I’ve been thinking for quite some time that there are just SO many places I want to see for myself, I can’t even think of an organized way in which to attack my wish list. Being a Virgo, I am left with the option of making a list and crossing things off. Maybe if you’ve been to some of these places you could offer me tips, or maybe this will inspire you to make your own list, which could be fun. I’m all about cross-referencing 🙂 Who knows, maybe we’ll even end up in a tour group together! Anyway, in no particular order:
- The Shiloh battlefield
- Atlanta – in general
- New Orleans, especially the Garden District
- Venice
- Savannah, Georgia
- Rome
- Paris
- Versailles
- Hampton Court in England
- Mark Twain’s House in Connecticut
- Gettysburg – I’ve been there before but the trip was short and marred by car problems
- Portland
- Seattle
- Salem, Massachusetts
- The Grand Canyon
- The Black Hills
- Laura Ingalls Wilder’s house in DeSmet, South Dakota
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Dublin
- Belfast
- Glasgow
- San Diego Comic Con, especially if Benedict Cumberbatch is gonna be there again
- New York City. I know, it’s crazy. I’ve never been there.
- Miami – my cousin lives there 🙂
- The White House – I’ve seen it from a distance but never got a tour
- New Salem, Illinois, where Lincoln “grew up”
- Vicksburg
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Albequerque, New Mexico (Maybe I’ll run into Saul Goodman)
- Alaska in general
- Puerto Rico to take up my friend Raúl’s invitation
- Harper’s Ferry
- Arlington Mansion (I should retour the cemetery as well. I was a kid the last time I was there)
- Andersonville Prison
- the James A. Garfield home
- Vienna (especially where Mozart lived)
- Van Gogh’s home (any of them)
- A Broadway play
- Stratford on Avon
- Hadrian’s Wall
- The Great Wall of China
- The Holocaust Museum
- Monticello
- Independence Hall (and Philly in general)
- Edison’s lab in New Jersey
- Where Emily Dickinson lived, if any of that is still around
- Memphis, Tennessee
- The Alamo
- Mexico City
- the hobbit village in New Zealand (amongst other sites)
- Sydney, Australia
- Ghana, to see my friends the Federwitz family
- Montreal
- The Galapagos Islands
- The Great Barrier Reef (while it still exists)
- The Charleston Tea Plantation (I love their tea)
- Yorkshire
- Cardiff, Wales so I can look for Doctor Who
- Barcelona
- Madrid
- Seville
- Salamanca
- The Rock of Gibraltar
- Morocco
- Cairo
- The Great Pyramid
- Athens and the Acropolis
- Buenos Aires
- Guatemala to visit my friend Nic Wirtz (boy would that shock him) 🙂
- SXSW – I would like to go some time. Just because.
- Los Angeles – I feel like I should see it. Ya know?
- Vancouver
- Yellowstone
- Mount Rushmore
- Ocean City, New Jersey – I want to see the hubub all of my friends are making about this place!
- Baltimore – I was only a kid when I was there and it was a very brief stay
- Tokyo – although I would want a very experienced tour guide who could deal with my crowd aversion 🙂
- Jerusalem (if peace ever gets there)
- Amsterdam
- Odessa, Russia – ancestral home for at least part of my family
- the old Czarist palace, or whatever is left of those places
- Helsinki
- Zurich
- Ground Zero – I am not sure I will ever be able to gather up the strength to do this, but I feel I should
- Berlin
- Bombay
- Vatican City
- Nepal
- Lisbon
- Boulder, Colorado (and a trip to see the Vickery family)
- Kauai
- Costa Rica
- Moscow
- the fjords of Norway
- Copenhagen
- Florence
- the painted caves – wherever those are in France
- the Anasazi ruins out west
- Old Faithful
- Switzerland, where my great grandfather came from
Boy, that 100 goes fast. I could go on forever 🙂
Now it’s your turn.