# Where on earth has no Doper ever been? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353 "2007-08-21T12:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/21 "2007-08-21T14:24:07Z")
I was in Saskatoon last week, so strike that one off the list. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/22 "2007-08-21T14:34:29Z")
My pants. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/23 "2007-08-21T14:42:51Z")
I’m wondering if miles deep into the world’s deserts might be where few Dopers will have gone. Said another way: How deep into the desert(s) have you been? Swamps, caves, jungles, remote mountains, that sort of place. Not long ago we watched the Netflix DVD of [Touching the Void (2003)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/) which is a reenactment of two climbers’ experiences at Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. One of the most life-affirming semi-documentaries I have seen, it is also an example of what traveling to remote locations can entail. In the spirit of such things, what’s the farthest from civilization and potential rescue that you have gone alone or with just one or two others? ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/24 "2007-08-21T15:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] My pants. [/QUOTE] So \*you \* haven’t even been in your own pants? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/25 "2007-08-21T15:18:26Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Mount Everest [/QUOTE] [Sorry](http://picasaweb.google.com/jimmywee/Tibet/photo#4945428814461206546). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/26 "2007-08-21T15:26:17Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] [Sorry](http://picasaweb.google.com/jimmywee/Tibet/photo#4945428814461206546). [/QUOTE] Beautiful! I had this feeling that I had seen reference in an older thread that some Doper had made it. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/27 "2007-08-21T15:46:43Z")
[QUOTE=Great Dave] How about Thule, Timbuktu, or Bhutan? [/QUOTE] Dollars to donuts that an Air Force doper has been to Thule. I know twenty or thirty people who have been there, and only about half of them went there for the USAF. This is also a pretty good reason to rule out several minor towns in North Dakota that are between missile silos. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/28 "2007-08-21T15:58:35Z")
I expect **casdave** ’s been to Ascencion; my uncle’s been there too. And don’t we have a Doper who’s actually at the South Pole right now? I do recall somebody applying to go there. Do we have any Dopers who’ve worked at Kourou? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/29 "2007-08-21T16:00:48Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Okay, then I’ve never been to South America, Africa, Svalbard, or Saskatoon. [/QUOTE] I’ve been to South America, Africa, and Saskatoon. No luck on Svalbard, though. > [@Great Dave](#): > > How about Thule, Timbuktu, or Bhutan? If I remember right, **Diogenes the Cynic** (or maybe another prolific poster in GD) was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali. I imagine he made it to Timbuktu when he was there. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/30 "2007-08-21T16:03:09Z")
Here’s a touchy thought: has any Doper ever been on Death Row as an inmate? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/31 "2007-08-21T16:03:27Z")
Well, I know _I_ haven’t vaccumed behind that couch since we moved in… ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/32 "2007-08-21T16:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] The Midway Islands have no native human inhabitants, never have. I lived there for about a year and a half back in the early 60’s. Anyone else visited there? Then there’s Kure Atoll, about 60 miles west of Midway. [/QUOTE] I was sorely tempted to head on out there when they advertised some eco-tours about 15 years ago but was too broke. I bet no doper has been to Niihau or Kahoolawe. Well I suppose it’s possible that some military dopers might have been to the later a long time ago when it was used for target practice but it’s still unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/33 "2007-08-21T16:07:24Z")
How about Dime Box, Tx.? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/34 "2007-08-21T16:15:18Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I’m wondering if miles deep into the world’s deserts might be where few Dopers will have gone. Said another way: How deep into the desert(s) have you been? [/QUOTE] I’ve been with a Bedouin guide a few miles into the Red Sea Desert on camel.\* I’ve also been to Hobart, Tasmania. (\*I enjoyed typing that!) ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/35 "2007-08-21T16:19:07Z")
[QUOTE=glee] I’ve been with a Bedouin guide a few miles into the Red Sea Desert on camel. [/QUOTE] Fine, but have you also been through the desert on a horse with no name? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/36 "2007-08-21T16:20:58Z")
[QUOTE=glee] I’ve been with a Bedouin guide a few miles into the Red Sea Desert on camel.\* I’ve also been to Hobart, Tasmania. (\*I enjoyed typing that!) [/QUOTE] That’s neat. It’s always amazed me how human beings on earth have found ways to adapt to extremes. Deserts are the hardest for me to imagine myself adapting to. And yet I can imagine it equally hard to adapt to an environment like the one in _Waterworld_. Too much of anything is hard to adapt to, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/37 "2007-08-21T16:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Fine, but have you also been through the desert on a horse with no name? [/QUOTE] If so, go ahead and risk it: name him Virgil. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/38 "2007-08-21T16:24:50Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] In the spirit of such things, what’s the farthest from civilization and potential rescue that you have gone alone or with just one or two others? [/QUOTE] I’ve been swimming [here](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=29.066+N,+57.17+W&ie=UTF8&ll=29.075375,-57.128906&spn=40.471922,89.472656&z=4&iwloc=addr&om=1), but there were about 30 of us. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/39 "2007-08-21T16:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] I’ve been swimming [here](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=29.066+N,+57.17+W&ie=UTF8&ll=29.075375,-57.128906&spn=40.471922,89.472656&z=4&iwloc=addr&om=1), but there were about 30 of us. [/QUOTE] Okay. I have to ask. Zooming into that map, I don’t see any nearby land. Aside from having been swimming in the Bermuda Triangle, what significance does that place hold? ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_of\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Sock\_of\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_of_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353/40 "2007-08-21T16:51:55Z")
[QUOTE=Jurph] How about something a little more mundane? I grew up four miles away from it, and I’ve never been to [Burton Island](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bethany+Beach,+DE,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=38.614305,-75.082047&spn=0.015173,0.026951&z=16&om=1) Delaware. Unless there are other southern Delawarean Dopers who are ornithologists or crabbers, I suspect I’ve found a pretty good spot. [/QUOTE] I know I’ve been to that park when I was younger–crabbing and digging mussels, I believe. I don’t know if it was that specific island. As a side note, the island a bit north of it is “Big Bacon Island.” I can think of a few dopers who might like to visit there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-earth-has-no-doper-ever-been/416353.md?page=3)