Our Favorite Trip
We love to travel, and often people ask us which trip was our favorite. The truth is, it is often our last one! On each episode I will take you through one of those trips, from home and back, and let you know what were some of our favorite experiences, which things we could have skipped, and what we regret not doing. My hope is that the listener will realize that travel, domestic or international, is doable. It can be affordable with the proper planning, and it's always worth it! We are a couple of married, middle age, middle class people with four grown children. In future episodes I hope to include my husband, Mark, in the discussion, and to interview people with expertise in various travel topics.You can find pictures from our trips on Instagram at ourfavoritetrip, and on Facebook at Our Favorite Trip. Write to me with questions or comments at ourfavoritetrip@gmail.com
Episodes
On our trip to Jordan, we visited the capital, Amman, then spent a night at the Dead Sea at the Kempinski Ishtar hotel. Next we toured Petra, staying at the Movenpick Resort. We explored the Wadi Rum desert with a Bedouin guide, checked out Shobak Castle, Ajloun Castle, and the Roman city of Jerash.
My husband, Mark, and I reflect and discuss our trip to Egypt in March of 2019. We talk about our highlights, things we would have done differently, and what we regret missing.
We end our visit to Egypt by visiting Aswan, Abu Simbel, the Temple of Isis, the Aswan High Dam, Cairo, the Egyptian Museum with King Tut, and the Coptic Christian and Islamic Quarters of Cairo.
We fly to Luxor to begin our Nile cruise to Aswan. Along the way we visit the Temples of Karnak and Luxor, the valley of the queens, the valley of the kings, with King Tut's tomb, the Temple of Hatshepsut, the Colossi of Memnon, Temple of Edfu, and Temple of Kom-Ombo. You can check out a YouTube video of this podcast illustrated with pictures from our trip at https://youtu.be/fU0h9_FSnCo
We spend one day in Alexandria, the next day visiting Memphis, Saqqara, the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and ending with a camel ride.
We plan and pack for our ten day trip to Egypt. From visas to vaccinations, a lot of thought goes into planning a trip.
Part 2 of our Ireland Journal covers the city of Dublin. We visited the Temple Bar District, Kilmainham Gaol, the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin Castle, the Charles Beaty Library, Trinity College, the Book of Kells, and the National Museum of History and Achaeology amongst other sites. I cover the highlights of the trip, things we could have skipped, and what we regret missing.
We traveled to Ireland in May of 2018. We drove through Kilkenny, Blarney, Tralee, the County Kerry, County Clare, Cliffs of Moher, and back to Dublin. This episode covers everything but Dublin, which is covered in part 2.
A trip we took from El Paso, Texas, through New Mexico, ending in Colorado Springs, Colorado. On the way we visited Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Roswell, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos, N.M., Great Sand Dunes National Park, and Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs.
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