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

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

*drool*

Do you realize that I hit 15 of the cities on the first list on this trip alone? (19 on the second list and 46 from the first few hundred on the third list, before I became disgruntled by all the places I'm forced to skip due to time and gave up.) Holy cow.

Yes, it helps to have funding. You can use my level of (in)sanity upon my return as a gauge for whether you should attempt something like this in the future. *grin*

(It's a great idea, btw.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

You can use my level of (in)sanity upon my return as a gauge for whether you should attempt something like this in the future. *grin*

Your funding source is driving you crazy. I think maybe it would unfair to use your experience as an example? :)

(It's a great idea, btw.)

Thanks! Maybe I'll do it on a longer schedule.

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

Actually, now that I no longer have to interact with them on a daily basis (or weekly, or even monthly, as it turns out), my relationship with my funding source is tolerable. I was really referring to the insanity accompanying being on the road for 9 months without a break. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Actually, now that I no longer have to interact with them on a daily basis (or weekly, or even monthly, as it turns out), my relationship with my funding source is tolerable.

Rockin! I was hoping it would work out that way.