The Travel Bug

Filed under: Travel — joy at 9:28 am on Tuesday, May 29, 2007

I am planning my trip to Peru–We’re going in October. It is making me think about travel. The other day, someone asked me what my top trips would be if I could go anywhere in the world, which got me to thinking about allllll the places I want to go to. So, I made a list of the top places.

First, the list of places I’ve been:

  • 21 states in the U.S.
  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • France
  • Scotland
  • England
  • Italy
  • Peru –in October, unless something happens and our trip is canceled

    • Small! Very Small.

    Here are the trips according to the order I would see them in if world politics and length of plane rides weren’t a problem:

  • (Peru)
  • Jerusalem (I would go here in a heartbeat if I thought it was safe–and I think it will be again someday.)
  • African country (I would need to research the different countries and see which one sounded the best, but there would be a safari for sure.)
  • Nepal
  • Thailand
  • Greece
  • India
  • Japan (One of the few countries that is within a relatively short plane ride, pushing it higher on the list.)
  • Australia (New Zealand is also a possibility. However, Australia has the bonus of being its own continent)
  • China
  • Ireland
  • Germany (Since Kyle wants to go to Germany, it gets a higher place on my list than it otherwise would have.)
  • Spain
  • Cruise to a Caribbean island (This gets to be higher on the list because it is something we could do easily and for relative cost.)
  • Egypt
  • Brazil
  • Hawaii
  • Alaska (I want to take a cruise up there and see bears.)
  • Cross-country U.S. trip (I have always wanted to do this. Seems like a good thing to do if I’m broke, plus I want to see Texas, Colorado, more of the South, New Orleans, Boston, Chicago, etc. But possibly boring in between with all the driving?)
  • Maine/Vermont in the fall (lobsters and maple syrup and pretty trees)

    • Spill-over countries (countries I will get to if I go to all those other places–i.e. not that likely): Russia, Cuba, Holland, Switzerland, Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), Austria.

    I have given up on a few things. I’m not sure Antarctica is so interesting–in theory it sounds neat, but in reality, it sounds cold and dull. I am not interested in oppressed Muslim countries where I might get stoned if I wear shorts. I don’t like gross toilets, dirty hotels, and getting sick on vacation, so many adventurous places will remain unseen by me. On the other hand, I don’t like sitting on the beach doing nothing, so don’t need too many vacations like that. I dislike being on a plane, so I’m only going to take a long plane ride if I really want to go somewhere, knocking quite a few places off the list. I don’t have a problem with being a tourist, so I feel no need to make a big deal out of not being a tourist by going to dangerous places or trying to find off-beaten paths with strangers. Finally: I’m bad at geography, so I might be missing some places because I am forgetting them or don’t know enough about them to know why they are cool. The list could change because of that.

    But barring that, there you have it: 19 trips–20 if you count Peru. Do you think I can do them all?

    What’s your list?

    ETA: Is it weird that I don’t want to go to Prague because I don’t like the sound of the word Prague? It sounds ugly and boring, like a computer game created circa 1985 involving pogo sticks. Who can jump the highest in the Prague game? Super happy time! That is what I think of.

    5 Comments »

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    Comment by marcia

    May 29, 2007 @ 9:54 am

    I would like to go many many places, and have been to relatively few. I’ve only been to six states, so I’d like to do the U.S. thing, national parks and all. But as much as I like that idea, it’s kind of harder to get excited about than … Italy, Brazil, Peru, Thailand, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore — which is my top list now.

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    Comment by Jen

    May 30, 2007 @ 2:24 pm

    I only want to go one place–France!

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    Comment by Krista

    May 31, 2007 @ 3:57 pm

    This is fun… Umm… I have been to 4 states (all over CA), Mexico, and Paris. I want to go to….
    British Columbia, Spain (where in Spain haven’t decided), 5-star Hawaii spa vacation, Sweden, Boston and New York in the fall…. That is my fabulous list. Be careful in Brazil. You are a hot commodity.

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    Comment by Justin

    May 31, 2007 @ 9:13 pm

    In typical Justin-fashion, I worry about making too long a list and thus transforming adventure and spontaneity into a checklist. My version of hell is: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.

    That said, I would like to go to Alaska sometime. Spontaneously. perhaps via the west coast of Canada. Perhaps via boat. Or maybe a plane.

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    Comment by Joy

    June 4, 2007 @ 7:10 am

    Thank you all for posting! I really like hearing about where people want to go. I’m not sure why…

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