So, here’s the thing - I found four thousand dollars on the side of the road last week. Just sitting there, still tightly bundled, as if they were straight from a bank teller’s desk. Strangest thing I’d seen that weekend, and I had a very strange weekend. Called the police, they collected the cash, and assured me that if no one claimed it in a couple of months, I could keep the money.
So far, no one’s claimed it, and I suspect that this is the sort of thing that will be claimed quickly or not at all. I mean, wouldn’t you notice if you’d lost four thousand bucks? It looks like I might be getting a windfall in a couple months.
I know it’s poor form to spend money you haven’t got, but it can’t hurt to dream, right? So: Say I took a bit over half that money - $2,500 - and budgeted it for a vacation. Airfare, hotels, everything.
Where would you go, in my shoes, and why? In particular, what city or cities? (I’m a city guy - nature does very little for me.) With this kind of cash, I could go pretty much anywhere I wish - so where should I wish to go?
I should add, perhaps, that I only speak English - I’d certainly make an effort to learn how to say “please,” “thank you,” and “oh dear Ford, I believe my appendix is about to rupture,” in the local tongue, but I’d want to be someplace that I could get by fairly well with English and emphatic gesturing.