SO, how many of you have asked me to come visit you and I’ve said, ‘Seriously, I’d love to, but…’?
Believe me, I’m usually telling the truth…I do want to visit everyone…I love to travel.  However, the ‘but’ stems from the nagging reality that my creditors love it when I don’t travel and instead pay my debts.    (Pesky creditors…pesky economy that pulses to my interest payments.)  And, in an effort to be a semblance of a good testimony, I feel like I need to pay the pesky ones before galavanting across the globe again, as if I were back in college. 
So, in the last few months, the LORD has allowed me to be at a spot where I only have 1.5 major debts left…and you guessed it…the big one is school loans.   Once the majority of that debt is paid and stricken from the record, I will feel free to visit you.  (In the meantime, maybe some wealthy do-gooder will find, in me, that long-lost cause to which he/she can donate a substantial amount of money…knowing that it’s going to a benevolent and trustworthy individual ) 

Anywho…so, lately, as the travel bug is attacking me and I am constantly conversing with God about what He wants me to do with the current life that He’s given me, I’ve been thinking about where I’d travel and how much it would cost (and now that Scott V directed me to TravelZoo.com I feel like I can go anywhere for a fraction of the retail cost!), the pondering overwhelmed me and I had to…make a list…to get it out of my brain and on paper, in order to make sense of it.  So, I made a list of domestic and international destinations…most destinations made it on the list because I know someone there…some are in a particular order, some not.  So, here are my short term travel goals over the next few years…please note that these are just the ‘immediate’ travel destinations…I want to eventually travel everywhere possible on the globe that I’ve not yet been (and some returns too!)

Domestic
Most of these I’ve been to, but not with the current residents there that I want to visit!
Washington, Texas, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Arizona, Idaho, Massachusettes, Kansas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Illinois, Florida…

International
I’ve never been to any of these countries, except India (but it’s a pretty big country) and the African country of Egypt, but most don’t count that as ‘African’ -not sure why…it’s technically on that continent.
Uganda, New Zealand, France, South Africa, Spain, India, Phillipines, any South American countries, any African countries really, Yap, Turkey, Afghanistan, Amsterdam

If you have an interest in being a part of any of those travels, or want to add suggestions, please clicky click to comment and do what you need to do…