THE places to see in your life?
 

Okay, I have been a lot of places...and seen things I thought I would never see. I could never even list (like many of you) all the amazing things I have witnessed.

My question is...what have you seen...just in case I haven't seen it? What are they BEST places you have been? I want to plan some very cool trips in the next year and have NO idea where to go.

Dorian http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif



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[*]seing, touching and finally playing tennis at the holy lawn of the All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon at the All England Championships (1964, ... but not on the Center Court ...).[*]Marriage Ceremony at my favorite Church (Kloster St.Gallen, march-5-1970)[*]Samba dancing at the Carneval in Rio de Janeiro (honeymoon 1970) and the Iguassu-waterfalls[*]Watching a local soccer game at the Maracana-Stadium in Rio de Janeiro (1972 Botafogo - Fluminense)[*]Watching Live the Opening Ceremony of Summer Olympics (1972) in Munich (my mother did invite the whole Martel-'clan')[*]Playing a fun tennis-doble partnering with Charles Schultz (Charlie Brown) at Pebble Beach (17th Miles Drive, Monterey, CA in 1973)[*]the Niagara Falls (1973)[*]Statue of Liberty and Manhattan-scenery, seen from the ocean (first time 1973) [*]Disneyland and Disneyworld (first time visits 1973) and Eurodisney Paris shown by 'crative director' PremEx in person (may-2000)[*]Overlooking Paris from the EiffelTower (1968)[*]Watching Live the soccer-world-championship-finals in Munich (1974 Germany-Netherlands) and Rome (1990 Germany-Argentina)[*]helpless 'assisting' and seing/hearing the birth of my first daughter (june-19-1972)[*]Waltzer dancing at the Vienna Opernball (spring 1977)[*]Doing the original/world-longest World-Cup men's downhill skiing run at Wengen (a day after the world-famous 'Lauberhorn' race, my time was only about the double of the winner, in 1980 ...)[*]Doing the day-long alpine ski-tour from the Jungfraujoch ('top of Europe') to the Southern part of Switzerland passing the Aletsch-Glacier (first time in spring 1981)[*]Being a guest of the MCC at a Fürstenprunksitzung at the Mainz Castle (Carneval, 1982)[*]Accompanying my daughter Susanna in a boat when she did swim Lausanne - Evian (15 km traversing the Lake of Geneva) for the Swiss National swimming team.[*]Seing the/my (at the age of 8 she was a whole week at the Tennis Camp I organized) first swiss girl/woman (Martina Hingis) life winning the Australian Tennis open in 1998 and 99 (Melbourne, Australia).[*]Going live (together with my brother Wolfram) to the Superbowls in San Diego (1998) and Miami (1999)[*]the Party in Paradise FlyerTalker night at the Halekulani (Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, nov-5-1999)[*](snorkeling/diving at) the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (jan-2000)

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WOW! Rudi, intense stuff! Like we discussed the other day at lunch...with age comes knowledge and wisdom....and obviously amazing life experiences. I feel quite humbled now.

Sincerely,

Dorian

after reading Rudi's post above, i realized i have not been anywhere! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Rudi, Dorian,

Amazing list of experiences.

Have you been to the Grand Canyon in Arizona?
IMHO, its got to be one of the places that everyone should see at least once in their lifetime.

bj-21.

Many of the same personal and public experiences that Rudi notes, and:

* The eruption of Mt. St. Helens 1980.

* The 1966 Rosebowl Parade/Gamewith UCLA date, (UCLA 14/Michigan 12).

* Flying over endless Alaskan Glaciers on a crystal clear day in October, 1992, ANC/SEA, while the Captain, an obvious history buff, delivered a 1 hour+ explanation of the land below.

* The view of the California desert during an unplanned jump from a military plane in 1963.

* Catamaran sail (hitting 19 knots) from Lanaii to Maui 1997.

* Watching Roy Rogers and Dale Evans waving from the back of a train in Illinois, 1949???

* The advance of a tornado, Silvis, Illinois, 1951 (I believe).

* The Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1998.

* Dancing at the Rainbow Room, atop Rockefeller Center, 1999.

* Watching Rudi walking through the streets of San Francisco wearing his authentic Swiss costume, 1999 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif



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For my wife and me, it is a simple one-two punch in Australia. First, a week on Bedarra Island to recover from the jet lag on the trans-Pacific trip. Sixteen cottages, complete relaxation, silver service in shorts with excellent cuisine. Follow that up with a week in our Favorite spot in the world - Lizard Island - sand, isolated beaches, a small water skiff, wonderful snorkeling in the Blue Lagoon and nearby, and 'mudbugs' in our picnic hamper daily! Ozstamps - what do you think about these two??
On our last visit, we were also able to spend a week on Orpheus Island, a week on Hayman Island, and finish the 5-week vacation with a week in our favorite Australian city - Melbourne. We will do it again, soon. W've been there a number of times already - in a few years we will spend 6 months headquartered just south of Brisbane, in Main Beach for their summer.

Sitting in the centre of the mighty Zambezi River, on New Years Day. In a tiny rock pocket, one FOOT from the edge of the huge Victoria Falls. From the Zimbabwe side (where 99.999% of the tourists visit) it appreared you were about to swept over the 300 feet high falls any second. THE single most exhilarating thing I have ever done as a tourist and visiting 100+ countries. MAGIC - do it if you ever visit the Falls!

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ozstamps/africa.htm

Punki:
Could we possibly have something in common? Would the California desert per chance be just north of Palm Springs? Could we both have spent a season at the same lovely S. C. island resort - perhaps in the late sixties? Ooh, won't this be fun if true! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Semper Fi
Pam

svpii, my not-to-be-forgotten summer on the lovely S.C. island (sans Eiffel Tower) was in 1962. Lucky me. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

I was there 7 years later. Actually last year, I had a conference in Hilton Head and then a meeting in Charleston, do I drove up the coast and couldn't resist a visit to the island! You can't imagine how small it is! It seemed so HUGE then - we must have "walked" in a circle for those hours at a time! Who knew?

How about sleeping next to the Taj Mahal in full moonlite....swimming in the Ghange River in Benares, India...trekking in Pokora, Nepal.....Maza-i Shariff in nothern Afghanistan and driving through the Kyber Pass.....the silver sands of Goa....Machupichu lost city in the Andes.....sleeping on a riverboat at Lake Titicaca, Bolivia....the great tar pits of Trinidad,Carnival in Port-of- Spain and the Trans-Amazon 4-wheel drive ralley from Cartegena, Columbia to Buenos Aires....I know I have left out many...The Dead Sea.Petra, Jordan ...Dahab,Egypt....the Amazon River Basin trips out of Suriname...and now THE BAHT RUN! WE ARE TRULY FORTUNATE!

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Wow! MrKey, the next time I'm in S. Florida, I'm giving you a call! What fun it would be to listen to the stories you must have!

And jewels!

My favorites:

The Crown Jewels at the Tower of London,

The jewels of the Topkapi, and

The Hope Diamond and cast at the Smithsonian.

Makes my fingers itch all the way up to my elbows. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by Punki (edited 10-28-2000).]

It's simple. The place to see is Wengen. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

But seriously, the world is full of amazing scenery and spectacle. If you have an open mind you'll know that every country on the planet has something to show you. My motto is "Just Do It".

But for americans I advise to explore the middle east. Americans are taught by our media to be afraid of that part of the world. I can tell you the media twists the truth and you are missing out on a lot if you don't go.


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