Will a ~45% US Exchange alter your vacation plans for 2025?

My sister and I went to the Valley Of Fire when we were in Vegas last year. Absolutely a cool place, but probably in the same way that people who live in Europe or elsewhere around the world think Niagara Falls is epic and worth spending a day in a plane to get here is worth it, but those of us who live in Ontario have become accustomed to and don't really think about much anymore.

As with any "epic" destination, if you spend enough time there, you become blind to the beauty. Live in a place like Banff long enough and the same thing would happen, while tourists flock and gawk, to the locals, it's just "home".

True, the only exception is if the attraction is seasonal.

Lots of Ontarioans still go up north to see the Fall Colours, and the Japanese love their annual Cherry Blossom festival every spring.
 
True, the only exception is if the attraction is seasonal.

Lots of Ontarioans still go up north to see the Fall Colours, and the Japanese love their annual Cherry Blossom festival every spring.

Agreed, I actually thought about using Algonquin during leaf peeping season as an example while typing that, and then stopped and realized that a lot of locals actually still go up to see it lol.
 
It's amazing the debate that happens when cooking on these pops up as a topic in a lot of the Facebook camping groups.

"Ewww, people pee on their fire pits, that's gross, I'd never cook on those"
"Bugs crawl all over those, that's gross to cook on that"
"The last person probably cooked something on that and didn't clean it, that's gross"

Personally, for me, after I've had a 1000 degree fire in there to get a good bed of coals before cooking on it, whatever happened before is pretty much irrelevant anymore.

It's a good thing a lot of people are sheltered from the realities of how (and where) a lot of the things they use (and cook on) every day are manufactured (and then get to their homes) as they'd apparently be aghast lol.
A few years on a farm would change some minds. Those healthy carrot sticks grew in dirt. So did the raw onions.
 
A few years on a farm would change some minds. Those healthy carrot sticks grew in dirt. So did the raw onions.

It's funny watching the reactions from some people who are so far detached from where their food comes from that they don't understand a lot of foods grown in fields are fertilized with animal ****.
 
Or the non stop listeria outbreaks from California where they use people poop .


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Or the non stop listeria outbreaks from California where they use people poop .


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They do it here too.


No reports of it ever causing any sickness that I know of. Like animal manure, appropriate precautions and treatments and everything is just fine.
 
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Would go back in a heartbeat!

That looks trippy as hell!!
 
So much to see in AZ. We missed out on Antelope Canyon, will visit the next time:

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Not sure if you have been to any of the other slot canyons, but here's a bunch: 10 Amazing Slot Canyons to Explore in the American Southwest
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Monument valley , antelope canyon , Grand Canyon, painted desert, Sonoran desert and all the weird stuff in the middle . We travelled around for four yrs , could go back anytime .


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It looks as if your local has jacked their prices:

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I see why my local steakhouse prices are nuts. Wife came home this afternoon with 3 strip loins ($83) and 3 filets ($60) for tonight’s dinner, not a local butcher, Costco!
 
Or the non stop listeria outbreaks from California where they use people poop .


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I think that’s mostly coming from field workers. Farms in the SW aren’t like farms here, most are just fields - no Houses, barns, sanitary facilities — just a gravel parking area and irrigation stuff. Workers are bussed to the fields, there are no restrooms.
 
Not sure if you have been to any of the other slot canyons, but here's a bunch: 10 Amazing Slot Canyons to Explore in the American Southwest
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Cool list.

Only done Buckskin Gulch. It's in the same area as The Wave:

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Lots more to see!
 
I see the waste sludge here getting plowed into fields that have corn , grain and sometimes just grass / hay . I don’t know if it goes other places .


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