Bucket List: places to visit in the next five years and why

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I want to ride a hot air balloon at the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival.

+1. I only learned about that festival after last year's one was held, and it looks so cool! A friend lives there and she sent me some amazing pictures of it. If I went, I'd want to take the kids (the Darth Vader balloon was awesome).

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a reasonable bucket list. Finances have not been great lately.

Zion/Utah within the next few years

Prague within the next 7 years

Thailand and Vietnam within 10 years.

Been there, done that. Prague was a waste of time.

Ditto prague. Been there 3 times. Go to Burma, [b]Thailand is just full of tourists.

There are areas that are less touristy, you just have to know where to go. I love Thailand, been there many times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a reasonable bucket list. Finances have not been great lately.

Zion/Utah within the next few years

Prague within the next 7 years

Thailand and Vietnam within 10 years.

Been there, done that. Prague was a waste of time.

Ditto prague. Been there 3 times. Go to Burma, [b]Thailand is just full of tourists.

There are areas that are less touristy, you just have to know where to go. I love Thailand, been there many times.

+2
Kind of a big country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to ride a hot air balloon at the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival.

Didn't do the Albuquerque Festival, but I have ridden in a balloon. Scary as hell but awesome - do it!

I myself would like to go to Machu Picchu.

[Anonymous]

I've been almost everywhere that I've wanted to go and am now at the point I just want to revisit my favorite places. I hope that in my lifetime, I'll be able to re-visit Egypt, Jordan and Palestine again - some of my favorite places in the world. Otherwise, I'd also like to see Victoria Falls, take a steamboat cruise thru the Amazon, visit Kerala and maybe the moon - hey, space tourism that doesn't cost a million dollars may happen within the next few decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a reasonable bucket list. Finances have not been great lately.

Zion/Utah within the next few years

Prague within the next 7 years

Thailand and Vietnam within 10 years.

Been there, done that. Prague was a waste of time.

Ditto prague. Been there 3 times. Go to Burma, [b]Thailand is just full of tourists.

There are areas that are less touristy, you just have to know where to go. I love Thailand, been there many times.

+2
Kind of a big country.

+3 home of George Orwell. Would like to see the former British colony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm saving up to take 6 months (or more) off and travel. I want to:

Hike the northern route of the El Camino de Santiago in Spain

Hike the last 100 km of the via francegina in Italy and visit Rome and Pompeii

Visit Athens and maybe a Greek Island, haven't researched Greece too much yet.

Visit Paris and Sur la Glane in France

Bike around the Island of Gotland in Sweden, something I promised myself I'd do as an adult when I was a 16 yr old exchange student visiting the island 25 yrs ago

Spend a good amount of time in the UK, hiking part of the South West Coast path, the Cotswold Way, and the John Muir Way as well as other stuff.

How do you take 6 months off from work?

I'd also like to visit South America; spend some time in Peru or Chile, and visit the Amazon Rainforest. I'd also like to do some volunteer work but I'm not having a lot of luck finding programs that need my skillset and also take people who aren't fluent in Spanish and haven't lived in a developing nation before. So, I may just visit, rent a little apartment near a beach for a month and contemplate what I want to do next with life.

In the short term, I'm visiting NYC for my birthday in June and plan to climb to the Statue of Liberty crown, see a game at Yankee Stadium (!!) and see a British cabaret singer I like.

How do you take 6 months off of work?

You plan and prioritize. We're thinking about taking two years off to do the Peace Corps. You value what you value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm saving up to take 6 months (or more) off and travel. I want to:

Hike the northern route of the El Camino de Santiago in Spain

Hike the last 100 km of the via francegina in Italy and visit Rome and Pompeii

Visit Athens and maybe a Greek Island, haven't researched Greece too much yet.

Visit Paris and Sur la Glane in France

Bike around the Island of Gotland in Sweden, something I promised myself I'd do as an adult when I was a 16 yr old exchange student visiting the island 25 yrs ago

Spend a good amount of time in the UK, hiking part of the South West Coast path, the Cotswold Way, and the John Muir Way as well as other stuff.

How do you take 6 months off from work?

I'd also like to visit South America; spend some time in Peru or Chile, and visit the Amazon Rainforest. I'd also like to do some volunteer work but I'm not having a lot of luck finding programs that need my skillset and also take people who aren't fluent in Spanish and haven't lived in a developing nation before. So, I may just visit, rent a little apartment near a beach for a month and contemplate what I want to do next with life.

In the short term, I'm visiting NYC for my birthday in June and plan to climb to the Statue of Liberty crown, see a game at Yankee Stadium (!!) and see a British cabaret singer I like.

How do you take 6 months off of work?

You plan and prioritize. We're thinking about taking two years off to do the Peace Corps. You value what you value.

I don't see how, as a professional, it's logistically possible to take off 6 months or 2 years from my career and get back into the workforce. At the start of a career or towards the end, yes. But as a 30-40 something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm saving up to take 6 months (or more) off and travel. I want to:

Hike the northern route of the El Camino de Santiago in Spain

Hike the last 100 km of the via francegina in Italy and visit Rome and Pompeii

Visit Athens and maybe a Greek Island, haven't researched Greece too much yet.

Visit Paris and Sur la Glane in France

Bike around the Island of Gotland in Sweden, something I promised myself I'd do as an adult when I was a 16 yr old exchange student visiting the island 25 yrs ago

Spend a good amount of time in the UK, hiking part of the South West Coast path, the Cotswold Way, and the John Muir Way as well as other stuff.

How do you take 6 months off from work?

I'd also like to visit South America; spend some time in Peru or Chile, and visit the Amazon Rainforest. I'd also like to do some volunteer work but I'm not having a lot of luck finding programs that need my skillset and also take people who aren't fluent in Spanish and haven't lived in a developing nation before. So, I may just visit, rent a little apartment near a beach for a month and contemplate what I want to do next with life.

In the short term, I'm visiting NYC for my birthday in June and plan to climb to the Statue of Liberty crown, see a game at Yankee Stadium (!!) and see a British cabaret singer I like.

How do you take 6 months off of work?

You plan and prioritize. We're thinking about taking two years off to do the Peace Corps. You value what you value.

I don't see how, as a professional, it's logistically possible to take off 6 months or 2 years from my career and get back into the workforce. At the start of a career or towards the end, yes. But as a 30-40 something?

I did it twice. It was called maternity leave. I know plenty of people who have taken time off to travel - sometimes as a leave and sometimes between jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to ride a hot air balloon at the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival.

Go to Taos!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm saving up to take 6 months (or more) off and travel. I want to:

Hike the northern route of the El Camino de Santiago in Spain

Hike the last 100 km of the via francegina in Italy and visit Rome and Pompeii

Visit Athens and maybe a Greek Island, haven't researched Greece too much yet.

Visit Paris and Sur la Glane in France

Bike around the Island of Gotland in Sweden, something I promised myself I'd do as an adult when I was a 16 yr old exchange student visiting the island 25 yrs ago

Spend a good amount of time in the UK, hiking part of the South West Coast path, the Cotswold Way, and the John Muir Way as well as other stuff.

How do you take 6 months off from work?

I'd also like to visit South America; spend some time in Peru or Chile, and visit the Amazon Rainforest. I'd also like to do some volunteer work but I'm not having a lot of luck finding programs that need my skillset and also take people who aren't fluent in Spanish and haven't lived in a developing nation before. So, I may just visit, rent a little apartment near a beach for a month and contemplate what I want to do next with life.

In the short term, I'm visiting NYC for my birthday in June and plan to climb to the Statue of Liberty crown, see a game at Yankee Stadium (!!) and see a British cabaret singer I like.

How do you take 6 months off of work?

You plan and prioritize. We're thinking about taking two years off to do the Peace Corps. You value what you value.

I don't see how, as a professional, it's logistically possible to take off 6 months or 2 years from my career and get back into the workforce. At the start of a career or towards the end, yes. But as a 30-40 something?

I met a nurse anesthetist who did travel nursing. She worked 3-month stints in Hawaii & Maine and spent the other 6-months traveling where she pleased without sacrificing her career. Admittedly, she was not married & didn't have kids. But she totally found a way to live the life she dreamed of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm saving up to take 6 months (or more) off and travel. I want to:

Hike the northern route of the El Camino de Santiago in Spain

Hike the last 100 km of the via francegina in Italy and visit Rome and Pompeii

Visit Athens and maybe a Greek Island, haven't researched Greece too much yet.

Visit Paris and Sur la Glane in France

Bike around the Island of Gotland in Sweden, something I promised myself I'd do as an adult when I was a 16 yr old exchange student visiting the island 25 yrs ago

Spend a good amount of time in the UK, hiking part of the South West Coast path, the Cotswold Way, and the John Muir Way as well as other stuff.

How do you take 6 months off from work?

I'd also like to visit South America; spend some time in Peru or Chile, and visit the Amazon Rainforest. I'd also like to do some volunteer work but I'm not having a lot of luck finding programs that need my skillset and also take people who aren't fluent in Spanish and haven't lived in a developing nation before. So, I may just visit, rent a little apartment near a beach for a month and contemplate what I want to do next with life.

In the short term, I'm visiting NYC for my birthday in June and plan to climb to the Statue of Liberty crown, see a game at Yankee Stadium (!!) and see a British cabaret singer I like.

How do you take 6 months off of work?

You plan and prioritize. We're thinking about taking two years off to do the Peace Corps. You value what you value.

I don't see how, as a professional, it's logistically possible to take off 6 months or 2 years from my career and get back into the workforce. At the start of a career or towards the end, yes. But as a 30-40 something?

My husband and I could both do this, if we had the funds and the child wasn't an issue (without losing her spot at a great charter). I'm a government attorney whose agency has a hiring freeze, so they frequently grant extended leaves of absence to prevent permanent losses. He is an architect at a firm with a long view, so they also prefer to have happy long term employees who they trust than starting from scratch with new people. I know others who have done this between law firm gigs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm saving up to take 6 months (or more) off and travel. I want to:

Hike the northern route of the El Camino de Santiago in Spain

Hike the last 100 km of the via francegina in Italy and visit Rome and Pompeii

Visit Athens and maybe a Greek Island, haven't researched Greece too much yet.

Visit Paris and Sur la Glane in France

Bike around the Island of Gotland in Sweden, something I promised myself I'd do as an adult when I was a 16 yr old exchange student visiting the island 25 yrs ago

Spend a good amount of time in the UK, hiking part of the South West Coast path, the Cotswold Way, and the John Muir Way as well as other stuff.

How do you take 6 months off from work?

I'd also like to visit South America; spend some time in Peru or Chile, and visit the Amazon Rainforest. I'd also like to do some volunteer work but I'm not having a lot of luck finding programs that need my skillset and also take people who aren't fluent in Spanish and haven't lived in a developing nation before. So, I may just visit, rent a little apartment near a beach for a month and contemplate what I want to do next with life.

In the short term, I'm visiting NYC for my birthday in June and plan to climb to the Statue of Liberty crown, see a game at Yankee Stadium (!!) and see a British cabaret singer I like.

How do you take 6 months off of work?

You plan and prioritize. We're thinking about taking two years off to do the Peace Corps. You value what you value.

I don't see how, as a professional, it's logistically possible to take off 6 months or 2 years from my career and get back into the workforce. At the start of a career or towards the end, yes. But as a 30-40 something?

My husband and I could both do this, if we had the funds and the child wasn't an issue (without losing her spot at a great charter). I'm a government attorney whose agency has a hiring freeze, so they frequently grant extended leaves of absence to prevent permanent losses. He is an architect at a firm with a long view, so they also prefer to have happy long term employees who they trust than starting from scratch with new people. I know others who have done this between law firm gigs.

I have friends who did this -- took 6 mos to sail around Australia and New Zealand. They wanted to do it before they had kids. He took leave from the federal government and she took leave from a private company.

I took 7 years off from my professional career in my 30s to be a SAHM and had no trouble getting back into it. I'd think a 6mo-2 yr gap for a big travel adventure would be no big deal and probably prompt some really interesting stories during an interview. And get less censure from some than taking off time to be home with kids.

[Anonymous]

If you'd like to see the Maldives, I'd go now, since they are going to disappear eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a reasonable bucket list. Finances have not been great lately.

Zion/Utah within the next few years

Prague within the next 7 years

Thailand and Vietnam within 10 years.

Been there, done that. Prague was a waste of time.

Ditto prague. Been there 3 times. Go to Burma, [b]Thailand is just full of tourists.

There are areas that are less touristy, you just have to know where to go. I love Thailand, been there many times.

+2
Kind of a big country.

+3 home of George Orwell. Would like to see the former British colony.

Did you mean Burma? Because Thailand was never colonized. In fact, it is the only country in SEA that wasn't.