Looks like many of you are taking to the air, roads, and hopping on trains this summer to do that thing we love so much…travel. When I asked what are your summer travel plans last week, many of you responded with a wonderful variety of road trips across the US, hops in Europe, and flights to Asia and beyond.
- Shannon OD: “Heading to California for most of June, then NYC – will be seeing you at TBEX. After that, home to Florida for a visit and think I may just head to Thailand an expat myself for a year!”
- Sherry Ott: “I have just decided to head to Belgium and the Netherlands in July/August! I’m actually going to do a house-sitting gig in Brussels for 3 weeks and then travel around the area for a bit.”
- Rod@GoPetFriendly: “We’re traveling west and north to see [US] states we’ve spent little/no time in: Colorado, Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.”
- Akila: “…we head to South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana for two months in mid-August.”
Dream A Little Dream: “Since Scott and I have a couple months still before we get back to the daily grind we will also plan to do some camping throughout BC and Alberta. Western Canada has some amazing scenery and what a better place to enjoy it then sleeping right in the middle of it all.”
- Cate: “Looks like my plan is to head to the Emerald Isles…”
- Jason: “I fly to Ukraine in June with plans to visit Spain, Turkey, and Germany. Then in mid July I fly to Thailand followed by Bangladesh two weeks later to meet a friend.”
- Joya: “I’m planning on going on a cruise through the Caribbean. Probably, St. Thomas, Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas.”
- Donna Hull: “My biggest summer adventure will be a three week trip to Montana where my husband and I will be checking out (and photographing) the Bitterroot Valley and the Stillwater River Valley.”
- Anjuli: “I’ll be going to places, mainly, in North America…Canada, California, possibly Boston…hopefully, Boston…North Carolina…but I do have a trip planned for Singapore and Malaysia at the end of the summer- the first 3 weeks of August.”
- Matt: “I’m getting geared up for a winter here in Queenstown. I’m planning on sticking around to see what their snowboard season is like – I’ve heard excellent things, and am excited to experience it.”
- Brian Setzer: “Riding my motorcycle to Alaska and back south.”
- Earl: “I’ll be heading to NYC and Boston over the next month and then flying out to the Middle East hopefully by the end of June.”
- Tom Volpe: “The great summer holiday debate is heating up around here, we are looking at trips to Japan, Montenegro and Egypt at the moment…”
- Shannon: “Going to try train travel in the U.S. w/my kids using rail passes (30 day pass and will go on 2 trips).”
The response was overwhelming and I couldn’t include many plans like Vera‘s Europe trip, Nellie‘s India plans, Jenna‘s 5 weeks in Brazil. There is even more from soultravelers3, Nora, and Andy. Get inspired, find ideas, and ask questions or volunteer some advice in the travel plans comments. Personally, my plans are usually in flux but over the next few weeks I’ll be in Chicago, New York City, and likely spending time in parts of Central America. Perhaps our paths will cross and we can meet up – you can find out my travel plans best through my bi-monthly newsletter or on Twitter (@foxnomad).
[photos by: retro traveler (travel journal), Daveybot (postcards)]
Thanks for the round-up Anil. Sounds like we’ll all be doing some exciting things for the summer.
The variety in the travels is incredible.
It is amazing how many people travel…and jumping on a plane to fly around the world seems so ‘normal’ these days. I can remember as a young girl traveling from Singapore to the US- and we had to be on a boat for a little over 3 weeks. Even when we flew- we never could do a straight flight- it was a flight from Singapore to Japan with a one night stay there and then back on the plane to Hawaii with another long day or two layover before we could catch a connecting flight to California. Now- one can fly directly (without ANY stops) from Singapore to LAX on Singapore Airlines. Wow!! Amazing!
Every time I get on a plane and hop out in a distant place I think about it for a few minutes – just how amazing it is. I too remember that overnights and 8, 9, 10 hour layovers that were common just 10-15 years ago. On top of that the fact that we can all share this information here from the corners of the planet in a moment’s notice, simply amazing.
Thanks for including me in there Anil! Looks like some travelers have some awesome plans in the works!
You’re welcome Shannon, see you at TBEX 🙂
i don’t plan! i just drive in whatever direction fits.
Sounds like my kind of plan 🙂
Besides TBEX it looks like the big Summer trips will be New Zealand and rafting the Green River in Colorado.
I’ll hopefully see you at TBEX, looking forward to it.
I guess my summer plan is, I mean, when the northern hemisphere experience summer, my plan is spending the time in New Zealand and Australia, except that it’s winter here. Right now we are doing the South Island of NZ, later we wish to do Australia road trip. We are hoping to be able to go to Asia too. But we don’t do much planning, it’s more what we feel like doing at the moment, or what cheap deal we can find. Nice to see other people summer plans, inspiring 🙂
haha, yes, I think many of us go where the deals are. I wish there were a Google Maps mashup to see the trends.
It’s always the case that reading about other people’s travel plans gets me even more excited about my own. There’s motivation to be found in the fact that so many others want to explore the world as well…
And thanks for including us readers in your posts!
It was my pleasure Earl. Reading all of the comments makes me want to be everywhere at once too 🙂
What’s funny is that a lot of people came back/coming back to the states this summer (Earl, NomadicMatt, etc). I just wrapped up my 14 month Brazil adventure and plan on spending this summer in NYC.
Are you going to TBEX by any chance? I’ll be in NYC too, seems it’s where many of the travel bloggers are converging…