Thread: Top Ten Wonders- your list

Wow I really have a lot of places left to see, don't I. The hail sounds cool, I still remember my first hailstorm and tornado warning when I lived in TX - such a foreign concept to me living here. Mrs767 always talks about interesting places... maybe it'd be good to work at DL I miss being able to nonrev for free as we still pay (slightly under) ZED even on CX.

Barrier reef hey... just doesn't interest me. But I guess that's because it is so close, which makes it in the too easy basket? Or because I don't dive. My friend at WN is always trying to get me to start diving.. seems expensive though.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nick @ Sep 5 2009, 12:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I still remember my first hailstorm and tornado warning when I lived in TX - such a foreign concept to me living here.

Barrier reef hey... just doesn&#39;t interest me. But I guess that&#39;s because it is so close, which makes it in the too easy basket? Or because I don&#39;t dive. My friend at WN is always trying to get me to start diving.. seems expensive though.[/b]

Yeah, there&#39;s just something relaxing about watching a thunderstorm rolling in on the Plains.

Nick, it&#39;s so interesting that you, living in Melbourne, have never been to the Great Barrier reef, and here I am willing to suffer 15 hours in coach just to see it. Guess it&#39;s true what they say - you seldom appreciate what you have in your own back yard. I know I don&#39;t.
Example- My first time vistors to LA always want to see Hollywood- Walk Of Fame. I tell them there&#39;s nothting to see, the area around Grauman&#39;s is a tourst trap with nothing but a few" hand & footprints" in concrete, some little brass stars in the sidewalk and a few people dressed up (in homemade outfits) as celebrites and movie characters. But, they just have to go. So I load up the car, drive down to Hollywood, pay to park, pay some panhandler dressed as "Captain Jack" to take a photo with us and then take photos of feet next to a brass star. And this, believe or not, is rated as a highlight of their trip to LA. You would not believe the number of photos I have of feet/shoes next to John Wayne&#39;s footprints.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (29Palms @ Sep 5 2009, 06:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

But you know what too? Where there is such a list of beauty, it suddenly becomes a TOURIST TRAP.[/b]

Right you are Palms, sadly, tourism often destroys the rare and the beautiful. Tourism Threatens To Destroy Galapagos

Yosemite
Zion
Pyramids of Giza
Niagara Falls
Everglades
Lake Tahoe
Grand Canyon

These are my favorites that I have visited.

I do love a good Midwest thunderstorm though also!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Migflanker @ Sep 6 2009, 04:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Nick, it&#39;s so interesting that you, living in Melbourne, have never been to the Great Barrier reef, and here I am willing to suffer 15 hours in coach just to see it.[/b]

Good point. Just like you do Hollywood, I see the GBR as a tourist trap. But also ZEDs on QF aren&#39;t that cheap, nor are confirmed tix, so people tend to say well if i&#39;m going to pay that much I may as well go overseas. Fair enough I say... it&#39;s important to learn about other cultures rather than just your own. I&#39;ll get there one day though... i&#39;d like to roadtrip Australia.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Migflanker @ Sep 6 2009, 04:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Example- My first time vistors to LA always want to see Hollywood- Walk Of Fame[/b]

Haha I want to see that! Aside from in-n-out runs, there have only been two times I ventured out of LAX. One was to go to see some friends at some persons apartment in who knows where and eat Korean. The other was when I first went there and stayed in Motel 6 on hollywood blvd. So impressed (scared) we where by this locale we hightailed it to San Diego on the train the next day.
LA is on my list for one day - I need to give it a chance. I want to see the walk of fame and venice beach and universal studios and disneyland etc - as touristy as they may be. I think another reason it bothers me so is that a lot of Australians just go to LAX and NYC because QF flies there, and those cities to me aren&#39;t a great experience of the real America. I guess that&#39;s the same reason why London doesn&#39;t impress me.... every second Australian is there. They coined the term JAFA for a reason

There&#39;s my 2 cents

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nick @ Sep 6 2009, 06:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

...... just go to LAX and NYC because QF flies there, and those cities to me aren&#39;t a great experience of the real America. London doesn&#39;t impress me.... every second Australian is there. They coined the term JAFA for a reason
There&#39;s my 2 cents [/b]

What do you mean LA isn&#39;t the real America? Trust me, under all the tinsel and plastic, there&#39;s a lot of real America here.

BTW, JAFA? Just Another Friendly Australian?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Migflanker @ Sep 6 2009, 11:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

What do you mean LA isn&#39;t the real America? Trust me, under all the tinsel and plastic, there&#39;s a lot of real America here.

BTW, JAFA? Just Another Friendly Austrialian? [/b]

Haha when I say real America, I mean a cross section. It&#39;s like coming to Australia and just visiting Sydney. What about Melbourne&#39;s cafes and laneway bars (biased), Adelaide&#39;s wineries, Perth&#39;s laid backness, Queensland&#39;s... drunks (and reef). America is just such a vast, interesting and different place from coast to coast and with so much history I don&#39;t get why people limit themselves to two gateway cities.

Hahahha try just another expletive aussie.... but I think you knew this Term can also be used for Aucklanders, apparently.