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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 1:09 pm 
To see the Northern Lights. I am hoping to do a big Europe vaca next year, plans are kind of in the works. If my friend can get her cruise room updated to a suite then I can go with her. It is a cruise during the total eclipse with ports in London and France. We would fly over a week before the cruise and do 5 days in Paris. Then stay 5 days after and do London. My hubby a Navy vet has seen all the sites and didnt really want to go so this would be a perfect opportunity. My biggest expense is airfare because I will need a pod or whatever class lets you lay flat
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 1:57 pm
Back to New Zealand for as long as the money lasted.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 10:37 pm
Pamy, you may not need a lay-flat to fly to Europe (says the woman who just paid a million dollars to fly business class to Singapore on a 17 hour flight from Seattle). Go to your primary care Doc now, and ask for an annual prescription for a sleeping pill, specifically for travel, which you intend to be doing in the future, but you want to try it out now to see if it will work, and you can tolerate it and not have bad side effects (it is possible you are NOT a candidate for sleeping pills), but you can try it out at home and see if it works, maybe try different dosages. Both Bigdog and I get one 30-day prescription per year of a sleeping pill that we use only for travel, and we keep one or two pills (or half pills) in our passport cases and just bring along those old-time blow-up nech donuts, which DO work, and you can get maybe 4-6 hours sleep, which turns out to be enough to function for us.
You could even do your travel to Europe from the west coast in two legs - fly to east coast and stay in an airport hotel, get some sleep, then fly next day to Europe (I think you are now retired?). That would save a LOT of money over upgrading to the flat beds (save that for when you get pretty doggone old, like me).
Yes, we did manage to sleep in the Singapore Airlines Business Class fold down to beds seats. I was pretty scared, but I watched the woman across from me put hers down, and saw how she inserted herself at an angle because the foot room was only about 12" wide, and she was short and had regular length legs, and I do not. But, with angles and bent knees and thighs, I managed to do it. And I slept. But, at your age, I would not recommend spending the extra big bucks.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 10:43 pm
Oh, and we have already been most everywhere. We have just returned from a 5-week land and sea cruise trip to the last places I really needed to go, which were Singapore and Japan and South Korea, loved all of them, even though Singapore was beastly hot, Japan cold, windy, and raining, and it freaking snowed on the ship on the way home, AND we were 45 nautical miles south of Russia, while dodging storms on the way home!!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-07-2005
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 6:32 am
Out of the house. (I haven't been anywhere since July of 2022) The only place I've spent the night outside of this house in the last 3 years is hospitals. When your husband goes down and almost dies, vacations apparently are a thing of the past.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 6:35 am
awww Scooter 
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 6:41 am
(((Scooter)))
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 7:40 am
♡Scooter♡
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 7:51 am
Hope he is getting better and better and you both can plan a weekend get away even if it is just a few miles away
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 8:02 am
As for me... it feels like the world is a buffet and it's just a matter of picking and packing. Picking a spot, and packing and going. I am still adjusting to being solo. I actually have begun traveling and it has been a mixed bag of results. In September I flew overseas for the 1st time and it was exciting. I joined Trafalgar Tours for 4 days in London and 4 days in Paris. It was thrilling but extremely exhausting. Apparently I'm of an age, and with my declining health that I need to be traveling with a less aggressive agenda. I want to go back and do them at my own pace. At least I know what I want to see again, and what I can cross off my list. I don't need to see Windsor Castle, or Stonehenge again. Or Monets home again. Or the Palais de Versailles. But I can't wait to go back to Fortnum and Mason, Buckingham Palace, and Covent Garden. And to see as many shows in London's West End as humanly possible. My fantasy stay would be the Savoy. I saw an amazing documentary miniseries about it, and must stay there at least 1 o 2 nights for a thrill, even if I sneak in and stay in a broom closet with an air mattress. Lol. As for Paris I just look forward to walking around and exploring the city again, this time at my leisure. I never understood why everyone who has ever been to Paris kept raving about it. It is magical and I too have fallen in love with it, although I couldn't exactly articulate why.
I also hope to do international cruises and also explore my own amazing country Canada by rail.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 8:11 am
I just want to go to Vegas. Blow a couple grand gambling, and while I'm there, go see Barry Manilow, Janet Jackson, Kelly Clarkson, Shakira, Backstreet Boys, Lady Gaga and the Eagles. (Looked up who is headlining right now)
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 8:46 am
I'd have a hard time picking which one to take, but since money is no object, I guess I could do them all. How can you pick just one? Lol!
I want to travel by train.
The Best Train Trips in the World: 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 8:51 am
Oh, and Mack, I had a customer yesterday that told me that she's leaving this week for a 9 day trip to Egypt with her family. It made me laugh that the same day that you said you wanted to go, that someone told me they were going. She said the weather will be nice in Cairo, but she was worried about how hot it was going to be in the other 2 cities she'll be visiting. Which of course immediately reminded me of Juju and her adventures in China, which I had to tell this poor woman about.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 9:30 am
I was in Egypt in November a few years ago. It was quite pleasant but of course I live in San Antonio so used to heat so it’s all relative.
As for train travel that’s how I did much of my travel in Europe when I was assigned with the Army in Heidelberg, Germany on trains. I have been on three of the recommended train trips in the list you linked to. Train travel in Europe is way different than here and is a great way to get around.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 2:22 pm
Naja that sounds fun! I would want the VIP meet and greets and great seats!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 9:57 pm
Train trips are absolutely great ways to go, and pretty much ALL other countries have better systems than we do. But ours are okay.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 6:13 am
Unless you live in the southern most states. After a major bridge was damaged years ago in the Deep South the fixed/repaired bridge apparently hasn’t been “certified” for passenger trains so there is virtually no direct passenger train service going east from Texas. Yes you can get to say Florida from Texas by train by going way north but it adds days and expense to the trip. I have never looked at going west by train out of here but really no reason as most of our vacation travel is pretty much by plane only.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 7:57 am
I hope you guys all realize I'm not talking about riding Amtrack. Lol!
I want to do a trip like this one from my link above.
quote:16. Seven Stars in Kyushu, Japan
Train lovers consider this opulent Japanese locomotive among the most spacious and comfortable–not to mention exclusive. With space for just twenty sleeping guests, you’ll need to apply to a lottery to score a space on this bucket list journey of them all. If you’re lucky enough to secure a space on board, you’ll be amply rewarded. Every inch of Seven Stars' Kyushu train—from the beds, to the bathroom sinks, to the woodwork, to the porcelain dinner plates—is handmade by Japanese artisans, and the service is simply exquisite; but it’s not just about the onboard experience with Seven Stars. These trips travel a circuit around the island of Kyushu, making stops at the region’s best shrines, onsens, porcelain studios, and more, so you truly feel like you’re exploring an authentic side of Japan, far away from the more obvious tourist tracks.
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Egbok
Member
07-12-2000
| Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 9:51 am
If money was no object, I would want to cruise the Mediterranean.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 2:06 pm
New Zealand
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 10:42 pm
On our most recent cruise a couple weeks ago, a bunch of people researched how to do it, and took ship's shuttle buses to trains in the Japan ports, while we had private tours pre-arranged, and we kept running into them at various venues. It was almost comical, since two of then were our dinner-mates.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 10:45 pm
If you had to redo your home, or all but two bedrooms.. And you have always just had white walls, what is a really good wall color? My couch is pinkish with touches of green and blue, recliner is soft green. New rug.. Um. I kind of forget.. Will look tomorrow. I think it has dark blue and has a pattern..
Floor with pay extra for vinyl like Pamy has instead of ancient thought originally good carpet.
New fridge has to fit the space so no widebody and no stainless.
Some kind of carpet on stairs..
New toilets, don't trust old ones and maybe tall ones if not too tall..
Any suggestions for things that would be good, considering that, other than two bedroom, including mine, and one linen closet, the place is gutted.
I am not into brown or tan in general...
Any other things th
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