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?
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.
Tokyo. I’ve been studying my Japanese lessons and I can’t wait to ride their trains!
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’m taking a somewhat unplanned trip to Pittsburgh this weekend.
We were supposed to be going to Detroit to see a relative’s new house, but the remodelers are there, so I had a day planned in Pittsburgh to break up the long drive back, but now it’s going to be the whole trip.
I’m stopping at the National Aviary and booked the private owl encounter so I can hold an owl! Greatly looking forward to that!
i had no idea there were owls out there making appointments
An owl would never make their own appointments… They’re the stars.
I made the appointment with its agent, naturally. 😝
National Aviary sounds very cool. Adding Pittsburgh to the list.
Largest aviary in the country!
And I haven’t really spent time in Pittsburgh before, but I passed through it about 10 years ago, and after just seeing it in textbooks from the steel industry days I had very low expectations, but I thought it looked very nice! There were lots of big bridges due to the 3 rivers, so there were nice views everywhere. I’m excited to get a closer look at everything.
I just got back from a trip to Costa Rica. It’s an amazing and beautiful country.
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.
Awesome! I appreciate the suggestion. That’s actually pretty close to our Airbnb and on the way to a couple of other things we want to see so I will for sure put that on the list. Domo!
Silent Hill
A case of whiskey, fifty pounds of potatoes, ten pounds of onions, a cabin by a stream and a fly rod.
And nobody else.
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.
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.
Going to Utah this year. It has numerous national parks and other cool stuff in the desert.
I’d like to see Mexico City, eat at restaurants and go to museums. We just got direct flights so hopefully soon.
This one is on my list, too!
I’m going there for the first time next month!
Buenos Aires. Always Buenos Aires.
We love to travel and meet people and cultures but this year an unexpected large expense had us staying closer to home. Luckily we’re in CO and have decided to do a lot more camping and hotspringing this year. Lots of fun things to do in this state that don’t cost a lot.
Switzerland, Norway, Italy, England, Scotland, New Zealand. Mostly Switzerland.
I feel like it would do wonders for my state of mind to go see the natural beauty the world has to offer.
I live just over the border from Switzerland and I can promise you, the vast majority of it is pretty flat and boring, and the price of everything is extremely off-putting after a while
That said, the two most surprising things about the Swiss is their fantastic wines and amazing coffee beans. Some of the vineyards near Geneva have been around since the Romans
The internet lied to me, I thought there would be fields and waterfalls, haha. The cost is indeed off-putting, I’m many many years off being able to afford the other places let alone Switzerland.
Colour me surprised about the coffee and wine though, I’ll have to stick those on my bucket list.
