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fortysomething1. Where have you been that you loved and would like to visit again?
This is one of those questions like "What's your favorite color?" that I don't have a single answer to.
In 1988, I spent a year in Brisbane, QLD Australia, as an exchange student. I have always wanted to go back to Australia and visit more parts of it I didn't get to see.
I love the Pacific Northwest. I went to college in Arcata, CA and I had a relative who lived in Seattle for awhile. I actually like rainy weather.
Warm, tropical places are nice too, but I don't deal with heat too well, and bugs love me. I did like Puerto Vallarta for the short time we had a timeshare there.
When I lived in New Hampshire, I had neither the schedule or extra money to see much of the Northeast US. I particularly regret not seeing more of Maine, and unfortunately, missed most of the leaves changing the autumn I was there. Since I live in a place where there's not a lot of change between seasons, I'd like to see that more.
2. Where have you been that you HATED and would never go back, no matter what?
If I never had to see the inside of a big hotel chain meeting room again, it would be too soon. Unfortunately, that's part of my job, so I can't get out of it for now.
3. Where do you want to go that you have never been?
Scotland and other Celtic places. Europe, Africa, Antarctica. Except for Australia and a brief period living in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I really haven't traveled much. We still haven't visited my husband's relatives in Michigan since we've been married, because plane tickets for a family of five are prohibitive.
4. Where do you NEVER want to visit?
Saudi Arabia. Juarez, Mexico. Anyplace the temperature is regularly over 90° F.
BONUS: For those who travel for business, any good road warrior stories? Packing tips? Good hotel chains?
I do occasionally have to travel for business, but I can't say I have any particular tips. I always forget something, but I'm not usually gone more than a few days, so it can usually be lived without. Remember to leave your pocketknife at home. I have one my husband gave me as an anniversary present that I've had to call him to come back to the airport to get, because I forgot to take it out of my pocket. Other things in your pockets you don't realize have metal in them; I once got nearly strip searched and almost missed my plane because of a tea bag packet from the hotel, which had a metal lining.
Seems like I'm always assigned travel at the end of the month when I'm short of funds, so I always try to bring some kind of food with me I can prepare with what's in a hotel room. Instant oatmeal, noodles, cans of sardines, apples and oranges, nuts and dried fruit. A few times I've had to beg off going out for dinner with the team I'm on and make a meal out of this kind of stuff. If I'm lucky there'll be a grocery store within walking distance. I always hope the contracted hotel has fridges or microwaves in the rooms but sometimes it's only a coffeemaker.
I do geocaching and waymarking so before a trip, I try to look up caches and waymarks within walking distance of the hotel and enter them in my GPSr - sometimes they lead me to neat little things I might not have seen, and it gets me out of the hotel for awhile.
This is one of those questions like "What's your favorite color?" that I don't have a single answer to.
In 1988, I spent a year in Brisbane, QLD Australia, as an exchange student. I have always wanted to go back to Australia and visit more parts of it I didn't get to see.
I love the Pacific Northwest. I went to college in Arcata, CA and I had a relative who lived in Seattle for awhile. I actually like rainy weather.
Warm, tropical places are nice too, but I don't deal with heat too well, and bugs love me. I did like Puerto Vallarta for the short time we had a timeshare there.
When I lived in New Hampshire, I had neither the schedule or extra money to see much of the Northeast US. I particularly regret not seeing more of Maine, and unfortunately, missed most of the leaves changing the autumn I was there. Since I live in a place where there's not a lot of change between seasons, I'd like to see that more.
2. Where have you been that you HATED and would never go back, no matter what?
If I never had to see the inside of a big hotel chain meeting room again, it would be too soon. Unfortunately, that's part of my job, so I can't get out of it for now.
3. Where do you want to go that you have never been?
Scotland and other Celtic places. Europe, Africa, Antarctica. Except for Australia and a brief period living in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I really haven't traveled much. We still haven't visited my husband's relatives in Michigan since we've been married, because plane tickets for a family of five are prohibitive.
4. Where do you NEVER want to visit?
Saudi Arabia. Juarez, Mexico. Anyplace the temperature is regularly over 90° F.
BONUS: For those who travel for business, any good road warrior stories? Packing tips? Good hotel chains?
I do occasionally have to travel for business, but I can't say I have any particular tips. I always forget something, but I'm not usually gone more than a few days, so it can usually be lived without. Remember to leave your pocketknife at home. I have one my husband gave me as an anniversary present that I've had to call him to come back to the airport to get, because I forgot to take it out of my pocket. Other things in your pockets you don't realize have metal in them; I once got nearly strip searched and almost missed my plane because of a tea bag packet from the hotel, which had a metal lining.
Seems like I'm always assigned travel at the end of the month when I'm short of funds, so I always try to bring some kind of food with me I can prepare with what's in a hotel room. Instant oatmeal, noodles, cans of sardines, apples and oranges, nuts and dried fruit. A few times I've had to beg off going out for dinner with the team I'm on and make a meal out of this kind of stuff. If I'm lucky there'll be a grocery store within walking distance. I always hope the contracted hotel has fridges or microwaves in the rooms but sometimes it's only a coffeemaker.
I do geocaching and waymarking so before a trip, I try to look up caches and waymarks within walking distance of the hotel and enter them in my GPSr - sometimes they lead me to neat little things I might not have seen, and it gets me out of the hotel for awhile.
