… where would you go?
Although I have a list places that I’d like to go (and more are added to it everyday), the one place that has been on my list since I was probably 10 years old is the Amazon Rainforest. I remember reading something back then about the deforestation and about the plants and animals that can only be found in the rainforest and desperately wanted to go before it was gone forever. But I was 10, how was I going to go to South America? I’d barely been out of the state. Now that I’m an adult it’s something that can become a reality for me. Someday… hopefully before it’s too late.
13 responses so far ↓
1 AdventureRob // Nov 12, 2009 at 7:10 pm
The question is what’s stopping you from going where you want to go in the world?
I’ve wanted to go to Japan since… forever. The cost of the place put me off, but it’s finally happening for me now, I’m off there with a job starting next year
What’s stopping you from going to the Amazon Rainforest Abbie?
2 Cathey // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Rob has an excellent point – and a question I could turn on myself as well. ‘Where would I go?’ is easier to tackle than ‘What’s stopping me?’.
I’ve wanted to go to Cuba and the Middle East forever. Rather difficult but not impossible! The Rainforest is way up there on my list as well though.
3 Abbie Mood // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:54 pm
@Cathey & @Rob – It’s true, it’s more of what’s stopping you? The one thing stopping me is $$$!!!
4 Abbie // Nov 12, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Oh and Rob – big ups for the Japan gig
5 Nancy // Nov 14, 2009 at 7:03 am
I hear you on the money thing, Abbie. My husband and I are actually using student loans to travel currently. Since we both have been in grad school the past two years or so and work full-time, we didn’t necessarily need the loans for living, but we made the decision to use them for travel as that’s an education in and of itself. So far, we haven’t regretted it.
I am absolutely dying to go to Bali, Indonesia and Kerala, India. I also want to take the Trans-Siberian across Russia, Mongolia, and China before I’m too old to do so-lol.
6 Abbie Mood // Nov 14, 2009 at 9:11 am
@Nancy – those places are all definitely on my list too. Ugh too much world not enough money (yet
)!
7 Alana // Nov 14, 2009 at 10:27 am
Iceland, Africa, India, Turkey, Croatia and Russia (via the Transiberian Railway) have been on my list forever!
8 peregrina feminina // Nov 15, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Hey there, I just found your blog through geotraveler’s niche. Visiting the Amazon has been a dream of mine since childhood as well and I recently went to the Amazon Basin in Bolivia. While I didn’t get to see the Amazon River, I saw plenty of wild animals and it was an amazing experience. If you’re okay with a bit of a rugged adventure, Bolivia is a great place to access the Amazon on a budget.
9 Abbie Mood // Nov 15, 2009 at 12:58 pm
@peregrina feminina – I’m glad you found my blog! And thanks for the advice – great suggestion
10 Holgs // Nov 16, 2009 at 10:54 am
I agree with Rob – its easy to use money as an excuse for traveling, but many of the places listed here are actually extremely cheap to travel.
If you lived in the Amazon and wanted to go to the Orange County money would be a legitimate obstacle – but the other way round its really not. Get packing!
11 Abbie // Nov 16, 2009 at 2:26 pm
@Holgs – just because i live in the OC doesn’t mean i live like a housewife
The cost of actually being in the places I want to go isn’t too bad, it’s the $1000 plane ticket (give or take a couple hundred depending on where it is) that stops me!
12 Amiee // Nov 17, 2009 at 11:50 am
I have been thinking a lot about this lately. I am actually in a place where I can really travel right now and I can’t seem to decide on where to go. I guess this some pretty good stress to have – right?
13 neha // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I want to go to Tibet. I don’t know if it’ll ever work out though. I plan on going to Dharamshala (the Tibetan settlement in India) in the near future though. And that cheers me up!
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