Well, it is something that I am actually doing, and without $1 mil. But since I don't have much extra money (sometimes not at all), I invest my time, effort & expertise.
If I had that much money, I would set up several communities in different parts of the world, the smart village as it were. High self sufficiency and low consumption footprint, with any income for buying things that can't be made localy comming from creative pursuits on the intenet, or perhaps selling something valuable that is made on site. One of such products that I was thinking of is the knowhow kits for local traditional technologies. Like maybe using plant based colorants for textile.
You can actually think of them as high-tech hippy communes. Not just back to nature, but isung tech that can improve the sustainable lifestyle. Permaculture farming, solar power, etc.
And stay in them for significant part of the year, with another part spent traveling. Somehow staying in one place is not something for me, at least not at the moment.
Good luck with your dream, and if you put your mind to it, you could start in maybe half a year or so, even without $1 mil in your Dark Suitcase. Walking the earth is a really cool thing to do!
Thank you for your answer !
I've been traveling for almost 3 years and have - no offence - seen as much as you have - probably more.
Just because I wrote this post in a 'naive' fashion, doesn't mean, I live under a rock. :)
Let me just say ... hippies don't impress me ... ;)
I am not talking about hippy stereotypical hippies. But there are quite a bit of people who like the ida about comunal living, sustainable farming and other cool things that have the hippy vibe around them. That is what and who I was talking about.
I am sure that you probably have! I only have most of the europe under my belt with some places in India and Russia.
Thing is for quite a bit of my latest adventures I am walking as much as possible. Did that on the Khabarovsk-Vladivostok hitch hike, and everywhere I can. I actually left Moscow, because I walked most of its streets and it was getting to cramped and old for me.
Still, I have all of South-East Asia, both Americas, Africa & Australia to visit yet, so there is much more in front of me, than behind. Oh, and since getting a job working in Antarctica didn't work out for me, it might be that I'll never visit it, but one can dream! :->
Here is what you could do:
Some Pokemon can only be caught in the antarctic.
Maybe try funding a pokemongo safari and become the first tourguide.
No, I applied to the position of the tech guy for the Russian Antarctic Expedition, but there were so many people who wanted to go that the position closed really fast, and I was a bit late.
Which is a pity, since I used to work with a prominent glacilogist. Ever heard of Lake Vostok in Antarctica? I've been on the team of the guy who made the discovery (Zotikov, not Kropotkin, obviously). :-)
So it was like wow, I could visit places that he did. Naturally, he told really cool stories about his work. So I was a bit disappointed, that I couldn't take part in it.
Still, I'll consider your Pokemon idea. :->