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#1

I hope someone lets me know if I am duplicating any other older threads, but I thought it would be cool to know where anyone else has travelled around the place. If it dies in the sorry barb, then so be it

Top 5 places I have been and highly recommend:

  1. London
  2. Lisbon
  3. Great Barrier Reef
  4. Paris
  5. Salzberg

Top 5 destinations I want to go to:

  1. Belgium
  2. Monet’s Garden in Paris
  3. Dallas, to meet up with lots of the good folk on GWC
  4. San Diego for Comic Con, and while I’m so close, San Franciso
  5. New York
#2

Paris
London
Berlin
New York
Canary Islands

#3

I would love to go to Berlin - I’ve been to Nuremberg and Munich. What’s the Canary Islands like?

#4

Cool, you’ve been to my area then.

The Canary Islands are awesome, mostly wind and volcano rocks/black sand beaches.

#5

Pity I didn’t know you lived there when I was over there

#6

I haven’t travelled much.

  1. Orlando. Disney World.
  2. Washington, D.C.

Places I’d like to see before I take the ultimate nap:

  1. Hawaii
  2. Rome
#7

Rome is awesome, but the people were really mean to me

#8

I’ve traveled around the US & Canada some, but I was in a city for one night usually, so some of my fav’s are places I’d like to spend more time in.

Chicago
Boston
San Francisco
Portland
Vancouver

Places I’d like to go…

Okinawa
Disneyworld
Ireland
London
A cruise…almost any cruise, despite my husband’s aversion to water.

#9

I haven’t been around too much, but loved:

  1. Bermuda (cruised there, sorry Rosaleen, but it was great !)
  2. Grand Bahama Island (2X, did not want to come home under any circumstances!)
  3. Niagra Falls (beautiful, awesome)
  4. Washington D.C. (amazing)
  5. Kennedy Space Center, Florida (as a 15 yr old. My
    head pretty much spent the week exploding)

I’d love to see:

  1. Egypt. The Great Pyramid, all the sites. I’d be a
    young(er) Indiana Jones !
  2. Paris
  3. The west coast of USA, with a stop at Grand Canyon
    on the way.
  4. Disney World, Florida.
  5. Costa Rica
#10

Hm

Been:
Bermuda (Cruise)
Cozumel, Mexico (Cruise)
Myrtle Beach, SC
Orlando/Disney World(>_> What)
DC/Maryland/Virginia tri-stateish area

Want To:

Aussieland
UK (Dublin and London specifically)
Cali
Amsterdam
Brazil (I want to go to one of their frakkin MASSIVE power metal shows)

#11

Been:
[ol]
[li]Hawaii (Oahu, Bug Island, Kauai)
[/li][li]Ireland (oh, the Cliffs of Moher!)
[/li][li]Toronto
[/li][li]San Frak-cisco
[/li][li]Florida (the Ft. Laud/Miami area)
[/li][/ol]

Wanna Been:
[ol]
[li]Scotland
[/li][li]Tibet/Nepal
[/li][li]London
[/li][li]Las Vegas (just to say I did)
[/li][li]New Zealand
[/li][/ol]

#12

Where I’ve been:
Puerto Rico (that shouldn’t count, though, since I was born and raised there)
Madrid/Santiago/Barcelona/Seville (gorgeous!)
on a 2004 Caribbean Cruise:
Jamaica (not that impressed. Kind of looked like the San Juan suburbs to me)
Labadee, Haiti (I felt really guilty being in a resort town in a country that is starving
and dead broke)
Grand Caiman (flatest place I’ve ever been to. It was weird)
Grand Bahama (beautiful)
Dresden (it was for work and I caught pneumonia while I was there, which limited my
sightseeing)
Cannes (when I was 14 that beach was the GREATEST FRAKKIG PLACE ON EARTH)
Paris (probably my favorite place in the world)
New York (shouldn’t count, though, as I went there all the time while I was in grad
school)
Florence
Pisa
Disney World (being the cynic that I am I should hate that place, but I just love going
there)
Guadalajara (kind of whirlwind, though, as it was for my brother’s wedding)
Vegas (wasn’t impressed, but this was almost 20 years ago)

(You know, looking at this list, I’ve been to lots of places. And that’s not counting all of the moving I’ve done since I came to the U.S. 20 years ago. Goram!)

Where I’d like to go:
Disney World (need to take my girls. The oldest was there when she was 4 and loved
it. She keeps asking to go back)
Paris (again, just to spend days and days at the Louvre just staring at the huge pillars
with the Hamurabic Code carved on them…from actual ancient Sumeria. That blows
my mind!)
Rome
Jerusalem (kind of a nut for religious history)
China (had a chance to go as a professor’s assistant in grad school and turned it
down. I kick myself to this day)
England (not just London. I have many British friends who just gush about home and I would love to see it…and I’d love to visit the Beatles’ old haunts around Liverpool and London)
Giza (would just love to see those pyramids before I die)
Not a place, but I would love to go whale watching at least once before I download.

Let’s put a GWC round the world cruise together and make all our travel dreams come true!

#13

You know, you say that and I agree. I should hate it also but it’s just so gorrum fun. I think it’s the magic and the wonder. Sure it eats a hole in your wallet but it creates memories.

#14

Favorite Places I’ve Been:

  1. Exeter, England (junior year abroad)
  2. France (Paris, Nice, Bordeaux)
  3. Moscow, Russia
  4. Cozumel, Mexico
  5. Galway, Ireland
  6. Bruges, Belgium
  7. Florence, Italy

Places I want to go:

  1. Egypt
  2. Australia
  3. Chicago
  4. San Francisco
  5. Alaska
  6. Hawaii
  7. Fiji
  8. Greece
#15

Places I’ve been:

  1. Las Vegas
  2. Seattle.
  3. Toronto
  4. Chicago
  5. Boston
  6. The mountains of the Tennessee/North Carolina border, breathtaking scenery
  7. Niagra Falls

Places I’d like to go:

Egypt
Ireland
Greece
Rome
Australia
France
Germany

#16

Faves:
London
Edinburgh
Prague
Barcelona
Galapagos Islands
Bermuda

Desires:
Mont Saint-Michel
Ireland
New Zealand
Australia
Patagonia

#17

Meaning the state in the US, or the city in Colombia?

#18

5 places I’ve been and recommend (in no particular order):

  1. La Habana, Cuba (avoid the beach resorts when possible - it’s kind of like what Armando said about being in a resort in Haiti)
  2. St Louis, MO.
  3. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  4. Chicago. Lots of fun things to do.
  5. Santiago, Chile.

5 places I’d like to visit

  1. Brazil (various parts)
  2. Jerusalem
  3. Helsinki
  4. Russia (Moscow and St Petersburg…)
  5. Mexico
#19

All this travel talk made me pull out the DVDs I made of the XO’s and my honeymoon, and I’m watching them now…ah, Bermuda.:smiley:

#20

Places I’ve Been and Recommend:

  1. New Zealand–semester abroad (For those of you who have NZ on your wishlist, just go! Yes, it’s a long plane trip from pretty much anywhere, but it’s an incredible place. Also, I found it to be by far the easiest, most laid-back country to travel around in once I was in the country, so it’s perfect for folks who want to try international travel but don’t want to get in over their heads. So, no excuses–just go!)
  2. England–mainly Cambridge and London, but I have also seen Stonehenge (rockin’!), Bath (Austen! And Romans!), and Stratford-upon-Avon (Well, I sort of saw this one–mainly my friends and I ran past all the sites with a group of tipsy transvestites to make it to Hamlet before the curtain rose because we’d gotten stuck in a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere…no, really, true story. Anyway, the play at the RSC was worth it).
  3. Barcelona–Gotta love Gaudi, and a lot of great history, too.
  4. Washington, D.C.–The Smithsonian Institute=Geek Paradise. Add to that the monuments/memorials, Holocaust Museum, Capitol Hill, Library of Congress, US Mint, and a cheap, easy, safe subway/train system, and you’ve got yourself a winner.
  5. Calgary/Banff Nat’l Park–Gorgeous mountains, pristine lakes, and incredible food in Chinatown. Stampede is also quite the experience.

Honorable Mention:
Chicago, NY, Florida (Tampa Bay area), Tahiti

Travel Wishlist:

  1. Japan
  2. Thailand
  3. Germany
  4. Italy
  5. Egypt
  6. NZ again :o
  7. S. Korea