Top 20 Travel Memories
- craintravel
- Mar 31, 2020
- 2 min read
During this quarantine/lockdown period, I have been thinking about some of my favorite travel memories (listed in no particular order). I wanted to share a few of them. Please share in the comments your favorite memories from your travels. Also let me know which of my favorites you would like to hear more about. (side note: sorry, I don't have pictures readily available for all of these)
1. Walking around St Basil's Cathedral for the first time with the snow gently falling in February 1994
2. Paragliding over Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland in May 2019
3. Exploring Petra in Jordan in 2011
4. Exploring Jerash in Jordan in 2011
5. Taking a ferry from Belgium to Dover, England and seeing the White Cliffs of Dover for the first time in May-ish 1991
6. Sleeping on the deck of a ferry from Bari, Italy to Greece and watching the sunset over the Adriatic in June 2005
7. Approaching the Western Wall in Jerusalem in June 2006 and February 2017
8. Staying up really late on sitting on a cooler between the two front seats of our van on overnight road trips and trying to help the driver stay awake, often also listening WCCO radio as its broadcast area was much larger at night (this happened frequently enough that I don't have a specific instance in mind)
9. Visiting the ruins of the Temple of Artemis (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) and the rest of the city of Ephesus in February 2020
10. Going on a solo safari (well, just the guide and I) in Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania in 2012
11. Dog sledding and seeing the Northern Lights in Norway and Finland in January 2020
12. Eating a very delicious spinach salad with lamb in Armenia in May 1995
13. Devouring the excellent food in Rome, Naples and Cinque Terre in February 2016 and October 2017, also the sights in Rome, Pompeii and Cinque Terre of course
14. Visiting Sintra in Portugal in October 2016
15. Trying to be taught by my father how to eat in a more civilized manner while we were at a restaurant in, I think, Hungary in June 1991
16. Exploring Velikiy Novgorod as a tourist in 2013 after having served part of my LDS mission there in 2001.
17. Taking the Staten Island Ferry near the Statue of Liberty when I was young (maybe in 1987)
18. Seeing the waterfalls and geysers of Iceland in May 2016
19. Walking among the puffin colony on Skomer Island in Wales
20. Having Jack smile at the monkeys right outside our hotel room in Costa Rica and the monkeys taking that as a threat (also Jack drinking from the bidet in that hotel room as he thought that it was a drinking fountain)
...and many more
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