What’s a country that’s at the top of your bucket list?
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I don’t really have a “bucket list” but there are a number of places that I would like to visit…but will probably never be able to do.
If I had a “bucket list” one thing that would have to go on it is to make a return trip to St. Petersburg, Russia and visit Peter’s grave – something I have never been able to do. It has been over 20 years since his death and the last time I was there. The big problem if I got there would be finding out where he is buried. I had heard he was in the city’s cemetery but that’s about like trying find a specific rock under Niagara Falls…next to impossible. I know his mother’s name and where she worked but I would still need a lot of help in finding her and getting the information I need. It’s just one of those things I really need to do.
Like visiting the memorial for the Twin Towers; I don’t really want to go, but I HAVE to go. And if I can ever get back to New York City; I will!
My ancestors are Norsemen and I would really like to visit “my roots” so to speak. See where they all began and later left and went a viking.
And of course, I would have to do a little a viking of my own and “island hop” as they did to see where they went before landing in the “New World” back before it was even a country. We don’t know if any of them made a stop in Iceland or Greenland; but they did stop in Scotland, Ireland, and England before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
I’m a journalist and a photographer; there are many places I would love to see, explore, and photograph. This world has some beautiful places that should be viewed before it gets destroyed.
I also do a lot of reading and have read descriptions of many places and it might be interesting to see some of them in person. When I read about a place I have been, I can visualize the character’s path and where they are going.
On my second trip to St. Petersburg I got to see some of what Fydor Dostoyevsky wrote about in “Crime and Punishment”. With Peter’s help we found the building where Raskolnikov lived and walked up the stairs to the attic and felt the heat of a St. Petersburg summer. We walked part of the path Raskolnikov took on his journey. It have a new meaning to the story I had read in a Russian Literature class just a few months before.
Everyone uses GPS and apps to tell them where to go. I still prefer a paper map where I can trace things and see where people go. It is not uncommon for me to access the map app on my phone to locate place I am not familiar with when I read; and I read a lot of books with multiple locations in them. Boy, some of those people really get around!