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2012

Friday Five – Dream Vacations

Posted By on Friday October 26, 2012 at 1:48 pm
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Japanese temple

Welcome to the Friday Five! Each week I help you get to know me a bit better with the help of a top 5 list. This week’s topic: Dream Vacations!

I almost never take vacations in the conventional sense. Well, technically, I take time off off to go to various conventions. But those are never relaxing. I almost always return more exhausted than when I left. What I need is a vacation where I don’ have to work, and can just enjoy myself. That’s the dream!

I’ve already kicked a bunch of destinations off my bucket list (Space Camp, Kennedy Space Center for a Shuttle Launch, the Star Trek Experience before it closed), so I’m running out of ideas. I’m a nerd, what can I say. I left off Japan, because that’s the obvious nerd Mecca.

  1. Baikonur Cosmodrome – Home of the Russian space program

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  2. Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center – Largest private collection of space artifacts, and the only museum to display flown capsules from Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.

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  3. Mission Control in Houston

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  4. Chernobyl – I’ve always been fascinated by nuclear power, and this is apparently now like a tourist attraction. Only the Russians would think that cooling a nuclear reactor with liquid sodium (which catches fire when it comes in contact with water) is a good idea. So long as it doesn’t go all Chernobyl Diaries on me, it should be fine.

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  5. Scotland – I suppose I should go see my namesake country, maybe go see Nessie. Especially since that is where bagpipes originated, and not Ireland like I answered in the final run offs of the National Geography Bee in 6th grade, therefore losing my chance to represent our school. Yes, I am aware of the irony of the situation.

 
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is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.

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