Dream Trip.

[Wayland]

Ok. I'm stuck at home again, contemplating the Xmas round trip of relatives and in laws and my mind is already stretching towards my next proper trip out in January.

But it gave me an idea for a thread that might be a bit different.

If money and time were no object, what would your dream trip of a lifetime be?

I'm stuck choosing between Dog sledding and Skidooing in the Canadian Rockies with mixed accommodation like snow holes, lodge tipis and log cabins or a month long photographic tour of Yosemite with someone who really knows the area (Unfortunately Ansel Adams is no longer an option.)

What would you do?

 

[Chris G]

Good one Wayland (nice avatar by the way!).

Erm, how about a month or so being self sufficient in the empty parts of Scotland, European/Siberian forests or Mongolia.

Chris

 

[John Fenna]

Ahhh - I thought from your B&W work you must be an AA fan!
My trip would be canoe based in Canada.....

 

[andybysea]

I have two, One would be the routes and area's that where fought over in North Africa during ww2, the other would be the other extreme, Siberia during winter. A couple of months in each with local or experianced guide.

 

[korvin karbon]

camping in the grounds fo the playboy mansion

the rockies sounds good, maybe actually going from the north to south pole down the americas.

 

[NatG]

just walk out the door and see where life takes me- one day i will

 

[Hathor]

The North-West Frontier, through the Khyber Pass to Kabul and over the hills to Balkh. In the footsteps of Josiah Harland and Alexander Burnes.

It's on hold....

 

[Graham_S]

Truck safari from London to Cape Town,
or
A trip to Borneo to see Orang-Outangs (while there are some left)

 

[korvin karbon]

The North-West Frontier, through the Khyber Pass to Kabul and over the hills to Balkh. In the footsteps of Josiah Harland and Alexander Burnes.

It's on hold....

wimp (runs away very fast)

 

[Mesquite]

One of the things I'd really love to do is follow John Steinbecks' footsteps when he toured the USA and which he chronicled in his book Travels With Charley. I'd obviously want to sneak in a few bushcrafty side trips to various places

Another trip would be 6 months camper vanning around Australia and a few others trips if money and time allowed

Oh... and love the Christmas Avatar Gary... very festive

 

[Kerne]

Money and time no object - out the front door and round and round the world until I get dizzy.

Time no object - The pilgrim's road to Compostella. (Planning this as a start to my retirement).

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Spend a long tour of Canada with Mors as the guide

 

[shep]

Across the Amazon basin, or from source to sea. (A la Benedict Allan or Bruce Parry respectively)

 

[discoveringtheforest]

5 star Spa Hotel ( cant rough it ALL of the time eh? )

 

[HillBill]

Doing either the Pacific Crest Trail or the Appalachian Trail.

I'd rather move to Canada or Sweden in the forests and lakes somewhere than those though.

 

[Mastino]

Altai region in Russia or a trip along the spine of the Appennines in Italy.

 

[Sniper]

For me it would be a trip from North to South from Canada down to the Cape by various methods camper van, horse, and truck. From there then onto the same thing round Australia, the North to South of Africa, now that would be a dream come true.

 

[Surrey Yeoman]

Hmmn!

Tough one to decide.

Here's a few that'd be high on my list (in no particular order of preference):

1. A month (at least) travelling around the top end of Australia with Les Hiddins :You_Rock_ in a Land-Rover 110 as per the "Bush Tucker Man" series.

2. Riding the cattle trail from the Rio Grande in Texas to Northern Montanna as per the epic tale, "Lonesome Dove." (I'd have to learn to ride a horse first though )

3. Canoeing around Canada for a couple of months solo.

4. A year at Dick Proeneke's cabin in Alaska!

5. A Land-Rover desert trip from Tobruk to Alexandria as per "Ice Cold in Alex."

 

[Toddy]

Where's got no midgies, no mosquitos, and I don't have to eat fish ?

I want to go there, chill out, meet the people and the plants, see what they make and how they do it.

Be brilliant if it were on a sunny beach somewhere, with lots of trees for shade

You'd never guess I'm sitting in the middle of a dreich Scottish Winter now, would you

cheers,
Toddy

 

[TallMikeM]

some good suggestions already, many of which I'd like to give a try to. But one thing I've long wanted to do is canoe or raft down the mississipi (sp) ala Huck Fin.