Where to
February 28, 2025
Once I tell people that we're taking time off for travels, the inevitable next question is "where?!?"
The fact is that we don't really know how this will play out. We have learned from experience that plans change, new ideas pop up, friends suggest things, etc. All that said, we do have some thoughts!
Family
First, a huge part of the point is to spend a lot more time with family. That means South Africa, Australia, and Singapore. So we will certainly be basing ourselves in those places at various times.
Adventures
And then there is the raw traveling. Here, my ambitions are enormous, I know. But this is what we're thinking so far.
North America. There is a ton still to see here. Loads and loads of the US that we've not seen. Heaps of Canada. Mexico is a huge country, most of which we have not seen.
- USA
- Canada
- Mexico
- Caribbean
Then Central America. A place of adventure, outdoors, and interesting cultures.
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Puerto Rico
- Cuba
- Belize?
We spent quite a while in South America before, but there is more to see.
- Patagonia!
- Ecuador
- Colombia?
- More of Brazil
We hunger for European summers. It's an amazing continent with so much more to see and do. I won't even list the countries - there are too many!
- Mediterranean! Italy, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania
- Scandinavia
- UK
- France, Germany, Holland, etc.
Despite growing up in South Africa, there is a ton of the area that we've not seen, or hardly seen.
- South Africa
- Namibia
- Botswana
- Mozambique
- Zambia, Kenya (again), Tanzania (again)
North Africa and the Middle East
- Morocco
- Egypt?
- Israel
- Jordan
- Oman
- Turkey
South East Asia (again!)
- India
- Philippines
- Indonesia and Bali
- New Guinea, Borneo
- Back to Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia
Further East
- Japan again
- China
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan?
- Korea
Australia and the Pacific
- Australia so much to see
- New Zealand also tons to see
- Tonga
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Samoa
- Palau