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On another posting Sheryl said:
"Sheryl
speaking of extreme outdoor activities - if I can take this thread on a slight detour - I have always dreamed of going to Antarctica - I found this trip in my PADI dive magazine this morning, and am salivating. Must have something to do with watching March of the Penguins a couple weeks ago. However I have already promised SO that Christmas 2006 will be somewhere tropical.... and the ole' portfolio needs a couple bull market years before we pay for something like this... but a girl can dream, eh??
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It got me to thinking of planned travel and differences (challenges?) between my wife & I on travel choices. I have planned for some years and plan to go this year and kayak in the Arctic. I bought an old Jeep Cherokee and I plan to drive 4,400 miles from Southern California up to Canada past Dawson Creek up the Dempster Hwy, the final 450 miles are a dirt road. The we would paddle around Inuvik and maybe get to a couple other towns like Tuk or Aklivic. My wife asks me why I want to go and I show her pictures of the vast open spaces and she replies "Theres a reason no one lives there!" and shows me pictures of Hawaii & Tahiti and says that "If you fall in the water there you don't die!"
My wife is retiring in June about the time we plan to leave. I expect to work another year or two, so this would be a long vacation, but it seems like if you want to do unconventional travel its better to do it 'young', what better reason for retiring early?
Anyone have some unconventional travel to report? How did you snyc them with your spouse?
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