No, he went to get a promotion. He should have launched a chat app instead.

no, he went to india to wrestle the spice commerce from the portuguese, finding a different continent was not on his plans

With the ultimate goal of financing a new crusade, and retaking Jerusalem for Christendom. No, really.

All the profits and the gold he was obsessed with? They weren’t for him, they were for the crusade; meanwhile he was spending much of the time dressing like a monk.

Frankly, I would rather go to the moon for a vacation than America. Space tourism would easily pay for a moon base.

Slavery and bloodsport, but neither will be found on the moon so your point stands.

We'll just have to make our own, then.

Actually moon water can be quite valuable. Because it requires so much less energy to escape lunar gravity, if you have water, and if you can split it into hydrogen and oxygen, you can make a very effective gas station for rockets going to Mars and further and get a little respite from the tyranny of the rocket equation.