Switzerland. Took the wife for New Years celebration in Zurich and spent a week exploring Zurich and a few other cities, Lucerne, Interlaken, The SAN factory (formerly Sig) at Rhienfalls. Proposed to her just before the fireworks started over the lake in Zurich. We would hop a train and travel to a city and spend the day exploring. Highly recommended. The other qualifying place I’ve been is Panama Central America. The jungle is quite an experience and so was Noriega’s Panama City.

never been west of the Mississippi,
only been as far north as Camp Perry, (did a short stay at Lagardia for a flight , maybe a hour, once)

went to Miami as a kid,

done the history stuff in DC, VA some in NC, SC, GA,
been to Huntsville and Louisville, both work related,


best trip tho was England,

realized what we consider to be old is really not,
my paternal ancestor stepped foot in Jamestown in around 1610,
stood in a several Cathedrals that were old then,

the Baths at Bath,
Stonehenge,


amazing place, and excellent beer

Bryce Canyon, Utah was unique and amazing.

I don’t think it had a name, but was out in the jungle in Sri Lanka.

I was in Colombo for business, and took a day to visit the city of Kandy. I hired a car and driver/guide for the 3-hour drive. On the way, the driver tells me we’d be passing his parent’s village and that it had been a while since he’d seen them. I figured it would be a short stop so I told him to pull off the main road so he could stop in and say hello.

After driving down an unpaved track heading into the jungle for the better part of an hour, I was starting to wonder if I’d made a big mistake. But, Eventually we came around a bend into a tiny village and his parents and the entire village came out and gave us a big welcome. (Phew!)

Most out of the way place? A contender for me was the Navy’s POW camp (part of SERE training) which I believe is somewhere near Redington, Maine.

It’s also beautiful country but I was distracted and not able to enjoy the scenery as much as I might have.

Beautiful and fascinating -Riding Camel in Sahara in southern Algeria.

Fun- Rural England and Scotland

Vietnam- Shitty

Most out of the way: Diego Garcia. Footprint of Freedom.

I still remember eating the sweetest tasting fish there ever. Someone strung a fishing net offshore. You walked over sharp rocks to grab one of the caught fish. Took it to shore where someone gutted it and stuffed onions and herbs inside and threw it on the barbecue.

Sweetest tasting fish I ever had.

Nasty? Scottsdale, AZ used to have a small porn theater on a downtown side street. I saw behind Marilyn Chambers in "Behind The Green Door" there in 1972. You can imagine the nastiness...

Beauty, this video was taken by the owner's son on one of the trips we did in the Exumas, Bahamas
Click on the video below

https://youtu.be/N2Oypm0A5Os

Dominican Republic covers exotic, beautiful, interesting, fascinating, and nasty all in one stop.

My military career took me to some interesting places and since I was with the Corps of Engineers on a couple of deployments I worked with civilians while I was in uniform. Spent 6 months in Kosovo and had a great time traveling most of the country visiting the Russian, Italian, French, UK sectors. I spent a week in Sarajevo and a few days in Sofia Bulgaria. I spent a month traveling Europe and visited Geneva, Zurich, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt and Heidelburg. Stateside if you haven't been to the Grand canyon you need to go and while you're in the area checkout Sedona which has some incredible rock formations. Colorado has excellent scenery to checkout from Pikes Peak, MT Evans, Trail Ridge Byway and Million Dollar Highway. The US has some exceptional places to visit so you really don't need to go overseas to checkout real beauty.

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Most beautiful,
Saint Maarten,
half the places I go off road to every weekend,
North Norfolk England.

Skins, it really does. I went there last year and loved it. Ocean World Adventure Park is WAAAAAAY better than SeaWorld. I went to both about a week apart and the hands on dolphin experience in Dom Rep is nothing short of spectacular. They’ve trained dolphins to swim with you, do tricks with you and even lift you out of the water and push you across the water like you’re surfing for about 20 feet.. I’ll never forget it. It definitely covered the spectrum from beautiful to exotic to downright nasty.

I've been to some of the backwoods of India that meet most of the adjectives in the title.
Certainly exotic, interesting, and nasty. Almost unimaginable poverty in some of those villages and urban slums.

The central part of Sri Lanka was also beautiful and fascinating to me. Like Skull Island covered in tea plantations.

Trunk Bay on St. John's might be the most beautiful, though. Only got to spend one afternoon there, unfortunately.

Out of the way: two come to mind, business trip to St. Johns Newfoundland. Very cool. 1.5 hour time difference, not one, not 2, but 1.5.

Luminous Bay in Jamaica, in the water that was like liquid light.

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Especially 30 plus years back before it was inundated with visitors as it is today.

Loose lips sink ships and all that. You talk too much. Consider this is the internet and even goes to Kali. Those unwashed hoards will be reading. Before you know it, paradise will be lost. I'd hope most don't toss beer cans out the window as they empty them. (Its our plague from hillbillies.) I appreciate your feelings, but maybe you should keep them to yourself.

I've been to NP's and sat in traffic jams. I'm guessing the natives wish no one had come.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
Skins, it really does. I went there last year and loved it. Ocean World Adventure Park is WAAAAAAY better than SeaWorld. I went to both about a week apart and the hands on dolphin experience in Dom Rep is nothing short of spectacular. They’ve trained dolphins to swim with you, do tricks with you and even lift you out of the water and push you across the water like you’re surfing for about 20 feet.. I’ll never forget it. It definitely covered the spectrum from beautiful to exotic to downright nasty.

I stay in the marina at Ocean World there when bringing yachts further South. One time, when the park was closed me and the first mate wandered all through it, I guess from the workers side that borders the marina, behind the scenes playing with the dolphins and marine life for about an hour before some employee walked by and kicked us out. LOLOLOLOL

Ocean World is nice, but it's different than Sea World, a lot more compact, I wouldn't say it's nicer......

St. Maarten was one of my all time favorite islands, but I haven't been back since the hurricane and I've been told many things have been wiped out there like all of the places on Orient Beach, and it's not the same.