Nebulous trip planning

[kjpepper]

Cause a girl can dream, and save... right?

I want to take a few trips visiting places in the next little while. Mostly cause I have friends scattered far and wide, and also... getting out of one's familiar comfort zone can always be fun and interesting. I actually had a really good time in Cincinnati once the funeral and stuff were over. So while I'm thinking about stuff, here's a short list of things I want to do and places I want to go.

1) Seattle/Redmond/general northwestern US/Vancouver
I'd like to go to Vancouver for a day. See if I can find any organists driving Jettas. More importantly, I have a rapidly swelling list of friends who have settled up in Geek Country that I either haven't seen in years or haven't met yet. Plus several people are all like "MOVE OUT HERE" and I feel like even though my answer is pretty much no thank you (I like my snow) I'd like to at least see it before I reject it outright. And of course I have this theory that if I don't see harinezumi in person once every couple of years or so, something bad happens. ;)

2) Austin, Texas
I know I know, ew, texas. But there is athene/lordaerith, innostrantsa and austingoddess to visit, and this curious place called the Alamo Drafthouse to see...

3) Washington, DC.
my sister, masteradept, and a few other people would like to see me.

4) Orlando, FL
I'd like to go back to Disney World one last time as a grownup. There is something very appealing about going to such a family mecca without being stuck with either kids or parents and thus being able to ride Space Mountain seventeen times without consequence. Other than a permanently messed up sense of balance that is...

5) England + Europe in general
I've never been off this continent. I'd like to fix that soon. Plus seeing harmanhay in her natural habitat would be rather smashing. And then I'd like to take a train into the rest of Europe.

6) Dubai, UAE
After they finish building the Burj, so this is about five years down the line. But after it's done, I'm so there. I seriously want to see with my own eyes a building twice as tall as my beloved Empire State.

7) Kyoto, Japan
I'd like to go to Japan at least once, and Kyoto seems a little more authentically Japanese than Tokyo. I could be way off there but that's the impression I got.

8) Cincinnati, OH
I would love to do ORF with _kyri again, and this time see bellarisa


I don't know... those are just the ideas I'd been having. I don't know if I'll get to execute them at all, but they make nice distractions from the thoughts I'd been having earlier.

Comments

[harinezumi.livejournal.com]

If you find yourself in our neck of the woods, there's a couch, monster beanbag, and two kittens with your name on them ^^

As for Japan, Kyoto is one of my favorite places there. One of the few major cities that didn't get firebombed in the war, so the place oozes history. Still, Tokyo is an experience in and of itself. Imagine Manhattan, with another Manhattan jammed into it, surrounded by a few more Manhattans. If you have time and money to burn, I also recommend spending a couple of nights at a ryokan somewhere way up in the mountainous boondocks, particularly if you can time it right for cherry blossoms and local festivals.

Y'know...

[bellarisa.livejournal.com]

I'm having a party on November 3rd, featuring damn near err'body you've ever read about in my journal plus all kinds of cute others :) You'd have a free place to stay and a ridiculous amount of fun; I can't promise you won't be ravished and pleasured at some point, but I doubt you'd leave an unhappy girl... >;P

Re: Y'know...

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

Oh my! That's an offer worth considering! ;)

[peacockdress.livejournal.com]

You'd be very welcome to crash chez Harman Hay any time, and we can show you around Europe too...

[mornhyland.livejournal.com]

If you find yourself in the Pacific Northwest and want to visit Portland, OR let us know. We'll show you around. Can offer crash space, but it isn't much, a small apartment on the PSU campus.

Good luck with the eventual finding of those trips.

[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! Pick us first!

[morlock.livejournal.com]

i DO believe that kyoto is where nintendo of japan is...but i'm not sure...

[morlock.livejournal.com]

it is in kyoto! go go wikipedia...

Re: Y'know...

[masteradept.livejournal.com]

Thats temptation!!

[masteradept.livejournal.com]

Whenever you decide to pay MD/DC another visit you know you have a place to stay.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Tokyo is truly amazing and has to be seen to be believed. But Kyoto is lovely, too. Even if you have a short amount of time, the trains are quick and reliable, so you should be able to do both. :-)

[athene.livejournal.com]

i second that. btw, all of my friends down here really like the Texas Ren Faire (Oct-Nov).

Re: Y'know...

[bellarisa.livejournal.com]

You're all kinds of invited dude, just lemeee know!

[sundart.livejournal.com]

I'm totally taking you to Disneyworld. It's just gonna take me a little while to save up the dough. Also, I have a passport application saved for you for when you're ready for it, but, to make the ID part easiest, you might want to get your license first. :)

*kisses*

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

If you ever come to Seattle, there's a warm bed for you to snuggle in. (It will sleep three, but we have to be cozy.)

[innostrantsa.livejournal.com]

The Drafthouse = TOTAL FUCKING WIN.

Just sayin'.

[pjamms.livejournal.com]

1. The Northwest is more wintry than you may think.

2. Though I know you have no desire to come here you're welcome to and if you have a layover on your way to the coast (which is common) I would totally meet you at the airport. :-)

[anythingbutpink.livejournal.com]

I second that! And hello neighbor, I'm in Redmond.

KJ, you couldn't have a more widespread list, geographically. There is NO way to make a roadtrip out of it!

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

So you're where I usedtacould live. =P