Just to win the Powerball for a couple of million dollars, give some money to the kids, then buy a second home in Costa Rica, in the jungle.

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Not happening.

I'd do so many thing differently

Me too!

So I'll just smile.



Bake

There must be more dreamers among us.

that if I lived alone I could really clean house. When I lived alone, my house was half barren. As it is, there are 4 of us, each with hobbies and interests which results in too much stuff. And then there are 4 cats, 4 litter boxes, and a box full of cat toys that one of them likes to drag around the house and leave in the middle of the hallway. Oh, well.........

Not an impossible dream, more like a fantasy.

Impossible (or nearly so) dream: make some extraordinary discovery, get published, win Nobel Prize.

I always fantasized about winning an Olympic gold medal in diving or swimming.

absolutely impossible. I do have great memories though.

To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

to hear that amazing voice so out of his tv 'character'.

[link:

Not gonna happen.

Or else, maybe, marry a rich guy and move to a tropical paradise.

That's not gonna happen, either.

To live in a beach house in N.C. and to visit Paris before I die. I even dream about visiting Paris.

They aren't really IMPOSSIBLE, but highly improbable that either will ever happen.

some clothes, a camera, and a notebook. And then I would travel the world.
I guess I'd have to win some kind of money to do this.

Facilitating the interaction is CouchSurfing.com, a travel-oriented social-networking site that was started in 2004 and has grown to more than 2.4 million members, including 25 in Antarctica. The nonprofit site, which aims to connect travelers, or "surfers," with hosts willing to offer a free place to stay, has some similarities to Facebook in that it includes user profiles, photos and friend requests. But it also incorporates a familiar eBay feature: feedback. After every CouchSurfing interaction, the people involved leave references about each other — positive, neutral or negative. As on eBay, a negative reference can be the end of someone's ability to participate. But of the more than 6 million experiences CouchSurfing has facilitated, the company says 99.83% of them have been positive.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,2045092,00.html#ixzz1wzzQpdTi

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/23/153475124/couch-surfing-global-travel-on-the-cheap












http://www.couchsurfing.org/

It was cool. I sort of forgot about that.

because i'm anti social i'm more of a hostel/pod stayer than a couch surfer but i have decided to get out of my comfort zone and just done my first couch surf with someone i didn't know previously! yay me! it was cool...

your dream is totally possible!

including people i personally know

if you ever got out there a bit and did it as an experiment, you'd be surprised how many backpackers are out there on the road who are unemployable and just refuse to sit back and have a shitty life just because society has decided they are of no value

do you speak english? hell, of course you do... go to some village in china where they don't know any better and present yourself as an english teacher, one of my unemployable friends did this and got a job teaching english for 2 years plus he learned mandarin chinese (not sure the villagers learned any english in return but they prob. learned a few words anyway, right!)

you can also teach spanish in many places but i don't know much about that, everyone i know involved in the teaching as second language scam has taught english...but i know spanish is also v. popular to be taught

if you wait too long, world wide inflation is going to get rid of geo-arbitrage (where a broke ass person can move to some remote place and suddenly be middle class) -- do it now while the opportunity is still live

and blog/trip report ! my friend pisses me off because he doesn't blog, so we have to meet up once/twice a year and he maybe tells me a fraction of the cool stories

but there's a whole world of people floating around w. no money and it's easier to do it as a backpacker with an excuse for not having clean clothes than if you're staying in your home city

I have one year on my contract. We'll see if my massive debt was worth it (I have a PhD in Latin American history and am only 34, so am employable...I think). If I end up unemployed this time next year, I'm off to fulfill my dream. I like people, so teaching English would be fine. I can also teach reading and writing. And I've always wanted to write a travel blog.

seems like the sky is the limit for what you could do as a backpacker, since you are actually qualified (have an advanced education) and can teach...

Which is going to be pretty tough since I almost never play it.

...and go to bed not worrying about losing my health insurance or being shot by some deranged lunatic with a gun.

maybe in segments...Ever since the first article I read on it back in the 80s I have kept my eye on the progress of creating the formal Arizona Trail from the Mexican Border to Utah. My dream was/is to ride and pack it horseback in one trip.

http://www.aztrail.org/at_about.html

in some kind of alternate reality where the time loop is reset to my original date of birth. I'd know everything before it happens. I'd be a 13 year old kid at Dallas flagging down JFK's motorcade or knocking on the door of Martin Luther King's motel room minutes before he steps out on the back porch. Kind of like reincarnation, but reincarnating back into the same body as before.

....

Duh.

For me to make a living as an artist.

or did you not mean literal, sleepy-time, dream? I guess that one would be possible anyway, but - trust me - the specifics were just too weird to ever happen.

As for the things-I'd-like sort of dream, I'd just like to have the waist size and head of hair I had at 18, with the knowledge and drinking abilities I have now.

No, not going back to horses either.

Everything would be electric. Most people would get around walking and by public transportation. There would be no parking lots, no highways, no big box stores, no strip malls...

sort of the anti-Heritage Foundation.

most are handed out before the telecast even begins.
And quite a few are for music; Springsteen has one on his mantelpiece for "Streets of Philadelphia", for instance.

NGU!

I loathe Springsteen, but I like that song and I'm glad he won.

I've always dreamed I'd get an Oscar for a screenplay. I wanted one for acting (original dream, eh? ) until Callie Khoury won best screenplay for "Thelma & Louise." I loved her acceptance speech: she said ". . . and for everyone who wanted a happy ending to 'Thelma & Louise,' this is it!"

(NGU? Bertha = clueless)

You loathe Springsteen? Um, we need to talk...

Yep, that phone's about to ring any second now...

Ive got a dream. Dont want to put it out there because Its only recently I admitted to it being my dream. Only declared it to god and to my husband. Still nuturing it. Let you know if it happens. Theres a Carrie Underwood song that says (and Im paraphrasing here) Thank god even crazy dreams come true. SO heres to crazy dreams

Oh well.

When I was much, much younger I thought it would happen.