Dream travel destination

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The related follow-up to my other thread, is there somewhere you've never been that you dream of travelling to one day ? I'd be curious to know why too :)
 
Since I was a boy, I had a number of places in mind.
50+ years on..... only 2 such boyhood faraway places left;

Russia - to see the Ural Mountains and Argentina.
Both countries I find are endlessly fascinating - someday I hope to get there.

All the other places I finally managed to see over the course of 20 years.
(although I dropped Vietnam from my original boyhood list.)

John
 
if you say 'dream' travel destination I definitely have one: years ago I had a dream, real dream, while sleeping. when I woke up I felt very happy, I just had been 'at home', at my personal paradise, my final destination, and there was one word buzzing in my mind which was.. "Tobago".

sure hope to make it to Africa some day, such a big continent and so little I know of it, that little that I could not tell you where to in Africa exactly
 
Jerome,

Toronto in a few days, Vancouver likely next year.

Auston TX, and Nashville.

Still looking for a place to retire. NYC is the fifth most expensive place to live in the world.

My dream destination is NYC in the mid 1970's. Today NYC is becoming suburbanized.

Cal
 
I didn't know it... but I just got back from Valparaiso, Chile and thought it was fantastic. Totally want to go back soon. I can't think of anywhere else right now.
 
jsrockit said:
I didn't know it... but I just got back from Valparaiso, Chile and thought it was fantastic. Totally want to go back soon. I can't think of anywhere else right now.
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John,

Glad you had a great trip. Know that Chile has unbelievable railways that surmount the Andes Mountains. Pretty much engineering marvels and breath taking beauty.

For mild weather I like Costa Rica. Most of the country is at the correct altitude for eternal springtime even though it is near Panama.

Cal
 
Don't think I have a dream destination that I can think of.
I like travelling to anywhere new. Enjoy seeing new places, people and culture.
Just this afternoon I've been to book next years holiday to Canada. Going to Vancouver spending about four days, travelling the Rocky Mountaineer railway visiting Kamloops, Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff and then a few days in Calgary.

Just gotta decide on camera gear:)
Paul
 
Calzone said:
For mild weather I like Costa Rica. Most of the country is at the correct altitude for eternal springtime even though it is near Panama.
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Thanks Cal. I don't think this part of Chile goes below 40 degrees... or above 80 degrees. It's kind of ideal and an awesome photography city. Like nothing I've ever seen before. And those mountain views are ubiquitous in Santiago. They have snow on them right now which makes the Andes look even cooler.
 
Scotland and Ireland with a backpack. I would love to go out there with my M3 with a 28/50 combo and my Rollei and my (future) large format system by myself with the sole purpose to shoot everything I can and drink as much as I can consume over the course of two weeks.
 
Always bear in mind that your "dream" destinations are probably based on information and dreams that are decades out of date, possibly even a century or more. In (say) the 60s and 70s I wanted to go to the South Seas, and Frances wanted to go to Machu Picchu. But (a) we were much younger and healthier then and (b) they were completely different places from today.

Even when we go back to places we visited 30 years ago, most (not all) are very different.

Cheers,

R.
 
'Dream' just seems too strong of a word for me, like something that is almost unattainable. At least for me, travel destinations are: 'what's next on the list?"

1) Vietnam and Cambodia this November -I was born and raised in SE Asia and would like to see places I haven't seen in that region.

2) Probably Peru next year - only because we had to cancel our planned trip in 2011, and the curiosity is still there.

3) New Zealand - just because.

4) I'd love to be able to visit all UNESCO World Heritage sites (sadly, some have been deliberately destroyed in recent years).
 
Many decades ago when I was young "America" was my dream travel destination...too expensive in that time...
My music was R&B, R&R and jazz...and of course Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and Patti Smith, my preferred books were written by Hemingway, FS Fitzgerald, Steinbeck....I'm actually rereading "the grapes of wrath", John Ford, Scorsese, Spielberg...the directors I admired, movies like "Easy Rider" by Dennis Hopper, "Thelma and Louise" by Ridley Scott, "Paris Texas" by Wim Wenders, more recently "This must be the place" by Paolo Sorrentino...

...ok you have understood that a road trip through America is my dream travel...

robert

PS: and of course the photographers I do not need to mention :)
 
robert blu said:
Many decades ago when I was young "America" was my dream travel destination...too expensive in that time...
My music was R&B, R&R and jazz...and of course Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and Patti Smith, my preferred books were written by Hemingway, FS Fitzgerald, Steinbeck....I'm actually rereading "the grapes of wrath", John Ford, Scorsese, Spielberg...the directors I admired, movies like "Easy Rider" by Dennis Hopper, "Thelma and Louise" by Ridley Scott, "Paris Texas" by Wim Wenders, more recently "This must be the place" by Paolo Sorrentino...

...ok you have understood that a road trip through America is my dream travel...

robert

PS: and of course the photographers I do not need to mention :)
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Robert,

When I was 16 a friend and I (Rich was only 15) hitchhiked from New York to Miami during winter break. I only had $14.00 in my pocket, Rich had $25.00, and we were on the road for ten days. Hitchhiking down 95 in the early 70's was considered dangerous, but this was part of the adventure. Never felt more free in my life.

Also drove cross country New York to Los Alamos New Mexico three times. One time I drove the 2,000 miles in 32 hours straight, just for the challenge. Realize that my average speed was very high because those 32 hours included stopping for gas, food and the bathrooms breaks.

Also learned that a 23 gallon full tank of gas in a Jeep at 100 MPH sustained on a desert highway only lasts about an hour. Drag is square law so doubling the speed quadruples the drag. Also a Jeep at 100 MPH is barely in contact with the road. The expansion cracks set a punk rock beat with pauses for any dip in the road or any rise that catches air.

My sister worked for TWA and as her brother I had flight benefits. Over the years I flew so much that everything bad that can happen to you on a plane happened to me: lost luggage, stranded in another country, overbooked flights, missed connections... Only two bad things did not happen: plane crash; or a hijacking.

If you really want to search for America the only way to experience it is a road trip. By the way driving cross country in a Jeep CJ is an adventure in itself. Not exactly a safe or stable vehicle, especially at high speeds. Of course this is best when done all alone.

Cal
 
Honestly , ten years ago I decided to move to South Asia and then to S.E. Asia and I feel very fortunate that I get to go to some of my 'dream travel destinations' quite often. My job allows me plenty of free time to visit some of the amazing places in this part of the world. In my early 20's I lived in Italy for 2 years , worked in Paris and Cologne, Germany and had wonderful experiences of traveling all around Europe.

These days, there are only 2 locations that are on my list that I haven't been to yet. Japan, so I can hang out with Jon and get drunk (haha) and Cuba. My parents live in Miami so I'm planning a trip to Cuba this winter.

I travel light, always solo and like to go off the beaten track. My love / passion for photography and travel have totally ruined my life and I could'nt be happier. Lol

Cheers, michael
 
New Zealand. Amazingly diverse and beautiful. Has my favourite climates. Where I was supposed to immigrate before I ended up in Canada. It's far, wild and beautiful. Fits the bill. That and I been around a lot of places.
 
Calzone said:
Robert,

If you really want to search for America the only way to experience it is a road trip. By the way driving cross country in a Jeep CJ is an adventure in itself. Not exactly a safe or stable vehicle, especially at high speeds. Of course this is best when done all alone.

Cal
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Totally agree. I did multiple roadtrips, randomly I might add and one was after a physics test before a long and I decided to go for a drive and ended up in Atlanta and figured why not just go to Miami haha. Most of them stayed within the South but all were done with friends except the given example and I can honestly say road tripping is the best way to go anywhere within the US.
 
jsrockit- I have a friend who for 30 years was a merchant seaman and traveled all over the world. When I asked him to name the two most beautiful cities he had been to- he said: Valparaiso and Singapore. I would really love to go to both places and also New Zealand.
 
isfahan and istanbul. visiting a place for a couple weeks doesn't appeal to me, so i'm not very motivated, but it would be neat to live somewhere for a year or two then move on.
 
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