A List of Places March 5, 2008

Because I think about travel every day and I believe I will be traveling more and more in the near future, I have listed places that I would really, really like to go. Besides Japan, we will hopefully be going to at least two of the places on this list this year (and probably just two):

1. Russia (St Pete, Moscow; this is likely, Aug/Sep timeframe)
2. Egypt (Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simel; this is my place-of-the-day, all the ancient things!)
3. Athens/Delos/more of Greece (Ruins! Ancient things!)
4. Spain (all of it, every last inch)
5. Costa Rica (Monteverde, especially)
6. Paris/Brussels (I have listed duos in a single trip sometimes)
7. South Africa (will hold off until we can do an entire safari)
8. Hawaii (this is a more recent fascination for me)
9. Turkey/Romania (do these even go together?)
10. Germany/Switzerland (maybe I shouldn’t be lumping things together)
11. Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paolo (Samantha Brown has me interested in lots of South America, tho)
12. Crater Lake, Oregon (GJ suggested this as an outing)
13. Lisbon
14. Morocco

A few of these are what you might call “big ticket items”, because the expense is such that you have to not only pay for the ticket but take a bunch of time off of work to make that ticket “worthwhile”. Russia is one of those places. Most likely we will hit numbers 1 and 12 on the list with a hopeful (fingers crossed) 4 or 10 additionally. Then next year I hope my big trip is to 2, and by the following year we’ll hopefully be ready for 7. I will continue to save my nickels, dimes, and vacation days in eager anticipation!