We live in a pretty amazing time, don’t we? When traveling has become fairly easy and affordable. One can get from the east coast of America to Europe for just a couple hundred bucks (if one is willing to travel light and compromise on leg room…). We can travel from state to state by highway, train, or plane. The world is there, waiting to be experienced, and few people today will face the reality of most people two hundred years ago–to never go more than 20 miles from home.
Over the weekend, my family and I sat down and wrote out a list of places we’d like to go and things we’d like to see. Some of them are pretty simple and easily done–the Smithsonian, the Pittsburgh zoo again, that sort of thing.
Then there are those entries that say things like the Maldives. Or Padagonia. Not quite so easily accomplished, hence the need for a list and planning to see which we might actually get to some day.
I have characters, of course, who have traveled farther than I ever have. And others who have never really strayed from their own neighborhood. Travel, and its progress, has played a part in many of my stories, and I remember the elation of realizing in Circle of Spies that there were trains now! And telegraphs! People and news could move so much faster! LOL
As my family dreams about our someday-travels, I’d love to know what’s on YOUR list! Where have you gone that you loved, either domestically or abroad? What’s on your list of places you would love to see someday? Please share!
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.
I have always wanted to visit Maine and Montana here in the US. Overseas, I would like to visit Ireland, Cornwall (specifically Truro), and the Greek Isles. While I'm over there, taking a trip to the Holy Land would be the greatest adventure of them all. 🙂
We are now retired and starting to do our bucket list trips. Two years ago we took in the whole coast (hubby's first sight of an ocean) of Maine and then saw the fall colors in all of the New England states before going over to Niagara Falls, down into Amish country in Indiana checking in on old friends in IL before heading home. It was a fabulous 32 day trip!
We build our dream home in the Ozark Mountains last year so there wasn't any traveling.
This year we are planning a trip the Yellowstone National Park in the summer.
Life if an adventure and we are trying to live it! 🙂
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Loved Alaska, Italy was beautiful too with all the ancient architecture. Then the Bahamas, Caribbean is always a win in its warmth. Would live to see Hawaii, Ireland, Paris, Scotland and Germany