Where is your bucket list travel destination?

[LSlycord]

I have so many places that I want to visit. And I have visited some wonderful places. Tell me...where is that place where you really want to go? Or that place that you visited and why it was the best? I'm trying to plan a trip for 2026 and I can't seem to focus. Help me!

 

[vickyday]

I have so many places that I want to visit. And I have visited some wonderful places. Tell me...where is that place where you really want to go? Or that place that you visited and why it was the best? I'm trying to plan a trip for 2026 and I can't seem to focus. Help me!

I've been to Hawaii...beautiful but expensive...but worth every penny!
I've been to Cancun...it was ok.
I've been on a Caribbean Cruise. The food was great, the snorkeling was fun.
I've been to Israel. It was wonderful.
But if I had opportunity, I'd do Hawaii again...or Alaska!

 

[LSlycord]

I would love to see Israel. But it’s such a volatile region that I don’t feel like I could plan ahead.

Hawaii is a favorite destination but it is incredibly expensive. Thanks for sharing.

 

[AnaSantos]

I have been in a few places and this is was I think about them:
Spain ... Madrid, ok. Sevilha, ok. Benidorm, ok. Barcelona so cool.
Andorra, a magical and tiny spot between Spain and France and good for shopping.
France, only went to some small villages.
Bulgaria, a country that was closed off from the rest of Europe for a long time, and this is noticeable in its architecture and customs. The strangest thing of all is that if we move our head to say we consent, we are saying no, and if our head says no, we are saying yes... very strange and confusing.
Dominican Republic, I've been there three times and enjoyed all my trips very much, but I don't intend to go back.
Austria, I´m in love with Vienna, I recommend it.
Poland, a wonderful country I would love to return to, especially Krakow.
I have visited Açores and Madeira (Portugal territory) and this are amazing places too.

I have a couple of place I would like to visit:
1srt place goes to Japan, 2nd to Switzerland, 3rd to Belgium and 4rd to Netherlands.

 

[LSlycord]

@AnaSantos Portugal is truly a bucket list for me. I would love to do Austria and Vienna is my choice. Barcelona would be your choice for Spain…good to know. I would also love to do Japan! We had the opportunity to be in the Netherlands about 3 1/2 years ago during tulip time. It was wonderful!

 

[faerywings]

@LSlycord so are there any rules to this? Cost and travel time are not an issue?

If I could go anywhere, I would *love* to go to Australia. All over, N-S, E-West. Maybe not the absolute middle, but definitely all around the coast. Wildlife, beaches, indigenous and western cultures. I'd have to teleport my way around cuz I don't think I'd last too well on a plane that long.

Amazon Rainforest-- wildlife, insects, plants! The most diverse area on earth.

Hawaii.

Italy to see where my grandparents and great-grandparents were born.

 

[LSlycord]

No rules—-money not an object. I’ll admit that flight to Australia seems daunting to me! But I would love to go!

The Amazon rainforest—no way.

Italy for sure!

 

[Jeannette]

There are so many places I want to go, Scotland, Ireland, England, Norway, but after seeing al the Yellowstone series I now have Yellostone Park on my bucketlist too!

 

[LSlycord]

There are so many places I want to go, Scotland, Ireland, England, Norway, but after seeing al the Yellowstone series I now have Yellostone Park on my bucketlist too!

I've been to England but none of the others. Except Yellowstone---I have been there several times and now I want to go in the winter.

 

[AK_Tracy]

We did a Scotland trip and it was worth every expense. We went everywhere but Glasgow. Not sure why but it just didn't end up in our two week tour. We hired a driver and had a blast. I would love to go back and really take more time to see Isle of Sky, and Inverness and a few other places. We toured so many castles and had a blast. I did use a tour group company and since we were a party of 6 made it a private tour. I splurged and used my dads life insurance money for a trip of a lifetime knowing he would have been so happy we did it and enjoyed ourselves. I would love to go back. I want to stay a month next time. I would love to go to Italy, Ireland, Germany (beer fest) Australia. Hawaii was fun (single then) but it was touristy and crowded. I would love to see the Caribbean and Greece.

 

[LSlycord]

We did a Scotland trip and it was worth every expense. We went everywhere but Glasgow. Not sure why but it just didn't end up in our two week tour. We hired a driver and had a blast. I would love to go back and really take more time to see Isle of Sky, and Inverness and a few other places. We toured so many castles and had a blast. I did use a tour group company and since we were a party of 6 made it a private tour. I splurged and used my dads life insurance money for a trip of a lifetime knowing he would have been so happy we did it and enjoyed ourselves. I would love to go back. I want to stay a month next time. I would love to go to Italy, Ireland, Germany (beer fest) Australia. Hawaii was fun (single then) but it was touristy and crowded. I would love to see the Caribbean and Greece.

Oh that Scotland trip sounds amazing! I've never been but I'd sure love to go! All of your places are on my bucket list. One day...or do I want that double oven? LOL

 

[AK_Tracy]

Oh that Scotland trip sounds amazing! I've never been but I'd sure love to go! All of your places are on my bucket list. One day...or do I want that double oven? LOL

That's a tough choice, travel or double wall oven. Yeah at my age, I would choose travel, but then I already have the double wall oven.

 

[janedee]

The big trip on my bucket list is South Africa for a safari in Kruger, some wine tasting and touring around.

We have done quite a bit of travelling since we retired. My favourite trips in Europe were Portugal and the Greek Islands.

In Portugal, we started in Porto and made our way south. We loved Porto, Viano de Castelo, Braga and Lamego, and spent some time in the Duoro Valley. We had a car for that part of the trip then used buses/trains for the rest of the trip. I would like to go back and spend more time in Lisbon and the south.
When we went to the Greek Islands, we ferry hopped. We had a wonderful time and chose the islands to visit based on the connections. We really didn't plan much, just went with the flow and ended up visiting Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Samos, Mikonos, Naxos and Milos. We would rent a car for a day or two here and there to visit the ruins and see more of an island.

 

[sucali]

I alway dreamed of traveling to Australia...and I am going there in February!
A dream comes true!

I also love England...and we are flying there over New Year

One of my favorite cities to visit is Venice! It's so nice there and I am a great fan of Italy trips.
Nice towns, great landscape and good food...

 

[JeanneMN]

My dream from the time I was a kid was to go to Hawaii, it finally came true in 2018 when we went to Maui for two weeks. Sometimes you wonder if things will live up to your expectations and it was even better. I'd never seen mountains or the ocean. We did a day trip to Pearl Harbor and I get goosebumps just thinking about it. To go from never seeing the ocean to a fabulous experience snorkeling, and then the top of Mount Haleakala it was jaw dropping. I'm not a great airline traveler and I doubt I'll go back the flight is so long. I've been out of the country once in 1998 when our son was in SE MN Honors Choir and they went to Czech Republic & Austria on tour and competed in Vienna. We were chaperones and it was a stretch for the budget but Austria had been on my bucket list since the first time I saw Sound of Music. Prague was really special too because I'm of 100% Czech descent. To top it off, the choir won the competition in Vienna and it was a blast to see Sound of Music sites in Salzburg and Vienna. And the Choir did an impromptu song on the steps by the altar in the church where Maria and the Baron got married, that was something. Now that my cousin introduced us to Key West that was love at first sight for me, I've been obsessed with the ocean since Hawaii, check, and in Minnesota MY normal is called odd and weird by a lot of people, they live in the land of navy, gray and taupe, but Key West is full of MY people where I just blend right in. I've found my happy bucket. Shorter plane flight and I have the ocean which I can stare at ALL day long and I can leave -18 degrees and 12 hours later be sitting in the sun in shorts and 74 degrees drinking a Key lime pie martini. Sorry, another librarian short story long.

 

[BoatLady]

I have been lucky to do some traveling. As a child we traveled from Maine - New England to Virginia with family. My senior year I went to Bermuda with the Girl Scouts--Mom said "travel when you can as you many not be able to travel more". So my parents paid my way but little did they know a couple years later I would be moving to Germany with a baby and hubby.
We lived in Connecticut, Maryland, Germany, Tennessee then CT again and for our retirement we moved to Florida to avoid cold/ice/snow.
We have gone to Long Island, Bonaire, Roatan and Cozumel for scuba diving trips.
Our son gave me a week trip to Aruba when I worked for him plus spending money...so generous.
I spent 2 weeks in TX and Vegas with marina friends.
We traveled in our boat to the Canadian Canals-(several thousand miles)-(300 locks) , Martha's Vineyard, Long Island, Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay living on the boat for 3-4 months of the year. 30 years of traveling.
We sold out big boat then bought a new truck and travel trailer to travel the US. So I put a map of the states we have been to. The requirement for a sticker are ..... stay over night at least 2 nights camping or traveling in the boat.... most are a week or more...or just places we lived. One of my favorite parts of these trips was to go West to Yellowstone/ Grand Tetons,
Cruises took us to Grand Cayman, Cuba, Roatan, Belize, Cozumel. I loved Cuba. Not a huge fan of cruises but I would love to travel the Panama Canal or the canals in England
I flew to Puerto Rico for a weekend when my husband was there working for 2 weeks...We were able to hike the rain forest to check off my bucket list- I loved it.. so many hikes in the clouds.
In Sept-Oct I went to Germany and Austria with Daughter SIL and friends...so much changed in the 50 years since I was there. It was great fun but it was allot for me in my 70"s
I would love to go on a safari in Africa but at this stage of my life with my joint problems I think that dream will not happen. I do feel lucky to have done what I have in my life.
We will be traveling this summer in our travel trailer but it will be an easy trip as hubby wants easy trip and I will need knee replacement so will not be able to do all that I want to do.

" The world is a book so if you do not travel you only see one page of the book"