QOTW - February 20th - Travel

[Pollyanna]

We love Disney, too - furthermore, if you do decide to go dog sledding, I (obviously) would love to be in on that.


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You're on!!!

[spotty_dog]

1. Do you enjoy traveling?

Sort of. I'm a homebody and sometimes a bit anxious. Leaving home is easier if it's to someplace I am familiar with. However, I have a lot of good memories of trips to new places and I'm looking forward to visiting new places with my kids.

2. How much is too much traveling? Do you need to be home a certain amount of time?

I can handle one short trip per month, max (3-6 days, driving distance), and about one long trip per year (7+ days, flying).

3. Top three places on your wish list to travel to are?

Europe and Australia are on my bucket list. DC and Philly with the kids, among others, are on my educational goals list for them.

4. How much do you like going to warm places, historical places, road trips, and camping? What's your favorite?

I have some very fond memories of camping road trips. Camping road trips broken up by actual hotel stays or VRBO cabins are even better. And it's become SOP for us to flee for warmer climes for a week during the worst of the winter.

5. Do you have a go to destination for vacations over and over that you just don't get tired of?

Driving into the mountains to our timeshare: pool and hiking and family time with a drastic reduction of technology, all good things. And Maui is starting to be like a home away from home. Like I said about famliarity, the more frequently we go, the more relaxing the vacation becomes!

[medpedspouse]

1. Do you enjoy traveling?

YES! My favorite feeling is when you first go through immigration and you are standing in the middle of a busy airport and your brain kicks into high gear making sense of your surroundings. This is especially true when I do not speak the language.

2. How much is too much traveling? Do you need to be home a certain amount of time?

For a while, we traveled once a month. That actually got to be too much because the other time was cramped with getting 4 weeks worth of work into 3. Every other month works for me and at least one 2 week trip a year.

3. Top three places on your wish list to travel to are?

I have made it to two (Patagonia and Machu Picchu) and hope to make it to New Zealand. That one is hard because it is so far away and so much of the time is spent getting there.

4. How much do you like going to warm places, historical places, road trips, and camping? What's your favorite?

I will hike, climb, ski (whatev) as long as I have a warm bed and hot shower in the evening. I don't do camping but love being outdoors. Really any place where I have never been and can learn about a new culture, new skill (cooking, cheese making classes, etc.) or have friends that can show me how to be "a local" is great. We are always looking for the off the beaten path kind of vacay.

5. Do you have a go to destination for vacations over and over that you just don't get tired of?
For weekend trips, we do but for vacations I get frustrated because there are so many places to go and not enough time. Therefore, we rarely get to go multiple times to one place. However, the only destination we have been to twice in a row is a ranch in the middle of the Andes mountains near Tupungato, Argentina...and I would go again.

[medpedspouse]

We love Disney, too - furthermore, if you do decide to go dog sledding, I (obviously) would love to be in on that.

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Cannot do what I call the mouse trap with you (and we had free park passes) BUT dog sledding is a must do...would love to have a chance again. It is one of the most quiet and peaceful things I have gotten to do.

[Auspicious]

1. Do you enjoy traveling?

Love it. I feel like we're just getting back to where it's good again after the broke-and-with-little-babies years.

2. How much is too much traveling? Do you need to be home a certain amount of time?

It's never been put to the test--definitely money and time-off run out before the will to travel does. When traveling with kids, though, I guess you could say it gets harder the longer they're out of their routine.

4. How much do you like going to warm places, historical places, road trips, and camping? What's your favorite?

I think our travel style is cultural/historical (so, going to some new city and "seeing the sights" there) + some kind of natural phenomenon (Swiss alps, Monument Valley, redwoods, whatever). We've never really been in for beaches or resorts or cruises or caring about the hotel or relaxing on vacation. (Though now that we live nearer the ocean, the beach part is changing a bit. And of course an amazing beach *is* a natural phenomenon.) Prefer flying to driving, especially with kids. And of course we do a fair amount of kid-oriented stuff when traveling with little kids.

I grew up happily car-camping at least twice a year with my family--nearly the only vacations we took--and husband did a lot of hiking-camping as young adult, and we've always pictured camping with our kids, but so far it hasn't happened. I think we'll get around to it eventually.

5. Do you have a go to destination for vacations over and over that you just don't get tired of?

Always torn between going back someplace one or both of us has liked, or seeing someplace new. So far someplace new always wins by a hair.

[PrincessFiona]

1. Do you enjoy traveling?

Sort of. I used to enjoy it much more when we weren't taking of shoes and putting liquids in plastic baggies. The plane seats seem smaller to me (or I've just gotten bigger) and I just feel sort of grumpy about it. I am much more a fan of driving than flying, but it's hard for me to get the kids on board with long distances anymore. Still .... I want to travel.

2. How much is too much traveling? Do you need to be home a certain amount of time?

I don't know. I'll have to do a lot of traveling and then get back to you on whether it is too much! World trip ... I'm there!

3. Top three places on your wish list to travel to are?

Italy
YellowKnife, NWT
Alaska
Brazil
South Africa

What ... only 3?

4. How much do you like going to warm places, historical places, road trips, and camping? What's your favorite?

I prefer to go to warmer places, but a couple of my tops on my list are cooler. I like road trips and love camping. Darnit now that the kids are older they aren't into it as much. I'm already bribing the older kids for this summer.

5. Do you have a go to destination for vacations over and over that you just don't get tired of?

We went to Jellystone ever summer for 11 years. Now we bought a cabin there. Yay us!