Growing up, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel quite extensively for a child. My dad worked with a software company, and was often sent out to schools to help train the teachers how to use the program. While this meant he was away from home a lot (more often than he was home, if I remember correctly) it also means that he accumulated Airmiles at a rapid rate. Every two years we were able to take a family vacation, usually to visit him while he was working.
Parrots! We took many pictures with birds in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic)
By the time I turned 20, I’d been to Cancun, Punta Cana, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Minneapolis airport more times than I can count, Singapore, Prague, Berlin and Hanover/Sarstedt. It’s safe to say the travel bug has burrowed in, and isn’t going anywhere. There are still so many places I want to see!
Thomas and I are talking about going on vacation together. He really wants to see Italy, and do a wine/food tour there — the only objection I have to that is all the pasta that I won’t be able to eat!
I’d love to get more in touch with my German roots and visit Austria/Vienna. The history would just be incredible, and there are some hotel options here that blow my mind. Affordable and really neat! I’d need to brush up a little (a lot) on my German, but I can say thank you, count to three, and order beer. That’s a great start, right? Jawohl! At least there are sites like TripAdvisor that have all sorts of neat travel guides. Maybe I can convince Thomas by showing him this one on Vienna (and did you know it was rated a travelers choice destination in 2012?).
The other trip I have in mind is to join my girlfriends for a week at an all-inclusive in Mexico. It’s a nice indulgence if you’re into that kind of vacation, but there’s truly no denying that a trip with the opportunity to experience culture and history trumps a week of laying on the sand like a lizard. Tequila, while delicious, is just not enough culture/history in comparison to the castles and ruins of Europe!
If you could go anywhere next week, where would it be?
You don’t want to come to Finland in the midwinter?
I’d love to visit Seoul myself. I envy you for the parrots. Never seen any myself!
I’d LOVE to go to Finland, but definitely not midwinter lol. I’m actually going to be applying for EU citizenship/passport soon, and I’m hoping to live in Europe for a little while
And parrots are kind of cool, but the two on my shoulder didn’t seem to like me as a perch. They tried to eat my hairband, and were shuffling back and forth on my shoulder with their grippy feet. It was odd.