The uber-rich Richard Garriott and I have different travel priorities. I’m sure the micro-gravity is amazing and the view of earth from orbit is unequalled, but I’m not sure that if I had $30 million to spend on the adventure of a lifetime I would spend it on a 10 day trip to the international space station.
Assuming that I couldn’t spend the $30m on much more reasonable things, like fighting climate change or extreme poverty, I think I would much rather just tour the world for a couple of years with some of my best friends. I can’t even imagine all the amazing misadventures we could get into. Of course we’d do the obvious things like climbing Kilimanjaro and Machu Picchu, diving the Red Sea and Great Barrier Reef, drive across Antarctica, and sail across the South Pacific.
What would your adventure of a lifetime be if cost were no issue? Would you go to space, or do something outrageous here on terra-firma?
Photos: The space station and earth from space tourist Anousheh Ansari and a group of friends on top of Kilimanjaro.
1 comment:
I would definitely stay here on Earth... I'm headed to NZ in January, and already looking into biking across Ireland, possibly next fall. Kilimanjaro is high on the list, as is (basically all of) South America. There is so much to do, so much to see.
-marli
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