In my Twitter account, I have a number of followers and individuals I follow who travel and others who make their living as travelers/travel writers. It’s hardly a surprise one of them posted a lovely shot of Stonehenge with the sun for Summer Solstice. That’s one of the items on our travel list. Stonehenge, not necessarily during Solstice. By the way, there’s a similar area of the Carnac Stones in the Brittany region of France and we’ll probably combine that trip someday. As I’ve posted in the past, for the time being, other than family-related and business trips, our vacations (fewer than we’d hoped due to several factors) are mostly devoted to diving. That will be the case for probably another decade, then we’ll work off the to-do list for places such as Stonehenge. Of course, I have promised Hubby the Whiskey Trail in Scotland as a priority and that does get a pretty high priority.

Even though I traveled the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg) during my first tour to Germany, we didn’t make it up there when we were both assigned to Germany. Neither of us have been to Spain, Portugal, or Greece though and I definitely want to do Prague and quite possibly Budapest. Those two could well fall into the river cruise option which will definitely come after dive cruises. The issue of course is distance of travel and even though we’ve done the 3-4 day excursions to Paris in the past for Valentine’s Day, the 8-9 hour flights are becoming more tiring. I think with the long trips in the future, we’ll plan the two-week versions. And with that kind of time, we’d really hate to pass on diving, which is why returns to Europe will probably be delayed. As for Asia – those are truly long trips, but there is a new diving charter in Thailand. We’re still debating about if we want to include it in the mix.

Anyway, having now drifted from the original topic – Happy Summer to all!