Last year, we stayed in Brooklyn and rode bikes around New York City for a week. We had no car. It was awesome.
I want to do a similar thing in Chicago this year. What are your vacation ideas? Not so much “the dream vacation that I want to do someday but can’t”, what do you want that you might do soon?
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Home. All my stuff and various setups are at home. I just want to be at home and be allowed to relax.
boss can still reach you at home – while you have to deal with sunburn and malaria in exotic locales, you can at least claim lack of cell coverage for not answering your coworkers’ calls about how to load toner into the printer …
boss can still reach you at home
Nope, I’m not going to pick up their phone calls. I would be extra obnoxious about it when (if!) I come back to the office to discourage anyone who wants to try that on anyone else. I’ll tank the consequences; I got nothing to fucking lose.
Buenos Aires. Always Buenos Aires.
I’m currently in Tokyo and will be going out to Kyoto and Osaka in a few days. Got to visit Mount Fuji and the giant gundam on odaiba.
I don’t know how long you’re out in Kyoto, but my personal hidden gem is sanjusangen-do. It wasn’t on our itinerary at all, but we just happened to stumble upon it and it’s definitely worth a visit. Highly recommend checking it out if you can spare the time.
I did this in Chicago: find a deal on a hotel as close as possible to to lake then walk to the stuff on the lake like the aquarium, art museum, etc. Bonus is great restaurants nearby too. Also walk the river to/from the lake. There’s also the beach and navy pier if those interest you. Awesome vacation.
Want to go back to Iceland - this time with my family and do a trip around the ring road.
One of my life ambitions is to visit every continent, so I’d like to also take a cruise to the Antarctic. Not sure I’ll ever be able to afford that though.
I just came back to Sweden after a week in the south of Spain, and if you like dramatic nature environments, check out El Caminito del Rey, it is now safe and easy to walk, but it is scary at the end, even if it is safe and well built
Is it that crazy concrete trail sticking to the rock high above the land? Like path to some dam/power plant? I’ve seen one gopro video from that and almost threw up. I’m too afraid to put that in search engine now.
Yep, that is the old path, the new path follows the old but is safe and well maintained.
At the end you have to cross a suspension bridge with a grated floor above a 100+ meters drop, the bridge is bouncy, but when you look at the cables you can see that they are way over built for the stresses they encounter.
Didn’t stop my vertigo though.
Then when walking down a few stairs I would turn around and back down them at that point.
If you wonder about it, you can check it out on google street view, it is all documented there with the new path
I’ll do that once I feel brave enough :-)
It is well worth it
I’d really like to visit New Orleans. The rest of my family has been there except for me.
Or I would like to revisit Savannah, Georgina. I went there once when I was younger, and I absolutely loved it. I’d like to experience it again now that I’m older.To an interesting city with a decent mass transit system and art/history. Bonus points for good photo locations and pedestrian friendliness.
New York fit that pretty well. I think Chicago does too. DC, Seattle, Boston are all recommended. Have not done that kind of trip in Atlanta or Philadelphia, but they are what you want.
The two big travel goals I have are to visit every major region of the world at least once and then to do a big road trip across the continental US (and then visit Hawaii and Alaska by plane because non contiguous states are non contiguous)
If a full continental circuit rail network gets set up I want to ride that all the way around the country too.
I’d like to see Mexico City, eat at restaurants and go to museums. We just got direct flights so hopefully soon.
This year, I either want to go on a seaside holiday to Southern France (Nice, Marseille or Biarritz), or return to Germany. Went to Leipzig and Dresden last time I went and I want to visit my half-American friend again.
I’m going to visit a lake called Blåisvatnet in Norway this summer. I’ve been to many beautiful places in Norway but this one is still on the bucket list. Look it up, looks gorgeous!
Finland seems nice. I’d like to see the northern tiaga before climate change kills it all.
Queenstown in New Zealand is my happy place, but I’m on the east coast of Australia.
Its under 8 hours door to door, no language barrier, no jet lag, and Im in a cool mountain town with awesome food and amazing scenery. I can get to my accommodation and I know exactly where to go to get some amazing (overpriced but amazing) pizza and the best icecream I’ve ever had.
Going to Utah this year. It has numerous national parks and other cool stuff in the desert.
