bandman

When I was young my father was ill. He started taking the family places and soon we had seen several countries and had traveled to 48 states. He always said he could never give us a million dollars, but he could give us the world. Dad was a smart man who was taken from us as a young age – that was 1976 and I still miss him everyday.

I’m trying to give my daughter the world. There are so many places to go, and just not enough time and money to get to them all.

So tell me, what are the places at the top of your list? If you were told you only had a few years left to live, where would you want to go?

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bandman

1) Rome
2) Cuba
3) Key West
4) Australia
5) London
6) Scotland
7) Alaskan interior
8) The Big Island of Hawaii
9) Mackinac Island
10) Disneyland California

Tomorrow my top 10 list will probably change. I can’t afford squat right now but I have taken much of my gig money and other extra funds that have come in and we have booked a 13 day trip to Hawaii this summer. We will spend a week on Maui and a week on Kauai. I want to take Heather (my 11-year-old daughter) on a hike through the Waimea Canyon, and then on a boat ride to see the Na Pali Cliffs up close. I want to be with her as the sun rises out of Haleakala, and then sets into Hanalei Bay. I want to be with her one more time to eat a hamburger at Snuffer’s on the North Shore of Kauai.

There is so much to do in certain places other than sit on the beach. Hawaii is a great family place to enjoy each others company.

I want to be around when she is 21 and we can go to Cuba to go from night club to night club listening to fantastic local talent. Maybe in 10-years Americans will be allowed to travel to Cuba! I want to take her into the Vatican to the some of the magnificent treasures. I want her to see the sunrise and fall in Key West while holding a drink with an umbrella sticking out of it. And the list goes on, and on, and on ……….

There’s so much world, and so little time……….

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Manny Laureano

I'm partial to places that are steeped in historical significance if I can find a good guide to share the information about the area. We're so young as a country but the terrain here is so varied and breathtaking in places.

Good luck deciding where to go. If I had one place to go from each category of history and beauty I'd go to London and then see the Grand Canyon.

Is it still possible to travel the Oregon Trail? I mean the whole blessed thing from start to finish? THAT would be amazing.

ML

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...and, by the way, if I ever read about you even thinking you don't have a long time left here I will personally go down to Louisiana and kick your butt, Dave. You're going to outlast the rest of us. You have important work to do here, amigo.

RG111

!. Vatican City
2. All the German cities where Bach worked as organist
3. San Marco in Venice
4. Salzburg and Vienna

Several of my former students have done Junior years abroad, and kept me well supplied with pictures, but these are the top ones for me!

Roy

Tootsall

I've been fortunate as a kid to have lived from one side of Canada to the other plus 4 years in Northern France. Travel is incredibly important to children: it teaches them that underneath all the culture, language, and varied lifestyles, all humans want the same things in life: love, security, a future. I can still close my eyes and picture sights and sounds from those 4 years and am so looking forward to renewing a few of them this summer.

Places still on my "hit list" (and as retirement and opportunity to go after them nears) would have to include:

1) Kayaking up the British Columbia coast with the whales and eagles.
2) Australia/New Zealand.
3) Scotland. I WANT to sleep in a castle!
4) Ireland. Barge tour for a week or two.
5) Sailing the Greek Islands ("sailing"... tall ship preferred, not cruise ship)
6) Sailing the Caribbean (ditto)
7) Scandinavia
8) Morocco
9) Anywhere a tramp steamer goes.

Bandman, while in Kauii (my wife and I spent our honeymoon in Hawaii and did a day trip to Kauii) you must rent a car or jeep and drive around the coast to the north side and kick back for a day on the beach where South Pacific was filmed. Rent some snorkelling equipment and make sure you use it!

tpter1

Norway. Just to see up close the huge waterfalls and fjords.
The Grand Canyon.
Redwood trees.
Scotland/Wales/England (family roots there).
Mayan and Aztec ruins in Mexico.
Hike the entire Appalachian trail, one end to the other.
The Great Wall of China.
Bermuda

And I echo Manny's sentiment..."Never give in. Never, never, never, never! Never yield in any way, great or small, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force and the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Winston Churchill

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wrbandel

In no particular order.

Italy
Fiji Islands
Spain
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
Alaska
Germany
Hawaii (been there twice, but still haven't done everything I'd like to)

Plus there are many places right here in Minnesota I'm going to explore this summer.

Warren

bandman

Right now I don’t plan on going anywhere (in the terminal sense), but the things I’ve gone through in the past few years really make you realize just how short life is, an that you better “seize the day” every time you open your eyes.

I also realize that my daughter is 11 going on 21. I can’t believe that she is already 11 because it seems like yesterday that we brought her home. I’m sure the next 10 years will go faster than the first 10. I still have so much of the world I want to share with her.

This will be our 4th trip to Hawaii, our 3rd to Kauai and 2nd to Maui. Heather has been lucky to have already experienced much of Hawaii twice, and the north shore is our favorite place. Last trip we stayed in Hanalei and pretty much lived in Hanalei Bay. The end of the road on the north shore is Ke’e beach. It is magnificent to say the least. From there we took the Zodiak rafts around to the beach you are talking about. It allows yout o travel under the Na Pali Cliffs and then have a lunch on the Na Pali coast (the part unreachable by cars).

Truer words have never been written or spoken.

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rjzeller

Hmmmnnn....toughy....but I'd offer the following:

1. Rome
2. London
3. Paris
4. Alaska
5. Lake Baikal
6. Grand Canyon
7. The Alps
8. Hawaii
9. Australia
10. A tie between Washington DC and either Disney World or Disney Land

That's my list....number five may seem an odd entry, but it looks like a simply magnificent place.....

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