When returning from holiday, one starts to think of holidays

[fivemack]

By 'south of the Rio Grande', I mean 'into Mexico' rather than 'anywhere south of 31N' - I thought this was standard usage, but various of my friends in Cambridge interpreted it the other way.

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Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

why is the antarctic only imporant if you've visited at least four other continents? What's wrong with Three+Antarctic? (not that I have, but just the questions seemed unbalanced!)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

The Antarctic's generally not the first place anyone goes, and unless you live in South America (and I don't think I have any South American-resident readers, though I know khalinche goes there a lot) you're going there via South America. So I'd be really very surprised if anyone filled in 2+Antarctic or 3+Antarctic, and I thought the distinction between 'all six non-antarctic' and 'six including Antarctica' was worth making.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

True, I hadn't thought about the South America stopoff ... I know several of my friends who have gone penguin spotting and/or on a cruise that included the antarctic, and I wouldn't be too surprised to find that some of them might have just done The Americas (north and south) and the Antarctic, though I suspect if they've done that, they've probably done the Far East once and probably Europe for a worldcon or a "if it's Tuesday it must be Zagreb" tour.

[kht.livejournal.com]

I'm South American-resident (though not permanently). I'd probably have gone to Antarctica (and thus be a 2+Antarctic) if the tourist boats weren't so ridiculously expensive.