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Future travel plans?

BradS

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Lately, I find myself dreaming of where I will go once this catastrophe of a year is behind us...

I'd love to visit Ireland and lots of places closer to home. I look forward to Canada opening its border too.

How about you? Where do you want to visit after this mess is behind us?
 
I was planning on going somewhere exotic as a 50th birthday treat to myself - I want to go to some of the ancient Silk Road cities like Tashkent and Samarkand. That's probably going to be another year or more in the making. In the short term, I'm going to go back to Mexico and explore that a little more once a vaccine for COVID is available.
 
I'm so stir crazy.... just want to jump on the next flight out of Houston. I don't care where!! (Although visiting my kid in Spain would make my heart so happy!!)
 
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with maybe a side trip to Iceland.
 
Visit family in France.
New Orleans, where I would like to image unusual doorways and courtyards, plus music on Frenchman St.
And next door, Lafayette for a Cajun music festival
 
Japan with the 5x7...
 
I'd love to go to ani, cessaria, hussidig or cassidig... won't ever happen though...
 
Definitively traveling more with a car, so countries that are not far away from Germany: Poland, France, Austria, Balkan states, Czech, Slovakia, and Scandinavia.
Right now I am in Asia on business, and let me tell you: flying is another experience right now, and not in a good way. And I don't think it will change soon, I would like to be wrong about this.
 
Italy - as soon as it is safe - to visit my relatives, friends and my beloved Apennine mountains. Also waiting is a small freezer with 35, 120, 220, 4x5, 5x7 film.
Going to the Adirondacks (New York State) in ten days or so, just to get well out of the city (I'm a mountains/woods type); I will be hiking the longer trails and bringing along the Plaubel Makina 670 which has been sitting unused for a couple of years.
 
Japan. A bit weary about traveling with film since I heard carry on scanners can't really be trusted anymore. I'll probably pre order some film over there beforehand and have it sent to my mother in law's. Then develop it there as well...
 
There was a time earlier this year that we talked about spending some time in Maine, which we have not done in quite a number of years. Maybe that will happen next year. We and the couple we traveled with last year were recently congratulating ourselves for getting in a Rhine cruise with a few days ahead in the Swiss Alps before this mess hit. Faire Spouse and I have at least scratched the surface in a good many states of the US, but there are still some areas I'd like to see or explore more fully in the south, southwest, and northwest. Given that I turn 80 this coming summer I might wonder just how much major travel I have left in me!
 
I've fully committed to going back to Canada next summer. Going home isn't my idea of a great travel trip after being stuck in Japan for a year and a half, but by then it'll be three years since I will have seen my parents (Facetime isn't enough) and with my mother in the early stages of dementia, it's a must for me. And, if for some miracle the Olympics do happen next summer (a pipe dream the Japanese government is holding on to), I definitely do NOT want to be here when that madness takes over the country. Of course, me being me (i.e. travel addicted), I always make it a point to go somewhere new every time I go back to Canada. So next summer I plan on doing a cruise (!) through the Northwest Passage, starting in Resolute and ending in Greenland. I'm not a fan of cruises, but, like Antarctica (which I'll do for my 50th in a few years), it's virtually impossible (or prohibitively expensive) to visit this region any other way. After that, assuming the world returns to some sense of normalcy by 2022, my priorities will be either Bangladesh/India/Pakistan, North and/or West Africa, parts of the Middle East that I haven't been to yet, and Mexico and/or however much of Central America I can visit in one go. Of course I won't be able to do all of them, but it's nice to have a few options in hand to make the most of the time of year, flights, and other considerations that tend to coalesce when it's time to start making firm decisions.
 
I never made it to Tashkent, but I'd love to revisit Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan again. Kyrgyzstan was also an amazing place (especially for landscape photographers) but the infrastructure is not quite as good there (although the people were fantastic).

Vaughn said:
Japan with the 5x7...
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It would be great to meet you this time round Vaughn, since I missed you the last time you were here!

Andrew O'Neill said:
Japan. A bit weary about traveling with film since I heard carry on scanners can't really be trusted anymore. I'll probably pre order some film over there beforehand and have it sent to my mother in law's. Then develop it there as well...
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Would also love to meet up someday Andrew, although you tend to come to Japan when I leave it! Like you (but in reverse), I'm now considering buying film when I arrive in Canada and processing it there before returning to Japan when I go home next year. I think that'll work for countries that have film somewhat available, I just worry more about the off-the-beaten track places I'm more interested in visiting in the coming years (although, to be fair, they probably won't have those fancy new scanners for a while).
 
Rachelle...my son Alex just had a holiday in Kyoto. He enjoyed revisiting the places he knew going to university there briefly. Fun to see his photos.
 
Ah yes, Japan.
Only a year ago it seemed entirely within the realm of possibility.
Now, it seems like a fantasy.
I would really love to return to Shikoku island and do the pilgrimage...
maybe someday.
 
Since COVID struck I have canceled trips to Yosemite, Yellowstone, Wales, Whistler Canada for skiing. The list just keeps on growing. I am hoping I can start traveling again to go to Kauai in May.
 

I'm still pretty bummed about cancelling my trip last Spring... was planning on shooting more to add to my coal mine series. I'm now aiming for Spring 2022. I usually go back every couple of years... this will be the longest gap ever for me!! My wife really wants to go back and see her folks. Her dad's in hospital and hoping he'll be okay... he's 87.
I haven't been to Kyoto since the 90s... Would be great to meet up with you there at some point!
 

Kyrgyzstan is also on my list of places - I sooo want to go to Tash Rabat and see the caravanserai and those mountains. My concern, as a primarily city boy, is that there wouldn't be as much available to do that I enjoy other than checking off that bucket-list item, and that's a LONG way to travel just to see a building. Thus the Samarkand, Tashkent and Bukhara stops. Maybe if I get to retire early, I'll go to Kyrgyzstan as part of or on a separate trip.
 
My wife and I love to travel but haven't taken any long trips this year. What we've been doing is taking five day excursions through the Northern Plains. There's very few people and lots to see. We took such a trip last week in western South Dakota, Eastern Wyoming, Eastern Montana, and southwestern North Dakota. Had a great time! Even though I've lived in SD for 30 years I still found things I've never seen before.


Kent in SD
 
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