I'm sitting, unable to sleep at 2am, in my hotel room in Glasgow. Tomorrow I head down to London for the weekend.

I just found out that I'll likely be going to Dakar this October. I'm more than a little bit concerned about winding up in a West African jail.

Wanted to go to the UK this year, but then I bought a house and had other priorities. I would like to go to New Zealand next year to visit friends. I'd also like to go to Europe again soon.

My favorite places:

Beijing, China
London, England
Aruba (well, 25 years ago :P)
Arkansas Delta country
Vicksburg, Mississippi

Next year I'm planning Estonia and Russia with the family, and maybe Kyrgyzstan for myself. Can not wait.

I'm making Jack do an Alaskan cruise. Inside PASSAGE!!!!! It will be some time next year (and that's if we don't change it to St. Maarten/St. Tomas.

I've been to a few places. When I lived in Toronto, I used to do bicycle long-distance (solo) tours. Most of it was through Eastern Canada.

I have plans for doing Vancouver, B.C. to Los Angeles but may push that off by a year due to recovery this year from surgery. On the plus side, I did get a chance to do a work-related tour of Syndney, Aus; Singapore; Beijing; and Tokyo. I think, however, it would have been more fun if I would have been able to visit and explore where I wanted without a colleague pushing for more "English" friendly. I'd really like to get back to Japan and/or northern China.

I had a pretty busy period of travel last year... and right now I don't have too much in the works... so I've been cruising jetsetter.com and dreaming about my next stops...

Iceland (in the winter months for the Aurora)
Tasmania & New Zealand
Thailand
Peru
Belize
South Africa

are all at the top of my *new* places I want to see list.