This trip is at a somewhat slower pace for us oldsters but goes to the same places as another one, which is nice for us older folks. The prices are excellent for fall 2020...

a nice agency that goes to Yosemite, but all I can find are the trips that go on buses. Which is fine, but it’s like 24 hours here, run and now run back.

If anyone can find a nice trip to Yosemite, that allows a 4 to 5 days actual visit time. Please let me know. It’s my dream vacation, but I want to experience it.

I'm sure they'll have something!

Never heard of them. Will look into it.

Thanks, for the info.

my travel buddy for several years is a lovely woman who was tragically widowed in her early 40s. She and I travelled extensively in Europe which was a kind of therapy for her. We had some good times in Europe, drinking the wine and laughing heartily...it was fun and sad alternatively. We'd both cry after a little wine but then have a little more wine and feel better. It was a healing process for her and a learning process for me.

I just want to sit in Yosemite valley floor, with good music in my headphones and hold my husbands hand. I have found my Mecca. When you turn a certain age, you have to jump in both feet, because you may never get the chance again.

I watched the Ken Burns doc about the National Parks, and Yosemite enchanted me. One day, we can do some Europe, especially London. I just want this one first.

Thanks for sharing your lovely story. The world can be so hard to us, nice to share some good times with someone,

my husband-to-be) went to Jamaica for a week together - not offbeat but we had so much fun! At the time I was in the travel business and won 6 airline tickets so the flights were free for everyone.

I hope you get to go on the trip!

My first trip to Europe was when I was 16 and I never forgot the experience at the Louvre, seeing Winged Victory for the first time. I stopped dead in my tracks and stared in awe!

this week. Its a have-to for an eye treatment and I hate it had to be scheduled while my daughter was visiting. I jokingly suggested that we all go for the day. The girls took it seriously. So we are all going to Cleveland. We'll meet my best friend, then go downtown. While I'm getting my eye treatment, they will go to the botanical garden. As a bonus, my sister and her boyfriend will drive up and meet us and go with them to the gardens. I don't mind missing the gardens, and it'll give them all a chance to catch up. I'll get to visit with the girls on the drive.

Your idea for going to Spain sounds fun. Hope it happens for you We traveled to London and Paris with our daughters years ago and had a ball.

While we were in London, we took a day tour to see Stonehenge, and while we were in Paris, our daughters went to Versailles and John and I rode the mosquito boats on the Seine and got off and on wherever it docked. In London, the girls walked all over and John and I took the buses. We were determined to see the British Museum and took several buses to get there and then back to our hotel. We were laughing about making both cities ours, but we didn't get from Point A to Point B like experts! We were on a Brendan tour, which allowed lots of free time in both cities, and we gave each other time away from each other. We saw a lot of things together, but they saw things and we saw things, then shared pictures. I think we all made the vacation what we wanted, and we all had good memories. I remember seeing Notre Dame for the first time. For no reason, I had tears running down my face. I looked at both girls and they too had tears.

My older daughter and her husband went to England a couple years after our trip. My younger daughter and her husband have done a lot of domestic traveling since then with their kids. They all love traveling and I'm so glad they can.

We took a lot of vacations with our daughters over the years and then the whole family. My husband passed away almost 3 years ago, but I am still invited or included in any vacations they plan. I wasn't able to go a few times because of previous commitments, but had a great vacation in Florida last May.

front of one of his wheat field paintings. I had just gotten off a barge which took me through the canals in the Netherlands to not only stop and see the Old Masters' paintings on the way, but also to observe the changing sky that must had such a profound influence on the way these artists painted. Vermeer was heavy in my thinking...

I asked a museum guard if people cried in front of paintings there and he said "all the time."
This is a well know psychological phenomenon but I forget the term...does anybody know?

(which are beautiful)

Is the Cleveland Museum of Art which currently is showing an exhibit of drawings by Michaelangelo. I saw these a couple of weeks ago and was just blown away.

The museum I free but you have to buy a ticket for the Michaelangelo exhibit which I believe is $15. After January 5 they will be gone.

Good luck with your eye treatment!

I am getting dropped at my eye appt. and the rest of the party will go to the botanical garden. It was a little tricky to get it together, so I doubt they get to fit in the Michaelangelo exhibit.

Years ago, I went with my daughters as a chaperone for their h.s. French class and we all got to see French impressionists there. So lovely. And then my husband and I got to see them in Musee d'Orsay in Paris. <sigh>

Two weeks driving around the United States, in my VW bug, stick shift of course, that my mom could not drive.

I did that on purpose, because I wanted to be in charge of all of the driving. Well, one week in, I was having dreams where I was teaching her to drive a stick shift. I was so tired of driving, but there was no way I was going to let her destroy my bug!

We didn't have the kind of money for a trip to Europe. And I would not give up the memories I have for any amount of money in the world. Mom, and Dad, both passed away in 2012.

I miss them so much, especially so at this time of the year.

This daughter says go for it. No matter where you go together, or how crazy you may drive each other, it's absolutely priceless. How I wish my mom were still here to go on another trip.

I can just imagine you and your Mom traveling together.

I can still hear her warning me to not get too close to the edge of the Grand Canyon, for fear I might fall in. Lol!

Like I said, priceless memories.

around our waists when we were at the Grand Canyon. I guess if one went over the edge, we were all following. Hahahah I turned 5 on that trip. Lots of memories,

Merry Christmas!

Who'd drive if you went over the edge! Made my night. Thanks!

Visited my daughter during her semester in Rome (after we'd visited friends of hers in Prague,) but before all that, drove to several U.S. colleges as she decided which to attend.

No mother-daughter trips, 'just' family trips to/around France (and Barcelona, a fine city) and wedding in Poland, + Vienna, Venice, Genoa, and Cinque Terre.

THANKS for the MEMORIES, Yank!

SOME may recall that date, Yank!

She said a loud "YES!" when I mentioned it to her!

We still have some issues to finish my damn book at last (!!!) and she has some traveling to do before November but early November is our date for this trip. I am over the moon! It's going to be awesome!

Our birthdays are 2 weeks apart and during the dead of winter. This year we’re going on our 1st cruise. We’ve been to Hawaii twice, NYC, LA, South Beach, London, Phuket and Bangkok, Singapore....sooo much fun!

Sounds like you are sold on the cruise thing!

this could be my first and last cruise.....

a river cruise down one of the rivers in France (I forget the name of the river). We set off to visits these little French towns with their own vineyards and cheeses, etc, and we about one quarter of the way down the river and the river had swollen so much from all the rain our ship simply could not successfully go under the bridges. The water was too high. So we stopped and I remember being in Avignon. We were to continue our trip by bus. I was stuck in a hotel room because the rains were so heavy my clothes, including my shoes, were soon soaked. Hence, hair dryer stuck in shoes to dry them out, and wet clothes drying on every available surface. At least we had the hotel bar (those were the days I still drank alcohol). It was no fun. We each got an earnest apology and a $500 check.

and but for her YOUTH, we've not managed to travel together during that time! NEVER taken a cruise.

We took a side trip to Scotland and had a great time exploring. My mother was a voracious reader of British history, as am I, so it was a great experience. It was my 2nd trip, there, so I got to play tour guide.

She spent her time, waiting for me to be born, by watching the Queen's coronation, so it was kind of a grand idea to make that journey, together.

I'd go on that trip in a heartbeat...

thinking of doing THIS, 'soon!'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10282684

I like Turner and wrote an essay on Slave Ship. That looks like a good day trip. May consider myself.

Might even visit 'Mystic Pizza!!!'

(Not really, some decent seafood would attract me!)

as there are several restaurants listed featuring such. We have Legal Seafood in DC, so don't need to travel to Connecticut for it!