Places to Visit

Charlie and I have come to a difficult decision. We travel too much. We really do. We go on too many "little" trips that we convince ourselves will not cost that much money, until you go on one every other weekend all summer and then you are like "Where the crap did all our money go?!" So we are going to need to go on fewer weekend trips. That is kind of upsetting because we really like weekend trips. But I like 1+ week trips better. So as long as I don't have to give those up...

I'm not sure when we started this list, but we have a travel list. Places we want to go before we die. Our long term plan is to work, raise our kids, and then retire as soon as we can and start travelling. Probably down size to a small house that we can go to when we're home, but just GO.SEE.DO in the meantime. Every time we see a place we scratch it off the list. So, here is our list. Any places you'd add?

Europe

London (June, 2005)

Stonehenge

Scotland

Ireland

Paris (June, 2005)

Provence

Portugal

Barcelona, Madrid (1999, June, 2005)

Alhambra

Toledo

Rome (June, 2005)

Florence

Cinque Terre (June 2005)  I'd like to go back here though, we only spent one day...

Venice

Pisa

Capri

Austria June 2005

Switzerland July 2005

The Baltics

Scandanavia

Denmark

Russia

Croatia

Romania

Hungary (June 2005)

Poland

Brugge (July 2005)

Antwerp

Brussels

South/Central America

Peru June 2011

Chile

Argentina

Brazil June 2009

Ecuador

Costa Rica - planned December, 2011

Panama

Galapagos Islands

Belize (March 2010) I'd like to go back, we didn't have that much time on our cruise

Africa

South Africa I've been there but Charlie never has. I want to take him and show him all that I saw in Cape Town and Kruger National Park.

Morocco

Egypt

Tanzania

Uganda I want to see the gorillas! Not till they quit killing each other though...

USA/Canada/Mexico

Alaska

Napa Valley (September 2010)

Red Woods National Forest (September, 2010) I want to go back, we didn't have enough time!

New Orleans (March 2011)

Grand Canyon

Yellowstone 

Yosemite

Charleston, SC

Monongahela National Forest

Smokey Mountains

Nashville (March 2008)

Portland

Seattle

Vancouver

Prince Edward Island

Calgary

Cancun (December 2007)

Montana

Bryce/Zion Canyon, Utah

Denver (May 2007)

Chicago (lots since Karrah lives there)

New York City (lots)

Boston (lots since Rhonda lives there)

Puerto Rico - planned February, 2012

Asia

Thailand

Vietnam

Cambodia

Laos

Japan

India

Nepal

Middle East

Jordan

Israel

South Pacific

Tahiti

Fiji

French Polynesia

Indonesia

Australia

New Zealand

That is it. That is the list so far. This list is in constant flux. It changes with our (mostly my) whims and whatever I happen to be reading about recently.

The world is a great, big, beautiful place. And we only have one life. So get out there and LIVE IT!

Now I'm going to go study...