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What Finland can teach America about true luxury
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090501/cm_csm/ycorson
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As long as there's fresh water available (creek, well or tap) much more isn't needed. It's a bliss to get away from heavy traffic, screaming tv sets, computers and whatnot.
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luxury means different things to different people.
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Sounds interesting, but I'm glad we are the way we are.
I rather have a cabin in the woods and a super charged G55 to get to it.
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I'm sure there are a few Finns that do! Others might just take their 450 hp 603s there
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman |
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My two favorite vacation spots...
A now defunct "hotel" on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan. About 25 thatched roof huts with tents with beds under them and hammocks hung out front. No phones. No electricity. Gourmet meals served by lantern light in a large dining "room" (another very large thatched roof.) Eating 4-star meals with your toes in the sand. Self-service honor system bar (with ice in an ice chest). Every morning the chambermaids sweep the sand out of your tent and make your bed. Every evening the staff goes around and refills and lights the tiny oil lamps that mark the pathways in the sand to the dining room and bathrooms. (Plenty of hot water). Every morning the evening's menu is posted at the dining room. If you don't want what they're serving you can order fish instead. If you order fish and walk along the beach at about 4:00, you'll see someone from the kitchen staff whirling a fishing line around his head and flinging it out into the surf. What he catches is what you are eating that night. Activities: Walk along the beach 1 mile one way to the lagoon where an underground river comes hurtling out into the ocean... ice cold, deliciously sweet, and crystal clear. Walk about 4 miles the other way to the town. You'd see about three other people on the walk. Snorkel or scuba dive off the largest barrier reef outside Australia. Drive to the Mayan ruins, or just explore the Mayan countryside and meet some of the friendliest and gentlest people ever. At night... campfires, guitars... lay on the beach and watch for shooting stars. Skinny dip. Sleep so well. Lose total track of time and never want to go back to the rat race, because the beach has become home forever. Unfortunately, this pristine 40 mile expanse of undeveloped beach has become the "Mexican Riviera," complete with captive dolphins and high rise hotels one after another. Very, very sad. My other favorite place is my friend's cottage in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. It has electricity and phone, but barely so. It's very rustic. Activities: Sailing, swimming, oystering in the morning to get our dinner appetizer. Biking. Socializing with friends, drinking, eating, going into P-Town for an upscale dinner to remind ourselves of why we don't do that more often. Simple, and nothing is more luxurious than simplicity compared to the lives most of us live.
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JonL - You'd like Plantation Beach Resort at Cayos Cochinos, Honduras; especially if you dive. I kick myself for not buying one of the smaller Cay's in the early 90's for $25K before it became a state owned park. Winters in Honduras and summers in AK.
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Sorta' sounds like you're describing college!
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Check out this link if interested in the Mexican paradise... Apparently they've moved and been blown away by hurricanes, but may reopen once again. There's not too much involved in rebuilding the place.
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Describes Northern Minnesota exactly.
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Something weird is going on here.
Hmmm...Finland and Minnesota have just about the population.
Finland-5,244,749 Minnesota-5,220,393 It gets abysmally cold in both places. Minnesotans speak an unfathomable language...so do Finns. Finland is really far north...so is Minnesota. It's gotta be Bush's fault.
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