Joanna
ravi wrote:
>On 21 Sep, 2007, at 23:23 PM, joanna wrote:
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>>My solution is to travel like a student: Eat with the natives and
>>sleep
>>in hostels. Works pretty good.
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>Yes, and also, watch for the deals: immediately after the SARS
>pandelirium, I travelled to China for $1100 which included 10 days of
>lodging, food, travel (Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing, Beijing...), a
>nice long boat ride down the Yangtze, and flight from/to Newark. Of
>course if SARS is not your cup of tea, this plan may not work out for
>you. ;-)
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>I think currently Orbitz has ~ $400 RT (which I admit is expensive
>compared to the $250 RT from a few years ago) to various spots in
>Europe. If you can't find a hostel, find a penzione, camp, sleep on
>the beach ;-).
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>Or go visit Chris Doss and he will take you to some *kistan where
>your almighty dollar probably will still find a handsome return!
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>Which reminds me: I just returned from the less intellectual coast
>where I met up with two of its most intellectual inhabitants, which
>was a great pleasure. Keeping with Internet tradition, Chuck Grimes
>is quite a different entity in person. Unless you think long
>meditations on Strauss, FreeBSD on the one hand, and rock-climbing go
>hand in hand! And I thought, in joining LBO, that I had found mates
>equally lacking a life!
>
> --ravi
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>Yes, $1100 is still a lot of money but, but... it was China!! Like, I
>mean, like, one of the ten places anyone has to visit before they
>die!! BTW, skip Shanghai if you go.
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>In case you are curious the other nine of course are (parts of): the
>USA (Utah, NYC, CA), Italy, Japan, Botswana, India, Russia, Belize,
>Egypt, Iran. Plus Austria if you can swing it.
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