One of my best friends is spending January in Panama with her husband and she’s been sending me daily journal updates of their days and activities. I’m not sure I want to spend a month away from home but the daily stories are making me a little envious.
Where would you like to spend a month?
i have a friend who speaks of all the gray haired americans who move to french guiana because the dollar that is difficult to get by on here makes you very comfortable there
i had another friend tell me similar stories years ago about honduras and another about belize. costa rica is somewhere i have always wanted to visited. greece is beautiful and turkey is supposed to be a poor mans greece. new zealand and iceland are on my bucket list as are katmandu and siscily, south africa a couple islands in the pacific have my eye on them
my son in law really makes me eager to get to kosovo and my brief visits to hawaii ireland and italy all call me back
alaska canadian rockies pacific coast highway napa san francisco taos santa fe 4 corners livingston montana multiple florida locations
would all be very much enjoyed
maybe it’s time to begin my travel business/blog as a closing career to allow me to do this. i could easily spend a lifetime doing a month here a month there and coming back to visit. i’d love to learn about the thailand laos cambodia part of the world, same for argentina brazil peru. come to think of it wouldn’t a month on antarctica be a trip? i’d better get started climbing kilamanjaro and the matterhorn while i can and to walk wherever the impressionists hung out in the south of france would be ideal.
egypt the holy land all of central america …. as i go around the world in regions i would love to do many of them make me wish i was there now.
i have a friend i used to do imaginary vacations with. we went to a number of places on the above list in our visualization sessions then i would go back to work and she would buy a plane ticket and arrange a speaking tour to support her trip. she went to ireland new zealand lake como london siscily have been recent stops for her as she builds a following for her poetry career. everywhere she goes inspires poetry kind of likes ljb gets photograph inspiration wherever she sits
i’ve always thought a week a month somewhere else would be ideal. i could switch it to a month away and three months home instead. thanks vs. a new wrinkle
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tim … you could have saved yourself a lot of time typing that all out if you had just put up a picture of the planet.. Lol
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I love “maybe it’s time to begin my travel business/blog as a closing career to allow me to do this.”
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But why say it in 10 words if you can say it in 1000? LOL
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traveling is something that i do enjoy
i jump on a plane and my brain says oh boy
i get all excited to go to new places
the pictures of buildings back roads and those faces
every where that you think about transforms the world
to a place that’s so different for its boys and girls
minnesota is great and we do it our way
but it’s so very different from another mans day
to travel is to open your eyes up to new
in most every thing that happens to you
the food and the people the customs entice and you sit in their midst and it gets feeing nice
to sit in another mans home for the day
you understand what how and why hes that way
the world that you sit in affects what you root for
the place that you come from the goals that you shoot for
perspective it changes with changes of state
a tropical view in the winter feels great
the mountains the oceans the woods long the way
are different from waking up home every day
the people and culture and food all add to
make it specially remembered all the the things that you do
whether you sit in a beach chair or go climb a mountain
walk through the louvre dip your hands in a fountain
enjoying the differences the people the views
a trip makes life special and the things that you do
make the every day stuff that you do til you’re dead
become cherished culture that’s familiar instead
a different perspective can do this for you
choose tahiti havana rome or kathmandu
a life on the trail is familiar for us
but a trip to on a plane or a train or a bus
in winter feels needed as the days short and gray
depress our midwestern psychic emotions each day
so travel to anywhere that helps you to cope
life is better when at the end of the tunnel there’s hope
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Rochester, MN.
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There are worse places… but maybe not colder by this weekend…
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Maybe it will be warmer by the time I arrive for my “vacation.” It’s looking like it will be March or April at the earliest…
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Oh yah, for sure warmer by then. May get that annual ‘Tournament snowstorm’ but warmer.
It’s nice here in April.
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Excellent, ljb – the ” love what you have” school of thought. 🙂
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It was my feeble attempt at humor, BiR. I can’t say I love what I have, but I try to hang onto my sense of humor. I don’t always succeed.
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Yeah, I think “love” would be a bit of a stretch…
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i would like to spend a month in northern Germany (Bremen, Verden, and Hamburg) so I could get to know my relatives there and see all the places my family came from.
I would like to spend a month in a Tuscan villa so I could eat wonderful food, ditto Quebec.
I would like to spend a month at home, not going to work, just being at home and organizing, painting, planning cosmetic repairs, etc.
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Madrid, Spain or The International Space Station.
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In that order?
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Australia, New Zealand, the Canadian Rockies, Grand Marais, Alaska in summer, Alaska in winter, the BWCAW, England . . . (I’m turning into tim!)
Chris in Owatonna
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If you were turning into Tim, Chris, this comment would have been a lot longer. And you used too many caps.
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LOL
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i am ignorant of Panama. What is there in addition to the canal?
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I would love to spend a month in Greece or France. I took French all through high school and 4 years of French in college. I should have minored in French, but never did the extra work. Nearly took a semester to study in France, but just couldn’t swing it financially — one of those regrets I still have.
Ecuador or Costa Rica would be a really cool trip as well.
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I would love to be any place on this planet with my family. Nothing else matters much.
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I think I’d opt for the South of France, but I think I’d also love Portugal or Spain – of like Joanne, Greece. I can see how once tim got started…
We get to be in Maui for stepson’s wedding in April, and I’m sure once I’m there I will think I want to be there a month.
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Maui is one of my favorite places. But I think my limit would probably be two weeks. The weather is wonderful but it is ALWAYS the same.
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I get to go to Santa Fe for a week in early April in for a regulatory board conference. I have never been there before
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Lots of art!
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Oh no! We want to downsize!
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Don’t miss the Georgia O’Keefe Museum.
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Rise and Shine Baboons,
Italy. Love Italy. I could eat my way through the country in a month.
Over the weekend I found the place I never want to go again–Quartzsite, AZ. Our friends travel in a camper and attended a camper convention there. OMG. Nothin’ but rocks and a really bad flea market. And our friends, of course, who are delightful.
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Well, at least there was good company.
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Maybe for a couple of weeks, anyway.
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Sheep station in New Zealand, tent safari camp in South Africa, Torgny (little village in South Belgium), Orvieto (village north of Rome).
All of these are related by being places I have experienced before and are quite different from my day-to-day life and kind of isolated which seems like a good thing to me if I’m going to take a month off.
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I’ll take a month anywhere where I’m sheltered from daily onslaught of daily news. If there are mountains, lakes, trees, wildlife and a person or two that I love hanging out with, all the better. Good food and wine are a given.
Actually, a month seems like long time to me, Ten days would be my preference. After about ten days I start missing my animals and feel anxious about my plants, so I’ll take three ten day retreats. Thank you very much.
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Nice, and then you can go three places.
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Mar-a-lago.
Just kidding.
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Snort.
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