I often get wacky trip ideas.

[randomness]

Sometimes I even implement them.

This is one I'm unlikely to implement, because I have more sanity than money, but here it is:

The largest 52 metropolitan areas in the world, one a week for a year!

The reasoning goes like this. I like cities, and I like travel. I've been to a lot of these places, and I'd like to visit most of the ones I haven't been to yet. (Clearly, there are exceptions: for example, I won't be going to Baghdad as a tourist until the security situation improves.)

Wikipedia and world-gazetteer.com both have lists of metro areas, which of course conflict. In fact, Wikipedia has two: a list of urban areas by population and one of urban agglomerations. (I prefer the former, because Boston/Providence is on that list at #37, while on the latter Boston is way down at #56. On world-gazetteer.com it just misses the top 50.)

Needless to say, this trip would be very expensive and quite a test of stamina. Even if I didn't visit them in order of population, but chose some (relatively) sane geographic order instead.

But boy, imagine the food blogging!

Comments

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

this trip would be very expensive and quite a test of stamina.

FWIW, I think if you are going to travel for pleasure, it should be enjoyable and not a marathon run. YMMV:)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

YMMV

Clearly, because some people find marathon runs enjoyable.

I think I would find this more fun than you would (surprise!) but not enough to actually do it. But that's why I said I had more sanity than money.

(Unless I got funding. That would be different.)

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

(Unless I got funding. That would be different.)

If I got funding, that would be different, too, and I would seriously consider joining in:) (is that a surprise?) It would work better for me, of course, if I could figure out ways to be able to continue to swim, like at local Y's or something, but I am guessing that would be a casualty...

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be problematic.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Then I would probably have wait 2-3 years after my commitment to that has been satisfied, unless I find something else that does for me what swimming does before then, or the issues I am trying to address by swimming resolve sooner...not holding my breath, though (so to speak:)

Who knows--maybe Baghdad will be in better shape at that point (though I'm not holding my breath for that either).

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

And of course G would have to come.

_{I'll stop posting now. Really:)}