The Laughing Wolf

Travel I Want To Do

Codifying some thoughts of the last few days. I have been blessed with a lot of opportunities to travel and learn, and want to do more. I want to hit every continent ultimately. My list for now is:

St. Petersburg, Russia. Now. I want to visit in the winter, and take a sleigh ride across the snow. I want to visit it again in the early summer, and picnic one day at Peterhof and another day at Catherine’s palace.

I want to go to China and visit the Great Wall, and walk as much of it as I can. I want to visit the plaque left by Gen. Scott honoring Gen. Chenault, some of the AVG areas, and maybe the China end of the Burma road.

I want to go to Cambodia, and see Angkor Wat. I started to do that the first Christmas after Dad died, and sort-of regret a little not doing it. A few days there, and maybe go to Vietnam for just a couple of days. Mixed emotions on the latter.

I want to spend one night in Bangkok, for the song.

I want to visit India, see the Taj, and go up to Nepal. There, I want to climb as high as I can up Everest, just because.

Speaking of hiking, I want to hike and tour in New Zealand, based on what friends have said about the land and the people.

I want to tour Australia a bit, and maybe meet some people who I only know through e-mail.

Antarctica is next, and while I want to get ashore there, what I really want to do is make it to the South Pole. Just because.

For warmer climes, I might stop in South Africa, to visit some places I’ve only read about. I want to visit Egypt and see as much as I can. I want to visit Israel and see some of the places I have read about for all my life.

Relaxation will come in Spain an Portugal. Clubs, sea, food – just a couple of lazy weeks one day.
The Netherlands would also be a wonderful stop, and spring or summer come to mind, to see the flowers.

This is not all, but it is a start. A challenge to myself, as it were.

So, where do you want to travel, and why?

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