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Late on the challenge, how about a poll?
A travel poll for my newbie post for Rock 
Location of Your:
Overall best trip -
Overall worst trip -
Most romantic trip -
Most exciting trip -
Most overrated tourist attraction -
Most "worth it" tourist attraction -
Honeymoon location (if you did the honeymoon thing) -
Re: Late on the challenge, how about a poll?
Location of Your:
Overall best trip - Playa Del Carmen---my favorite trip yet!
Overall worst trip - A cruise to the Caribbean
Most romantic trip - Grand Bahama Island when we got married
Most exciting trip - Italy
Most overrated tourist attraction - hmmm....I can't think of any place where I was like "this is overrated"
Most "worth it" tourist attraction - Chichen Itza
Honeymoon location (if you did the honeymoon thing)We got married in the Bahamas, and it was amazing.Overall best trip - Ireland after high school graduation. Went with my two best friends and we had a blast! Overall worst trip - Had a really awkward Cape Cod vacation with my parents while I was being a surly teen and not speaking to them. Not Cape Cod's fault
2012 Reading Challenge
A travel poll for my newbie post for Rock
Location of Your:
Overall best trip - We took a seven week cross country camping trip that was AMAZING!!! It was even more exciting that we got engaged the day before we left.
Overall worst trip - Nothing stands out, thank god....
Most romantic trip - Napa Valley...although I was a bit tipsy
Most exciting trip - Cruise to Caribbean...someone jumped off the boat the first night (he was drunk and even put a life jacket on....when the coast guard came he told them he wanted to swim back to the US)
Most overrated tourist attraction - Vegas
Most "worth it" tourist attraction - Rocky Mts.
Honeymoon location (if you did the honeymoon thing) - St. Augustine, we just bought our house and my Uncle let us stay at his condo on the ocean for free
Location of Your:
Overall best trip - For our one year wedding anniversary we went to England. We rented a car and traveled all around the country. Loved every minute of it!
Overall worst trip - RV trip with my family when I was 14. It rained the whole time. A bit too close quarters for 2 teen girls (me and my sister).
Most romantic trip -
My DH and I went to Sandals about 3 years ago and absolutely loved it! We went to one of the ones in St. Lucia. The most relaxing time of our lives!Most exciting trip - My DH and I and a bunch of our friends went to Yosemite last summer. We explored ( even saw a bear) and hiked Half Dome.
Most overrated tourist attraction - Vegas
Most "worth it" tourist attraction - Disney (gotta love it)
Honeymoon location (if you did the honeymoon thing) - We took a Europe cruise.Overall best trip: Five weeks running around Asia with DH (then BF!) (Hong Kong, China, Japan, Taiwan)
I figured if we could travel together for five weeks w/o killing each other then maybe it was meant to be.
Overall worst trip: Hmm...on two of our trips--Bodega Bay in NorCal and Acadia National Park in Maine--we basically got rained out the whole time so that kind of sucked. We found ways to enjoy ourselves, but it would have been better if the weather were nicer.
Most romantic trip: I think I'd have to say our Asia trip. One of our friends calls it the longest date ever
Most exciting trip: I'm getting repetitive--trip to Asia again, if for no other reason than the sheer scale of it. The two weeks I spent in Europe with friends after college graduation was also pretty highly anticipated and was my first international trip w/o family.
Most overrated tourist attraction: Canopy walk over the rain forest in Costa Rica. Kind of wish I'd done the zip line instead.
Most "worth it" tourist attraction: Great Wall of China--though I really wish it hadn't been so foggy so we could have seen it snaking across the area like you do in pics. Dang, I never realized how often DH and I have been cursed with bad travel weather :P
Honeymoon location (if you did the honeymoon thing): Bali, with a couple days stopover in Singapore
Location of Your:
Overall best trip - Belize City, for a service/immersion trip. I came away from that trip with a true appreciation for the culture and people and what they encounter each day, both their joys and challenges. And as a part of it we experienced a more "authentic" sense of their culture, food and dance It was the most exhilarating and humbling experience.
::steps down from soap box::
Overall worst trip - Tie between Montreal and a Caribbean Cruise, we were silly and went to Montreal in February. Um, freezing. And the Cruise just because I don't think I'm a "cruiser", but I'm glad we tried it.
Most romantic trip - A trip to London and Rome with DH when we were still dating. It was uh-mazing, I like how Rock put it "the longest date ever", that's what it felt like!
Most exciting trip - We flew back from our London/Rome trip through Heathrow two days after a liquid bomb scare, does that count as exciting?
Most overrated tourist attraction - Seeing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, it was crowded and everyone was pushy, and the painting was much smaller than I thought it would be.
Most "worth it" tourist attraction - Climbing Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh Scotland, I was surprised how green and lush it was and on one of the cliff's someone had carved "The World's Breath" into one of the rocks. Also, the Pantheon really blew me away, what an architectural feat.
Honeymoon Location - St. Thomas in the Caribbean, it was wonderful, we loved it!
I would hope so! I would imagine there's no other way to be in Napa!
Rock- you're making me want to drop everything and take a trip to Asia, sounds like an awesome trip.
It really was fantastic. I can't wait until we're retired and can do more long trips. I realized from a poll on the Travel board not too long ago that my favorite trips have been the multi-week ones where I get to explore multiple countries. It takes more work to plan, but is so worth it.
The Pantheon was amazing, I loved it. We went to see it just because it was one of those things you see... But it was so much bigger and more impressive than I expected.
2012 Reading Challenge
Location of Your:
Overall best trip - Scotland (honeymoon)
Overall worst trip - Never had a bad vacation
Most romantic trip - Scotland
Most exciting trip - Scotland
Most overrated tourist attraction - South of the Border on I95. Trust me, just keep driving. The billboards are annoying, too.
Most "worth it" tourist attraction - Disney
Honeymoon location (if you did the honeymoon thing) - Scotland
That was probably my worst trip too. The cold didn't bother me, but the hotel did (horrible service). And the service at one of the restaurants was atrocious. Thank goodness the fireworks on NYE were worth being up there.
Definitely agree on that one too. I can't believe how tiny it was! And wicked crowded. I think I enjoyed the Venus statue (I think that's the one with no arms?) more because there was no one around it.
Most Romantic: We went winter hiking one year and stayed at a cute B&B in North Conway with views of Mt. Washington. They had a great breakfast offered too.
Best Trip: Spent 3 weeks traveling through Ireland with people from my college. There were only 7 of us on the trip. We traveled from Shannon, up to Derry and back to Dublin. It was unbelievable and still remains my favorite country.
Honeymoon Location: DH and I went to Napa Valley for our honeymoon. It was an awesome trip; visiting the wineries and even venturing to Reno and San Francisco.