Imagined Adventures

The trips I dream of taking

Travel dreams are like imagined adventures. While I’m dreaming of new places to go, I’m imagining myself there, full of energy and enthusiasm and wonder.

Every trip starts with a plan, and most plans are born from a dream.

My travel dreams have changed over the years. I used to keep a bucket list of places I wanted to visit. I imagined being in these places. But for most of these places, the dreams turned into plans, and the plans were soon real journeys. My bucket list of destinations I imagine visiting has shrunk significantly. 

I may never do some of these things, and to be honest, there’s a few I am happy to keep on this list indefinitely and never move to the real journeys column.

But here are the adventures I am dreaming about:

• Take an epic train journey
• Eat at a 3‑star Michelin restaurant
• Skydive
• Bungee jump
• Stay in a secluded eco-resort in a secluded place with no connectivity and commune with nature and with myself
• Spend a month or more in one city
• Spend a month or more in a small town
• Spend a month or more in a rural village
• Go somewhere no one else I know has been