tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
Where I’d like to visit. Most. On this planet? That should be easy since I have quite a few places on my bucket list to visit (and since I don’t get to travel internationally very often). However, what I’ve discovered is that it’s not the where, it’s the with that matters most to me. My wife and I can go pretty much anywhere and have a good time.
Once we traveled to the Mojave desert to surprise some friends, got lost, had a blast. We were in the desert. There was nothing around for miles.
Northern Wisconsin - near where I grew up - is certainly not one of my favorite places in the world to visit. But when I’m with my family, I’d rather not be anywhere else. There’s a lot of great things to do, but the “unique-factor” doesn’t exist for me since it’s so familiar.
I’ve never been to Europe. If I could pick one place to see there, it would probably be Rome. We almost went for our ten year wedding anniversary, but felt that if we were going to go to Europe we wanted to see more. Which of course meant we ended up not going because we couldn’t take that much time off work. Someday…
Anywhere? That one place? The Far East has a strong appeal to me. A culture that old, and refined, with that much history seems to be an experience that everyone must have at least once in their life if only to gain a longer perspective on life.
How about this? My wife travels for a living. On any given day, the one place I’d like to visit most is where she’s staying. In July, 2010 I hopped on a late flight from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale. I arrived at 10:30 pm, and literally walked off the plane as my wife was walking off her flight just one gate over. We caught a ride to a hotel. Spent the morning on the beach, then at noon the next day we both went back to the airport. 14 hours. That’s all I needed to have an incredible visit to the place I most wanted to be.
How about you? How much does where you visit affect your trip?
