Travel

I've got that travel bug again, for many different reasons. I think it was delayed this year because we had no snow. Snow's what does it to me most of the time.

So I have my itineraries for the next sixty-five years. (I'm not kidding in the least, BTW.) It's my goal to spend every big birthday someplace cool. So here are the plans, with websites attached to them.

2005: Japan. Land of the Rising Sun

2010: Czech Republic. No information on this one, yet. If you have any ideas, e-mail them to me.

2015: Egypt and Morocco. I'll be thirty-five; my sister will be 30. Big trip. Cairo's Heritage

Morocco Highlights

2020: China. My fortieth birthday. Cake on the Great Wall, anyone? You know I'll do it...



2025: Poland.

Global Volunteers, Poland

2030: Argentina. My fiftieth birthday. I'll start stocking up on the Aleve so I can go tango-ing all night long.

2035: Vietnam. I'm really looking forward to this one.
Vietnam Gourmet Traveller

Global Volunteers, Vietnam

2040: Russia. St. Petersburg at 60.

St. Petersburg By Train

2045: Thailand. I'll learn (finally) how to make my own Thai food. I may never leave.

Thailand Culinary and Spa Retreat

2050: Israel. I'm pretty serious about this one. Can you see me at seventy in the middle of the Gaza strip?

2055: Greece.

Western Crete Photography Workshop

Global Volunteers, Greece

2060: Italy at 80. I'll wear all black, with a scarf around my head. I'll fit right in. (At least in Northern Italy I will...)

Tuscany Gourmet Ride

Global Volunteers, Italy

2065: My last planned trip. Ireland. Think of it as a pilgrimage.

Glencree Reonciliation Program

Side note: For the most part, I hated "Titanic." I thought it was stupid and overly-lauded because of its box office scores. But, I did love one part. At the very beginning of the movie, when they're in the Old Rose's apartment, they pan across all sorts of pictures. Rose flying an airplane, Rose on a camel's back... I want those pictures. I want to be that kind of old lady.

And I will be.