If you’re like many people, you might have made a New Year’s resolution or two.
I gave up on these years ago – apparently, I don’t have the discipline to follow through in any meaningful way. I do, however, use these first few days of each year to do some planning, and the best part of that is travel planning.
It will be particularly sweet this year, after spending an entire year “on the bench”. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to get out there again. The last time we were on a plane was almost exactly one year ago (and a domestic flight at that). By rough calculation, I haven’t been “grounded” this long since the mid 80s.
My challenge now becomes narrowing down my travel choices 2021. I’m having a hard time deciding so I thought I would put it out to our readers and ask for YOUR opinion.
Under normal conditions, we take a trip approximately once per quarter – part of the fun of being the travel industry is that we get to call this our “job”.
My thought here is to put forward TWO ideas for each quarter of the year and get feedback from our readers. Based on your feedback, we’ll do one of those trips, and put a group together so any of you that want to join can come along.
In the next two or three weeks, I’ll provide a better description of each of these trips, but here’s a sneak preview for you:
Winter:
We’ll be sitting it out for the first quarter. Even if there weren’t a bunch of restrictions in place on where and how we can travel, we are insanely busy. It seems that many people have decided that a year “on the bench” is enough, and they want to get busy planning. This is the part of the job we enjoy most, so we’re happy to help people book that next trip.
Spring:
Here are two trips that have caught our eye for this spring:
- Mississippi River Cruise: We’ve loved our river cruise experiences in Europe. Now it’s time to explore our own back yard.
- Alaska on a small ship: We go to Alaska just about every year, and really missed the opportunity in 2020.
More on both of these options next week.
Summer:
If you want to join us, here are the two trips we’re contemplating this summer. We’ll offer more details in the next couple of weeks:
- Great Lakes: Yes…believe it or not there are cruises on the Great Lakes, and they visit some really interesting corners of our own backyard. We are eyeing up a cruise from Chicago to Toronto with a whole bunch of port stops in between that most of us have never heard of!
- Rocky Mountaineer Denver to Moab, Utah: Although Rocky Mountaineer has been traversing the continental divide through the Canadian Rockies for 30 years, the US route is a brand-new product we can hardly wait to check out.
Autumn:
The two trips we’re considering in the fall are a study of contrasts. Maybe we’ll do both! We’ll provide more detail on these options in three weeks:
- French Polynesia on Paul Gauguin: It’s time to live the Polynesian Dream, complete with a few nights at one of those over-water bungalows you see on the cover of all the travel magazines.
- Christmas Markets in Europe: A Rhine or Danube River cruise looks much different in the winter months, and the European Christmas Markets have been imitated in other countries, but never matched.
Over the few weeks, we’ll provide more details about these trips. We invite your feedback if you’ve done any similar trips previously, or if you might be thinking about that trip yourself.
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Sue Bradley
Sue Bradley
