Where should the wife and I go on our vacation?

[Gandalf]

India? Peculiar choice. Sounds like a Master kind of thing. In terms of natural beauty, I would suggest Thailand. But watch out for jungles, cars and leeches. I've heard the beaches are great, but I was too busy venturing north.

How so? It's renowned as a wonderful place and it's one of the most popular backpacking countries in the world.

Backpacking is not something that I particularly like. I hate students and I hate tourists and furthermore I hate young hippies looking for mystical enlightenment. Not my cup of tea at all. It seems like a place that would irritate me quite quickly.

I would also suggest somewhere like Hong Kong, but India just sounds like a place to induce severe bowel strain.

Hong KOng would be cool, but I suspect it would be very expensive.

I'm not really fond of people either, but I love seeing new places and India seems like a very unique environment.

Doesn't hating students make being a teacher difficult?

Haha, your final sentence made me laugh.

No, in fact I love most of my students. It's just western hippy dippy types looking for 'cultural enlightenment' tend to irritate me. They are usually students or gap year types, but can also be adults. I am extremely cynical and like to poke fun at everything, I hate anything wide eyed and nonsensical. I can't take it seriously.

I know I am generalising, but India just sounds like a place a lot of these people would gravitate to. A cheap place to smoke pot and babble about inane spirituality. Sounds like hell on earth to me.

If anyone wants to go there that is cool. I guess I have preconceptions about the place and have no desire to ever venture there.

I've seen some of the later posts in this thread and I agree that Cambodia or Vietnam sound interesting. My thing is obviously trees and wildlife, a lot of that in those countries.