For future reference, here’s what I’ve culled from the NYT’s Travel Section story on 41 places to go in 2011.
Places I’ve already been: San Juan Islands, Wash; London; Milan; Olympic Park, Wash (went there on our honeymoon…along with the San Juan Islands. Would like to return to both!); Miami; Salonika, Greece (I called it Thessaloniki); Kosovo (I drove through then-Yugoslavia on the Magic Bus in 1982 and vowed to return on foot.)
Places I want to go: Park City, Utah; Loreto, Mexico; Oahu (going to Hawaii next January!); Sopot and Gdansk, Poland (Two terrific students from Gdansk stayed with in 2009 and my son visited them a few months later. Also on my list – Krakow!); Pingyao, China (first I’ve heard of it but ancient Ming architecture sounds like a must-see); ditto Hangzhou, China; Ezurum, Turkey (been to Turkey but not that far west.)
Places not on the top of my list: Iceland, Republic of Georgia; Cali, Columbia; Tozeur, Tunisia (not right now, given the political instability); ditto Iraqi Kurdistan.
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