This summer is a bit different from any summers past; I'm stuck taking classes and working. Blah. It's not THAT bad, but it leaves no time for a great summer trip. Fortunately, I've had opportunities to log some serious travel miles in the good ole US of A and parts of Central & South America. However, I've always got a new place on my list to visit. My sweet dad understands my desire to just go places, but right now I'm a bit young to jet off to foreign lands alone, and most of these places aren't exactly family vacation sort of places. Ergo, the list keeps on growing. So here's my wish list of travels:
1. England: I hope this one is about to be marked off of my list! I'm planning on studying abroad in London either next summer or the next, and I'm way pumped! I've got an extremely long "to-do" list of things to accomplish while I'm there, including a visit to platform 9 and 3/4, a trip to the river Thames, and visiting every tourist-y spot ever. Oh, and of course reading British literature in the motherland that inspired it all. I'm sure there's a reason T.S. Eliot gave up his american citizenship to become a british subject.
2. Greece: Let's be honest, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants really made me want to go there. But get real for a second, when you watched Kostas save Lena and then take her out on the sailboat, didn't you want to go, too? That's what I thought. So maybe my initial desire was out of ignorance. But then I did my research. Greece is pretty dang legit. I mean, the dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding had it right, Greece IS basically the birthplace of, well, everything. They DO kind of have a leg up on everyone else since they've got the greatest cultural monument in the entire world, aka the Parthenon.
3. India: There's not really any one thing that makes me want to go to India, or anything in particular that I want to see. I just think it's such a different part of the world that I would enjoy seeing.
4. Morocco: As if the admission of wanting to go to Greece because of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was lame, my reasoning behind wanting to go to Morocco is even more lame, if that's possible. I've wanted to go to Morocco since I did a project on the country in (wait for it...) the second grade. The country's basically a crossroad to the rest of the world, so it's got history from all over built up. On my list is to go to a legit Moroccan bazaar, admire the crazy rich architecture (it's once been occupied by giants like the Moors, Romans, Arabs), hit up two of the most important cities that are/have been playgrounds to writers, millionaires, spies, and crooks alike, Tangier and Casablanca. I mean, it WAS the first nation to recognize the United States of America as its own independent country, so I guess the least I can do is sort of pay them back by pumping some money into their economy, right?
5. South Africa: One of my best friends basically grew up in South Africa while her parents were missionaries there. Basically, she's opened up my eyes to a place I've never really thought about traveling to before she enraptured me with all it has to offer. I want to go on a safari worthy of Hemingway's admiration (duh, it's Africa, after all), have high tea on the terrace, and witness the monkeys that will supposedly attempt to snatch even a baby. Okay, maybe I don't want to witness a kidnapping, so the monkeys sans children.
6. Russia: It is a little known fact about me, but I really like Imperial Russian history. Naturally, Russia isn't exactly a hot vacation spot; it's more like a vast wasteland. But, I think it's totally worth the trip if you can appreciate all it has to offer. From the Winter Palace, to the Gatchina Palace, to the Church on the Blood, to Saint Basil's Cathedral, basically, I want to see a lot of churches and palaces. But, seriously, why are some of the most legit literary works Russian exports? Because they don't exactly have a whole lot to do there. But the Russian ballet is about at legit as it gets. If you anything about dance at all, the names Balanchine and Baryshnikov should ring a bell. Where do you think they trained (prior to defecting, buy hey, who REALLY wants to live in Russia)?
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
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