A co-worker of mine recently went to Spain with his wife (before she got pregnant. Or maybe that’s when she got pregnant. Hm.) But I was browsing their pics on Facebook and I felt a pang of jealousy, as is often common when I look at someone’s pictures from any vacation that involves crossing an ocean. It’s not like we don’t travel and take vacations. We do. But the window of travel opportunity is getting smaller as we think about the future. There are so many places I want to see now, as opposed to when we’re older, and I just get overwhelmed thinking that we only have a couple more years to do these things.
If I had to rank them in order, the top five places on my must-see list include:
Scotland
London
Ireland
France (not just Paris though. I’m more interested in seeing the smaller towns.)
Switzerland (or Germany, Belgium, Northern Italy…just someplace that looks like THIS)
I’d also love to go back to Spain and not only explore Barcelona more, but also visit Madrid. And I’d like to go back to Italy, spend more time in Rome and Tuscany, and maybe see Venice or Milan. So many places to see!
Of course, come January, I’ll be craving the beach instead. My top five beach escapes would have to be:
Maui (we went to Oahu in May, LOVED it, and now want to see the rest of the islands, starting with Maui)
Costa Rica (with beaches, volcanoes, rainforest and water falls, we’d never get bored)
St. Thomas
Puerto Rico
Turks and Caicos – just because all the celebs go there.
::sigh::
But... Will There Be Cake? 
I hear you! There are SO many places we want to go. If only we had more money (and vacation time)!
You could TOTALLY do all those top places in one giant trip if you had the vacation time. And about $2,000 each. We went to Ireland two months ago and I’m already dying to go back!
And now I want to go to St. Thomas because of that photo…
damn now you totally got me wanting to go somewhere! My top place overseas would be Germany, the Black Forest, some WWII sites, cause I’m a dork, then Ireland, then Italy. Been all over France, it’s fricken amazing. I’ve also never been to Hawaii and I think Alaska would be beautiful. There are also a ton of places in the USA I’ve never been, LA, DC, Boston, Seattle, damn I have a lot of traveling to do!
I’ll take ANY beach, anytime soon. I haven’t been to a palm tree, lay in the sun sort of beach since college. Eddie and I are plotting a beach vacation for February or March though, so I’m getting especially antsy…
Note: do not go to Scotland, London, or northern France (Calais and such) in March. Just a tip from me to you, from my vast experience in the cold and wet there :o)