i <3 travel

so 2010 is already looking good! in 9 days i head to Paris with Marla for MLK weekend. I haven't been since the first time I visited in October 2008 so I'm really excited. I love Paris so hard, it's seriously the most beautiful place I've ever seen. Of course, I haven't been to that many places.

Afterward I'll be heading to London from Tues - Sun for work. Luckily Friday will be a short day and I'll have the weekend to hang out in the city. I love London but I'm terrified it's going to be freezing.

then three weeks later in mid February I head to Egypt for 8 days. I just have a loose itinerary for now but I'm planning to do the whole Cairo - Giza - Alexandria pyramid thing for a few days then head south to do a felucca cruise up the nile. holy shit! this has been a total dream of mine since i was a kid.

after egypt i fly to dubai for Resh's sister's wedding. Animal and Resh will be there and we'll have a week to enjoy the Arabian peninsula and all those really, really, really effing tall buildings and camels and stuff. although i'm sure i'll get my fill of sand and camels in egypt...

i'm not sure what i'll be doing from April - July but hopefully I can do a road trip with Kait and Sam u el after he graduates - that's the plan for now. Cross country trips have been planned before but they've never worked out - at least for the three of us. So i'm not banking on it.

Then in july, Resh's close friend from college is getting married in Salzburg, Austria, where she now lives. We're going to take a week off of work and spend 10 days in Western Europe - probably Budapest, Vienna, then Salzburg. That's really exciting too because the furthest west I've been in Europe was Berlin, and there only for 4 days.

Finally I think in September we are going to try to travel for labor day. We're thinking another week off and 10 days spent in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Resh's cousins live in Copenhagen so that's an excuse to visit. I am REALLY excited for this trip, maybe more so than the others.

The goal is to do Barcelona and the Canary Islands for Thanksgiving but we'll see. Resh is employed in the non-profit sector, after all, and she doesn't have THAT many frequent flyer miles. I've started my own account in earnest so that I can help but I really don't care to pay full price for two people for too many vacations a year. Luckily I get many more days off than she does so some of my travels may be solo.

I should probably be in London for work two or three more times this year as well - I am trying to push for a short secondment in the Paris office but it's tough as we just got a new CMO for NY. dang but oh well.

i am just feeling so happy about this i had to post.