Travelogue – Top Fifty
Yesterday’s blog on international cities made me think… I really want to spend time and energy on travel and seriously see the world.
I have since been brainstorming a list… it rapidly turned into a top 50. It’d be interesting to group this into trips and do some pricing — although I love arranging travel for myself and my family.
Here they are – Jeri’s top 50 places to see, do and be in the next 50 years. Pardon the lack of hyperlinks to place info, that would take an incredible amount of time!
| Alaska – cruise the inside passage Arizona – river raft the Grand Canyon Australia – scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef Burma – retrace my family’s steps Burma – The Shwedagon Pagoda Cambodia – Angkor Wat temple ruins Canada – Halifax and the Bay of Fundy Chile – The Moai Statues on Easter Island China – the Great Wall China – Tienanmen Square Denmark – Little Mermaid Egypt – the pyramids and the Sphinx England, France – the Channel Tunnel Europe – cruise the Rhine river France – the Louvre in Paris Georgia, Maine – walk the Appalachian trail Germany – the Berlin Wall Greece – the Parthenon in Athens Hawaii – swim the Ironman course India – the Taj Mahal Iran – the Throne Hall of Persepolis Ireland – tour the castles |
Israel – wailing wall and the hill of Golgotha Italy – culinary tour of Tuscany Italy – ruins at Pompeii Italy – cruise the canals of Venice Italy – the Colosseum in Rome Jordan – Petra, the rock-carved city Nepal – Mount Everest New York – see a show on Broadway New York – Statue of Liberty New York – the Empire State Building New York – the Museum of Modern Art New Zealand – hiking, biking, kayaking Norway – cruise the fjords Panama – traverse the Panama Canal by boat Peru – the Inca city of Machu Picchu Russia – Red Square in Moscow San Francisco – Swim Around the Rock Scotland – Loch Ness and Urquhardt castle Spain – La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona Switzerland – hike the Alps Tahiti – charter a sailboat Washington DC during cherry blossom season Yugoslavia – sunbathe on the Dalmatian coast Zambia – Victoria Falls |
March 28th, 2007
OK, so yo’ve actually got a pretty achievable list going on, if you break it down into regions.
You could feasibly lump Tahiti and Australia into one trip – I did NZ and Fiji that way.
And Burma, Cambodia, and Nepal and India could be their own little circle excursion.
So could Egypt and Israel and Iran and Jordan and Greece, although I’d give the first three a time-out for a few years.
And Europe is doable is you hub-and-spoke it from one locale like Switzerland – that’s how we covered France and Italy and a bit of Austria – it was brilliant.
And your US dreams are do-able – a getaway a summer.
Which leaves China and Ireland and Zambia and Yugoslavia and Demark and a bunch of other places.
Too many places, not enough time but 50 years….heck, achievable.
I’d start with seeing if your generous employer would splurge on an inside passage cruise instead of a flight next trip up. Whadya think?
March 28th, 2007
We’re actually doing a long US road trip this summer and hitting a few of those locales.
The really encouraging thing was I listed ALL my great places, and crossed out the ones I’d already been to in the US, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and the UK – that was another 20 or so – so I’m making progress!