$100K TV or a ski trip?

[Bad Bob]

Canadians aren't taxed on "winnings". Keep those lotto dreams alive!

Don't play the Lottery. I pay 'voluntary taxes'.

 

[dbostedo]

I'd do a week-ish long trip with them. African safari (photo) would be good.

I'd suggest 2 weeks at least! I did 10 days and it wasn't enough.

 

[x10003q]

I think you could buy Andorra for $100k - or at least use it as a down payment and live happily ever after in Andorra.

 

[cantunamunch]

I think you could buy Andorra for $100k - or at least use it as a down payment and live happily ever after in Andorra.

So long as you don't mind the tobacco and tobacco politics.

 

[Lauren]

To be honest, if someone gave me $100K to use for travel, but it was only to be used for 'one trip' I would probably not use it for skiing (blasphemy!) since my family doesn't like to ski. I'd do a week-ish long trip with them. African safari (photo) would be good.

Tack on a day at Afriski and you can kill two birds with one stone.

(Mountain Lodge and Resort in Lesotho | Afriski)

 

[Seldomski]

Tack on a day at Afriski and you can kill two birds with one stone.

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(Mountain Lodge and Resort in Lesotho | Afriski)

Wow, that's nuts.

 

[graham418]

I'm starting to wonder about the other choice.. Whats a 100K TV?

 

[dbostedo]

Wow, that's nuts.

Well it's at almost 10.000 feet at the base, so that makes it possible. But it's only as far from the equator as Orlando, FL.

 

[cantunamunch]

Well it's at almost 10.000 feet at the base, so that makes it possible. But it's only as far from the equator as Orlando, FL.

Have a look at that weird mountain range in Colombia, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

 

[dbostedo]

Have a look at that weird mountain range in Colombia, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

They could possibly be getting snow this week given those overnight temps...

 

[Paul Lutes]

Riffing on the geezer vein plus avoiding planes: Viking Cruises has a 6 month world cruise option that could be re-purposed to visit ports adjacent to ski destinations. Secondary transport at some of the more exotic locales might get interesting, and $100k would not be sufficient, but I'm willing to negotiate.

 

[Rod9301]

I think you could buy Andorra for $100k - or at least use it as a down payment and live happily ever after in Andorra.

In know you're joking, but to establish residence inn Andorra you need to post a bond of 450,000 and not clear how you get it back. I tried, and i decided France instead

 

[Doug Briggs]

I'm starting to wonder about the other choice.. Whats a 100K TV?

You can't make this stuff up: Crazy stories ripped from the headlines

Only a Northerner would actually think that a dinky 3-1/2 footer qualifies as a deadly.weapon. But they'd have to pack the jury with non-ex-New Yorkers to prove it, oof. :roflmao:

www.skitalk.com

 

[cantunamunch]

https://www.SkiTalk.com/threads/you...s-ripped-from-the-headlines.16078/post-629586

Yeh, I am (more than a little) disappointed. $100K and all you get is a Dolbied rollup curtain with an Alexa built in.

 

[DanoT]

Here is my post fro the other thread:

I'd go to Blue River, B.C. for 10 weeks starting in early January.















Home of Mike Weigele Heli-Skiing.

 

[graham418]

https://www.SkiTalk.com/threads/you...s-ripped-from-the-headlines.16078/post-629586

Holy Toot. Thats a lot of money for a roll up projector screen . I think I would get the 85" Samsung at BestBuy, and still have $98, 000 left for skiing!!

 

[dbostedo]

Holy Toot. Thats a lot of money for a roll up projector screen . I think I would get the 85" Samsung at BestBuy, and still have $98, 000 left for skiing!!

It's not a projector screen. It's a new type of OLED screen that is so thin and flexible that it can be rolled up. It lights up internally just like other current flat panel TVs.

 

[New2]

I'd sign up for some intensive Spanish lessons, then take a ski/tourist vacation. Either Santiago-Buenos Aires via the lakes crossing and Bariloche, or else traveling around Spain.

 

[noncrazycanuck]

I doubt I would ski many more places than I already do in my region but the lodging and après would certainly step up a notch.
And treat a few more ski buddies to the same.

 

[steveskier]

Have a look at that weird mountain range in Colombia, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Would you have to pay Pablo Escobar for access?