{"id":3117,"date":"2016-04-05T04:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2016-04-05T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T04:41:08","slug":"where-to-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/?p=3117","title":{"rendered":"Where to next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picking an itinerary is a fun challenge.\u00a0 In previous travels, we have planned every day and destination and made multiple lists of attractions and activities.\u00a0 We are traveling for a while now \u2013 at least a year or two \u2013 so it\u2019s a little overkill for all that jazz.\u00a0 Instead, we are trying to keep loose and allow happenstance to occur.\u00a0 However, we do have a rough itinerary based on the time of year and some short-list destinations that we have.\u00a0 Last time I did this exercise the itinerary\u00a0totally changed (doh!) but I am hoping that by putting it out there then maybe there will be some friends or family along the way that will see it and know that we are in the area to hangout!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, we use Google maps engine to map out all the sights we want to hit.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to visualize things!\u00a0 Here is the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s our travel thoughts \u2013 please give us a shout if you will be in the area or if you have suggestions on the route (particularly the items in <strong>BOLD<\/strong> after mid-June which aren\u2019t planned yet).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 16 \u2013 21 Knoxville and Nashville<\/li>\n<li>April 21 \u2013 May 2 New Orleans for Jazz Festival<\/li>\n<li>May 3 \u2013 10 Sarasota for Nicole and Jose wedding!<\/li>\n<li>May 11 \u2013 14 Knoxville and Nashville<\/li>\n<li>May 15 \u2013 21 Barcelona, Spain<\/li>\n<li>May 21 \u2013 26 Madrid, Spain<\/li>\n<li>May 26 \u2013 June 2 Belgium<\/li>\n<li>June 2 \u2013 8 Amsterdam<\/li>\n<li>June 8 \u2013 15 Berlin &amp; Dusseldorf, Germany<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 15 \u2013 July 16 Making way from Nashville to Montreal \u2013 stops on short list would be Washington, DC?, Burlington, VT?, somewhere to hike?, Saint John and Halifax, NB?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>July 15 \u2013 August 16 Montreal, CA<\/li>\n<li><strong>End of August \u2013 Michigan (Traverse City, Grand Rapids?)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>September \u2013 Cleveland, Nashville<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct (to Christmas\/New Years) \u2013 Desert SW via Colorado?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2017 \u2013 Winter\/Spring in southern CA, Summer in Pacific NW + Alaska, Fall in New England or Rockies.\u00a0 If we have a chance to go overseas we would probably hit Argentina, or Japan or Europe depending on the time of year..<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are finishing up a month in NYC right now &#8211; should have some photos soon!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking an itinerary is a fun challenge.\u00a0 In previous travels, we have planned every day and destination and made multiple lists of attractions and activities.\u00a0 We are traveling for a while now \u2013 at least a year or two \u2013 so it\u2019s a little overkill for all that jazz.\u00a0 Instead, we are trying to keep loose and allow happenstance to occur.\u00a0 However, we do have a rough itinerary based on the time of year and (more&#8230;) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-world-trip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/USA-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelingthieles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}