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Tafkam Hokie
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Tafkam Hokie
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Kinda difficult to judge what others consider fun or interesting

ways to spend their discretionary funds. Some would call two weeks of camping, hunting, and fishing heaven on earth. Others would think of that as hell. Some like extreme sports, others get nauseous at the thought of any kind of adrenaline rush. Some like visiting exotic locales, others have anxiety at the thought of being too far from home. I spent probably 20+ years of my life basically taking the same vacation every year. It was easy, enjoyable, predictable, and comfortable. But it sure didn't enrich me as a person. Now, I'm trying to do more things I've never done and go more places I've never gone just so I can experience more of the world. I, too, don't have a quarter mil just laying around that I can throw at a vacation. I also don't find a trip to the wreckage of the Titanic to be all that interesting for my taste. But I do kinda understand the wanderlust desire to do something new and unique. And taking a tour bus to either outer space or the depths of the ocean is definitely new and unique. I wouldn't do it myself, but I do get it.
Posted: 06/22/2023 at 02:36 PM ET
(In response to this post by Major Kong)

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I'll weigh in here. I don't have a $¼ mill just laying around....
Major Kong • 06/22/23 01:35 PM ET
I'd imagine, percentage wise, we've all "wasted" more of our money on
HokieGator • 06/22/23 07:58 PM ET
You couldn't pay me that money to go in your PLACE!**
HOKIERIT • 06/22/23 05:53 PM ET
what's crazy to me..
ShockWaveVT • 06/22/23 04:48 PM ET
I would just pay $15 for the DVD**
EDGEMAN • 06/22/23 04:31 PM ET
I'd do it, after I redesigned the craft.
MEHOKIE • 06/22/23 04:16 PM ET
I think it is the uber rich equivalent of "Hold my beer, and watch this"
RTFC • 06/22/23 03:52 PM ET
Kinda difficult to judge what others consider fun or interesting ◄
Tafkam Hokie • 06/22/23 02:36 PM ET
The waiver you'd have to sign would have sent me back to the house.**
Major Kong • 06/22/23 04:26 PM ET
maybe none of them were divers
MrBayAreaHokie • 06/22/23 02:29 PM ET
I dove the Tongue of the ocean in the Bahamas...100' to the ledge and the
kjhokie • 06/22/23 04:22 PM ET
was it Richard Simmons? Swimming to the oldies.**
MEHOKIE • 06/22/23 04:42 PM ET
snorkled in Bermuda and went over a ledge like that...wow
Vienna_Hokie • 06/22/23 04:34 PM ET
The French guy on there had been to the Titanic like 30 times or something
AbsolutVT03 • 06/22/23 04:07 PM ET
try a cave dive for full blown freakin**
astrohokie • 06/22/23 02:45 PM ET
My brother used to map caves. Even underwater ones where they
GreenvilleVT • 06/22/23 02:59 PM ET
My claustrophobia is at defcon 5
TomTurkey • 06/22/23 04:15 PM ET
thats frookin hardcore**
astrohokie • 06/22/23 03:07 PM ET
NOPE...I don't even like penetration dives on wrecks below 60 ft
Vienna_Hokie • 06/22/23 02:52 PM ET
i never got officially cert re cave diving , but...
astrohokie • 06/22/23 03:06 PM ET
my last check out dive in Key Largo, went through a long swim through
Vienna_Hokie • 06/22/23 03:34 PM ET
That is ... disturbing.**
MEHOKIE • 06/22/23 04:22 PM ET
indeed ! **
astrohokie • 06/22/23 04:13 PM ET
Hanging on the deck rail of the Speigal Grove at 115', flapping like a flag
Vienna_Hokie • 06/22/23 02:41 PM ET
Does the US Navy have anything that could go to those depths?
Tafkam Hokie • 06/22/23 02:40 PM ET
manned - no; unmanned - no comment**
GOHOKEE • 06/22/23 06:55 PM ET
Le Batard had a retired US Subamarine Captain on, and he said no. Link...**
NokieHokie • 06/22/23 02:46 PM ET
A lot's changed since he retired . . .
GOHOKEE • 06/22/23 07:01 PM ET
Thanks for the info! :)**
NokieHokie • 06/22/23 09:40 PM ET
At least no manned submersible
EDGEMAN • 06/22/23 04:34 PM ET
Looks like fun..
Guy LeDouche • 06/22/23 02:25 PM ET
Well,even their own family members are not grieving.Heck,the stepson went
HokieBrazil • 06/22/23 01:51 PM ET
Yep. And his mom has been married to the guy since '95 so he's been part
Hokie1744 • 06/22/23 06:38 PM ET
He was was also asking OnlyFans gal to sit on him……**
CrystalCoveHokie • 06/22/23 02:08 PM ET
This is a dirtbag little rich kid. What a piece of crap!**
HOKIERIT • 06/22/23 07:57 PM ET
We all grieve in different ways.**
jdkhokie • 06/22/23 05:37 PM ET
I honestly thought his hat said "Fail Blazers", ha. Maybe it should.**
Coach McGuirk • 06/22/23 03:17 PM ET
He has aspergers**
ModerateHokie • 06/22/23 01:52 PM ET
I don't know about Asperger's. Maybe it explains his behavior while his->
HOKIERIT • 06/22/23 08:02 PM ET
Asperger’s makes my pee stink when I eat it. **
GreenvilleVT • 06/22/23 02:31 PM ET
I do but i don't like my table wobbling...........
HokieDan95 • 06/22/23 01:41 PM ET
Not the correct quote but somehow appropriate in this case**
CrystalCoveHokie • 06/22/23 01:38 PM ET