How Many Trips are you Mentally Planning?

I've got a few. We missed our trip this year so if the dates fit (assuming we can travel) RS Best of Eastern Europe, then RS Village Italy, then a self-planned trip to France. Whichever one would work out, but that's the order we would prefer to do them in, but of course not all of them the same year. I'm also working on a family trip with our 2 kids to England.

Would love to do a complete driving tour of Italy in the style of the docu-series, “Italy Unpacked.” Would love to see places like Puglia/Basilicata and Sicily with RS Europe!

I have my Mother/Daughter 3-week trip to Italy ready to go since I had to cancel it last September.

I would love to head back to France again, too. Many more towns to visit!

I have a trip planned to Minnesota (family history) and South Dakota (De Smet, the Black Hills, and Mt. Rushmore)for this spring. Hopefully we will be able to go.

I've been planning a trip to France for my daughter's high school graduation in 2021. Paris, Normandy, and the Dordogne.

Also planning a trip to England a couple of years after the France trip. I have it all planned out! Highclere Castle, Bath, Wales, York, Hever Castle. I keep asking my daughter if she's sure she wants to go to France, or would she rather go to England again? But she's sure she wants to go to France. (I want to go too, but England is my favorite!)

I have recently delayed and changed a cruise that was cancelled past April. Now hoping for a 10 day Baltic cruise mid September. If that doesn't fly then I guess I kiss that cruise credit good bye.
Next is my 3 month post retirement Winter escape to SE Asia for Jan2022.
As I am hospital essential services, is ever Canada removes the quarantine requirement, I will just go South on a beach fly and flop vacation. It doesn't take much planning....though I am tempted to even consider quarantine as now I have a lot of weeks' vacation to use before end fiscal year.
I think since Covid started, I have planned and abandoned 6 trips after being too optomistic of when this was going to end. Given where I work I should have known better, but it got me through the tough times...that was the important thing.

For 2021, I'm planning the trip that didn't happen this year. It consisted of the RS Best of South Italy tour, bracketed by about 4 days in Rome on the front end, and 10 - 12 days in Siena and Bologna after the RS tour.

I'm also planning a variant of that tour for 2021, in case RS tours aren't running, but Italy is letting us in. In that case, I'm adding at least 5 days in Venice, as well as several days each in Lucca, Parma, and possibly either Ravenna or Assisi. Or Padova. Or ....

And I'm also looking for 2022 at a trip to France, the one that was supposed to happen in the fall of 2021. It would have included the RS Loire Valley to the South of France tour, with about 10 - 14 days added on. I hadn't yet decided where. Chartres, for sure, but I hadn't gotten past that when our 2020 dreams went away. This trip would have ended up in the Netherlands, probably in Leiden, where we would spend a joyous 5 days or so.

My husband Stan is lobbying for a trip to Poland. And I'm looking longingly at Spain.

We have our winter '21 trip planned and booked: 2 weeks at an adults only resort in Cuba. We were very hesitant about booking until we found out about all the COVID precautions the resort has in place. Maria, if you can do the 2 week quarantine, you might want to take a look at this winter's Air Canada Vacation packages to Cuba. Air Canada also has COVID coverage (for a fee. It was included when we booked last month, but the offer has expired now I think).

We've moved our 3 week trip to Scotland to next Sept (hopefully). It's planned but not booked. And we're starting to plan a 4 week trip to South East Asia for our winter '22 getaway.

We need to take the trips we missed this year: England-Wells, Rabbies Tour. However, we won't be wasting money on tickets to Hamilton that were supposed to be refundable but weren't.

Trip to Montana, Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska-probably not until 2022

Tour to Panama

Edited: We also plan to return to NC in Oct, one of the few trips we could take this year, but we will start in DC and work our way down to the Asheville area.

MaryC and cala, it does my heart good to see you planning trips to the upper midwest, holler if you have questions

I signed up to be notified if one of the RS 14-day Ireland tours next fall gets real. If it does, I'll plan some days before and after, and set up the flights. All refundable of course, and subject to vaccine.

Oh, just noticed that the question was about "mentally planning." Well now, that's a long list.....

Three on the bubble.

Our Scotland trip that got cancelled.

A return to Amalfi Coast with my mom with a pass by Paris, maybe a visit to the Chateaux, but whatever else my mom wants to see.

And a month ago I read an article about a biking trail being completed around one of Northern Italy's lakes (maybe Lake Garda). I recently got into biking after decades (thanks Covid!) and I'd LOVE to do this. I have two couchsurfing friends (a Canadian and a Brit) who are really into biking as well and they both said they'd meet me there - I imagine it would be a blast. So I'm toying with planning that for 2022 - but the other two trips need to be done first. (If things open up by next fall we will do the mom trip in Sept, then do two trips in 2022 - Scotland and biking).

Three. I've got them mapped out, but not calendared, given COVID and a hope for some good airfares. Paris/Belgium, Northern Italy ending in Switzerland, and a RS tour to Sicily. Planning them is the only thing keeping me even close to sane.

What's keeping me sane right now is hope of a vaccine that's 90% effective-the experts had been saying it might only be 60-70% effective.

We had two trips planned for this year, one to Scotland in the Spring and then England in the Fall, those will be first up once we get the all-clear. In the planning stages for the following year is the RS Sicily tour followed by a week in Sorrento. A backup plan to those is the Canadian Maritimes if they open up to visitors. If not, possibly Vancouver island.

Mentally planning a trip, I’m lucky if I can mentally plan for next week. I really should read all the $5 guidebooks I purchased when Rick had his sale. They are sitting on my coffee table, unopened. I just put in my cart Rick’s books about art and am hoping I will be in a better place to read them when they arrive. Reading everyone’s responses is giving me hope for next year’s travels. I do have a small ship cruise booked for September up the coast of Croatia, It was postponed from this year. I feel it is too early to start really getting into the nitty gritty of our trip just yet.

I guess I'm mentally planning three trips.

We are keen on our first trip post Covid to be Italy (specifically the Dolomites and the Amalfi Coast). Thoughts of that itinerary have pushed me through some low days.

The other trip is the cruise we were supposed to be embarking on next week -- Barcelona to Buenos Aires. We lifted and shifted to the same itinerary next November. So I guess there's a very small chance that would be the next trip, so I do think about that itinerary as well.

Truth is I'm no longer interested in that cruise (feels jinxed). So I hope it gets canceled and we can get a refund. We have a non refundable deposit, so need them to cancel to get a refund.

Assuming I can't get a refund, then I start thinking about moving that deposit to a different itinerary. So that is a sort of third trip I'm occasionally thinking on.

And once in awhile I get a flight of fancy and look at Tahiti, or African safari.

In the end I'd really just like some solid information on vaccines and traveling before the end of March. That's when vacation requests need to be submitted in order to be considered in order of seniority (and I'm top of that list). Don't want to leave all my time off til the end of the year if not for travel.

We're looking at three trips, but not planning beyond just keeping them in mind. We're focusing on RS tours, as we are likely traveling with other family members, and its so much easier to leave the planning up to RSE, and not have to work to get a consensus.

Well, I have emailed work to find out whether my concept to take 3 weeks off in winter and use 2 of them for quarantine with first week on the beach will fly with them. They still do have to approve my vacation date and plans (as an essential worker). I think by now I can easily keep myself entertained at home for 2 weeks. I have a whole room of quilting and sewing fabric, plenty of social and informative ZOOM opportunities and a Feb travel Meet Up presentation to organize and present. (My Microbiologist coworker states that flying is quite safe; so I guess it is just ensuring the resort has a good covid plan, and see what insurance coverage I can get).
Not sure how easy it is to organize a last minute Newfoundland trip - because of the challenges of renting cars on an island with a finite number of vehicles - but if it looks like the September cruise won't happen, then I was thinking Northern Newfoundland and Labrador in the summer - if they agree to let us in without quarantine.
I suspect between now and 2022, I will go through another half dozen partially planned trips all depending on my energy level, frustration level, and the depth of Ottawa's snowfall at the time.

None, with any specifics. I will be waiting, knowing I can pull a trip together quickly when the time comes, and first I will want to spend overdue time with family. I do have vague notions, like knowing I would want to return to Greece, Italy, or Croatia. It's funny to me that instead of thinking of all of the new places, I just want what I know and love. Watching cheesy tv like House Hunters International definitely makes me wistful, but I just don't have the energy to put into real trip planning. And should I know a new language by now? Absolutely? But getting through a pandemic is hard enough, even for those of us who should have few complaints (teleworking, healthy, but I miss my mom dangit)! I should also be in the best shape of my life, but I digress...
Of course I am curious how prices are going to be after this--are the days of cheap flights over? Will they make the seats bigger to accommodate fewer fliers--God I hope so!

I've fantasy planned one trip and have two others in the thinking stage. It all depends on Covid when I go. My time to travel is dwindling. Fantasy planning has kept me focused on the future while staying at home, research and wistful thinking.

The fantasy planned trip is the one I really want to do. Fall 2021: a week in London independent, followed by either RS Paris tour or Paris independent for the next week, leading to RS Loire Valley/South of France, ending in Milan overnight on my way to Venice for five days.

Alternative is to postpone France until 2022 and go to Washington DC next year since I haven't been there is 50+ years, celebrate the election and see the Smithonians and Williamsburg.

Next on the horizon may be RS Munich, Salzburg and Vienna tour, followed by extra days in Vienna and ?. That one isn't thought out yet. I'm probably looking at 2023 or 2024. It's a less active tour which is a good thing as I get older and my joints sorer. The itinerary works for independent travel too with a couple days in Innsbruck.

Thanks to one link on a post on this forum, I have changed my plans from Spain and/or the Loire Valley of France to Naples, Pompeii et al, and the Amalfi Coast.

Never been to Europe was supposed to go for 3 weeks in May, I have a best of Europe trip planned
London-Amsterdam-Paris(D day Beaches, French Rivera)-Swiss Alps-Munich/Berlin/Rome/Cinque Terre/Venice.

May add Prague, Barcelona/Madrid and portgual.

Since my Christmas Markets trip this year is a no-go, that will hopefully happen in Nov/Dec 2021. 2023 my friends and I are looking at a motorcycle trip through the Alps in Austria – France – Germany – Liechtenstein – Switzerland, with Edelweiss Bike Tour.

In 2025 it's between Ireland & Northern Ireland or Hungary with a bit of Northern Croatia.

The first trip I think I will take when it's okay and also a good idea to go overseas will be a week in London with day trips to other towns, maybe extend the time a bit and spend a few days in Paris.. Or it could be a week in Budapest. I seem inclined at this point to visit places I have been before and feel comfortable in, places that make me very happy and nurture my soul in various ways--not sure if I still want to try to do the 11 days in Romania that got cancelled for May.

I did recently manage a 4 day trip down the coast to Carmel, CA that made up just a bit for not going to Romania, Budapest and London this year; it ticked several boxes for me; absolutely stunning scenery, beaches to comb and hiking done at Point Lobos, lots of walking just like when in Europe, excellent food and a wee bit of shopping, just a lovely respite from my ever-tedious and exhausting job. I actually had not traveled domestically in the 10 years since I discovered the glory of international trips, so this served as a reminder that there's plenty to do and see right here within 2 hours by car from my home...thinking of Mendocino in the spring.

We've got all lodging booked for 2.5 weeks in Italy next September, but it can be canceled or rescheduled if needed. I'm not booking any day tours or airfare until much further into next year when we know which way the vaccine winds will blow. The lodging got booked so far in advance because so many hotels and agriturismos in the towns we're visiting were already booking up for next fall. Yeesh.

Hoping to do some last-minute trips in the U.S. by next summer if it's safe. We've talked about a few days in Napa or Boston, or a return trip to our favorite U.S. city, New Orleans. I'll be excited to hop on a plane and go just about anywhere when the time comes!

Four.

First up will be Scotland and Wales in May/June, if possible (should have take it this past summer, so it’s mostly planned). I do have flights - but they are with miles and I can cancel and use later if I need to. Then 5 weeks starting in Germany and heading through the Czech Republic and ending in Budapest in the fall. Then hopefully a re-scheduled trip with friends to Paris and Prague in early December (I should be there now.) These two are also mostly researched. If it looks like Scotland and Wales is still too iffy in May, then I will probably head to Dubai to visit my daughter. Otherwise, Dubai will be Jan/Feb-ish, 2022. Do I have plans past that? Sure! Just not much research done.

I did just spend 2 weeks visiting a number of Utah and Arizona National Parks in October. I have to say it was a pretty spectacular trip.

Of course, if international travel isn't possible but domestic is we'd be planning a national parks trip. So I guess from my post above of 4 + this that's 5 trips total. We'll see which one, if any, we get to do.

Me and the Hot Wife are resigned to stateside travel for 2021, which is a little bit of a bummer, but we can wait until 2022 to return to the Old Country.

Looking at a road trip to Boston, Maine, and the Northeast this summer. It would be nice to be vaccinated beforehand. I'm optimistic.

News on the vaccine is looking very good and I'm hopeful that "normal" will return by late summer 2021, maybe earlier.

Keep the faith, my friends! We'll get there.

Ha, the list is never ending, but I definitely have a few on my mind... Niagara Falls, Voyageurs National Park, Alaska, U.S. Virgin Islands... one day!!
Also, I just realized all the ones are mentioned are in the US or Canada--I guess my psyche won't let me dream beyond the border yet xD

Three. Australia three weeks that was cancelled from April. RS Greece plus a week on the islands was to be next May and a trip to see whales on Hawaii. Hawaii would be a no as a friend has a college roommate who lives there and masks are required on the beach even socially distanced and pretested before arrival. And the pools are closed.
We are currently in Orlando doing Disney World with masks. . That is not fun but the place is so clean and sanitizer everywhere and socially distance on every line and ride and transportation. Honestly think it is so great. 4 days and I have only seen 4 people with mask under nose. No one has it off. You will be removed. People are so excited to be here, to be anywhere. I have swam in pool at resort several times also.

My husband is technically high risk but we are trying to embrace each day because no one is guaranteed tomorrow. We also took a road trip this summer to silverwood Idaho, glacier national park, Yellowstone and grand Teton. Swam in pools after signing up for our times and did tons of hiking. We ate dinners in restaurants and had a wonderful time.

I do know several people who have had the virus so I do know it is a real risk.

My traveling companion for my Dec trip may have the COVID, not surprising as she has spent most of the year working in a hospital COVID unit. Glad it was now, that gives her time to recover.

Future plans in the works (I have trouble just dreaming, I build spreadsheets and confirm guides and prices) are the Carribean for New Year and 2 to 3 weeks of fly fishing in the Balkans in May. Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro. This time with 4 to 6 others. Looks like we have an opening for 2 if anyone likes to fly fish + sightseeing (about 6 days of each).

Oh, no, James! I hope she recovers easily and quickly! Take care yourself, of course.

She is only 32 and has had so many coworkers contract it, and keep working if well enough to do so, that she is pretty laid back about it. I guess that will make traveling safer for her. She reminds me that I have a heart procedure in March with worse odds of a man my age recovering. 😂😂😂 But thank you for the wishes.....

She reminds me that I have a heart procedure in March with worse odds of a man my age recovering.

James E, you have joie de vivre (or perhaps more accurately, joie de voyager) going for you. Your recovery period will give you time to plan your post-op trips!!

We were supposed to do a month in Ireland right now ( darn covid) so pushing it back to Fall 2021

Next is Italy in fall 2022 for a month then in 2023 it’s countries along the Danube ( start in Germany and finish in Romania) also for a month.

After that ???
Southern France ? Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark ?

I have four trips planned--for the first two I have detailed itineraries, the other two are just at the beginning stage and planned for fun in the likely order we would take them.:

1. Our 2020 cancelled trip to France & Switzerland as soon as international travel feels safe. All arrangements had been made for a June 2020 trip to the Lot and Dordogne Rivers in France and the Berner Oberland and Lucerne in Switzerland. I might end up splitting this into two trips, one for each country. Hoping for 2022.
2. Actually booked: Glacier and Waterton Lakes NPs for July 2021 (fingers crossed it will be safe enough by then).
3. Greece: So far just the general itinerary, ready to be fleshed out or modified: Santorini (2-3 nights), Naxos (4-5 nights), Peloponnese (5 nights), Athens (3-4 nights). Hoping for 2023.
4. Spain: Cordoba, Seville, Granada, Toledo, Madrid (2024?)

@BarbaraN....keep an eye on what is going on in Glacier. The East side never opened this year as the Blackfeet Nation kept access thru their lands closed to try and stem the tide of Covid thru their population. Unknown if it will open next year or not. Just something to be aware of. Information is good on both the official website at www.nps.gov/glac or the TA Glacier forum is reliable as well.

I've got 3 trips in mind:

1. March/April 2021 - London and Paris. Planning to meet a friend in Paris but both of us know realistically this is not going to happen. We've both got refundable hotel reservations and no money up front.

2. Late Sept/early Oct 2021 - Paris, then either a Rick Steves Best of Italy or a Road Scholar SW France tour. I'm not totally comfortable with Road Scholar's response to refunds so am a bit wary on this AND I am 100% wanting to support Rick. I'd fly into Milan, stay there 3 nights and try to figure out transportation to the small town from whence the great-grandparents emigrated for a quick look-see. Extra nights in Rome afterward.

3. Late Nov/early Dec 2021 - London/Salisbury/Bath + Paris/Strasbourg/Colmar - London for a week including Kew Christmas (was to have started Nov 18 this year so have in mind to fly in the week before Thanksgiving), out to Salisbury (3 nights) for the Bringing in the Light service at Salisbury Cathedral which in the past has been the Fri/Sat nights before the 1st Sunday of Advent plus that Sunday evening plus the other sights I enjoy in Salisbury, on to Bath, back to London for a few days. Eurostar to Paris for a week or so, out to Colmar for 3 nights with 1 full day in Colmar and 1 full day in Strasbourg, then back to Paris for another few nights. Return home before Dec 18 or so, so I don't get caught in Christmas air travel nonsense. Yes, I've got this one pretty well plotted out, lol!! NOT making hotel reservations until after the New Year.

I'll be ready to roll out ANY of these at a moment's notice, lol!!

@Pam: Thanks for the warning about Glacier NP. I will be sure to check into this as we get closer to the travel time.

How many? At least two, one of which is in the summer, ie, anytime from May to August going to back to Vienna, Paris, Poland, Finland, London (maybe), Berlin, and the other in late August to Sept mainly in London and England. I don't find it advantageous traveling in Germany after mid-Sept., rather save that for London.

I've got 3 all planned with dates for 2021 ... a 2+ week trip in early April to London/Holland/Belgium with stops/day trips to Dunkirk, Aachen and Luxembourg) and 5 day trip to Christmas markets in Germany (both 2020 postponements) ... and a 1 week trip to Lake Tahoe during July 4th week ... working on a backup (2 week Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton NPs plus other sites) in case Europe not open ... also early planning stages for a 2+ pre-retirement trip to Australia in 2022 and an expanded London/Holland/Belgium post-retirement trip to also include Germany in case 2021 is a no-go (looking like it) ... and real early planning for a trip to the Holy Land, maybe fall 2022 but more likely sometime in 2023 ... though still can't convince my better half of a safari to see the great migration and other wild beasts, Victoria Falls and Kilimanjaro ... and I know she will never go for the Antarctic trip I want to take also.

Wife hurt her knee but I don't care. I'll wheel here derriere around and carry her if I have to. Thankfully I lift weights. Plus, she thinks it's sexy when I carry her.

Rome for Fall of 2021. Was supposed to go this year. I've been for a short time previously but this time I wanted to really immerse myself there and take a few day trips but honestly, its mostly about Rome. That's the only European trip I'm planning for 2021.

I would like to go to Ano Nuevo State Park in CA to see the elephant seals but they have been closed due to Covid so that may get pushed to 2022. Right now its only a mental plan. I'm also considering a spring wildflower trip on the West Coast. But again a mental trip. If those don't work out perhaps a trip to the FL Keys which have been on my bucket list.
For summer of 2021 I'm mentally planning on Northern MN to the Ely and Orr area's for black bears. I used to be a bear speaker for the NABC in Ely and I'd like to go back and visit. I'm hoping to coordinate with a trip to Teddy Roosevelt National Park. One of the Moon guides was interviewed by Rick on his weekly podcast and she mentioned that is one of her favorite national parks and nearly no one goes there. That sounds about perfect to me. But again - its only mentally planned.
I'm also hoping to do some local trips. Bald Head Island, GA coast line and a few other Carolina coastal towns. I go to New England fairly frequently (pre-Covid) as my SO lives there while I'm in NC. Hopefully I can get up to New England much more than I did this year.

I'm shooting for more domestic travel in 2021 but longer distances than in 2020 until the fall. 2022 I'm hoping to do France. And because I can't resist it probably Italy again. Though I also want to go to Costa Rica and do some volunteer work. Need more time and more money.... so much I'd like to do.

We would like to do the trip we had planned for September 2020 - RS Best of England with time in Liverpool before the tour and London after. We are not thinking of a timeframe before the fall of 2022.

We met a couple on the Village Italy tour who would like to go with us.

Deborah, Teddy Roosevelt National Park is a favorite of mine. Mainly because it pays homage to the man responsible for us having any national parks in the first place! If you do go, make sure to go to both the north and south units.

We were supposed to be in Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Nova Scotia in August, 2020. Are working on rescheduling for September 2021 (everything cancellable) and have decided to drop Nova Scotia for now and spend more time in Iceland. One reason for planning well in advance is that there aren't many hotels around the island so we are looking a small guesthouses and farmstays.

Well, that's one less than mentioned in my previous post. Hurrah! -- Yesterday I was notified that my November 2021 cruise is cancelled. I am getting a full refund of my non-refundable deposit. I never thought I could be so happy to have a cruise cancelled!

I will cruise again, but I'm so happy not to be tied to a particular sailing, or have deposit money invested.

Today I was supposed to be waking up to my first full day in Spain... oh well.

Without a doubt, my first trip will be to return to Egypt to complete the trip that was sadly interrupted when Covid broke out in March. It was a perfect trip until one fateful afternoon when, as I was relaxing in a hammock on a Nile dahabiya without a care in the world, I got the call that all the airports in Egypt were shutting down and I had 72 hours to get out of the country. I will make a few itinerary changes -- less time in Cairo and more time in Saqqara -- but I am definitely planning on a redo.

After that, the ideas are pretty hazy. I am fiddling with some ideas in the Mediterranean. Greece? Another Turkey expedition? An extended stay in Venice is on the list, too.

And of course, we need to use up our airline vouchers from trips that were cancelled in 2020.

I cancelled 4 trips this year
road trip from toronto - Ottawa-montreal - quebec city june
road trip from vancouver - banff-jasper- vancouver - august
overseas - berlin- munich then Portugal for 3 week - oct
13 day tanzania safari jan 2021

i did a punta cana trip in during october , i couldn't reschedule and get the deal

now planning for 2021 and 2022
road trip from vancouver - banff-jasper- vancouver in January 75%

3 weeks in colombia in march 80% sure ill go
2 weeks in russia in September 50/50
13 day tanzania safari im putting together for jan 21 2022 90% , if i get 11 people 250-300 pp
2 week iran tour in may/june 2022 75%

jkelman, We have done the RS Eastern Europe trip Village Italy and Villages and Vineyards of Eastern France.

Total of 7 RS tours. Those 3 are our favorites so I don't think you can mess up by picking any one. I would decide by the season I wanted to travel

James E, I have enjoyed and learned from your posts.. Thank you I am so sorry to hear about your travel companion being ill. Its really scary and I hope you both stay well.

Happy Holidays everyone

Mimi

Mimi, thank you. I have no idea what I am doing half the time. All trial and error. My traveling companion is back to normal. thank you for your wishes.

My two trips this year were cancelled (like everyone else’s). We planned 3-4 weeks RS south England tour at end of May, then our own time in the cotswolds and london. I worked hard and was going to be an awesome trip. My second one was Christmas market cruise on the Danube. I was to be there actually today dec 10th returning this weekend.

2021 - we are booked (no money paid yet or anything else) for Iceland and outer Hebrides tour middle of June 2021 . I really am not positive if it will be a go. My Christmas cruise is moved to December 2021.

But 2022. - I told my DH that we ARE taking three Trips that year if clear to go! Don’t know where yet, but I am saving my money!!!!

June 2021 - South England - Kent and Cornwall followed by two weeks in London. One of those weeks doing a home exchange.
April 2022 - Mediterranean Cruise which will use up a voucher for a British Airways round trip.

I know this thread is getting a little old, but I want to add a new trip I'm tentative planning. SIL and I were reminiscing about Venice so I suggested she think about joining me on my next trip in 2022. She is considering it which I didn't expect. It doesn't drastically change my fantasy plans. When all was said and done with our Italy trip, we travel quite well together. She loves gardening and since London is on my itinerary, I suggested we go in May so we can visit the Chelsea Flower Show. She likes the idea. It's still a year and half away, lots can happen between now and then, but I'm very excited that she may join me. So excited that I spent the morning roughing out an independent itinerary that includes a week in London, a week in Paris, several days in Nice, a couple days in Milan and finally a week in Venice.
Can't wait until we skip the mentally planning to do real planning and booking. But then, maybe we don't skip the mental planning because there is always the next trip and the one after that.

One trip is a return to locations and hotels or apartments we loved in the past in Italy. It would be easy and relaxing. I made one cancelable reservation and the other places have plenty of rooms available.
The other is Iceland, a trip we canceled this year due to COVID. Being in natural beauty is very appealing too.
And “Feed Phil’s”
recent “Singapore” made us want to visit just to eat in their wonderful restaurants.
We could combine it with a return to Japan which was one of favorite trips.
We have done a lot of third world travel and that is now less appealing due to quality of healthcare concerns.
Thinking about and planning travel is a very positive experience!

First post... hi, everyone!

Next trip will likely be England in May 2022, I don't want to take a chance on planning anything in 2021.
Feeling a bit frustrated not to be in the planning stages for any trip at all right now.

Our next trip will be to use vouchers for Alaska Airlines. I was supposed to go to Florida for a business convention in April. It was going to be just hubby and me, at a deluxe Disney resort for a few days at the conference, plus a few days of fun in the parks. We had already bought our airfare, plus the grandparents airfare to come here to watch our kids for the week. Very bummed to miss it. We’ll probably do a family trip to Hawaii next year to use our vouchers.

While quarantining I’ve fully researched our next Europe trip: Northern Italy lakes, Switzerland, Alsace region of France, back down to the Dolomites. I have my spreadsheet ready with the itinerary and various lodging options at each stop. Now we just wait.

I’ve also researched a trip to Peru, to the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. Another bucket list destination that we want to get to before we get too old and out of shape!

welcome to the Forums, bardolatriste. I enjoyed reading your profile. I'm sure we will work together as your plans evolve and as the time for travel gets nearer.

None.
Canada's Border remains closed, and hopefully will be until many many people in the world have been vaccinated.
No point in planning something when you know you can't go anywhere for the forseeable future.

I didn't realize it was closed to the world. Thats got to be tough. Hang in there and stay safe.

I'm so relieved! I thought I was the only strange person planning all of the details of 2 European trips when I had no idea when it would be possible to travel there again. I feel so much better after reading this thread. Thanks, folks!

Four.

Lake Maggiore/Swiss Alps/Alsace region/Dolomites. Three weeks total. All planned out with hotel/apartment options for each place. Hoping they are still in business when we can get there.

Peru. Cusco/Sacred Valley/Machu Picchu. Two weeks total. Unless we add on a trip to the Galapagos. A bucket list trip for this wannabe archeologist. Gotta get in better shape so the altitude doesn’t wipe me out too bad! By the time we go, I might be old/rich enough to spring for the fancy hotel right at the ruins at Machu Picchu.

Kauai. 10 days. Need to use some airline credit this year, but hoping they extend to next year.

Riviera Maya. 7-10 days. Hubby wants to go to an all-inclusive and “sit on the beach”. That’ll get old after a day or two, then we’ll go zip lining, explore the ruins, go to the water parks. Only hinderance is I hate heat and humidity, so we need to time it right.

3 (three) mostly Eastern Europe

Starting early!! Dreaming of a European retirement trip for summer 2023 😉. Planning to retire in Jan, daughter graduates high school. Looking to spend about 2-3 months abroad touring France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece. Is that enough time? How many home bases would you make to cover all those?

Working on a re-visit to the UK as a rental car road trip, north to south, Edinburgh to London - and mostly staying in London after York, and the Eastern part of the coast. Post Brexit and Post Covid.

Paris with my mum and sister
Scotland with my closest friend
London with my in-laws
Alhambra with my husband... these daydreams are the only thing keeping me positive these days

Well who books a cruise in a pandemic? Me.

Over Christmas we booked a Transatlantic cruise that departs from Miami at the end of April 2022, arrives in Amsterdam 14 days later.

Recently I've become much more optimistic that this will be a "go". I have 14 nights in Europe post cruise to plan. Many possibilities!

Waiting to see what happens this year. Maybe in 2022. Remember what turned the tide in WWII? American industrial strength. Right now, that's directed at getting the US vaccinated. The EU dropped the ball where vaccine availability is concerned. Once again, England stands alone.

So sorry Douglas, but you will have a great Christmas trip-London is wonderful in December.

I think I just passed mentally planned and discarded trip #78 this morning.....trying to look at where I might get to in Fall and Winter. Too depressing. Any travel after that hinges on what I I can accomplish before April'22.

I am always going to the mountains, but will stay in the US the rest of this year. Hoping to be hiking in the Dolomites again in 2022, but I am not planning anything definite yet.

With some luck I will be in the Dinaric Alps in a few weeks....

Got 4 trips in various planning stages for hopefully 2021 / 2022 ... 2 week Holy Land, 10 day Germany Christmas Markets, 2+ week Australia (Sydney for New Years) and my Europe retirement trip April 2022 that ranges anywhere between 3 weeks and 2+ months (still haggling with the wife on the length) ... looking more positive every day that these have a good chance of happening

I currently have 2 actively planned trips - 2 wks in Florence & Tuscany, 2 wks in Rome/Naples. Originally planned as one trip, but now we're being more sensible and splitting it up. Not sure which will be first, but really hoping for Nov 2021. I'm halfway to fully vaccinated, so I've got high hopes!

There are a bunch of other passively planned trips that mostly depend on how/when things open up. We have friends that will be in Nairobi for a few years, so we might visit them. The rest are centered around yarn festivals, which means they're REALLY up in the air - hoping to go back to Saltum, Denmark (festival in May) and Barcelona (Nov), want to try Edinburgh (Mar) and Shetland Wool Week (late Sep/early Oct). Most of the yarn stuff has already been canceled for 2021, so we're looking at 2022 and beyond.

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I've got 5 trips in consideration.
3 weeks in Portugal-Spain-France.
2 weeks in the British Isles.
2-3 weeks in Greece-Bulgaria-Romania
2 weeks in Scandinavia.
3 weeks revisiting cities we liked from other trips.

Trips to Mexico and Latin America are in the "maybe" stages.

I’ve got a few trips in planning stages for 2022
1. Laos and Vietnam for 3-4 weeks next Feb/March ( hoping things are open then)
2. Scotland and Ireland ( probably July)
3. Budapest, Prague, Salzburg, Vienna for 4 weeks ( not sure when to fit it in the calendar)
4. Egypt/Jordan for 2 week with Imprint Tour In Oct 2022 and possible combine with a Morocco group tour first with Gate 1