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Click here and tune in for the perfect trip by setting six sliders.  What could be easier?   :cool:




Someone should put together a similar "matrix" for our national parks, forests and wilderness.   :)

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That's pretty fun to play with - so many places to visit!

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First 5 places they recommend?  Been there, done that.  :)  

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I don't see a slider for wildflowers or alpine lakes.
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First 5 places they recommend?  Been there, done that.  :)  

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It picked places I've either been to or want to go to.  So maybe there's something to these sites..  Maybe now I should try match.com???  Oops, I forgot - I'm married...
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What the...?!?!?!  I changed it to more relaxing and HOTB came up!
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Torres Del Paine, here I come!
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Not sure I want to go to Indonesia or Ethiopia.
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Torres is great.  However, it's interesting that an image of Los Cuernos comes up and not one of the towers.  After I plugged in my preferences it came up #1.

I'm hoping to go back in a year or two, but will probably spend more time a bit further north.
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It doesn't have a "Just don't wanna go broke" option.

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Not sure I want to go to Indonesia or Ethiopia.

Why not?  I just went to Indonesia last year -- wonderful place, wonderful people!

I haven't been to Ethiopia -- a cultural powerhouse in its own right.  Hopefully, some day.

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It doesn't pick anywhere that I want to go.  Oh well.

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It doesn't pick anywhere that I want to go.  Oh well.

Then you need to be more honest with yourself.   Maybe you are actually more 'kids friendly' than 'adults only'?  :p

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Torres is great.  However, it's interesting that an image of Los Cuernos comes up and not one of the towers.  After I plugged in my preferences it came up #1.

I'm hoping to go back in a year or two, but will probably spend more time a bit further north.

I put in my preferences, and adjusted them twice. It came up number one for me all three times.
Maybe I should look into that...
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It doesn't pick anywhere that I want to go.  Oh well.

Then you need to be more honest with yourself.   Maybe you are actually more 'kids friendly' than 'adults only'?  :p

When I moved toward kid friendly it picked places I was even less likely to go!

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What the...?!?!?!  I changed it to more relaxing and HOTB came up!

Me too!  :D  Guess I'll have to go back!!

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Looks to me like they are paid by the tourist bureaus in a few places.

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What the...?!?!?!  I changed it to more relaxing and HOTB came up!

Me too!  :D  Guess I'll have to go back!!

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Apparently I need to go to Indonesia and Chile.  Ok then.
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I fiddled with it 'till it suggested Hades.

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I fiddled with it 'till it suggested Hades.

that might have been the hereafter advisor.
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