Going to travel

April 22, 2008

In 1999 my wife and I began traveling with students. Our first trip was to England, Ireland, and Wales the summer we were married, and we’ve been doing it since. The longest trip was to London, Paris and Rome, and the coolest trip was to Central European Citites, and now that we have Claire we decided to go on these trips every other year, instead of every summer. This summer we’re not doing a student trip, so next summer we wanted to do Greece & Italy but discovered another teacher is doing that tour for spring break. We tried to get him to wait until June but he chose not too. Spring break trips just seem to quick to us. We decided to not conflict with them and we’re considering going somewhere else.

Our initial idea was Spain & Portugal but some people don’t like Portugal. Then the tour company suggested Costa Rica, but I for one never considered that. It sounds interesting, and our Spanish speakers would be able to communicate. A couple kids were disappointed we weren’t doing Italy & Greece anymore and mentioned they’d like to do Scotland. I know my wife has always wanted to go there, and she’d like to pair it with Stonehenge & Bath so I was open for the suggestion. I looked through the book today and found a cool Scottish tour that included Northern Ireland. I swore I would not go back to Ireland until Claire could come, but I’ve never been to Belfast. We were reviewing that and flipped through the Australia pages. I always said no to Australia because of price, so I was shocked when I saw we could do that trip for under $3,000.00 base price. So now we have a decision to make. Do we head to Scotland, which will be cheaper? Do we head to Spain, which may be cool? Or do we go Down Under? Worse case scenario, we go nowhere. Not my idea of cool.

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