I admit that whenever I see web pages like “places to visit before you die” that I get enthusiastic for travel. Of course that is the point of these websites and of travel magazines, and TV shows. To show you all the pleasant aspects of travel and to whet your appetite to go and do something different and most importantly to spend money.
So inspired by this and a need to find a vacation spot I started looking. My first thought was to go to the other side of the planet and try Asia or Australia or the Indian Ocean. All have lovely places to visit and are really affordable. But one of my friends pointed out that I would probably spend at least 3 solid days traveling on planes and waiting in airports. I barely have 10 days in total so that’s on hold for another year.
So I would have to confine my trips to something closer to home. I’ve been to most of Latin America. Canada? Didn’t really impress me as that different from the US. I don’t just want to stay at a generic McHilHyatt type of hotel. Those are for conventions or business meetings.
Ice hotels in Sweden in mid December? ummmm pass. Maybe a bit too different.
Machu Picchu came up in conversation as a possible destination. But I’m thinking “ok I’ve seen the rocks, now what?”
Ladera resort on St Lucia island in the Caribbean would be nice, depending on the hurricane season of course.
Patagonia is another.
I’m just so scattered that nothing really speaks to me. I know, first world problems. Normally I would have had this figured out by now but this year has been nothing but hectic.
Ultimately I may end up not going at all. I’ve been spending more and more time working and I have several different side projects going and at various stages of completion. So vacation planning has tumbled down to near the bottom of my priorities. One thing that I can’t do is to have work suffer because I am off on vacation or have one of my side projects collapse because I’m not there to tend it. I hope that things will clear up soon and that I am able to make a decision.
I have to make up my mind in less than 2 weeks to book with sufficient time and right now (as of the 24th of August) everything is still up in the air. Like I said, hopefully things will become clearer in the next 2 weeks. If things do line up then I will be off on vacation.
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