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Would You Take a Free Trip to Paris?

Would You Take a Free Trip to Paris?

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ChrisL said:
I've never been either, I just know it's warmer than Massachusetts. :lol:
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Yea... It's warm alright. A lot of it is desert, which might honestly even be a little bit too warm.

My first day in Kuwait, I honestly thought that I might die. :lol:
 
ChrisL said:
I'd go to Texas. It's not Massachusetts. :lol:
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I was born in Texas so it can't be all bad. And I'll take a free (presumably all expenses paid) trip to either one. I'd prefer to go to Amsterdam in the summer on somebody else's nickel but the rules is the rules.

So, is there a catch or not? Hello OP. Where are you?
 
I guess the OP didn't get the response he was looking for and abandoned the thread.
 
Ad_Captandum said:
Just a simple poll to see how many of you would take a free trip to Paris for a week if it were given to you tomorrow, to be redeemed sometime in the near future.


What's your answer, and why?
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I'm not a huge fan of France, but for FREE? I'd snap that up in a heartbeat.

May I ask where this question came from? Were you offered it?
 
Gathomas88 said:
Exactly. It's someplace new! :lol:

I've never been to Texas before. I'm sure there's plenty of new things to see and do there.
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ChrisL said:
I've never been either, I just know it's warmer than Massachusetts. :lol:
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I highly recommend it sometime. It may not be the best vacation if you're looking for a spot, but if you have another reason to head to the area, Austin and San Antonio are really great cities with a whole lot to do.

Plus the Tex-Mex is the best in the world.

San Antonio is a lot like Venice, there's a series of rivers and you can ride around on boats and relax, plus there's lots of water parks.

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Austin is also a very clean, young, fun city.

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I've always wondered what cheese eating surrender monkeys looked like in their natural habitat.

I'm down...
 
I'm trying to think of a place that I wouldn't be prepared to visit if a free holiday there were offered. Maybe Pyongyang. Possibly Mogadishu. Beyond that, bring it on!

I've been to Paris, France dozens of times; always a pleasure. Beautiful, cultured and, despite the myths, I've always found Parisians friendly and hospitable, and I'm English.

I'd go to Paris, Texas on a freebie in an eye-blink. It wouldn't be my first choice of Texan cities, I'd love to see San Antonio and Austin, but why the hell not? I know that Texans generally might have the absolute opposite values and attitudes to me, but I've been to places where I've even less in common with the genpop, and had a great time.
 
Gathomas88 said:
Yea... It's warm alright. A lot of it is desert, which might honestly even be a little bit too warm.

My first day in Kuwait, I honestly thought that I might die. :lol:
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Does it really get that hot in Texas though? Is it hot like that every day in the summer or just occasionally?
 
RabidAlpaca said:
I highly recommend it sometime. It may not be the best vacation if you're looking for a spot, but if you have another reason to head to the area, Austin and San Antonio are really great cities with a whole lot to do.

Plus the Tex-Mex is the best in the world.

San Antonio is a lot like Venice, there's a series of rivers and you can ride around on boats and relax, plus there's lots of water parks.

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Austin is also a very clean, young, fun city.

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Awesome!
 
specklebang said:
I was born in Texas so it can't be all bad. And I'll take a free (presumably all expenses paid) trip to either one. I'd prefer to go to Amsterdam in the summer on somebody else's nickel but the rules is the rules.

So, is there a catch or not? Hello OP. Where are you?
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Heck, it's snowing like crazy here right now. I'll go anywhere. :lol:
 
ChrisL said:
Does it really get that hot in Texas though? Is it hot like that every day in the summer or just occasionally?
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Depends on where you are in Texas. Huge state. Took me 8 hours to drive from Victoria to Dallas, and I still had a ways to go to get to Arkansas.

They get snow in the panhandle pretty regularly in the winter, from what I've seen.
 
Superfly said:
Depends on where you are in Texas. Huge state. Took me 8 hours to drive from Victoria to Dallas, and I still had a ways to go to get to Arkansas.

They get snow in the panhandle pretty regularly in the winter, from what I've seen.
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I had a friend who lived in Corpus Christi and said that the heat was unbearable in the summer, but that's pretty much as far south as you can get in Texas, I think.
 
ChrisL said:
I had a friend who lived in Corpus Christi and said that the heat was unbearable in the summer, but that's pretty much as far south as you can get in Texas, I think.
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Yeah there's not much more below Corpus until you get to Mexico. And hot? Yeah, hotter than the fires of 400 hells. But not any hotter than New Orleans, or Biloxi, or Houston, or Mobile, or where I am, for that matter. The cool thing about Corpus - trying to get my bearings straight, but I think it's called Ocean Drive, and you drive up and down and have all these pink stucco houses. They were so cool. I'd live in a pink stucco house, if you could move it out of Texas.
 
Superfly said:
Yeah there's not much more below Corpus until you get to Mexico. And hot? Yeah, hotter than the fires of 400 hells. But not any hotter than New Orleans, or Biloxi, or Houston, or Mobile, or where I am, for that matter. The cool thing about Corpus - trying to get my bearings straight, but I think it's called Ocean Drive, and you drive up and down and have all these pink stucco houses. They were so cool. I'd live in a pink stucco house, if you could move it out of Texas.
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That sounds cool.

I've never been to any southern states. I have no idea how hot it is. :lol: I know here in the summer in MA, we flock to the beaches because it's always 10 degrees cooler on the coast than inland. I was kind of surprised that Corpus Christi was SO hot because it's a coastal city.
 
Unless you thought it was some sort of scam why wouldnt you take a free trip to paris?
 
Andalublue said:
I'm trying to think of a place that I wouldn't be prepared to visit if a free holiday there were offered. Maybe Pyongyang. Possibly Mogadishu. Beyond that, bring it on!
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This is how I feel. I love to travel and experience new places, even if it would be Paris, TX. I've driven through the state a dozen times but have only stayed the night, usually in Fort Worth, so I haven't really gotten to really experience it. I have been wanting to go really bad to San Antonio for awhile now. Not only does it look beautiful but they have Sea World!
 
Oh definitely, i would for sure do something spontaneous like that....

right after the semester ends in may
 
ChrisL said:
We get a ton of humidity here in MA too. That's a famous saying here too. It's not the heat that'll get ya, it's the humidity! I think we get the extremes of both heat and cold here in MA, only our summers are really short and our winters are really long.
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Highs in the mid 70s this week in Corpus Christi - tough winter there. ;)
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Highs in the mid 70s this week in Corpus Christi - tough winter there. ;)
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You bastard! :lol: It just stopped snowing here about 15 minutes ago, we just got about an inch of snow just this morning. However, it's supposed to warm up this coming weekend and week and be in the 30s, 40s and 50s, which is really not too bad for this part of the country in January, so I'm not complaining. I'll take it! :mrgreen:
 
What Andy said. I've been to Paris 6 or 7 times. Too much just ain't enough. The only truly rude person I've encountered was an old bat working at the pay toilet in the Gare du Nord. The food, the culture, the architecture, the beauty of the city and the history are more than enough reasons to return to return to Paris again and again.

I was in Lyon on 9/11 having just left Paris on 8 September and I returned to Paris about 10 days later. I will never forget the overwhelming expression of support for the US and the kindness shown by the French, especially in Paris.
 
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