My family is somewhat in the process of planning our next family vacation. This year, we’re looking at going to Italy. We are still looking at cruises and figuring out what we want to see… Italy is another of those places that, I suspect, we will be able to visit multiple times and we still won’t have seen everything! My mother has a coworker who also works as a travel agent part-time, so he’s been our source of info on our overseas travels. Another friend told us to find special offers and coupons at hotels.com, and if this was a domestic trip, I’d definitely do that, but traveling internationally adds a bit of complexity to the issue. (It also helps that we know and trust this particular travel agent- since I know there are far too many crooked or at least sub-par travel agents out there.)
Of course, we’ve also considered going to a different part of the world… My older sister would love to visit Asia again, since she used to live there. And I have to admit, I would love to visit Thailand again… and though I’ve been to China before, it’s a big country and there are other places there I would like to visit. Personally, I would love to go back to Africa, where I used to live. Except I would want to go to a different part of the continent- I lived in West Africa, but I would love to go to southern Africa to go on a safari and see some of the animals. However I don’t think that will be happening anytime soon- I know Africa is possibly the most expensive country to visit.
Of course, while we’re talking about dreams, there’s a whole host of places I would love to visit but won’t be visiting anytime soon. For example, I would love to go to Egypt and see the pyramids, but due to the violence there, I doubt I’ll be going anytime soon. Same with the Holy Land in general, including Jerusalem- I’d love to go to Israel/Palestine but I don’t expect to be going there anytime soon. I also think it would be really neat to visit Antarctica, although that would probably have to be a cruise and would probably be pretty expensive. I guess there’s not a lot to “see”, but it would be neat to say I’ve been there.
Of course, I haven’t even begun to touch on all the other places I’d like to visit. India would be neat- I’d love to see the Taj Mahal. The ancient city of Babylon would be neat, but of course that’s near Baghdad, in Iraq. Machu Piccu, in Peru, would be neat. Really, there’s just an awful lot of places I’d like to visit, even though I know I probably won’t be able to see it all in my lifetime!
