Vacation Idea Origins

[livingdeb]

There are several ways I get vacation ideas.

1) People invite me on their vacations

* skiing in Colorado
* Big Bend National Park
* Grand Canyon
* Disney World
* Cruising
* Las Vegas
* Vermont
* London

2) People move to cool destinations and ask me to visit

* San Francisco
* Belgium
* Paris
* Lausanne
* Phoenix
* Denver
* Florida Keys

3) I myself move to cool destinations and do lots of nearby touristy stuff

* Boston
* Atlanta
* Austin

4) I take extra time off when I'm going to a conference
* northwestern New Mexico
* Arkansas
* San Antonio

I've also dragged people with me to places I'd already been so they could see, too.

It's quite possible I've never picked out a new place to go on my own (besides my future over-the-hill 50th birthday party) and then actually gone.

Isn't that weird?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like it's about time. Any ideas?

-sally

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

You mean besides North Carolina? (Ha!)

Nothing that counts as a lifelong dream or anything, but I actually do have some ideas:

* Hawaii
* Florence, Italy
* Barcelona, Spain
* the Inca Trail, South America
* Mount Rainier, Washington
* Washington DC, especially the Smithsonian
* Australia, with its totally alien life forms
* Yellowstone National Park and other national parks I haven't been to yet
* a place with pyramids (Mexico sounds less scary than Egypt, Cahokia in Illinois sounds even less scary.)
* other things to see: an iceberg, a geyser, fjords, a swamp, Northern lights, a rainforest

[(Anonymous)]

NC, hey what a coincidence... ;)

Of your list, I have only been to D.C.; Australia sounds particularly awesome.

-sally