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On Travels

Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
edited June 2008 in Social Entropy++
As I sit here enjoying the relentless rains and giant balls of murder ice falling from the sky that make up the summers of Oslo, I cant help but look forward to my two week vacation in August.

Where am I going, you ask? Even further north. We're talking 24 hour sunshine north here. That's right kids, Peter's going to visit the cod fishing centre of the known universe, Lofoten. If you don't know what that is, it's an island group of the coast of Norway famed for it's many natural wonders and Hell of good fishing opportunities. Also, it's fucking cold there year round.

All I'm bringing is my tent, my boots, a fishing pole, some rain gear, three sets of socks and underwear and one and half litres of fine single malt whisky for medicinal purposes. I've turned into a total cityslicker these last 3 years, so spending some time in an arid frozen wasteland in the Atlantic should do me some good.

Are any of you dudes also trying to escape the drudgery of everyday life through travel or are you so low on cash you huff glue in the hobo infested park at night with a Chinese male prostitute known only as Lil' Sing Sing?

Fuck off and die.
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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The hobo thing.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I could conceivably save money and go somewhere

    that would require me to stop buying comics and videogames for a few months

    that's not a sacrifice I'm prepared to make

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    According to his business card, Lil' Sing Sing is actually a male escort.

    There's a difference

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm going on my PAX ultratrip in 74 days

    #pipe on
  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    lots of glue

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I am tragically/hilariously poor, so my awesome genealogical road trip had to be canceled. I'm currently in negotiations with several of my friends to make them come visit me here.

    Also, I'm traveling to faraway lands with the power of imagination. Imagination and cheap rum.

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    ah man, that trip sounds rad, and exactly what i need. unfortunately, i'll have to settle for something local and of shorter duration. hopefully a 3 or 4 day hiker in shenandoah, but i'll wait for fall. hopefully i can get something similar going in colorado come august.

    ya know, what kind of fish do you catch in norway? never thought about it.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Even if I starve myself for a couple of months and only spend money on rent, bills and medical costs I will still be in the red so uh no holiday for me.

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    i am on a trip right now
    california
    there was snow earlier, it was the best

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    that's the great thing about hiking and fishing. all the expense is in gas and liquor.

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  • RitchmeisterRitchmeister Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I am going to Malaysia, China and Australia. And possibly Japan.

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    is there any good camping/hiking/fishing in china? can i drop the family off at a hotel in shanghai and blaze out on my own?

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    if i wasn't saving for pax i'd probably be travelling elsewhere

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Careful Ritchmeister! When you come to Australia you aren't going to want to leave...

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  • RitchmeisterRitchmeister Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Careful Ritchmeister! When you come to Australia you aren't going to want to leave...

    Nah I should be fine, my granddad didn't have a criminal record so I know I won't fit in.
    :P

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    i'm goin to Washington DC this weekend, and then going to PAX in Agosto

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I am going to China to go climbing, see sites and cause chaos with Viv.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    hey i got family in oslo
    and i spent 2 months in japan at the start of the year
    i think i could probably pull off another month or so there with what i got left over, seeing as i havent worked a day since then
    or you know
    go somewhere else
    but i got no plans or any real intention to be doin much of anythin
    maybe end of the year ill reconsider
    or i might try to hook up an internship thing that ill have to do anyway
    and who knows maybe i can get one that pays good money with which to do shit later

    but i dunno if i really wanna do that just yet
    so unless i make plans for that ill wait until the end of the year and maybe go somewhere on a whim
    depending on my mood and amount of dead presidents

    oh i might go skiing next month? with brother and few other people
    but im still thinking about it

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I like traveling because it gives me new things to photograph.

    Two weekends ago I went on an adventure around the state

    Next weekend I'm going to Atlanta

    PAX in August

    Whooooooo

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  • bowtiedsealbowtiedseal Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I just got back saturday from three weeks in tanzania and I am leaving the day after tomorrow for a week in singapore followed by seven in cambodia

    here is my tanzania trip in brief! it's still pretty long though.
    - arrive, go to discotheque and have beers bought for us by professor, who then falls asleep at the bar
    - visit schools, get serenaded and mauled by schoolchildren
    - plant trees with masai women, get laughed at by masai women for being useless
    - go to local market and get scared of how pushy the vendors are
    - get mistaken for japanese or chinese everywhere I go (continues throughout trip)
    - hike Mt. Meru - vertical drop after the rain (read:muddy) into wading through a river to see an amazing waterfall
    - six days on safari - see giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, gazelles, antelopes, impala, elephants, baboons, other monkeys (I don't like monkeys), hippos, rhinos, cape buffalo, flamingos, other birds (again, whatever), lions and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting! also: get completely coated in dust and dirt while riding on top of the truck through part of the serengeti. my hair would not move.
    - gain a reputation in my group for knowing random facts that include why flamingos are pink and who the singing voice of Jasmine is in aladdin
    - hang out with bushmen
    - camping, campsite overrun by monkeys
    - lips get sunburned, I didn't know that could happen
    - ten hour bus ride to dar es salaam
    - the group accidentally collectively steals the backpack of a canadian girl that includes her laptop, non-international cell phone, and a copy of her passport
    - stay in a catholic hostel run by priests who want to know if any of us are planning to be nuns
    - meet us ambassador to tanzania who is very nice
    - take a ferry to stonetown on the island of zanzibar which hadn't had electricity for a few weeks and continued not to have electricity for the duration of my stay. cold showers continue.
    - marine safari! sailing a dhow on the indian ocean, dolphin spotting, first attempt at snorkeling leaves me alive despite massive amounts of salt water ingested
    - run over child with bus (he was okay)
    - at the beach for three days, get really weird tanlines
    - last night there we have drinks bought for us by a guy with a heavy british accent although he is from zanzibar, have a star named for me by a cooler guy from zanzibar who was not affecting a british accent (british accent guy did study in england, but it was seriously ridiculous)
    - get my camera stolen at the airport so no photographic evidence, sorry

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PAX is my next transoceanic trip.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    oh yea i got a friend who left for new york on sunday
    shes never been there before
    intends to stay there, try to get a visa and live there
    well see how that works out
    and it might mean i can go to new york and have someone to hang out with
    you know on my big america trip where i meet up with all you splendid folk who i am just aching to meet
    cough cough


    pipe take me with you

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    For fun and amusement I am going to the Jersey Shore in August, and perhaps South America this fall.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    - six days on safari - see giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, gazelles, antelopes, impala, elephants, baboons, other monkeys (I don't like monkeys), hippos, rhinos, cape buffalo, flamingos, other birds (again, whatever), lions and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting! also: get completely coated in dust and dirt while riding on top of the truck through part of the serengeti. my hair would not move.

    I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU
    - get my camera stolen at the airport so no photographic evidence, sorry[/SPOILER]

    My heart is breaking, but I still hate you

    So jealous, bits

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  • bowtiedsealbowtiedseal Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Sheri wrote: »
    - six days on safari - see giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, gazelles, antelopes, impala, elephants, baboons, other monkeys (I don't like monkeys), hippos, rhinos, cape buffalo, flamingos, other birds (again, whatever), lions and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting! also: get completely coated in dust and dirt while riding on top of the truck through part of the serengeti. my hair would not move.

    I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU
    - get my camera stolen at the airport so no photographic evidence, sorry[/SPOILER]

    My heart is breaking, but I still hate you

    So jealous, bits

    I can see the pictures I took in my mind's eye and it's killing me! zebras right next to the car window!

    the rest of the group is going to put up their pictures on flickr, I think, at some point

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Who did you go with Bow?

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    On my list of Things To Do Before I Die is 'Go on a photo safari'

    Sheri on
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Sheri, as I understand it, your life is pretty much a photo safari, except with less Zebras.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The ones in the zoo just aren't the same, Blake.

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  • bowtiedsealbowtiedseal Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Blaket wrote: »
    Who did you go with Bow?

    it was ostensibly a school trip but it felt way too awesome to be a school trip

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn Tushi it sounds like you had a great time.

    I am envious.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    A school trip?

    Do you go to the best school ever?

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    anyone heard anything about this new jj abrams guy who made lost) show called fringe?
    cos i just watched the first couple minutes of the pilot
    starts on a plane again
    except this one is even worse (melting faces)

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  • bowtiedsealbowtiedseal Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Blaket wrote: »
    A school trip?

    Do you go to the best school ever?

    apparently yes!


    some of the places I went so people can gis to make up for my utter failure: tarangire, lake manyara, ngorongoro crater, lake eyasi

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm travelling to New Jersey next week for work! Wooooo!

    Woooo!!!

    WOOOO!!!





    woo

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Monkeybomb wrote: »
    I'm travelling to New Jersey next week for work! Wooooo!

    Woooo!!!

    WOOOO!!!





    woo

    :|

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    does anyone I care about live in Jersey or what

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Blaket wrote: »
    A school trip?

    Do you go to the best school ever?

    apparently yes!


    some of the places I went so people can gis to make up for my utter failure: tarangire, lake manyara, ngorongoro crater, lake eyasi

    this is much better than new jersey :|

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I am going to Beijing for the Olympics.

    Woooo.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Monkeybomb wrote: »
    does anyone I care about live in Jersey or what

    nope, everyone in Jersey is horrible.

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