Where would you like to go?

[burckle]

My question to you. Where would you like to go?

When my cousin retired, he and his wife made up a list of places they would like to visit before travel became difficult or impossible. I have begun such a list also. It's not complete, mind you. I just started it but it's something to think about. So far I have two items.

1.The Sistine Chapel…, for obvious reasons.

2. The Grand Old Opry…for reasons that are not so obvious especially when paired with the Sistine Chapel. I've always been a fan of country music. I like those whiney laments about "my dog ran away with my cow and my sweetheart locked herself in the outhouse" Loretta Lynn was my ideal songstress. I also liked the religious country music (Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life).

Where would you like to go?

All the best,

Lloyd

[BEMM]

My husband and I have also started such a list. So far we have both felt like revisiting places we have enjoyed on earlier visits. This year it will be Provence, next year possibly New Zealand.

In future:
I would love to see a few Gilbert and Sullivan productions at the Doily Carte theater in London.
I would love to go to the opera festival in Spoleto, Italy.
I would like to go to China
I would like to go back to Japan
I would like to go to Brazil and Argentina and Peru ........
And I really want to spend time in Copenhagen during the theater season, fall, winter and spring, and see a year's Royal Danish Ballet performances.

We will need much more time and money than we have, but a wish list is free.
My husband is going to Japan in July, for a week, to jury an exhibition, a trip I can't join, unfortunately. Maybe there will be another time. I can always hope.

birte

[vlhperry]

I studied my families geneology and both my mom and dad origins are in Ireland.

Would also like to see Stonehenge, even though I have been told it is just a bunch of big rocks in the middle of no where. Have always loved the stories of Merlin and Arthur and the round table.

Sincerely,
Vicky

[Suffolkchris]

"I've been to paradise but I've never been to me" lol

Who said that (or who sung that) - Charlene I think.

Wasn't another line from the song:

"I've been to Nice & the Isle of Greece"

I guess who ever wrote that must have had a wonderful sense of humour or a terrible knowledge of geography!

All joking aside I guess with PD we all go "to me" far too often, so where would I like to go. Well of late I would be happy to go anywhere, the thought of managing a flight (and I used to do around 40 a year worldwide) justs seems horrific but this thread has reminded me that it is a problem I must address very soon, as generally with PD each day is as good as its going to get.

So I would like to go back to Norway or Sweden, not Greece (far to hot & humid for PD), have not been for nearly 30 years but the stunning scenery still lingers with me.

Chris

[wendy s]

Vicky, my husband and I saw Stonehenge many years ago when there were a lot of problems with wanna be Druids trying to use and abuse the place. There was so much security and fencing, and the stones certainly aren't as big as some photos show, but it was still pretty cool.

I want to go to Italy, and that's where we're headed this fall. Can't wait to eat and drink there, always my favourite past times when travelling. And shop - I've heard they have many shoes in narrow sizes, so I'm going to load up. I love old things - buildings and cemeteries - and just being in the country. I could spend all day puttering around an old church or museum, with stops for coffe and lunch in some wonderful little place. I'm joking that I want to find a very special little restaurant, eat there four days in a row, and on the fifth day, they will say "and will you have your usual?".

[Todd]

I'd like to go to heaven, so if you have any connections, please put in a good word for me. I think I'm gonna need some help...:D

Todd
PDTalks.com

[K Hamilton]

Wendy-

I'm joking that I want to find a very special little restaurant, eat there four days in a row, and on the fifth day, they will say "and will you have your usual?".

My wife and I had the opportunity to do just that several years ago in Madrid. We were there for a week while I was at an engineering conference, and stayed in a small-ish hotel. There was a small restaurant across the street called "The Spirit of Cervantes" (or was it Spirit of Don Quixote? I think Cervantes, but what with no memory and such ...); we went there our second night in Madrid, and it was so friendly and had such good food and the host spoke even less English than we did Spanish so we got along great, that we went back there every night thereafter.

Aside from that, I want to go see more of Japan, particularly the Northern part; more of Spain, more of England and Scotland and Norway and Italy and Austria and China and .... Those aren't all of the countries we have visited; Brazil (Belem, to be exact) was a horrible experience, and even though it wasn't Brazil's fault, or even Belem's, I still don't want to go back and be reminded, and there's a couple of others I've seen enough of as well. Of course, to be fair, I really ought to give them another chance, but there is only so much money :)

[Stitcher]

Return to Japan...Honshu in the Spring, 500 miles north of Tokyo...return to the town we lived in and visit beautiful Lake Tawada, up in the mountains. Then again in the Winter to finally see the Sapporo Snow Festival on the Island of Hokkaido. just across the channel. Couldn't afford to visit the festival 30+ years ago. (My son was born in Amori Prefecture in 1974.)

The Redwood Forest.

Walk on a glacier.

Take a lavish no-holds-barred trip across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary.

Stand at the top of the Canopy in the South American rain forest.

Return to the Underground Market in Istanbul...I hope it is the incredible place now that it was 36 years ago. (I fell down a flight of stairs in front of a hotel 9-months pregnant with my first baby in the summer of 1970, then walked the four blocks to the clinic...I was tenacious even then...yikes!...my second daughter was also born in Turkey.)

A photo safari of Africa.

Take the rail trip from Toronto to Vancouver, Canada

So many place...So little time

[EmptyNest68]

I would like:

A year in Italy
A year in Holland
A year in England/Scotland

Then spend the rest of my life in a little place called Pawley's Island, SC.

Slainte!
Steph

[DaleD]

I enjoy shooting animals, with a camera, so would love to go on a photo safari to Africa.

Have also always wanted to go to Rio de Janeiro.

I"m not sure this old body could handle a 20+ hours in flight trip though. It is a 3.5 hour trip outside the state and I've made that trip many times (10 in a 14 month span in 2004-05) but seldom a much longer second leg.

[olsen]

Oh Lloyd, I too love the lyrics to country songs--favorite is: "you're the reason our children are ugly"
and "you stepped on my heart and mashed that sucker flat, you just sorta stomped on my aorta"
and I listen to Patsy Cline CD's every day while driving...

Joke: know what you get when you play country music backwards? you get you wife back, you get your house back, you get your car back, you get your dog back.
thanks for reminding me , madelyn

[paula_w]

Again, Madelyn, I can only reply with hahahahahaha....
paula

[Jaye]

I wasn't finished with Turkey when I had to leave after my PD diagnosis. I lived there only nine months, and missed Ephesus and the other Biblical sites. Back to the Sancta Sophia in Istanbul, of course, is number one on any list. With a month of brushing up, I'll bet I could still speak their beautiful language...

Back to India where, of course, I would magically tolerate the heat. A lifetime there wouldn't be enough, and I only had five days the first time. And I could still speak some of some of their beautiful languages, too...

Alaska, back to Hawaii, back to Colorado, and most of all, back home to New Mexico.

Oh my.

Jaye

[steffi 001]

My husband and I were married in Barbados...one beautiful sunny afternoon in September.My parents were both dead therefore I couldn`t bear a traditional English wedding without them,so it had to be something totally different.And so...there we stood,by a white beach,a stranger giving me away,our two beautiful children by our side,and one blissfully happy bride.What hopes I had that day....
I would love to recapture that moment when for a short time,reality gave way to the intoxicating headiness of bouganvillea scented dreams.
That night,my husband and I ,[together with two students who had been monitoring a turtles nest on our beach,]released over 110 baby turtles back into the sea by moonlight.As if timed to perfection,the babies decided to hatch on our wedding day and with awe and wonderment I watched as these little turtles scampered and skidded their way towards the relative safety of the sea...and survival.
Sadly I guess..not many survived...but what a privelege to have been witness to this moment.
Hopes....dreams.....survival.
Guess it says it all.

We can all escape to wherever we wish ....in our minds.
x

[Stitcher]

Jaye, these days I can only count from one to five in Turkish. It has been 35 years since I was there, and back then I could go to Market on Saturday (our towns market day) and order anything. I always loved the two-hour ferry ride across the Maramara Sea to get to Istanbul, what an adventure...we lived on the southern shores of the sea. The stories I can tell are so many...riding the ferry in a pitching sea 8-months pregnant...keeping my eyes closed while riding in an Istanbul taxi...the local woman who lived across the street from me condemning me because I didn't swaddle my infant babies (both daughters were born there, in July) when it was 100 degrees outside...the glorious day my husband rolled my new ringer-washer down the street and into our apt...all the things my husband got to do because he was male...the day the gypsies wanted to buy my newborn daughter...my landlord yelling at me in Turkish because I left my daughter with my husband while I went out for two hours...two years of stories. I think I miss Chi and the goat cheese pastry the most...food, what can I say!!

I bet this forum could fill a whole 'nother thread with these types of experiences.