Second Goal: Visit Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia
This is a goal that will have to wait until my husband is 50, since we've gotten in the habit of decade birthday vacations.
We both planned trips when we turned 40... he wanted to go to France, and I wanted to go to Belize. Thankfully, he travels enough for his job that we could frequent-flyer our way to both.
But first, I will visit my memory of vacations past:
France was fun... I first went there on Study Abroad as a college student. However, as a poor 19 year old, I walked everywhere, and usually stuffed myself with free bread and cocoa breakfast to survive the day. And I'm so old that they didn't have the glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre :(
The second time around was different, since Big A is not much of a walker. He was a good sport about it, but when we would ride the Metro from Notre Dame to Champs Elysee, I was freaked out that I actually walked that far and back! Then again, that was definitely the best shape I've been in my life too, unfortunately. The boy likes his restaurants too, so I ate in real cafes instead of living off french bread.
Belize was warm and laid-back. We stayed in a cement block hut on the beach for a few days (when A first walked in he started laughing), and then a kind of bed and breakfast horse ranch in the jungle, complete with howling monkeys and roaming jungle cats. Definitely the trip of a lifetime.
So... Australia will have to wait for 3 1/2 years, but that's okay. I know we will visit other places in between.
Seventh Goal: Take a walking tour
For my old age trip, I want to take a self-guided walking tour of Great Britain. I know... more walking. I haven't really figured out exactly where... do I relive Braveheart or get in touch with my Irish roots? Haven't been to Ireland yet, so it's the front runner.
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