Travel Dreams

Traveling together - even just going to nearby hikes in our college days - is one of the things that pulled H and I together. Our styles weren’t similar at all when we first met, but we’ve morphed them into something we both like.

He camped - I never had. Now I enjoyed camping, but he still does most of the work for that part.

He was super regimented with his scheduling. I’m very Type B. Now we do a mix, but I still do 99% of what is planned.

Heh. I once (obviously in my distant youth) slept on the roof of a bar in Eilat. Does that win the “no room at the inn” contest?! :rofl:

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  1. Visit both my kids and stay at luxury hotels while doing so. Our last trip was to DC and stayed at The Jefferson. Can’t wait to do that again.

  2. Take the Rocky Mountaineer (Gold level) to Lake Louise and stay at the Inn at Lake Louise.

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speaking of “how big our country is” . . . . reminds me of my cousin 30 years ago getting married in Kansas City to an Italian. His whole family was there; and they were talking about driving to the Grand Canyon the next day. (like 1200. miles!) They had no idea how big the US was.

we loved road tripping summer 2019 through Utah. amazing.

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Reminds me of one set of French exchange students we had one year at the HS where I worked before retiring. We are in MA, and the kids wanted to visit Chicago over a weekend. (A) Didn’t realize how far it was, and (B) assumed there would be frequent convenient trains as they were used to in Europe. They settled for NYC.

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We did the same thing with French exchange students who stayed with us for 2 weeks. They wanted to know how long it would take to drive to CA (from PA) and were shocked to hear the answer in days. We ended up printing out scale maps of France and the US. France is similar to TX - with TX being a little bigger. That put a lot in perspective for them.

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The best was our friends from Connecticut visiting our Chicago suburb who were shocked when we told them it was a 5 plus hour drive to SIU in Carbondale. “But it’s in Illinois, right??!!”

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I grew up and went to college in the midwest (MI and IL) but have now lived in MA for more years than I lived in the midwest. I always have to laugh because quite a few New Englanders are clueless about the geography of the midwest. I lived in Cincinnati for three years and told a friend (who’s from a Boston suburb) that the Cincinnati airport was in Kentucky. She thought I was crazy–and even bet money that I was wrong. I won.

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I remember a student who didn’t want to go more than six hours from NYC. She didn’t believe that the drive to Buffalo was longer than the one to Bowdoin College in Maine.

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