing!

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

The Maldives.

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If money was no object: Las Vegas!

I'd play all the games for free and win all the money. I'd become a millionaire in a week. :)

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not Titan? I think the rings would be worth seeing.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Titan is a terrible place to view Saturn's rings from; first of all the moon's orbit is pretty much coplanar with the ring disc so you're looking at something hilariously thin end-on. Second, thick opaque clouds. On the upside, Titan's gravity is so low and the air is so thick given an Icarus suit you could fly like a bird. Or pedal power a Cessna Skyhawk.

You'd probably get a good look at the rings on your way in though.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, I'd also accept another moon out of the elliptic, but while Jupiter would be awesome, Saturn still has my heart for the next few hundred thousand years.

Titan's also a proper planet; if it were orbiting the sun, it would be classified as such, giving it all of those great features you mentioned. But, it's posed as a vacation, not a place to live, so maybe one of the other moons with a better view of the rings.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know what? Money's no object, so why don't we arrange a grand tour? We'll do Europa, maybe stop at Ganymede and Callisto (I don't think Io is a very pleasant destination spot), then head out to Saturn and check out Titan and Enceladus, head out to Uranus for a stop at Miranda, and then finish up at Neptune to spend some time on Triton.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

Fellow human being, you are awesome. Even with the expectedly years-long journey (money may be no object, but I assume we still have to work with current tech and obey the laws of physics) I'm down. Money being no object, let's bring a hundred of our favorite people and decrease the odds of going stir-crazy.

I'm thinking, like, a really big Discovery I.

[–] aliser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Italy, Japan, or some place with beautiful mountains.

But money is a thing, so i'm not going anywhere.

[–] electric@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Never really thought about it. Have always wanted to visit either the French countryside or some picturesque forest in Europe. But someone mentioned trains and unlimited money.

A nice indulgence then would be a luxury train line that navigates throughout most regions of the planet. Probably the most expensive ever done but should be possible. Could probably take years to travel the whole planet in maximum comfort. Wonderful.

Advantages of a vacation train would also be having other people around. One cart per person/family. Not everyone would be in it for the whole ride, so probably lots of passengers changing too. Could have wonderful parties or just group entertainment like movie nights.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

another dimension

*cue title card* I Trick The Vacation Genie Into Doing Physics Research With Me

[–] nocklobster@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would love to visit New Zealand. I'm a canuk and I hear they are like a better weather version of my country...I've also never met a kiwi that wasn't a stand up person.

[–] nicky7@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If money were no object, I'd book a permanent vacation to New Zealand. But a vacation into the Sun has a certain appeal too.

e: love your username btw

[–] MechanicalJester@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Canada. Somewhere.

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