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02/26/2004: Stupid Vacation Poll.

I think it’s time for another stupid survey poll thing. Let’s see hm hm erm ahm. Okay, here we go: name your dream vacation spot. I know it’s a lame question, but I’m voyeuristically curious. Your dream vacation spot can be anywhere on the planet and can be someplace you have or haven’t already visited. If anyone feels like getting extra creative, name the best vacation spot you’ve actually been to, along with the worst. Post in the comments…

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Discussion Thread: 113 comments

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Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 02/26/2004 8:53 AM EST

Want to go to: Pampalona, Spain

Best been to: Karst Mtns., Czech Republic

Worst been to: Jacksonville, FLA, specifically the Shangra La Seaside motel (no where near the sea, BTW), a hooker in residence on one side and Satan’s Choice on the other. even the ceiling was stained. my Dad washed everything the next day when we booked outta there…even Optimus got a bath.

Ghosted by GLS @ 02/26/2004 8:57 AM EST

I would really like to visit a Shoalin Monastery. I have studied Kung-Fu and would love to train there for a few years.

I would also love to visit New Zeiland. Beautiful country!

Ghosted by Stilewalker @ 02/26/2004 9:22 AM EST

I would have to go with Italy.

Just seems like it would be a great place to visit.

Ghosted by Azrael83 @ 02/26/2004 9:26 AM EST

Best place I have been? Bahamas. Absolutely Beautiful! One evening, the power went out on the island and I looked up and saw the most amazing display of stars I have ever seen.

Worst place: Camping in Michigan with an Ex-Girlfriend.

Ghosted by Stilewalker @ 02/26/2004 9:27 AM EST

I’d really like to see Delaware.

Ghosted by i was a lion @ 02/26/2004 9:43 AM EST

I’d venture to say Australia. I’ve heard that they drive around the desert hunting each other down for precious gasoline to fuel their crazy battle-cars.
The best place I’ve been on vacation is Montreal (in the spring) and the worst place was probably be Washington D.C. It wasn’t bad, just kinda boring and overly educational.

Ghosted by BaronVonHotPants @ 02/26/2004 9:45 AM EST

Best vacation spot was a place called Ravenwood Castle that my wife and I stayed in. We stayed in a dungeon room, which was actually very cool.

Worst was the motel that we stayed in when we went to Mammoth Caves last summer. Mammoth Caves was wonderful, as it always is, but the motel we stayed in was a different story. It was complete with stains on every wall/carpet, sheet, tile in the room, and they even supplied a druggie in the room next to ours who was wheezing and coughing THE ENTIRE NIGHT, sounding like it was in our room. We would have left, but we didn’t have anywhere else to go to find a room that late. I think the continental breakfast was a couple of crusty old bagels painted to look like donuts.

Ghosted by alienmagic @ 02/26/2004 9:51 AM EST

I would love to go to any of the moons around Jupiter.

Ghosted by Geek @ 02/26/2004 10:33 AM EST

Normally, I would say that I’d love to spend a few years in the Renaissance-hotspot cities in Italy, but since this winter in Canada has been exceedingly nipply, I’ll say any of those hot, steamy, malaria-ridden places with disproportionately large insects (like the Amazon) I’ve been reading about in my anthropology ethnographies for school.

"It’s so warm I only have to wear a loincloth!? Awesome! I’m so there!"

By the way, that Love, Money, Health/psychic Sara Freder banner ad on the side of the page is a pretty scary thing to be looking at in the morning before you’ve even had your first cup of coffee. It looks like her hair’s been cut with a Flowbee (sp?). =O

Ghosted by Molten @ 02/26/2004 10:36 AM EST

Id like to go to that Long Island place, if only it were real. - Marge Simpson

Ghosted by mikey @ 02/26/2004 10:41 AM EST

Since I skirted the rules with my first comment stuff, I’ll be fair.

Want to go: Ibiza, Spain. A.K.A.: the land the law forgot.

Best I’ve been to: Hmmmm, tough call. Either LA or NYC, (I live in Newfoundland)

Worst I’ve been to: Again, tough call. Maybe Phoenix, Arizona, since I got a heat rash and nearly drowned in a pool. Tiuanna (sic), Mexico also comes to mind. I only spent a day there, but it was pretty filty and disusting. Course, I was only 10 years old at the time. Now at 23, I could probably find a LOT more interesting things worth buying than just some bootleg Bart Simpson t-shirts. >8^D

The best vacation from reality ever will be the day Matt finally reviews "Mac and Me"

Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 02/26/2004 10:47 AM EST

Japan. I actually have been there and had the privilage to stay in two Japanese homes and experience house life in Japan. It will be two more years until the next summit which I will be attending again.

Ghosted by Rowan Steele @ 02/26/2004 11:51 AM EST

Dream Vacation: Scotland. I have always wanted to see the British Isles. Yes, I am a big fan of cold, rainy weather. Wish I lived in Seattle.

Best Vacation: Key West or Halifax, NS. When I first met my now-fiance, we just up on a whim, drove up to Halifax, Nova Scotia. (we live in Massachusetts) so it was filled with romance and adventure and getting-to-know-each other excitement. Plus, it’s a little like going to the British Isles, but closer to home. The salt air, the fishermen’s sweaters….great. The second vacation we ever went on was to Key West, which was just awesome. There is a dude there? Who has flying circus housecats? I got to be in his show one night. I got to hold a flaming hoop while he got the cat to jump through it! It was awesome. We are going back for our honeymoon in a few months.

Worst vacation: Prince Edward Island, Canada. It had great potential. I am a HUGE fan of Anne of Green Gables, so I had always wanted to go to PEI. I finally convinced my fiance to agree to this. We had a "hotel" booked in PEI for arrival at 4:00 on Sunday. We left Saturday AM, and planned to just find a place to stay in Maine or New Brunswick Saturday night. It was a huge mistake not to call ahead and actually reserve a room, because there were NO hotels available in all of northern Maine or the entire stinking province of New Brunswick. We must have stopped at 30 places. So we decided we would just have to drive on to PEI that night. We got there at 6am, so we had officially driven for about 24 hours. Needless to say, we were totally sick of/ready to kill each other. When we got to PEI there were no hotels there either, so we went to ours and BEGGED the lady to give us the room early, but the other guests wouldn’t vacate. So we drove to the beach, this was around 7:30-8:00 am, and fell asleep there. We woke up around 2pm, sunburnt to a crisp. We drove back to our "hotel" which was really just a group of cottages. Our cottage had a door. However, the door was just a bit too small for the door frame. There was about a 2 inch gap in between the door, and the door frame. So our room was infested with bugs, and there were 2 toads in there as well. It poured every other day of the trip. Nightmare.

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 02/26/2004 11:51 AM EST

"We’re going to the happiest place on Earth: Tijuana, Mexico!" -Krusty the Klown.
Best Place I’ve been? Right off the bat, I’d say Little Brother’s apartment in Lawrence, Kansas. Him and Him’s Wife live on the bottom level right next to the building’s pool. And since it’s a college town, that means as soon as the months get warm, it’s bikini time! Whee! Where I would like to go? Rio during Carnival, or Japan during Shoshinkai. Boobs or Video Games, I’m easy.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/26/2004 11:53 AM EST

I’d love to finally make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Almost went this year but I spent to much money after moving apartments and couldn’t afford it.

Best trips I’ve been on were Keystone, and Breckinridge Colorado, and Daytona Beach Florida all for spring break. Nothings better than passing out with a beer in your hand and waking up in the morining and finishing it.

Ghosted by Beerstalker @ 02/26/2004 12:15 PM EST

Dream Vacation: venice, italy.

best vacation, last year florida seeing disney and universal.

next best: either zion national park, or Sedona Arizona (after realizing it was Michelle Branch’s hometown)

Worst: dunno maybe my trip to tijuana since I was too young to enjoy it and was only there for a weekend.

Ghosted by Chris @ 02/26/2004 12:28 PM EST

I would love to visit Fart.

Ghosted by Nachokhaki @ 02/26/2004 1:00 PM EST

Matt’s house…. ask a cheesey question, get a cheesey answer.

Ghosted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 02/26/2004 2:25 PM EST

Here is link to dream vacation.

Ghosted by Sam U. El @ 02/26/2004 2:41 PM EST

The place I would most like to visit? Probably the game parks of Africa–I’ve wanted to see them since I was a tiny little child. Particularly in Kenya and South Africa.

Best place I’ve ever been? It’s a toss up between the northern Italian city of Stresa and New York City. I went to the former as part of a family vacation, which is the only way I could afford that place (think Switzerland with really fast drivers). I was in New York because I had some work to do at the American Museum of Natural History, and what little time I had to look around totally blew me away.

Worst vacation spot ever so far? Let’s go back to Italy for this one–it’s easily the cess pool of Venice. It smelled like a sewer, flooded like a gutter, and even the fancy 4* hotels have all the basic amenities of a tin shack. It always sounds so neat (ooh, a city that has canals) but all of that is just a well-honed tourist spot.

Ghosted by Sean @ 02/26/2004 2:51 PM EST

Australia. Definitely.

Ghosted by Mike Fireball @ 02/26/2004 3:00 PM EST

Best: Bethany Beach, Delaware, with the ENTIRE family and tons of rented houses. Glorious, especially the boardwalk arcades.

Worst: A two-week trip to Canada, most of which was spent in an uncomfortable RV. When we finally got there, the house was dull and uninteresting, the weather was lousy, and the the air and water were freezing. Teh suck.

Dream vacation: Japan, armed with yen and one of those translating devices.

Ghosted by Behonkiss @ 02/26/2004 3:08 PM EST

love to visit New Zealand, romp around in the woods and pretend i’m an elf!
ummm but besides that the best place i’ve been to was actually New York City. I don’t get out much…
The worst: Holland Michigan! Noooooo

Ghosted by Jenna @ 02/26/2004 3:26 PM EST

Down in the valley of the Jolly Green Giant…….

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/26/2004 3:37 PM EST

Best Vacation - Ireland. I went once for a few weeks back in the 90’s and I still talk about it. I love it there! Keeping my fingers crossed for a trip this year!

Dream Vacation Spot - The Moon. It belongs to America.

Ghosted by Avery @ 02/26/2004 4:30 PM EST

Best: Toss up between Scotland last summer, a big family reunion with more than 40 of us in a huge house, and Disney World in September of 2002… it’s crass and disrespectful and probably a mortal sin, but the anniversary of September 11th was the BEST DAY EVER in the Magic Kingdom, because everyone was afraid there would be another attack. We didn’t wait more than 5 minutes for any ride, even the rollercoasters.

Worst: When I was 12 and my parents thought it would be fun to spend a few days in London before heading off across England to see family… jet lag caused major adolescent depression in me and my brother, we cried all the time and didn’t want to do anything. (Never, ever go to the London Dungeon when you’re jetlagged.)

Dream Vacation: I’d love to see Tuscany and Pompeii, but I don’t speak Italian or know much about Italy and I’m afraid my murdered corpse will end up on the bottom of the Mediterranean.

Ghosted by Welsh Rabbit @ 02/26/2004 4:47 PM EST

My dream vacation has always been to do the states in a Winnebago. You know…stop at every visitors centre, buy a shitload of postcards and souvenirs…and eat my way across America, one greasy diner at a time!

Ghosted by Kristal @ 02/26/2004 4:49 PM EST

Feudal Japan. And it’d be one of those amazing vactions where you say "Screw the normal life" and take a chance and move there.

Mmmm… Samurai….

Ghosted by Evin @ 02/26/2004 4:54 PM EST

Oh, and it’d be cool to go somewhere fun in space. After we actually have junk up there to see. Like moon colonies and space stations and aliens and stuff.

Ghosted by Evin @ 02/26/2004 4:57 PM EST

Still from the internet cafe…
$600 bucks to fix my computer, fuckit.
Place I’d love to got to?
Melmac of course. Ronda’s got a nice rack (don’t tell gordo).
Seriously, the first human on mars would be the ulimate.
I HATE PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO LIVES AND CREATE VIRUSES.

Ghosted by turkeys can't fly? @ 02/26/2004 5:13 PM EST

Hmm, I’m from Halifax NS B-Dawg..
I think just going back there is pretty sweet

I was just down there at Christmas and it was awesome.

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 02/26/2004 5:23 PM EST

I’d like to send my enemies in a crate to deepest South America so they could contribute to the Vastly Important Bootleg Transplant Organ Industry. Waste not, want not. Then vacation on CyberTron in a Family Truckster AutoBot during one of the rare quiet periods between wars.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/26/2004 5:27 PM EST

Italy - because (I would assume, however incorrectly I may be that) there are few places in the world that can offer the same level of historical and cultural significance on the tourism level.

China (plus Hong Kong and Taiwan) - to visit my homeland since I’ve never been there. You know, one of those cheesy "find your roots, find yourself" quests. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and I’ve never been anywhere near Asia. I’ve really got to go someday.

I’d also love to visit a tropical rainforest. I think that’d be really cool.

As for the best vacation I ever had, my father, brother, and I took a 2-week long vacation driving from L.A. to Yellowstone Natl. Park and back. It was a great bonding experience and, well, you can’t say enough great things about Yellowstone.

Ghosted by rapsodist @ 02/26/2004 5:32 PM EST

Laughin NV "Worst vacation ever!" that is something like the comic book guy from the Simpsons would say. Dream vacations Hawaii, Kanto (from pokemon), and mobius when everything is well there

Ghosted by pikachulover @ 02/26/2004 5:34 PM EST

Spend a week exploring the Savage Land. Strongbadia the next week. Finish up with a week on a pirate ship with Luffy D. Monkey and his crew. But I usually have fun here at the Gallery setting tourists right when they ask about -snicker- "any real Indian villages" that may be around here. If you’re ever in Anadarko, Ok, we’re the building with the murals. (plug, plug)

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/26/2004 6:11 PM EST

best vacation: it’s a toss up… Cairns, Australia or Guilin, China or Hainan Island, China or Seoul, Korea. first three are beautiful. Korea, well, I just had fun there.
worst vacation: Dallas, Texas… too hot. can’t stand it. weird people.

dream vacation: hmmm… I’d have to say Italy. finding my roots and all. maybe I’ll find "uncle Vinnie". I still want to travel a bit in China and Korea (I’ve been in China 3 1/2 years) but going back to Los Angeles to see my soon to be twin nieces/nephews. that’s a great dream vacation too. I also want to go to Africa and anywhere in Europe and southeast Asia.

Ghosted by schmee @ 02/26/2004 6:56 PM EST

My dream is to be a travel photographer. I want to go everywhere bea-u-t-ful!!!!!

I looooove Cape Cod!!!

Ghosted by Katie @ 02/26/2004 7:34 PM EST

Best vacation ever would be N’awlins (been there twice and trying to get back ever since). There is just something magical about that city that even 10,000 identical crappy tourist traps and urine-y streets can’t obliterate. Hopefully I’m going back this summer for the big 2-1. Bourbon Street, baby!
My worst vacation would probably be Albuquerque, New Mexico. There’s nothing particularly cruddy about it, just nothing particulary exciting either. All I remember is lots of cactus and caves.
My dream destinations are Tokyo, Japan, Rome/Florence, Italy, Ibiza, Spain and Melbourne, Australia, all of which seem to be pretty common. I’d also love to go to Disney World.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 02/26/2004 7:46 PM EST

my dream vacation spot would be alaska its nice and cold there thats why i want to vacation there worst vacation spot was kearny nebraska it was a hamm raido convention i doubt i spelled it right either but oh well

Ghosted by laurie @ 02/26/2004 7:47 PM EST

Worst vacation was Miami, hands down. Everything that could go wrong that week did.
Best vacation Talahasee, Fla. Didn’t do much interesting but it was great hanging with my friend there.

Ghosted by Killer Duck @ 02/26/2004 8:13 PM EST

I wonder what Jenna has against Holland, I hate it but that’s because I live there.

Ghosted by Jonas @ 02/26/2004 8:28 PM EST

I would like to go to NYC or Japan. TV makes them look very fun. Why would TV lie to me?

The best place was The Outer Banks in North Carolina. It had better weather than Florida. This year I will be 21 when we go down. :)They also had a bunch of stuff for the Wright Brothers. It was very cool especially since I live in Dayton Ohio.

The worst place was Disney Land. We stayed in a hotel there. It was great in the hotel but It was the $3 cokes and the hour lines for the 3 minute ride. Oh and that crap about everyone getting to hug Mickey was a big lie. I guess TV lies.

Ghosted by fk27 @ 02/26/2004 9:02 PM EST

Place I’d most like to visit: the coasts of Maine. Cold doesn’t bother me (much), and I’d love to see a beach that isn’t flat as a board.

Best vacation: An NYC trip to visit friends in the summer of 2001 (yes, before 9/11, and I got nowhere near the Towers).

Worst Vacation: The trip up to Six Flags Great Adventure in 1995. First of all, we took the trip on a weekend when there was a hurricane warning. Second, Dad never got us hotel rooms and all there were no vacancies anywhere near Great Adventure, so our planned overnight trip became a day trip. It was hot, it was humid, and Dad left the maps in the car. My brother was too little then to go on half the rides, and my younger sister and I argued most of the day. (The other one had enough sense to choose her job over going with us.)

Ghosted by starwenn @ 02/26/2004 9:33 PM EST

Well, of course, I can’t say that it would be the perfect spot since I’ve never been there, but I’ve always wanted to go to Australia. And no, not just for the beer.

Ghosted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 02/26/2004 10:01 PM EST

Wow, Chris and I have the same dream vacation in mind. I’ve always wanted to go to Venice. That or Australia.

A-Wel, you’re obsessed man.

Ghosted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 02/26/2004 10:12 PM EST

I’ve always wanted to go to Cybertron.

…what? o_o

Best vacation I’ve been on: Disneyland. I know. Cornyville.

Worst vacation: Six Flags. Oh gawd. I don’t even know why the fuck I went there if I don’t like rollercoasters >_<

Ghosted by marril159 @ 02/26/2004 10:21 PM EST

Dream vacation: Angkor Wat

Best vacation: Even though I’m studying, living in Japan is kind of like a vacation from life.

Worst vacation: London. The city was actually pretty cool (pricey, but cool), but the situation was fucked up. Try not to get dumped while you’re on vacation.

Ghosted by Chopstick Sensei @ 02/27/2004 1:27 AM EST

Alrighty, here we go…

Worst Vacation: The day trip we took to Morocco when I went to Spain. Between the boat ride, the crazy bus ride of death, the open air market with dead chickens with bloody fly covered necks, the scary Moroccan food, the second crazy bus ride of death and the second boat ride I felt wicked sick the whole day. And we went to this weird pseudo-pharmacy place, and seeing children begging on the streets upsets me.

Best Vacation: The rest of the trip to Spain. We went around the whole country, and it was a school trip and the teacher with us happened to be wicked cool. Plus I went to my first ever nightclub, because the drinknig age there is 16 and I was 16. And I pulled my first ever all-nighter at said club. It was lovely.

Dream Vacation: To go back to Hawaii now that I am old enough to enjoy it and look hot in a bikini. Or somewhere like Cancun where I can sit by the pool all day and drink margaritas and then dance all night.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 02/27/2004 1:43 AM EST

I snuck a peak at the next article.

"Come on, How chocolaty can it be?!"
I can’t wait for the freak’n download! I’ve been dying for that spot for years!!

I’m so l33t, i’m stupid.

Ghosted by Rayzak (my website has hostess sushi!) @ 02/27/2004 2:39 AM EST

Been to: England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Check Republic, Italy, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos

Going to this summer: China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, India, Australia.

Want to goto: Afica

thats about it …

Ghosted by graeme @ 02/27/2004 3:18 AM EST

I’m not asking for much, I just want to visit the world’s largest ball of twine. Heck, or even Macon, Georgia.

Seriously;

Best place I’ve been was Memphis, TN. Aruba was amazing too.

Place I’d like to go back to would be Memphis, TN. I would say Vegas but people say I have a bit of a ‘gambling problem.’

Ghosted by Goonie4Life @ 02/27/2004 5:49 AM EST

The place I’ve always wanted to go would have to be either Greece or Egypt. I’m a big nerd and would love to see all the historical sites and ruins and stuff.

Best vacation I had was when I went to Disneyland with the fam when I was in 7th grade. Last vacation with my whole family.

Worst vacation was visiting family in Arkansas. It was a fun trip but the way back sucked cause it was Friday the 13th, I don’t like planes, and when I got home I found out someone in my family had died while I was gone and I got fired from my job all in the same day. Worst day ever.

Ghosted by redslurpee @ 02/27/2004 6:27 AM EST

my dream vacation spot would be in bed with kristen kruek.

Ghosted by meef @ 02/27/2004 7:04 AM EST

I don’t care what they say. I love Holland Michigan. I used to live in Kalamazoo and we would visit there every time we took a vacation to South Haven. Had to hit the Outlet mall and I could get my coveted Praline Chocolate!!!!

YUMMY!!!

I guess I can see why you would not want to live there, though.

Ghosted by Stilewalker @ 02/27/2004 9:24 AM EST

Place I’ve been:
St. John, US Virgin Islands

Place I’d love to go:
Amsterdam
(maybe a little cliche, but I’d still love to go.)

Ghosted by mutton72 @ 02/27/2004 9:40 AM EST

What about you Matt? No fair making us share without us getting to hear about YOUR dream/best/worst vacation!

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 02/27/2004 10:51 AM EST

my dream spot is Austrailia. im spending a semester of college there in a year and a half-i cant wait! The best vacation I’ve been on is I think when I went to England with my mom. We spent a week in London, and then a few days in Pontefract Yorkshire with a friend of my mothers.

Ghosted by Emily @ 02/27/2004 11:06 AM EST

Spook Central before it esploded.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/27/2004 11:41 AM EST

Dream Vacation: Jade Stadium, Christchurch, NZ. Of course, the All Blacks would crush the Wallabies for it to be a complete dream-come-true type of deal…

Best Vacation: Moving from Boston to Reno. Got to see the USA in my (now ex-) girlfriend’s Chevrolet. Maybe it was the trail of dirty mattresses we left in our wake that made it so much fun.

Worst Vacation: Disney World, late autumn 1985. My dad was on his last legs and wanted to go to Florida one last time; all well and good except that the hotel turned out to be a fleabag joint and the restaurant next door had the worst food this side of the Third World with employees who came therefrom. But since my dad was confined to a wheelchair dying of cancer (it finally got him in the fall of ‘86), it wasn’t like we could stretch our horizons. Plus, it was freakin’ Disney World, which even as a kid I couldn’t stand.

Ghosted by Monster Dog @ 02/27/2004 12:00 PM EST

Governor Schwarzenegger’s mansion. Smoke a few cigars, lift some weights.

Ghosted by CasinoRoyale @ 02/27/2004 12:09 PM EST

Hate to be boring and cliche at the same time, but the dream vacation spot would be Hawaii.

Ghosted by Reiver @ 02/27/2004 12:46 PM EST

So many places I dream about visiting but I think New Zealand has edged Great Britain out by a nose. Still have the sexy accents but much warmer.

Worst vacation- The Outer Banks of NC- it was really pretty but I learned a valuable lesson about going on vacation with my extended family- don’t. (Which changed to don’t go on day trips with them either on a trip to Kings Island) I hope to spend my hypothetical honeymoon on Orcacoke Island.

Best vacation- I’d say the four months I spent living learning and earning at Disney World were pretty great. Worked my ass off but still it was fun.

Ghosted by allicat @ 02/27/2004 2:04 PM EST

A week or so in Killer Duck’s imagination, just out of curiosity.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/27/2004 2:27 PM EST

Or at least a week in his bed, slurping some chode.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/27/2004 3:54 PM EST

I want to go to Jamaica, who cares if it’s poverty stricken it sounds cool.

Best:Keyes, beautiful and laid back.

Worst:West Virginia. Nuff said.

Ghosted by Spongerob @ 02/27/2004 4:31 PM EST

There’s my Bizzaro World counterpart again, ’scuse me…. (portal powering up again, while warming up dork-seeking pool cue)

Ghosted by kingklash prime @ 02/27/2004 4:32 PM EST

I’d Love to visit NYC. Other than that I saw a documentary on the great barrier reef the other day and now I need to go there.

Ghosted by Meatwad @ 02/27/2004 5:06 PM EST

I’d like to visit New York, or Redbank, New Jersey… see the Quick Stop.

Ghosted by Stu @ 02/27/2004 5:09 PM EST

It would be cool to go to Sydney or Tokyo.
I liked my trips to Toronto and Orlando, but I didn’t spend much time in downtown Toronto. I wanted to see Chinatown.
The worst trip was either camping in Pennsylvania or Washington, DC.

Ghosted by JG! @ 02/27/2004 7:24 PM EST

Yeah, my mecca is Easter Island. The place just captivates me.

Ghosted by Tutsuro @ 02/27/2004 7:31 PM EST

The new Turtles series will soon air on Cartoon Network:

http://home.businesswire.com/p...40225005495&newsLang=en19.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo, four turtles trained in the Bushido code, use their skills to battle the evil Shredder and The Foot Clan in the 30-minute action-adventure comedy series that will air weekdays on Carton Network beginning Monday, April 19."

Ghosted by ME @ 02/27/2004 7:54 PM EST

Correct link for press release of new shows:
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Ghosted by ME @ 02/27/2004 7:57 PM EST

Best: Edinburgh, Scotland. Beautiful city, great beer, faux medieval charm.

Worst: A Maine "resort" in the summer on a crappy little lake. We had to stay in the "attic" rather than one of the cabins. But the attic ended up being one large room with plywood walls separating "rooms"…however, the walls didn’t go all the way to the ceiling, so we heard all about our neighbors, especially the developmentally challenged guy who cleaned the main building next to us who talked to himself in a running commentary and the woman with the severely messed up ADHD kid next door who was so obnoxious that my dad went next door and berated the mom for not knowing how to discipline her kids. And my dad’s a creampuff.

I hate Maine.

Ghosted by Craig @ 02/27/2004 11:11 PM EST

Trust me, the last place anyone wants to be is in my imagination. It is definitely not a vacation there.

Ghosted by Killer Duck @ 02/28/2004 1:10 AM EST

I’d like to buy an RV and just travel around to check out all of the little places that people don’t normally visit. Maybe a little old peopleish, but I’ve never been the spring break cabo party and get naked type. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Ghosted by Lauren @ 02/28/2004 3:17 AM EST

I’d really like to take a trip across the pond to visit the States. Yeah, that’s a pretty big place, but I have great difficulty choosing any one spot. NYC would be a must I guess, California and Florida, I like sun and heat. Yeah… that would be a great trip.

Worst, Italy hands down. Venice is a cesspool, hell on earth. And every other Italian town or village we visited was a nightmare. I hate those narrow streets, the obnoxious shouting locals. Total stressville, I thought these guys were supposed to know how to take it slow and enjoy life. Sheesh! Move 2 seconds too slow doing anything in Italy, or God forbid you attempt to pay using too large bills anywhere, and you’re bound to get a 2 minute high speed Italian reprimande from hell. You’ll swear you’d murdered someone in the man/woman’s family or something.

Rome seems nice though, but no way am I ever going back to Italy.

Ghosted by Rattus @ 02/28/2004 8:27 AM EST

OMG!

I can’t believe it slipped my mind but the real place I want to go to and eventually will, heck I’ve been planning it in my mind is Astoria, Oregon! I just have to see all the Goonies sites, and take the path they took. I could die after that!

"Goonies Never Say Die"

Ghosted by Goonie4Life @ 02/28/2004 8:31 AM EST

Best Vacation: Playa Del Carmen, Mexico at the Riu Yucatan. Not the greatest place in the world, but it was all inclusive, the room had a free mini bar with types of hard liqour, naked women on the beach and white sand and blue water.

Dream vacation: Makes no matter, just as long as it tropical, has plenty of rum, sits on a beach and has a limited number of terrorists.

Ghosted by Planet Garp @ 02/28/2004 12:36 PM EST

I’m damn lazy, couldn’t get past the first five comments, just such useless info. but I gotta add my own just cuz.

best vacation spot I’ve been - toss up between Sydney, and Melbourn, Australia, just so much to do in both.

worst spot I’ve been- Reno, NV, the boringest place I’ve ever been, I went and saw "Chicken Run" in the theatre to keep busy.

Place I wanna go- the island from "Joe verses the Volcano" I know it’s not real, and it was supposed to have sunk n’ stuff, but it was a cool island

Ghosted by brandon @ 02/28/2004 12:45 PM EST

Two weeks later! Now post that goddamn 4th Chia-Plot story, bitch!

Sorry, haven’t had my coffee. Tell ya what, Review "Mac and Me" and I’ll forget it.

Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 02/28/2004 1:29 PM EST

mmmmmmmm… Orange soda. urp!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/28/2004 1:31 PM EST

Worst place I have been is where I am now…….Afghanistan. Not by my choice to visit more so the Army.

Best Place- Anywhere but here

Ghosted by GZO @ 02/28/2004 1:43 PM EST

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0876

It’s pretty funny already

Ghosted by hitachi4GBmicrodrive @ 02/28/2004 2:30 PM EST

Well, tonight my sis the reservist is ending her layover in Kuwait and heading into Iraq. Not quite her idea of sun and fun, but hey, as a member of Quartermaster Corps, she keeps everybody rollin’. By the by, whoever tried to use my handle twice thus far, don’t. The last thing I want to see here is that archetype of high school, The One Who Ruined It For The Rest Of Us. Matt might have to invoke Account Powers if this kind of silliness continues, and I’m kinda lazy and want as few steps as possible to hang out here. I can be stupid on my own, tenkyooveddymuch. Just ask my Little Brother.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/28/2004 2:45 PM EST

All those who want to go to New Zealand - I’m already there. :p

Anyways, I would like to travel back to England (my birthplace) or Japan (to follow the footsteps of Piro and Largo)

Ghosted by Matt @ 02/28/2004 3:16 PM EST

Best place I HAVE been: tie between Germany and Las Vegas

Worst place I have been: Littleton, NH

There’s WAY too many places I’d like to go, but I’d like to start with Ireland.

Ghosted by Mr.Bone @ 02/28/2004 3:35 PM EST

I’d like to vacate to somewhere where people weren’t constantly clamoring for a Mac & Me review. Fuck, people, it’s not THAT good/bad/sobadit’sgood. It’s not even subtle! That’s like begging for Matt to review a Scooby-Doo episode and make a bunch of jokes about smoking pot. You can do it yourself, kid, for real.

Ghosted by G'Tron @ 02/28/2004 5:09 PM EST

I dunno, by now, it’s more of a expected tic than a actual request. Like Schiavelli’s character in "Crazy people" that always said "hello" in every second or third sentence. Or in the early days of SNL, they recieved weekly fanmail from some guy who always closed with "Go fuck a frog." There are worse things than a constant request for a E.T. rip-off. More power to you A-Wel. I always thought Velma was hot.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 02/28/2004 5:58 PM EST

Dream vacay- Ireland in the spring (love that Irish Spring)
Best- tie, New Orleans for halloween with my bf this year And Road trip from Kansas City to Tijuana with two girlfriends in ‘99 (I met Harrison Ford in a bar in Dallas Tx, no shit)
Worst- St Louis Zoo in Missouri with my alcoholic dad i hadn’t seen for two years. i was 11 and i got my first period RIGHT THERE AT THE ZOO! Hell is gonna be a picnic for me after that.

Ghosted by valarie @ 02/28/2004 6:09 PM EST

Best Vacation: Cheesy as it sounds… it was a Carnival Cruise. Did you know that most of those ships have a topless deck? And also, in international waters–well there was this 15 year old who was just stacked! Man Oh Man!

Dream Vacation… find that fifteen year old again. Of course she’d be 18 by now.

Ghosted by The Return of Long Duck Dong @ 02/28/2004 8:00 PM EST

Wow 92 post FIRST TIME EVER
A-wel Cruiz You are a moron.

Best place ever to vacation Amsterdam. Also, Cuba is quite fun and so is Nevada.

Ghosted by ZacWax @ 02/28/2004 11:48 PM EST

Best vacation - Panama or Jamaica. Went to both as part of a mission trip, so I don’t know if you’d classify it a typical vacation. But there is nothing better than playing with local kids and checking out beaches that aren’t part of the typical tourist’s agenda.

Dream vacation - Costa Rica or Cuba

Ghosted by Nachokhaki @ 02/29/2004 10:27 AM EST

Oh man its a beauty day here in Chi-town.

Best vacaction New Orleans. My kinda city!!!

Worst vacation San Fransicko. No its not the gays. More of a terrible family reunion. I’ll have to give the city by the bay another chance again soon.

Dream vacaction…? Well have you ever heard of this place called Recall. You get to go on a trip to Mars without ever leaving their office. Only 1500credits. Get the spy package.

Ghosted by Belmont, Simon Belmont @ 02/29/2004 12:53 PM EST

japan or london. but with the money i have a two night stay in new jersey =*(

Ghosted by nelson @ 02/29/2004 3:38 PM EST

Brandon…you say Reno’s the "boringest" place you’ve ever been…you must be under 21.

I live there…there isn’t much to do unless you’re old enough to go into the casinos to do it.

Ghosted by Monster Dog @ 02/29/2004 5:46 PM EST

Seeing how Mac and Me would be one of the ultimate X-E articles, I can see Matt keeping himself from reviewing it until he is ready to retire from the site.

Antartica’s land continent under the ice is where I would like to visit. Imagine all the alien ships, pyramids and Lovecraft crestures that are buried there.

Ghosted by She-Man @ 02/29/2004 7:01 PM EST

Lovecraft creatures

Ghosted by She-Man @ 02/29/2004 7:01 PM EST

moo toodles and a wa awah awawh

Ghosted by bugh @ 02/29/2004 8:43 PM EST

Hah! Return of the King is pwning the Oscars!
(w00t 100th post!)

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 02/29/2004 11:10 PM EST

Straight boring answers: New York (never been), Texas, San Francisco, Japan and most of Asia (honestly, though, I want to go to Cambodia more than Thailand for its "off the beaten track" appeal), India… erm, most of Europe, especially England (though I’ve been many times… I was born there).

Slightly more interesting answers:

I like being cozy when I’m sleeping, so I want to go somewhere really, really cold, since you can really only feel cozy, snuggly warm if it’s really, really cold outside. So, I’d love to go somewhere like Svalbard/Spitsbergen, Whitehorse, Inuvik, Fairbanks, Iceland, or Murmansk. Or, if it existed, I’d go to 5ºE 75ºS in Antarctica and visit Cobra Recreational Base number three, where you can play table tennis and swim in the Cobra Commander gymnasium, eat lunch in the Destro dining room or watch the Cobra Cuties in the Zartan entertainment center.

Also, I’d love to take a train across a continent, like the Trans-Siberian Railroad, or the new one in Australia.

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of running naked with the Kayapo in the Amazon, but… I dunno… I didn’t take into consideration the mosquitoes and the snakes and the little toothy fish that can swim up your urine stream as you pee and lodge itself in your urethra.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 03/01/2004 3:22 AM EST

My dream vacation? Eh, I don’t know.
If you ask me, I think Cobra Island was always an untapped resource for great tourism potential. None of those Cobra goons really seemed cut out for terrorism, anyway, and would probably all be happier making mai-tai’s and pina coladas on the beach while wearing little hawaiian shirts and straw hats. Put those twins in charge of the business side of it, and you’re sitting on a gold mine that’s bound to pay off better than giving away free money with a picture of Cobra Commander on it (what was up with that anyway?).
They’ve even got guys that were born for Vegas-style stage shows and other attractions: Croc Master with his trained crocs; Dr. Mindbenders perfectly-chiseled pecs; Crystal Ball with his stupid hyno-wheel thingie. Heck, the Dreadnoks are practically human versions of the Country Bear Jamboree.

Ghosted by Corwin @ 03/01/2004 4:23 AM EST

Oh, I forgot one, Kerguelen, a medium-sized island in the Indian Ocean between India and Antarctica that gets extremely high winds which make the place frigid, even if it’s at an equivalent lattitude (except in the wrong hemisphere) from Vancouver (49ºS). It’s a protectionate of France, so France has a few research stations there. It’s one of the most remote places on Earth.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 03/01/2004 4:57 AM EST

there used to be a cool UFO museum at Pier 39 in san Francisco.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/01/2004 11:34 AM EST

Best vacation: eh, England I guess

Worst vacatation: mexico, I was too young to know what the hell was going on.

Dream: Australia or Japan…I know a cute girl who is from Australia, so I lean towards that…

Ghosted by The Germanator @ 03/01/2004 12:09 PM EST

Hmmm…places I would like to vacation at.
Fictional: Middle Earth
Actual: Iceland

Ghosted by Joshua @ 03/01/2004 3:11 PM EST

Best vacation I had was at Centennial Cottages PEI. The cottages were close to lots of attractions like deep sea fsihing, fine dining and the beach.

Ghosted by James Maddison @ 03/01/2004 10:54 PM EST

sandusky, ohio…the rollercoaster capital of the world

Ghosted by bartman @ 03/02/2004 8:30 PM EST

A weird lost weekend around a small town with Thomas Haden Church where we dine at crappy restaurants, buy a crappy Epson printer and go home and watch the crappy 80s series "The Bronx Zoo" on a T-160 video tape.

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 03/10/2004 4:18 PM EST

Oh… you mean a vacation that ACTUALLY happened!
I thought it was a dream vacation thing

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 03/10/2004 4:22 PM EST

My back yard. Oh wait…I dont have one.

Ghosted by Jaffar @ 03/12/2004 12:41 PM EST

i would love to go to Australia…anywhere in Australia.

best place i’ve been: Edinburgh, Scotland (and i would definately go back after visting Australia)we went on the coolest graveyard/ghost tour while we were there

worst: er,actually…i don’t think i’ve vacationed somewhere i didn’t like, at least somewhat, even if my family tried their damndest to ruin it for me…

Ghosted by fightclubjack @ 10/01/2004 7:07 PM EDT

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