10 Year Travel Plans!
 

My wife and I have been fortunate enough to have enough frequent flyer miles to take a major worldwide trip each year. We are not to the point that we plan on revisiting favorite places on a regular basis. We are still looking for that next special destination. We want to hear your opinion. To date, our special destinations have included destinations in Europe, Asia and the Pacific rim. We are looking for our next special destinations – special because of the people (Ireland), natural beauty (New Zealand) or other reasons (Paris/London). <BR> <BR>If you were to develop a 10 year worldwide travel plan, what would be your favorite picks? <BR>

Dear Duck, <BR>you hit my hot button -- I happen to have a ten year travel plan. Each year I take a trip to one of the ten, come home and cross it off my list and add a tenth, -- hope the Good Lord allows my health to accomplish. Here's my list, not necessarily in the order I plan to take the trip. <BR>1. American West (Yellowstone, Grand Tetons etc. (doing that one this year) <BR>2. Northwest Pacfific Coast, from San Francisco up to Vancouver/Victoria <BR>3. A Mississippi Riverboat cruise (Delta Queen type) anywhere. <BR>4. Switzerland and environs <BR>5. Newfoundland (and maybe Labrador) <BR>6. Iceland (and maybe Greenland) <BR>7. the Holy Lands <BR>8. Australia and New Zealand <BR>9. Gallepegos Islands (pardon the spelling) <BR>10. Hawaii

<BR>Marie mentioned some of my faves, but let me add a few more. (I plan FAR more trips than we will ever be able to take!) <BR> <BR>- Amazon River cruise <BR>- French Polynesia (NOT Tahiti) <BR>- A Windjammer cruise of small islands in the southern Carribean <BR>- Southern Africa (photo safari) <BR>- Nepal (hiking) <BR>- The Andes, eg. Machu Pichu (hiking) <BR>- Southern France (biking)

Soulmates! <BR> <BR>- Eastern Europe <BR>- Bora Bora, Moorea <BR>- Indonesia - specifically Lompoc <BR>- Malaysia <BR>- Nepal <BR>- Thailand (a return trip - we loved it) <BR>- Rio <BR>- British Virgin Islands <BR>- Grenada and the Grenadines <BR>- Egypt <BR>- India <BR> <BR>With of course, trips to Paris and Amsterdam interspersed. We love Europe but have really enoyed trips to Asia - they are just so much more time consuming. Flying to Europe for 3 oe 4 days is one thing, but flying to Asia isn't worth it for a short visit.

Switzerland, S. France, Spain/Portugal,Germany, Benelux,Austria, Australia, Tahiti, Costa Rica,Cuba. In NO particular order, when the opportunity presents itself! :-) Judy

Dear posters................ <BR> <BR>Appreciate your ideas. Going to Australia this October and maybe Bali next (or Egypt/Israel/Jordan). Who knows - that is part of the fun. <BR> <BR>Duck

ST. Petersburg and Cuba (want to be on the first flight in). Always connect in AMS, probaly even for Cuba. mike.

Our travel "lists" have to fit in around our committments in the Balkans. <BR>My husband has a strong desire to see a glacier "calve", whether in Alaska or Norway is of little moment. And we both want to get to Greece and Italy soon. <BR> <BR>Other than that, we will accept the "kismet" that leads us where we go:) Six years ago if you had told me we would be so deeply connected to our friends in Hungary, Macedonia and Czech Republic we probably would have looked at you very strangely:)

-London in March <BR>-all MLB ballparks, ongoing <BR>-Iceland, maybe when I graduate <BR>-Cuba, after that old dinosaur dies <BR>-Korea, who knows when <BR>

Our next destination will be Turkey this May. I still really want to go to Krakow, maybe I can fit it in this fall on our trip to Germany and Austria. The highlight of the trip will be Oktoberfest - for my husband and his friend - their destination of a lifetime! <BR> <BR>Here is my list: <BR>Poland <BR>Greece <BR>Spain <BR>Nepal <BR>New Zealand <BR>Galapagos Islands <BR>Seychelles <BR>Petra, Jordan <BR>China <BR>Malaysia <BR> <BR>I like to look at National Geographic Traveler's "50 Places of a Lifetime" issue to give me ideas of places to go. <BR>

Great question. Mine are- <BR> <BR>Tuscany (agrotourismo type stay) <BR>Northern Italy (Trento, Lugano, Verona) <BR>Croatia (definately include Dubrovnik) <BR>Hungary and Austria <BR>Fjordland National Park, New Zealand <BR>Scottish Highlands <BR>Paris and Brugges <BR>Greece/Spain <BR>

Mike: I want to be on the first flight too! With my scuba gear, of course! <BR>See you on the plane! ;-) Judy

Hi all, my next few choices are <BR>This year: Poland, Slovakia and Rumania. <BR>Next Year: England, Ireland and Scotland <BR>Following: Finland, Sweden and Norway <BR>Later: long trip to the Orient (China, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand and Australia. <BR>Haven’t planned beyond that YET. <BR>

A ten year plan.......... <BR>Tuscany (finally going this year!!!) <BR>Southern Italy <BR>Ireland Pub Tour (for my husband) <BR>Yorkshire & James Herriot country <BR>Prince Edward Island <BR>Washington DC <BR>Victoria, Vancouver, Canada <BR>Route of my grandfather in WWII (Northern Africa, Sardinia, Sicily, France) <BR>South Carolina in the spring

My husband and I have been fortunate that we are in a position to travel quite a bit. Like the above poster, we maintain top ten lists, try to hit them in order (season permitting), adding new ones to the list once we've visited one of the places on our list. My list now consists of the following (in rough priority order): <BR> <BR>Egypt - pyramids <BR>Amazon/rain forest <BR>Italy: Rome, Venice, Pompeii <BR>Angkor Watt <BR>India: Various cities, inc. seeing Taj Mahal <BR>African photo safari <BR>New York <BR>Washington DC <BR>Argentina or Chile <BR>Australia (Sydney esp) <BR>Japan <BR>Bali <BR>German castle tour

A few more that I should have included in my post above (since I have, indeed, planned them out at one time or another): <BR>- The Greek islands and Turkish coast on a small motor-sailer. <BR>- Slovenia and Croatia. <BR>- New Zealand (my father was stationed there with the U.S. Marines during WWII, and frequently talked about the great people and magnificent geography). <BR>- Japan. <BR>- Alaska. <BR>- The Austrian Alps and Italian Dolomites (we're going this Summer!!)

Turkey <BR>Southern Italy, particularly Pompei <BR>Scotland <BR>Patagonia <BR>Glacier National Park <BR>Provence <BR>Yucatan Peninsula <BR>Greek Isles <BR>Costa Rica (We're going there next month!) <BR> <BR>Looking over this list, I see two recurring themes of natural beauty and ancient ruins; neither of which I can see now: strip malls surrounded by half melted piles of filthy snow.

Great question Duck: <BR>In no particular order: <BR>Australia & New Zealand <BR>Hong Kong <BR>Thailand <BR>West Coast of USA <BR>Canadian Rockies <BR>Italy <BR>Switzerland <BR>Ireland (again & again) <BR>Paris (again & again) <BR>Hungary <BR>I like the idea that Marie has. Just cross one off your list and add another! Happy travels! <BR>

1. African safari (either Kenya-Tanzania-Seychelles or Botswana-Victoria Falls-South Africa) <BR> <BR>2. Bora Bora and Moorea, South Pacific <BR> <BR>3. Australia (Sydney, Great Barrier Reef, Tasmania, Kangaroo Island) <BR> <BR>4. Amalfi coast and Cinque Terre, Italy <BR> <BR>5. Thailand <BR> <BR>6. Italian Lakes and the Dolomites <BR> <BR>7. New Zealand <BR> <BR>8. Bali, Indonesia <BR> <BR>9. Borneo <BR> <BR>10. Santorini, Greece

This is inspiring! I was getting frstrated that my wish list had sterteched past the next couple of years, but you all have the right idea! <BR> <BR>Ours (for now) <BR> <BR>Italy - land trip, highlights <BR>Italy - sailing in the Ionian Sea <BR>Tonga - sailing <BR>Africa <BR>Zanzibar <BR>New Zealand, including Bay of Islands <BR>Spain and Portugal