How often do you travel?

Next week I'm going back to Ireland for a week. Because the primary language is English and the Euro is on par with the US dollar and I didn't pay an arm and a leg for the ticket, I decided to go. I looked at other destinations but couldn't find a ticket that was anywhere near reasonable.
 

Leann said:
Next week I'm going back to Ireland for a week. Because the primary language is English and the Euro is on par with the US dollar and I didn't pay an arm and a leg for the ticket, I decided to go. I looked at other destinations but couldn't find a ticket that was anywhere near reasonable.
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yes and the other language is Gaelic..(Irish) lol... probably be raining a lot next week .. whereabouts are you going to be ? I could have flown over if it wasn't for all the strikes here..
 
hollydolly said:
yes and the other language is Gaelic..(Irish) lol... probably be raining a lot next week .. whereabouts are you going to be ? I could have flown over if it wasn't for all the strikes here..
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You're right, I forgot about Gaelic 🤦‍♀️. Yes, the forecast is for rain everyday. I'll be in Dublin then over to Galway.
 

Similar to @hollydolly, my husband passed away at the beginning of the pandemic, so I lost my traveling companion and then got bogged down in all the Covid restrictions. We used to travel quite a bit, and I miss it. When I moved down here to Florida (from NH) it was the first time I'd flown in 3 years, and it got me in the mood again.

We're planning a family trip to Vermont in January, I don't ski anymore but I can have fun with the kids. It's just great to be finally going somewhere!
 
I'm being 'bombarded' daily by emails from KLM, BA, Marriott and others with holiday, travel & hotel deals.. mostly for places I've got no interest in. However, until covid spoiled things, we went to Germany in December for the Christmas markets.. Hamburg was our favourite destination.
During Covid, a lot of flights were cancelled and the routes disappeared making going anywhere more difficult.
 
Twice a year is 'nice' - just returned from a few weeks in Greece, followed by jumping on a ship Piraeus to Florida. (We're not 'cruisers' per se, but (as I'm fond of saying, being a repetitive individual), use transatlantics as hop-on-hop-off-buses).....have an eastbound* scheduled for early April, followed by about a month being an annoyance to the people in France.

(*This may well be our last, since our favorite older/smaller (French then Spanish, Royal Caribbean subsidiary), line went belly up during the plague and the practice is starting to bore us.....even though we detest airports & flying.)
 
Well the pandemic and high gasoline cost has kept me home much more since 2020. During ski seasons I often lodge in South Lake Tahoe, double digits most winters but not logged. Also below overnight vehicle road trips for backpacking and landscape photography that I do log. No out of state trips in recent years, only occasionally in motels or lodging, as most often in Forester or tents. Cheap, not into world travel.

2022: 10 overnigth trips 13 overnights away
2021: 6 overnigth trips 12 overnights away
2020: 4 overnigth trips 13 overnights away
2019: 7 overnigth trips 39 overnights away
2018: 10 overnigth trips 32 overnights away
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
I like to travel at least 4 times a year and all international. If I could not travel, I would be depressed. COVID interrupted my passion but I took it in stride since I knew it would be temporary. I'm leaving in a few days on #4 to closeout the year.
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Where are you heading?
 
I enjoy traveling for the most part but it can be tiring. And if I change time zones (by more than 3 hours), jet lag will sink me for several days. But it's still worth the thrill of going someplace else/new. I hope to travel to Switzerland and Austria in 2023.
 
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