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Originally Posted by montsnmags
<SNIP> (Note, as impressive as this may seem, I have, except for a few holidays, spent my entire life in the south-east on the coast between a point just north of Brisbane - where I am now - and Melbourne, and most of that in Sydney)
Europe (starting in Paris), is our next, big holiday destination...though it may be a few years yet.
Cheers,
Marc
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With the vastness of the USA and perhaps because I am not much of a traveller, I've only been west of the Midwest a couple of times to visit my brother when he lived in Utah and Washington state. Most of my vacation trips have been on the East coast, predominantly to South Florida and Disney.
My husband took a couple of months to do a road trip across the US when he graduated from college and has been grumbling about wanting to do it again. We even looked into taking the train out west, but then you are left without a car which is definitely needed once you get off the train at the various stops. We've also looked into renting one of those fancy RV's but that doesn't seem like much of a vacation to me. He would do all the driving and I would do all the cooking, etc.
We had hoped to take more adult trips once my older two children were grown, but then Ryleigh came along and it was back to Disneyworld.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The benefit of "whistlestop" tours like that is that they give you a quick look at lots of different places, so that you can decide which places you'd like to return to at a later date to see in more depth.
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My parents have taken several of those excursions. The most recent was a cruise down the Rhine river and the most memorable, at least for my mother whose parents came from Ireland, was the 3 week tour of England, Ireland and Scotland. They now have a list of places they would like to revisit on their own, although, from my persective, I would much rather they continue to take preorganized tours. There's a sense of security attached where everything is prearranged and I know someone is looking out for them. They, of course, we have a few things to say about my point of view, though!