Where would you choose to go on a vacation?

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Remote cabin in Yellowstone. The more remote, the better. If I ever went on vacation, I would require total isolation in Nature for at least a week. Probably more like two or three.

I went with Yellowstone, though Italy/Greece and remote cottage were high on my list. I'd consider McMurdo station, but it seems more like prison than vacation. Nothing to see but frozen desert and a few mountains, so it would be a rather boring week. Working there would be different. I prefer a moderate climate, so Hawaii is out, been to FLA Disney before, and the cape, I don't like crowded, noisy places and I can't see a hotel being a tourist attraction in itself unless it were historic. Alaska is nice, but it seems a bit too remote - nothing to see besides nature.

I've been to the ROM, the CMOG, some of the museums in Chicago, the Adirondacks, Pike's peak, Mt St Helens, Detroit... I have waded in the Pacific Ocean, and I swam in the Atlantic Ocean, which is how I learned what an undertow feels like. I have been to the Air Force Academy in Colorado, I have driven across the new bridge at Tacoma Narrows - the old one was known as "Galloping Girdy." My parents are from PA, making it easy to visit sites like the boulder field, the site of the Latimer Massacre, and Amish country. Oddly, I have never been to Philly. I did happen to see Air Force One on he Tarmac during a layover in MSP; President was not present.

I would like to take a road trip across America and see sites like Mt Rushmore, DC, the Grand Canyon, that sort of thing. I would like to see Stonehenge, the ruins of Greece and Rome, the Pyramids, that sort of thing. Something like Buckingham Palace would most likely bore me to tears. I do wish the Colossus of Rhodes had not fallen.

I picked Alaska because: I love the North, it is cold, it is wintery, it is isolated, it is quiet, and it is gorgeous. I worked in a town in the Yukon right on the border of Alaska, and--while the work experience there was a nightmare--the landscape and the environment was just perfect for me. It always seemed so fresh, so natural, and the wilderness is largely untouched there. The towns are so small, and there are very few cities.

On a completely opposite note, I would also love to travel somewhere in the Meditteranean/Middle East--particularly Israel, Greece, Turkey, or Morrocco. I didn't choose the Greece option, however, because I wouldn't want a translator following me. I wouldn't know how and when to communicate with the translator, so I wouldn't want one. I would rather go it alone, talk as little as possible, but find a way to do so when needed.

May I ask what you did in the Yukon? My dream is to visit Denali National Park and Fairbanks. However, being a California weather wimp, I wouldn't dare visit in winter. I'd probably visit in May or September just to avoid the summer rush crowds. I also don't mind seeing a little snow (which I'd expect if I went in May) but wouldn't be able to handle the extremes of 30 below, etc in winter.

I just googled "McMurdo station" cuz I had no clue what it was and learned that it was one of the research stations in Antarctica. Yeah, after reading about life on the research stations, I think a week as a tourist there would be real boring. A day or two might be interesting though. I read there are cruises that go around South America that make a 1 day stop on the Antarctic Peninsula. That would probably personally be more fun for me.

Out of those choices, I'd choose Alaska. I love nature and from what I've seen on photos, Alaska has really beautiful and interesting nature. I also prefer cold climate over warmer ones.

I love traveling and I've traveled a lot in my life and hope I can continue doing it. I like being very active on trips and seeing/doing a lot, but I prefer to set the pace myself and have some control over the activities and schedule myself. I have physical disabilities that need to be taken into account and in my experience it's best if I'm in control of things myself.

I enjoy comfort, but I can do without it too if necessary.

[X] A week in Japan staying in a hotel in Toyko and sightseeing other parts of Japan

Something about Japan attracts me to it, the culture, the language, just about everything.

I would like to go to the country side though, it looks so peaceful.

I chose the cottage by a lake. Although it brings to mind certain horror films, so I'm not sure I'd want to be too isolated...

I'd really like to visit Iceland, Norway and Sweden at some point, to see the wild places. Also I'd love to go to Italy some day. And Yellowstone looks amazing. I'm just scared about my ability to do anything more adventurous than going to the corner shop these days.

Yellow Stone Park. Except I'd want to go for a lot longer than a week, and the electricity would be optional.

Just need to get me some money...

Norway, Tromsø. I want to see the northern lights and the Tromsøbrua.

I've always wanted to visit Japan...

I'd love to travel, it saddens me a great deal that I've never travelled and probably never will due to finances, such a huge wide world out there to explore and so many different cultures, and I've barely been out of my little city. I can't imagine any sort of sensory issues with travelling, for me it'd be all about not knowing how to act...not at the destinations, but in the airport with all the rules about travelling.

With my limited knowledge of the world I don't know where I would go, although I have a few ideas;
- Mexico City, in particular during Día de los Muertos, going through the city to explore all the markets and museums.
- Sicily, to see the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, death is fascinating and I've love to see the catacombs, Rosalia Lombardo especially.
- India, the poverty is obviously a big turn off, but I'd like to go to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal and other places of interest.
- Japan, the culture doesn't appeal as much as it does for others, but Tokyo for shopping and Kawasaki during the Kanamara Matsuri!
- America, Texas and Minneapolis to visit people, Florida for Disneyland, New York for shopping, and New Orleans for the culture.

I can't stand the idea of going on holiday just to sit by a pool or in the hotel, if you're going to do that you may as well just sit at home and turn-up your central heating, it'd save a lot of money, CO2 emissions and in the case of my countrymen it'd save the other people in the world the 'joy' of English tourists. The idea of sitting round sunbathing is my idea of hell, I'd want to do something constructive, no activity holidays but trips where I can take-in as much of the place as I can, see as much as I can, do as much as I can, and buy as much as I can.

The tundra wastelands of antarctica, the most beautiful place on earth, and the only place I can say to myself "I'm the only person in the whole world" and feel like it might be true.

It was a tough decision, but I chose a week in New York City. I would love to spend a week exploring it.

I would refuse to go on vacation and give the voucher to someone who enjoys travel.

Not in the mood to travel.