MJ's little flock

[RoyalChick]

I used to travel all over and loved most of it. I have some very bright memories. But the pandemic turned me into someone who stays home

Exactly! I have friends who are on at me now I am retired to travel the world.
I have already traveled to many parts of the world and now I love being at home.

 

[BY Bob]

Just coming down into Sydney and wanting to turn around and go straight back home again. I may be over-attached to my home and the little ones who live there.

I rarely leave anymore. I am surprised how easy it was to give up travel. I'm a real home body now.

So are the ladies with the bad weather. They were in the coop all day yesterday.

 

[BY Bob]

That

I used to travel all over and loved most of it. I have some very bright memories. But the pandemic turned me into someone who stays home

That is when I stopped traveling as well.

 

[MaryJanet]

What's e everyone's favourite travel memory? Let's make a list. See if we can awaken a little wanderlust.

I once took the slow train up the west coast of Italy from Rome to Turin. Your turn!

 

[BY Bob]

What's e everyone's favourite travel memory? Let's make a list. See if we can awaken a little wanderlust.

I once took the slow train up the west coast of Italy from Rome to Turin. Your turn!

I can't top that but I once spent a couple of days traveling across the states of Washington and Idaho.

I started in Seattle. Chilly, rainy, dreary. As you drive east you enter the spectacular Mountains. Just beautiful. Once you pass through the mountains there is the strip of fertile land with crops and orchards. It's green and temperate. As you progress eastwards the landscape turns into desert with temperatures soaring over 110°F (43°C). Once you reach Spokane on the eastern side of Washington you are back into temperate conditions.

That entire drive can be done in 1 day! All of that climate in the space of less than 280 miles. It's incredible.

We then headed East to Idaho and north into the mountains again to a small town of Sandpoint. We were there by lunch. The town is on this large extremely deep lake with a beautiful beach. Here is a view of the beach. It was hot out but that water was ice cold.

it was stunning and amazing the whole way. I hated that it was a business trip and I would love to go back and spend a week exploring everything.

 

[RoyalChick]

What's e everyone's favourite travel memory? Let's make a list. See if we can awaken a little wanderlust.

I once took the slow train up the west coast of Italy from Rome to Turin. Your turn!

You triggered a lot of reminiscing with that question.
So many I don’t know where to begin!

I have a bunch in the ‘narrowly escaped war zone’ category. There was a period in my life when I unwittingly found myself in places as they degenerated into chaos. I honestly wasn’t seeking it!

I also have several in the just plain crazy ‘did I really do that?’ category.

Probably my most peaceful travel experience was a week I spent (recovering from one of the above two categories) in a lodge in Darjeeling. High up in the mountains. The clouds used to come up from below in the most magical way until the world disappeared into the clouds. And of course the tea was memorable!

 

[MaryJanet]

I can't top that but I once spent a couple of days traveling across the states of Washington and Idaho.

I started in Seattle. Chilly, rainy, dreary. As you drive east you enter the spectacular Mountains. Just beautiful. Once you pass through the mountains there is the strip of fertile land with crops and orchards. It's green and temperate. As you progress eastwards the landscape turns into desert with temperatures soaring over 110°F (43°C). Once you reach Spokane on the eastern side of Washington you are back into temperate conditions.

That entire drive can be done in 1 day! All of that climate in the space of less than 280 miles. It's incredible.

We then headed East to Idaho and north into the mountains again to a small town of Sandpoint. We were there by lunch. The town is on this large extremely deep lake with a beautiful beach. Here is a view of the beach. It was hot out but that water was ice cold.

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it was stunning and amazing the whole way. I hated that it was a business trip and I would love to go back and spend a week exploring everything.

I love a hot day with snow back there on the mountain!

 

[MaryJanet]

You triggered a lot of reminiscing with that question.
So many I don’t know where to begin!

I have a bunch in the ‘narrowly escaped war zone’ category. There was a period in my life when I unwittingly found myself in places as they degenerated into chaos. I honestly wasn’t seeking it!

I also have several in the just plain crazy ‘did I really do that?’ category.

Probably my most peaceful travel experience was a week I spent (recovering from one of the above two categories) in a lodge in Darjeeling. High up in the mountains. The clouds used to come up from below in the most magical way until the world disappeared into the clouds. And of course the tea was memorable!

I can imagine how good the tea was!

I'm going to offer another bright memory in the hope others will chime in.

I once purchased a ceramic polar bear from a charity second hand shop while taking a leisurely walk between conference talks in Kolding (which is in Denmark).

Your turn!

 

[ManueB]

I stay at home now. As in, a two hours drive happens only three or four times a year .
I have a hard time picking out just one memory ! I have also travelled a lot in different circumstances... I chose some holiday highlights.

Three at random. Travel to get to a place : from Paris to Tanger by slow train and ferry, when I was 21. Almost three days long, but extremely cheap with the euro youth pass they had then. We were amazed that they had a cooking station on the spanish train- we had eggs and sausage, which was very exotic for us.

A memory of a road trip holiday : Iceland. We had broken the bank to rant a small SUV, a Jeep Wrangler, that was able to cross icelandish streams and go inside the island. With the plane that was 95% of the money we spent on the trip because it was so expensive, we camped and ate canned fish for three weeks. Iceland was like wonderland for me. And of course the car had a mechanical breakdown in the middle of nowhere and we had to wait half a day for the mechanics.

A tea memory: my parents invited me when I was 19 on a holiday to Luxor. We rented bikes to visit the valley of the queens and one of us had a tire go flat on the way back. Some egyptian guide took pity on us and made the necessary hocus pocus to get us the tire repaired. This took some time, until there was no one but us left in the middle of nowhere, and when he came back with the tire and friends he also had a small gas stove to heat and brew some very sweet and strong tea.

I also find for me, some of the worse travel memories, in time, also become some of the most interesting. Once you're safe back home and have had time to process the emotions.

 

[BY Bob]

I love a hot day with snow back there on the mountain!

It was magical.