Want to travel someplace but want to avoid the trouble of getting there? Come travel vicariously with me, your Writer on the Wing. I’ve been to about 30 countries and want to tell you about them.
Since 2001, my husband, Hoyt, and I have explored places around the world, learning about and from other cultures. We married in 2002 after making two major trips: Greece and Bali. I think Hoyt (who’d been all over the planet already) was testing my travel skills … and tolerance for suitcase limitations, tiny shampoo bottles, and airport hassles! I’m thankful for the gift of traveling with him all these years!
New directions
Maybe you’ve already read a few blogs about some trips we’ve made around the USA and overseas. They are stored on this website under Blog Categories/Travel. This year, I’ve got a plan to write MORE of them.
Don’t pack a suitcase!
From the list below, I invite you to select up to three places, include them in a Comment at the end of this post, and I’ll do my best to write about them this year.
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First up: Vienna, Austria
At the end of my previous post, “Undertow, Parcast, and Where is The Way Today?” I told you that this month I’d write about our 2018 trip to Vienna, Austria. Why?
I chose Vienna because a friend of mine, Peggy, told me she really wants to go there. I promised her I’d write about it asap. Working on that now …
Our overseas travel adventures
Note: Some places I’ve written about already, so there are links to those blogs below.
- Argentina – Included in my 7-part series: The Wilderness Beyond series
- Australia (including Tasmania, off the southern coast)
- Austria – Vienna and Salzburg only
- Belgium
- Cambodia
- China
- Chile – Included in my 7-part series: The Wilderness Beyond series
- Costa Rica
- Cuba – Around Havana and Hemingway’s Place
- Czechoslovakia – Prague only
- Easter Island – under the jurisdiction of Chile
- Ecuador
- France
- Galapagos Islands – under the jurisdiction of Ecuador
- Germany
- Great Britain – London only
- Greece
- Hungary – Budapest only
- Indonesia – Bali only – A Snail’s Memoir
- Ireland – For the Love of Music and Newgrange Older than Pyramids and Trinity College, Dublin and The Dazzling Book of Kells and Kells, Poetry, and Hoyt’s Birthday
- Italy – Time Travel: Italy 2003 and Time Travel: Ravello, Italy 2003
- Netherlands, The – Amsterdam Library Treat and Gouda, The Netherlands: Say Cheese! and Kinderdijk, a field of windmills and Vincent van Gogh, Village Nuene
- New Zealand – Time Travel: New Zealand 2009
- Morocco – Three blogs on Our Morocco/Sahara Odyssey
- Patagonia – Technically not a country, but a large swath of land that is part Chile and part Argentina. Included in my 7-part series: The Wilderness Beyond series
- Peru – Time Travel: Peru 2011 and From the Andes to the Amazon
- Poland – Krakow and Auschwitz only
- Spain
- Tibet (An autonomous region adjacent to, and overtaken by, China – High on Mother’s Day
- Turkey – Time Travel: Turkey 2011 and Writing Behind the Scenes
- Vietnam
Where do you want to go?
Your Writer on the Wing,
Charlene
Linda Goddard
Dear Charlene,
I want to go to Ireland, where my maternal grandparents and my paternal great grandparents were born.
And I want to go to Tibet. I’ve been to India and Napal but not Tibet.
Take me, please, on these journies.
I pray that one of these fine days I will get to Ireland!
Charlene L. Edge
Hi Linda,
Okay, I’ll write more about Ireland, which I really loved and where I felt at home, given my heritage on my mother’s side. It is very green, filled with narrow roads, and very friendly people, many seem to play music non-stop!
And I’ll write more about Tibet. THAT was unforgettable, including the 36 or so hour train ride from Lhasa, Tibet, back to China, where backyards in the frozen tundra streamed by our window. We saw houses with yards piled with yak dung shaped in flat, circular pads stacked in decorative designs. They use that for fuel. Tibet was full of conflicting emotions for me, so bear with me …
Rachel E Chase
How wonderful! I am excited to hear about the places that most brought you personal joy and why you loved them so much! 🙂 Looking forward to Austria!
Charlene L. Edge
You can count on that, Rach!
Roz
Would love to do more of Poland (have only been to Warsaw–pre fall of the USSR). Also Greece has always been on my list. How have I not made it there yet? Another how have I not been there–Costa Rica. My sister and I are planning (not in reservation stage yet) a safari (photo) to some part of Africa and, hopefully, the Cape area of S. Africa to visit friends of friend. Oh–and pretty much anywhere else in the world that is not too cold!
Love traveling vicariously and otherwise!
Charlene Edge
Thanks, Roz. I will put Krakow, Poland, Costa Rica, and more about Greece on my blog list after Vienna.
In Krakow, we stayed in an AirB&B for one week near the center of town. On our last day, we visited Auschwitz, about an hour’s drive away, for a visit I shall never forget.
Steve
Hi Charlene,
Please take us to France, Austria and the Galapagos Islands!
Thanks, Steve
Peggy
Hi Charlene,
I am gong to enjoy “traveling” with you! Will look forward to Austria for sure??
Smles,
Peggy?
Charlene L. Edge
Austria is in the works. Thanks for subscribing, Peggy!
Charlene
Charlene L. Edge
Hi readers,
Wow. The number of replies has overwhelmed me. Thanks for your interest! I think it’ll take about 15 blog posts to cover all the places you’ve requested so far. That’s more than one a month.
Some places, like France, which Steve requested, will need more than one post. I’ll want to cover Paris (we’ve been twice, so I’ll do a compare/contrast), Versailles, Mont Saint-Michel, and maybe Bordeaux.
I CAN TAKE TWO MORE REQUESTS, THEN I MUST CLOSE COMMENTS!
See you soon … in Austria! First one on Vienna, then Salzburg, birthplace of Mozart.
After that, Poland, Greece, Costa Rica, Ireland, Tibet, France, Galapagos Islands.
Charlene