What is your favorite place to travel and why?

It’s a toss up between Key West, Florida and my bedroom where I have four books stacked up (I’m fickle).

So far, I’ve loved

* Costa Rica
* Sweden
* NYC
* The UK

I would have a hard time picking a favourite.

I haven’t been to a ton of places, but I’ll name a few.

I really enjoy the parks in Appalacia: Natural Bridge Park in Kentucky, Ruby Falls, Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. I’d love to take my son to Rock City. I remember doing the gold-panning there when I was a kid.

I love road trips in general, and stopping at kitschy tourist traps like South of the Border and random just-over-the-state-line shops selling booze and fireworks to citizens of and visitors to dry states.

I’ve been out of the country twice: Toronto, Canada is the kind of city I would love to live in. Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles is in the same island chain as Aruba, about 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela. It’s a tiny desert island with a small local population that has been bought, sold, and conquered so many times the average citizen speaks five languages (Dutch, Spanish, English, French, and the local dialect Papiamentu). It was a joy and honour to spend ten days there in July 2007 for my honeymoon, and I would love to visit again.

Island of Kauai, Hawaii – - Someways it is like Oahu and Maui use to be 35 to 40 years ago.

St. Maarten-St. Martin – Dutch and French shared island, French food and Dutch Jewelry shops.

Belize – The old British Honduras – Specifically Ambergris Cay where it is laid back, to get anywhere it was bicycle or boat.

England – Stonehenge on a private tour, pub hopping using the “Underground” or “Tube” and Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.

Aruba – Great food, we stayed in an all included Hotel even massages and liquor. (We still tipped and the staff knew who we were.)

@Seek, it’s not a desert island if it’s populated. A desert island is deserted—uninhabited.

My favorite out of the country place was Taiwan a few years ago. Lovely island, similar to Hawaii, beautiful beaches, nice people, delicious food, big bustling Capitol city of Taipei and exotic out of the way jungley mountains.

Toroko Gorge Natl. Park was spectacular.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yscYx5VH8E8

@Jeruba – It is an island that has the requisite lack of precipitation to be classified as a desert.

I like where I live, the Delray Beach/Boca Raton, FL area. Palm trees, warm weather, good restaurants, festivals, nearby performing arts centers, good roads, nice beaches.

Catskills, NY and adjacent areas in upstate, NY.

The Great Lakes region. The shores of Michigan and Wisconsin.

Vancouver, BC.

Stowe, VT. Great food, lovely for walking. Mild summers. Ben and Jerry’s factory tour. The Von Trapp lodge for a history tour of their escape from Austria. Maple syrup, fall foliage. In the winter there is skiing and other winter sports.

I really enjoyed my cruise in Alaska through the inside passage.

Trips I highly recommend, but wouldn’t likely go back again and again:

Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. I regret that I didn’t spend more time there. I went for a week, 10–14 days would have been much better.

Quebec City, Canada. You only need 2 nights and 3 days to see everything. It’s the most European feeling city in North America in my opinion. If I had a week I would go there and then out to the mountains in QC.

Charleston, SC for a quick weekend. Take a carriage tour and then walk around town. Eat by the water or take a boat ride.

The refrigerator because I keep the beer in it.

Italy
• the food
• the art and architecture
• the food
• the history
• the food
• the people

Gawd, I forgot Italy! It is fantastic.

Northern England. It’st incredibly beautiful, and the people are so friendly.

@JLeslie: My dream is to retire there.

Prague :: Cheap as hell and the most crazy fun I have ever had in my life…...

We got there and had no clue where to sleep.

I should start with the train ride from Dresden to Prague…

So we hopped on the train to Prague and all appeared to be well. Until guys with machine guns came to check our passports. My passport looked odd to them. I had a brand new one with holograms and shit. They had never seen one like it and assumed it was fake. It took around 30 minutes of me shitting my pants thinking I was going to a eastern European jail.

Eventually I was cleared!

We landed in Prague with no idea where we were going to sleep. But we walked around for a bit and found a guy named Josh that had been living there for a few months. He took us to the hostel he was staying at and he arranged for us to be bunked with him. Seven bucks a night.. Fantastic!!!

The hostel had a kitchen and we decided to make Spaghetti Bolognese since it was cheap as fuck. This was actually one of the best experiences of my life. There were about ten countries coming together and we couldn’t talk to each other but we all were able to come together to make spaghetti and share a meal.

Enter Club UZI.. This is a real place in Prague, or at least it was. Club UZI was closed the night we tried so we went to another place that was amazing if you like to get drunk and techno music. Partied there for a few hours and then went back downtown.

In our search for downtown there might have been more than booze involved. We ended up on train-tracks and totally confused.

Eventually made it downtown and there was a club that was open that was shit straight out of The Lost Boys. You had to go down around 60 steep steps and then you entered a club that looked like a cave and you had to crawl through small holes to get around into different rooms. It was amazing.

But on our way back that night we saw some British fratboys ripping down a Scorpians poster (they were playing in a few days). It was pretty much the perfect ending to a perfect Prague.

Oh, and there is a Dunkin Donuts there. And I got a carton of Reds for 9 bucks.

@johnpowell That’s the city my husband and grandmother always talk about. They say Prague is a gorgeous city.

^ It is. I went to Dresden and Prague last year. Dresden was nothing special. Prague was amazing.

@Seek, I’d like to see a reference on that. Every source I’ve checked says it’s uninhabited, and several specify tropical. Not a lot of tropical places are low in precipitation. That cartoon image that everybody’s seen of a single palm tree on a parched rock sticking out of the ocean is just that: a cartoon cliche.

Well, cliche or not, Bonaire has people living on it, and also has very low precipitation.

If I used the word “desert” incorrectly, mea culpa.