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XanaDUer2

(15,739 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 11:26 AM Jan 2025

Ever want to visit a place?

I want to visit Elsa the Lionesses' grave in Meru National Park, Keyna. All my money went into my mouth. I feel like crying. I also want to see Watts' Chapel, Guilford, UK and the Frieda Kahlo in Phoenix.

Anybody else have a location dream?

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Ever want to visit a place? (Original Post) XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 OP
Watts Towers. Last time I saw the Dali museum it was still in Cleveland. I'd like to see it again in Florida. marble falls Jan 2025 #1
I was just looking at Watts Towers yesterday XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #2
Is it rebuilt yet? marble falls Jan 2025 #17
I didn't know XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #18
Troy, in Turkey displacedvermoter Jan 2025 #3
Yes XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #4
Probably not, air travel now being such a horrible experience displacedvermoter Jan 2025 #5
My cousin said the airfare XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #6
Michael Wood's In Search of the Trojan War displacedvermoter Jan 2025 #7
I'm a dummy XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #8
Don't need one to get to Arizona😊 displacedvermoter Jan 2025 #9
I have real id XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #10
Not yet anyway... Conjuay Jan 2025 #25
True displacedvermoter Jan 2025 #30
One should always have a valid passport bif Jan 2025 #12
I'm working on getting one from an EU country. Conjuay Jan 2025 #26
Tulip fields blooming in Holland. Nanuke Jan 2025 #11
Too many to visit in the time I have left on this planet. But I'll try to Neema Jan 2025 #13
I hope you do XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #14
Thank you! I hope you do as well. Neema Jan 2025 #23
Kinda silly, but I'd love to see Graceland. I love Elvis; I think his best recordings Ziggysmom Jan 2025 #15
Been there twice XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #16
That's so cool. It's on my bucket list. Unfortunately we cannot travel easily now with my Ziggysmom Jan 2025 #24
Hi XanaDUer2---Japan Hope you are feeling better. debm55 Jan 2025 #19
England. Archae Jan 2025 #20
Easter Island, Chichen Itza, Sound healing pyramid, Stonehenge, Sweden Clouds Passing Jan 2025 #21
Military History Special Object 301 Wollenberg jmowreader Jan 2025 #22
I hope you make it XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #27
Paris, for the Art happybird Jan 2025 #28
Way back 30 yrs ago XanaDUer2 Jan 2025 #29

marble falls

(65,277 posts)
1. Watts Towers. Last time I saw the Dali museum it was still in Cleveland. I'd like to see it again in Florida.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 11:29 AM
Jan 2025

displacedvermoter

(3,730 posts)
5. Probably not, air travel now being such a horrible experience
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jan 2025

that we will probably limit ourselves to places we can drive. And there is an incredibly limited number of states we are willing to travel to any more, unfortunately.

XanaDUer2

(15,739 posts)
6. My cousin said the airfare
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 11:43 AM
Jan 2025

Is too high but i c like $1000 RT from jfk. So she travels a lot, so i don't know. You need a visa and shots from travel medicine. You also take a small plane to the kopje. That's expensive but its once-in-a- lifetime trip. The armed guards take you to the grave and on safaris and other things. I'd give anything to go

displacedvermoter

(3,730 posts)
7. Michael Wood's In Search of the Trojan War
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 11:52 AM
Jan 2025

I watch the series regularly and have the book close to hand. I keep up with current archeology from there, including evidence that now shows a battle was fought there, and that the damage Schliemann did while working there covered much of the early site that would have proved his theory about this being the site of the Trojan War.

Concentrate on getting to Phoenix for now, I know that would make you happy!

bif

(25,393 posts)
12. One should always have a valid passport
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 01:14 PM
Jan 2025

In case you need to flee this shithole country.

Conjuay

(2,412 posts)
26. I'm working on getting one from an EU country.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:21 PM
Jan 2025

The way things are going I think a USA passport might not be the best one to travel with.

Neema

(1,181 posts)
13. Too many to visit in the time I have left on this planet. But I'll try to
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 01:16 PM
Jan 2025

get to as many of them as I can. I'd like to go back to Sagrada Familia in Barcelona now that it's much closer to completion than when I saw it. It was mind-blowing back then and, in photos I've seen, it's even more stunning now. I want to visit the Sheldrick Trust elephant nursery in Nairobi, Victoria Falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe, Milford Sound in New Zealand, the Galapagos, Thailand, Australia, Croatia, Greece, Ghana, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Sweden, Vietnam, Cambodia...and so many more.

Neema

(1,181 posts)
23. Thank you! I hope you do as well.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 01:20 PM
Jan 2025

This planet is an incredibly beautiful and fascinating place. The fact that it's so in peril currently makes me want to see it that much more urgently before so many amazing places are gone.

Ziggysmom

(3,783 posts)
15. Kinda silly, but I'd love to see Graceland. I love Elvis; I think his best recordings
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 06:20 PM
Jan 2025

are his Gospel songs. Wish he hadn’t passed so young.

Ziggysmom

(3,783 posts)
24. That's so cool. It's on my bucket list. Unfortunately we cannot travel easily now with my
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:17 PM
Jan 2025

husband being on a higher rate of oxygen. All that shit we said we would do and where we would go, “When we retire” is impossible now. Wish we would have not been so frugal years ago and traveled more.

Clouds Passing

(4,669 posts)
21. Easter Island, Chichen Itza, Sound healing pyramid, Stonehenge, Sweden
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 10:30 PM
Jan 2025

Your list sounds wonderful. Prayers for your healing 💚

jmowreader

(52,253 posts)
22. Military History Special Object 301 Wollenberg
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 10:53 PM
Jan 2025

It's an old Soviet communication site in the eastern länder of Germany that I had an extremely high interest in. Now it's a museum.

The website says they only offer tours for groups of five or more, but I wonder what they'd do if I offered them 75 Euro (the cost of five people's admission) to tour it individually.

happybird

(5,373 posts)
28. Paris, for the Art
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:46 PM
Jan 2025

The Louvre and Musée d'Orsay.

There are also many music-related sites I'd love to visit.

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