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
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I want to go to Eastern Europe
One of the trips I am seriously considering for my next vacation abroad is eastern Europe. After my visit to Tallinn, I think it would be amazing to spend a few weeks exploring other parts of the former Soviet bloc. There are so many alluring destinations.
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Next #1: The Netherlands, Belgium, and eastern France
I’ve been back from my last trip just about three months, and I’m itching to start planning the next trip. Since my last trip was mostly by car and covered a lot of different destinations, I am leaning toward something different: a handful of cities that are easily accessible by train and where I can spend…
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Next #2: Poland, Czech Republic,Slovakia, Germany
A: GdanskB: WarsawC: KrakówD: BratislavaE: Český KrumlovF: PragueG: DresdenH: LeipzigTotal distance: nearly 2000 km (1200 miles)
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Where to next? (2018 edition)
Perhaps a post about where I’m thinking of going isn’t an imagined adventure so much as it is a plan for a real journey. But I’m posting this under “Imagined Adventures” because right now I’m imagining these trips over the next year.
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An obsolete bucket list
I have a page and a category of posts on this website called “Imagined Adventures.” On the page is a list of destinations I am dreaming about: my bucket list. I last updated my bucket list three years ago. And I’ve just done it again. When I looked at the list, I was astonished. Here’s why.
