Aliens arriving on Earth would have a wide variety of travel plans waiting for them depending on which one of your houses they happened upon. A few common themes seemed to be beaches, Thailand, and family, in the difficult process of introducing humanity within 48 hours. As abstract as the question may be, it could also be easily applied to people who’ve never traveled or wanted to, bringing this discussion back down to Earth.
- Amy: “A few days in Bangkok for good street food and shopping then we will head south for R&R by the beach. After that, we will hop on the plane to the north for some mountain scene in Chiang Mai.”
- Mark H: “See a sunrise over a sun-drenched beach eating a tropical fruit breakfast, walk through a park or forest to see the trees (hopefully some mountain scenery to see in the distance) and feel the grass between their toes, walk the main street of a large historic city to get some sense of our changes through the ages. On the other day, I’d get them to experience a “normal” day in the life of someone (but should that person be a farmer, office worker, teacher or what?) – to see what modern life is on Earth.”
- Sabine: “I would simply invite them to stay at my house [in Hamburg, Germany] for the 48h. They could join me by “living my life”: going to work, going out with friends, visiting my family, doing exercises etc.”
Sherry Ott: “I think I would have them go visit my parents in the plains of South Dakota…that may scare them away!”
- Alina Popescu: “Well, take them for a quick tour and meal in Bucharest, then fly them over to Istanbul. One hour flight to get a glimpse of two continents and catch a Mediterranean sunset.”
- Jaime D.: “I would take them back to where is ALL started Roswell.”
- Ali: “I would take them to see Australia. Beautiful white sand beaches! And maybe a quick trip to Thailand. I love the food!”
- Gourmantic: “I would do a series of mind melds with them to swap travel experiences. This way, they’d see what I’ve seen and I’d get their interpretation of it.”
There are more comments still on where to take our alien friends and the variety of ideas are an insight into humanity in and of itself. Personally, I’d take them for a few hours to several cities and rural spots on each inhabited continent to meet and see mothers with their children. This, I believe would show them our (human) differences but the overwhelming similarities we share – and often neglect ourselves. I also think a trip to the Amazon rain forest would be appropriate; again to demonstrate our planets immense strengths and at the same time our weaknesses as well.
[photo by: liber (alien smoking pipe), Adri_Gz (South Dakota plains)]
I like your thoughts on where to take them. In a way, they could be assimilated 🙂
Thank you for the shoutout!
Hopefully they’d Klingon though, I think they’d be a riot. (Well, maybe literally.)
The Parthenon is great, and Hawaii’s volcanoes – the beaches in the countries around Thailand are definitely on my wish list, but for America the beach boardwalk has to be a stop! Any of the hotels in North Myrtle Beach SC would be good, and lets face it, at the right time of year they wouldn’t even have to wear a disguise. For seeing people really enjoy themselves, Myrtle Beach is hard to beat.