Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Ellidee

KC I have so many gaps in my travel experiences - I have never been to France or Italy for example ! The Italian lakes are beautiful I've heard. No great desire to go to the USA or Australia - in fact don't fancy long haul ! Wuss !

Karmacat

So you have it all to come! The first item on the first list is in France, and the 2nd is in Italy! There's an ex-volcanic region in France, around Le Puy de Dome, and I've been there but not into the countryside proper .... now that would be spectacular! Or for you, there's Etna in Italy. Oh, I can travel daydream for the Olympics, me!

macgirl

I really love the energy in your diary KC!

Listing all the travel "wants" has really whetted my appetite to travel again - there's nothing better IMHO
I have been to quite a few of the cities you've mentioned - mainly through work, but there are plenty more I'd love to visit *sigh* (will I *ever* be debt free?! )

Karmacat wrote: »

I've really *got it* now that health is the most important thing. Nothing else, absolutely nothing else, is any good without it - so I took care of myself a lot better this time.

I think that's the meaning of life right there - nothing is more important.

Can't wait to see your new diary

Karmacat

Thank you! That level of acceptance means a lot to me

As for the travel, there are some that'd be on the list for others that I've already been to - Victoria Falls, for instance, or Niagara, or the Needle Tower in Toronto, or Newgrange in Ireland. But as a character in Stargate once said, "the universe is so big, and we are so small". there's always more.

And yes, without your health, even this doesn't mean much. So keep going - we'll get there....

MrsMoo2U

Ooooo KC, loving those lists. As a younger person I dreamed of seeing the world. You just ignited my thoughts on things that I have closed off for so long. For me there are still a couple of places that I long to go to
Places
1. The Copper Canyon in Mexico
2. Pompeii
3. Japan
Things to see
1. The Pyrimids of the Sun and the Moon - Teotihuacan
2. Elephants in the wild

Things to Do
1. A horse carriage ride in Central Park on my birthday
2. Hot air balloon across the Serengeti.

Oh to be Phileas Fogg. I have been really strict and kept just a small list.

ETA - forgot the canal boat trip in Kerala

taxi73

loving those lists..if I was rich I'd just travel all over the world

gilligansyle

Loving the lists, I don't actually have a list, but what I do want to do is travel overland, have done most of Europe that way over the years.

So,

• Trans Siberian Railway - would love to see St Petersburg, all the 'old Russia'- can do all of that by train from london
• A world cruise - can start from this country
• himalayas trek - would take a while because of going overland, but imagine what I'd see on the way
• parts of this country that I'm ashamed to say I've never been to;most of the East coast, (except Newcastle), Devon, Cornwall, South Wales, northern Ireland(except Belfast)

Well its a start. Like Ellidee i've never fancied the states or Australia for some reason.

Karmacat

cherisong wrote: »

Ooooo KC, loving those lists. As a younger person I dreamed of seeing the world. You just ignited my thoughts on things that I have closed off for so long. For me there are still a couple of places that I long to go to

Excellent! Debt can't keep us down forever!

Places
1. The Copper Canyon in Mexico
2. Pompeii
3. Japan
Things to see
1. The Pyrimids of the Sun and the Moon - Teotihuacan
2. Elephants in the wild
Things to Do
1. A horse carriage ride in Central Park on my birthday
2. Hot air balloon across the Serengeti.

These are lurvely, cherisong. I've sort of done a few of these - been past Pompeii on the train :rotfl: but then, I did spend a whole day going round Ephesus :j another year. And I've seen elephants in the wild, from a safari truck and from a helicopter upriver of Niagara - the pilot found one that was having a wallow in the marshes, and he circled it for a while, it was lovely.

Oh to be Phileas Fogg. I have been really strict and kept just a small list.

ETA - forgot the canal boat trip in Kerala

Oh yes. Oh yes, oh yes oh yes

gilligansyle wrote: »

Loving the lists, I don't actually have a list, but what I do want to do is travel overland, have done most of Europe that way over the years. So,

• Trans Siberian Railway - would love to see St Petersburg, all the 'old Russia'- can do all of that by train from london yes please

• A world cruise - can start from this country yes please
• himalayas trek - would take a while because of going overland, but imagine what I'd see on the way yes please
• parts of this country that I'm ashamed to say I've never been to;most of the East coast, (except Newcastle), Devon, Cornwall, South Wales, northern Ireland(except Belfast) Haven't seen all that much of the East Coast or of South Wales. Never been to *Northern* Ireland

Well its a start. Like Ellidee i've never fancied the states or Australia for some reason.

Okay, so now we know what we're going to spend our money on :j:j:j

Karmacat

Okay, for today: I think I've blown a session, possibly a client, by communicating badly while I was ill: the new balance of my needs vs client needs has consequences, for sure. Its a gainer in the long term, there's no doubt about that, but there are difficulties.

I've been pottering about looking at my wardrobe too, putting to one side the things I definitely want to keep (not what I wear - I've got so stuck there its not true). What on earth do people do with clothes they feel affection for, but are no longer suitable? Or are tatty, or threadbare? If it was just bogstandard stuff, no problem, but things I really like - and yet, I know the answer I've just done it with my books, many of which I feel affection for. This is tough! But having saved my living room from drowning in books (too badly), I need to do the same with my bedroom in relation to clothes....

"I may be gone some time", Captain Oates said .........

Cheery_Daff

I'm loving your lists and optimism at the minute KC! :j :j

I must confess to never having had much of a desire to travel. In fact, I'm so poorly travelled I'm almost embarrassed to tell you about it! I went to France on a school trip - twice. I went to Jersey when I was 13 for a week (does that even count??). I stayed in Copenhagen for 3 weeks for work a few years back. And I got the ferry to Sweden for work too

And other than that I've never been out of the UK! Spent all my childhood holidays in one of two places in wales (we were never a very adventurous family, the rest of them still go to the same caravan site!), I've been up to Orkney 4 times, and to Shetland for the day

Oh, and I did once get the Orient Express to Vienna Forgot about that - it was most fun! :j

I think I'm not very good at being a tourist Sounds really daft, but I'm so aware of 'invading' someone else's town/space, or being seen with a guidebook, or talking in English, or taking photos, that I end up beng really self conscious and not enjoying it! Vienna/Denmark/Sweden weren't too bad, because I was there for work, so had a reason, and usually people with me.

I do LOVE trotting off on my own on a bicycle though The first couple of times I went to Orkney I did that, just me, bike and tent, and I had a marvellous time A bit more bicycling for me next year I think! :j

You're making me think, I haven't had a holiday for ever such a long time! Our 'long' holiday has tended to be over Christmas/new year - with Mr Daffs I've been up to Orkney twice over Christmas 2008 we had Christmas at home, then 2009 we were meant to go to Orkney but it was toooo snowy, so we stayed at home again - which means my last holiday was Christmas 2008! No wonder I'm in need of one now!

When Mr Daffs was working, and I had a bit more money than I do now, we used to take it in turns to organised a weekend away every couple of months Just a little one, we went to Whitby, Northumberland, Norfolk, Liverpool, Chester, Hull, all over the place, staying in little houses or kipping in the van. That was lovely, but we haven't done it for a couple of years.

As for the clothes thing - I have plenty of clothes like that The threadbare ones have been marched up to the attic to be cut into pieces and made into cushions and bunting Some of the rest I gritted my teeth and got rid of. Some of them are just so darn fabulous that I'm going to make SURE I wear them