I can go literally anywhere. where should i go

[h0llywood]

You can write about the influx of income the climbers/trekkers have brought to the Impoverished region.

[Anybodyhome]

Japanese and WWII First observe the Visitors at the Arizona Memorial then go to the Battleship Missouri and observe the people there.

One of the most surreal experiences in my entire life was my reenlistment ceremony on the Arizona Memorial.

And the whole Japanese internment campaign during WW2 is another one of those forgotten chapters in American history. As a child in SoCal in the late 50's and into the 60's I remember seeing the abandoned camps and my father telling my brothers and I what they were.

I'm reading a couple books on the subject now but most of them are narratives from Japanese American citizens who were forced into the camps. I have yet to find anything worth reading that explains just wtf the government was thinking at the time.

[cookinwithgas]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

 

More people should know about this.

 

The Ludlow site, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Trinidad, Colorado, is now a ghost town. The massacre site is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granite monument in memory of the miners and their families who died that day.^[6] The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009.^[6] Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event.

[PhillyB]

One of the most surreal experiences in my entire life was my reenlistment ceremony on the Arizona Memorial.

And the whole Japanese internment campaign during WW2 is another one of those forgotten chapters in American history. As a child in SoCal in the late 50's and into the 60's I remember seeing the abandoned camps and my father telling my brothers and I what they were.

I'm reading a couple books on the subject now but most of them are narratives from Japanese American citizens who were forced into the camps. I have yet to find anything worth reading that explains just wtf the government was thinking at the time.

 

it's been heavily debated among anthropologists because anthropology was actually used heavily to facilitate making it all happen, and to this day rosalie wax's ethnography of japanese internees remains one of the biggest discussions of ethics in the social sciences.

[PhillyB]

Whatever you decide, just don't go to a place where ebola is running amok like Liberia or Texas

 

my wife and i have been considering heading to ghana over winter break as part of a program to help develop successful  models in local water distribution programs, but it looks like that may not be happening for obvious reasons

[PanthersBigD]

I'm stuck at work and you're traveling the world, so you can go to hell.

 

Just kidding. I would go to India.

[Happy Panther]

 

 

any other thoughts? either places, or conflicts that have been memorialized in some form at some point somewhere in the world?

The others that come to mind would be some of the other countries involved in massacres during WWII like what is now Ukraine. Also ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

 

Your list seems better

[Happy Panther]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

 

More people should know about this.

 

The Ludlow site, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Trinidad, Colorado, is now a ghost town. The massacre site is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granite monument in memory of the miners and their families who died that day.^[6] The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009.^[6] Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event.

Yeah but 12 deaths isn't a headline grabber. Chicago eclipses that in a weekend.

[h0llywood]

Just make the trip to Amsterdam and your thesis could be on brothels and how romance has perpetuated Generativity. 

[R0CKnR0LLA]

The absolute 100% best time I've ever had travelling was when I got in my car, started driving, and just figured it out along the way. When I got to the going spot, and did everything I wanted in that spot, just picked another random spot that happened to pop up and headed there. No planning, just headed out in some random direction and let my instincts guide me. It's an amazing feeling driving at full speed with the entire world as your destiny.

 

haha just posting this makes me want to do it again

[Happy Panther]

The absolute 100% best time I've ever had travelling was when I got in my car, started driving, and just figured it out along the way. When I got to the going spot, and did everything I wanted in that spot, just picked another random spot that happened to pop up and headed there. No planning, just headed out in some random direction and let my instincts guide me. It's an amazing feeling driving at full speed with the entire world as your destiny.

 

haha just posting this makes me want to do it again

Me and my buddy did this through Europe as teenagers.

[Goondal]

Germany or Italy

[Mvp2014]

If you really want to live on the edge-

West Africa

[PhillyB]

The absolute 100% best time I've ever had travelling was when I got in my car, started driving, and just figured it out along the way. When I got to the going spot, and did everything I wanted in that spot, just picked another random spot that happened to pop up and headed there. No planning, just headed out in some random direction and let my instincts guide me. It's an amazing feeling driving at full speed with the entire world as your destiny.

 

haha just posting this makes me want to do it again

 

those are the best. unfortunately i don't think that would go over very well as a research proposal