Share a (non-cycling) trip you'd like to do

[User269]

@User269 might have a tale to tell of Everest base camp.

I'm still in therapy about this, and don't want to talk about it.
Apart from with my therapist of course, as I'm not spending £400 a week for nothing.

At least I found people who were shorter than me.

 

[speccy1]

The train ride across Canada

 

[Profpointy]

I'd like to dive the Jutland wrecks. Not actually as deep as you'd think and only a touch deeper than I'm happy with. The risk is having to stump up your £3k then be stuck in harbour, or worse, at sea with no diving if the weather's bad

My other dream is An Tealach winter traverse - which might be a bit marginal for me

 

[coffeejo]

I'd love to sail around the world, stopping off anywhere that looks interesting. I'd pause for a month or two in New Zealand and explore the country in a camper van, camera and walking boots at the ready.

Iceland and Scandinavia are firmly on the "to visit" list, and I would also like to hike the Appalachian Trail.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I love long train journeys so around the world by train.

I would love to do more of them in India, the scenery, the sights and even the smells are amazing, most of the time

 

[Levo-Lon]

Orient Exspess..and most of the great train journeys in The Portillo Bradbshaws guide series

 

[Drago]

I would like to travel to Mars.

 

[Dayvo]

Beginning to mentally plan a 6-month trip to Australia.

The missus and I turn 60 in Dec.2019 and Jan.2020 respectively and would like to have the northern winter 'down under.'
Fly To Perth and WA for 2-3 weeks, take the train from Perth to Sydney, stopping en route (hopefully). Stay in and around Sydney for a month whilst renting a campervan and heading up the coast to Queensland, then head casually down the coast to Victoria Melbourne (my best mate emigrated to Eltham 30 years ago) and then slowly across to Adelaide.

Not worried about doing the touristy things, but just want to be out in nature and away from crowds.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Beginning to mentally plan a 6-month trip to Australia.

The missus and I turn 60 in Dec.2019 and Jan.2020 respectively and would like to have the northern winter 'down under.'
Fly To Perth and WA for 2-3 weeks, take the train from Perth to Sydney, stopping en route (hopefully). Stay in and around Sydney for a month whilst renting a campervan and heading up the coast to Queensland, then head casually down the coast to Victoria Melbourne (my best mate emigrated to Eltham 30 years ago) and then slowly across to Adelaide.

Not worried about doing the touristy things, but just want to be out in nature and away from crowds.

There is an amazing campsite on the Cliffs at B

Beginning to mentally plan a 6-month trip to Australia.

The missus and I turn 60 in Dec.2019 and Jan.2020 respectively and would like to have the northern winter 'down under.'
Fly To Perth and WA for 2-3 weeks, take the train from Perth to Sydney, stopping en route (hopefully). Stay in and around Sydney for a month whilst renting a campervan and heading up the coast to Queensland, then head casually down the coast to Victoria Melbourne (my best mate emigrated to Eltham 30 years ago) and then slowly across to Adelaide.

Not worried about doing the touristy things, but just want to be out in nature and away from crowds.

Your post made me go and dig out the map book i used in 2003 to travel up the East Coast of Oz.

Consider the Hunter Valley or should i say wine valley. It's really lovely. Yes there is the wine route so there will be tourists but there are plenty of off piste places to see. We stayed in a nice quiet campsite near Pokolbin and visited a lovely little boutique winery which did the most gorgeous sparkling shiraz.
http://blueberryhill.com.au

Anyway is gorgeous around there and i remember sitting out drinking my early morning coffee watching the sun come up over a vineyard somewhere there.

 

[jonny jeez]

Ok. I've only recently got over my hoodoo about flying and set foot in a plane for the first time.

I would like to get to Iceland or north Scandinavia and take a flight to see the Northern Lights from the air. Both Iceland and those very cold bits at the top of the continent interest me as places to visit too so it'd be a week or two up there & spikey bikes may be involved but not on the plane.

you'd be better off seeing them in Norway. I love Iceland and have spent a good deal of time there over the last two years (like a visit a month). I have seen the Lights once!

In summer its too light, in winter its often too cloudy. There are websites for you to check your chances of seeing them. when I did see them, they weren't that clear but still breathtaking.

Iceland is one of my favourite places but is not what you might think, or at least its not "as advertised". Its not ice and fire...more like desolate deserts of lava fields, tiny villages (like 3 buildings) and miles and miles of unmade roads. the folk up there are what makes it so good for me, there are so few of them that they dont risk bullsh1tting one another, as they are probably related or friends...or both.

 

[jonny jeez]

I want to wild camp (illegally or legally) in some of the British hills, cumbria, Peak district, Snowdonia. it seems easily achievable but I have never found the time. I'd also like to take the motorcycle through Norway in the summer. Alaska also has appeal.

A friend of mine mentioned Quad Biking through Mongolia which sounds interesting.

 

[fimm]

Oh this sounds great, does it involve camping? Hope not, maybe could do it after doing the West Highland way.
Was actually planning a holiday walking the WHW a few years back, then I discovered cycling, went on a CC Ecosse tour instead ... same every year since!

Backpacking. No facilities at all except one very remote Youth Hostel (and possibly a bothy or two, depending on your route). You would have to start off carrying all your food for a week. You'd need to be spot on with your navigation as well, it isn't an area to get lost in. The 1:50 000 map sheet of the area has one road at the very top and a couple of dead-end roads encroaching at one side...

I've walked the WHW, it is a totally different experience!

 

[fimm]

I want to wild camp (illegally or legally) in some of the British hills, cumbria, Peak district, Snowdonia. it seems easily achievable but I have never found the time.

Come to Scotland, where you have the right to wild camp responsibly pretty much anywhere on the hills... (see my trip idea)

 

[Salad Dodger]

If i won big on the lottery, i would like a guitar made in the year i was born. And the best place to get one would be North America. So a trip including New York, and Nashville would be on the cards. Also, i would like to take in some "proper" U.S. spirt, like a NASCAR race and some flat track motorbike racing.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Backpacking.