# Boring Places To Go For Vacation! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447 "2003-03-01T20:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Astralbovine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Astralbovine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astralbovine)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/41 "2003-03-02T22:42:08Z")
Anywhere north of the White Mountains in NH. It’s pretty much all trees. Which I suppose is better than the Great Plains, but you’ve gotta take what you can get. I’d also imagine a raft in the middle of the Pacific would get boring pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/42 "2003-03-02T22:44:36Z")
Lake Havasau, Arizona, home of the London Bridge in the middle of freakin’ nowhere! My dad dragged us there as teenagers and my siblings and I made a suicide pact thaT ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/43 "2003-03-02T22:46:27Z")
Since **Crusoe** broke the rules in nominating a large city, I’m going to follow his example and nominate Milan, Italy. Milan is dull, dull, dull, and ugly, too. And it has, I am not kidding, more McDonalds than any other place I have ever been. Apparently, they have a shortage of good food there or something. In ITALY! My friends and I were there for a day and a half, and we did our best to amuse ourselves, to no avail. We went to a castle. Boring. We went to a museum. Only museum I saw in my overseas travel without placards in English, so we struggled with the Italian for a while (we had all studied Spanish, so we did … okay), but eventually gave up. We thought to hit the boutiques and see some incredibly expensive clothes, but they were all closed (on a MONDAY AFTERNOON). It was so boring we actually discussed calling the airline to see if we could get on an earlier flight back to Tel Aviv. (We ended up sticking it out.) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/44 "2003-03-03T01:38:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Racer72 said Walla Walla, WA. Actually, go 60-80 miles west and you get to the land of “There’s No There There”. I love it! Hundreds of square miles of huge, rolling hills covered in grass and nothing else as far as the eye can see. I have dreams about that area! I love it! > > For entertainment, head to the Goldendale area where you can find a full-size replica of Stonehenge and the Maryhill Museum where you can learn more than you’d ever care to about Queen Marie of Romania… You mean [this place](http://www.maryhillmuseum.org)? You forgot to mention the [Rodin Gallery](http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/collect.htm). And Walla Walla boring? It’s a center of hyperactivity compared with Moses Lake, WA. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/45 "2003-03-04T03:33:12Z")
Moses Lake,WA is apparently so boring that mere mention of it can instantly kill a thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/46 "2003-03-04T07:12:38Z")
To avoid damage from ships and such, the landing points for undersea cables are usually well away from busy ports or fishing areas. This is good for the cables, but sucks for anyone who has to go out to inspect them. Isohara, in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, had to be the most boring place I’ve ever had to spend a week in: there was nothing to do but stare at the beach, the area had no local cuisine specialties (how do you have a Japanese village by the sea where nobody knows how to cook fish?), and everything was spread out so far it was impossible to go anywhere without a taxi. It didn’t help that the place where I had work was an underground server bunker with no windows. I felt really sorry for the poor schmuck from Alcatel who was stuck there for over six months. For America, my co-worker got sent to wonderful Bandon, Oregon. The main attractions of Bandon are the beach, the cranberry bogs, and the cheese factory. A ‘Things to do in Bandon’ website we found listed 15 different activities, at least 10 of which were varations on ‘walk on the beach’. ---
**Author:** ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/47 "2003-03-04T07:41:09Z")
I lived in Alsask, Sask one summer. It was so boring I couldn’t take it and quit my job there after 6 weeks. Pretty much any small farm town in Saskatchewan will do, though the senior citizen’s retirement towns are the most “effective” (like Alsask). Limit your transportation to a bicycle and soft dirt roads (it’s impossible to coast more than 10 feet), and you’ll find yourself timing how long it takes to kill flies in the microwave and rediscovering the teenage game of making yourself pass out by hyperventilating and then strangling yourself. It’s a wonderful dizzy feeling for 10-15 sec while you’re sprawled out on the floor at work (like the only other 80 year-old worker there would ever notice only being there half the time)… at least that’s my recollection. Might have left me with a few less brain cells though… ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/48 "2003-03-04T07:43:03Z")
Temuka South Canterbury NZ. [http://www.destination.co.nz/temuka/](http://www.destination.co.nz/temuka/) ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447/49 "2003-03-04T14:12:29Z")
Try Tamaqua PA. A dead little coal town that doesn’t look like anyone’s put up a new building since the 1940s. Schenectady NY is pretty bad too. You can visit the boarded up brownstone crack houses or you can visit the boarded up GE factories. Just don’t go during the tulip festival. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-places-to-go-for-vacation/158447.md?page=2)