Wanderlust

Your Travel Personality Is: The Adventurer

For you, travel is how you learn about the world. And you like to learn the stuff that's not in guidebooks.You truly have wanderlust. When you're not traveling, you're dreaming about where you'll go next.And your travels are truly legendary - they leave you with stories you'll be telling for the rest of your life!

My travel style: off-the-beaten path, shoestring budget, local color, backpacking, natural wonders, lots of hiking, don't care for city bustle and tourist traps, rubbing shoulders with real people going about their daily lives. I've been a travel hedonist for the past year and am craving a dive back into mission work.

With a little inspiration from my roommate-to-be, here is my own list of destinations of which I'm dreaming. No chance I'll accomplish this in the next year or two, but I'd at least like to knock out a chunk of these in that time frame. But let's be honest: is there anywhere I wouldn't go?! Despite my insatiable appetite for adventure and devil-may-care attitude, my SWF status has some serious disadvantages and corresponding limitations, as I have learned. My need of travel comrades is apparent; I'm unbelievably excited Jen will share in the adventures!!

EGYPT

Luxor & Aswan (with my PARENTS, insha'allah!)
Still need to climb Mt. Sinai (just an overnight trip)
Scuba diving certification in Dahab (it's only $200...why not?!)

ASIA
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Northern Thailand (Chiang Mai --> hilltribes)
India & Nepal
Russia-->Mongolia-->China (Trans-Siberian junket from St. Pete to Beijing)

CENTRAL ASIA
Eastern Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan

MIDDLE EAST
Jordan (just Petra...short weekend trip)
LEBANON! (didn't come this far to skip the Motherland :)
Iran (won't ever be allowed in, but why not a little wishful thinking)
Oman
Israel: Oh, I still have fantasies of returning to that blessed land as a kibbutznik

AFRICA
ETHIOPIA!! (dying to go here)
South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia
Kenya & Tanzania (Mt. Kili, Masai Mara)
Sudan
Mali
Ghana

WESTERN EUROPE
Portugal (marathon- December)
Alps: Switzerland, Austria, Bavaria (hiking)
Norway
Iceland

BALKANS to BALTIC
Including (but not limited to, of course :) Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia

ANTARCTICA

VARIOUS PLACES in SOUTH AMERICA, the SOUTH PACIFIC, and AUSTRALASIA!

And of course, there are plenty of places to which I would pay a return visit...
I hope my thirst for adventure never wanes! A wild world is at my finger tips with countless grand adventures to be had!