Future Travel Plans
Here are all my current ideas for future travelling I might do, it's unlikely I'll get all of these done because I'm probably just going to keep going to Japan over and over again until I'm dead, but you never know, I might do something interesting one day.
(also this is just a work in progress, I'll add more later, like Florida, New York, Atlanta, Canada, other places in Japan, Taiwan? Singapore?!)
Disneyland & California Adventure
Unlike most of the rest of these entries, this is unrelated to an online friend living nearby (although recently one has moved near here, so of course I will try to see them! haha) it's more to do with the great visits I've had to Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disneysea and my love of the older, early Disneyland attractions. Many of these are being closed down or phased out into newer attractions or the new Star Wars area. Japan still has some of them left, in Universal as well, but time is running out for them too. Plus in California adventure Oswald the Rabbit is a character there and he's my favourite Disney character, he was at Disneysea briefly but never when I was there. Another reason is Mega64 Gamedays, every year they do an event in Disneyland!
Disneyland
California Adventure
And I'm sure being in Anaheim, California I would make a whole holiday out of it and see lots of places there, like Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, where tons and tons of my friends live, so I'm sure I could maybe see tourist sights in these places and visit anyone willing or available. But probably not all in one trip as California is huge.
Seattle
This is mostly to do with my friend Caroline living there (she's great) who I've been friends with longer than almost anyone, but!! there are a few nice excuses to go there like the food places I saw on Man V Food:
Click to viewI mean look at all that stuff in the video, those burgers! the seafood place where they just dump it all on your table and give you a hammer, hahaha. Never eaten anything like that, but also hopefully a lot of these places are still open since this video is pretty ancient.
Looks vaguely Japanese doesn't it?
Plus I can do a lot of the usual tourist stuff like go up the Space Needle and look at things and take pictures, but mostly the big excuses are Sakuracon or Penny Arcade Expo West which both might get a big guest I really want to see.
Las Vegas
This isn't really for the reason you might think, I'll definitely look at all the cool stuff there and maybe the Hoover Dam and some other nearby stuff, but really the big reason is...
The biggest Street Fighter (and some other games) championship of the year!! :D It's so huge now they can't even do it all just in a hotel space and have started hiring a concert hall to do the finals in, it just seems to be getting bigger and bigger, so hopefully I can go before it gets too big and too much like esports, when I probably won't enjoy it nearly as much.
I mean does it look like crap during the day, or?
Sweden/Norway
I had an idea a long while back that I would do a big trip across all 3 of the Scandinavian countries, but I couldn't get anyone to go with me, it was expensive even though they're all right next to the UK and I ended up going to Helsinki in 2015. So... these are the other 2 lol.
Colours!
I'm assuming I'd just go to Stockholm as I don't know a lot about stuff to do in Sweden and one of my friends Johanna lives there so I'd probably want to go there! She also talked a lot about her hometown, Kiruna which makes me feel like I want to visit it, but it is so far north I might not have the time, money or patience to be on a bus for 15 hours, so maybe not! (there is a plane, but I'm trying to be funny)
Isolation!
Norway I know a little more about and my friends bie and twissie live there in Oslo! ...oh wait they're moving to Japan... oh well lol.
Oslo
The Netherlands
Because of my Europe and Japan trips I've actually been to Amsterdam 6 times in 2 years.
Amsterdam
...Amsterdam airport, I've never had time to actually go outside, plus I can't since I'm connecting with flights. Which is a shame because I really like how it looks when I arrive and now I have 3 Dutch friends, 2 I've met in real life before and 3 I really like, so it would be nice to hang out with them for a longer time. Plus so much of the country is beautiful so I'm sure I could enjoy myself if I took a trip there.
Germany
I flew over Germany on my way to Japan a couple of times, Berlin looked really nice from the air, so I've always had the thought in the back of my head to go there one day.
The plane was a bit higher than this though
Plus my good friend Tati lives in Stuttgart so it's a good excuse to go there and see her, plus the city looks nice too. Another nice excuse to go would be the Gamescom convention, which is getting pretty big now. But it's in Cologne, don't know if that's far I'm too tired.
Lyon
There's a lot of bridges
I have been to France before, but if I go back for a holiday rather than a convention I'll be going here! My friend Sarah lives here and she's been talking about this place for years and years, plus I could see her and other friends I've made here! so it would be fun to visit, I think!
Australia
It's so blue
I have a few friends that live here, plus! I have a huge amount of family here all related to a great aunt that moved here about 50 years ago, so they are all her descendants! I still to this day carry an Australia wallet with a Koala on it that I got as a present from them despite never actually being there. I've only actually met her and her husband over 10 years ago and she's passed away since then, I'm not sure.
Hong Kong/China
Hong Kong
I've always wanted to go here! A large part of growing up was watching martial arts movies with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and others, plus many movies, games and things are set here, so it's very likely I'll end up here at some point.
Plus they have a Disneyland!!
Guilin
I really would love to go to places like Guilin or to see the great wall, or the big cities like Beijing or Shanghai as well, I would think that I'd probably see these as part of a big trip?? but I'd also hate to do this one alone, if anyone out there would like to come with me, please let me know! If I really did have to go alone I would consider going as part of a tour group, as I think I would struggle heavily by myself.
Plus Shanghai has a Disneyland!!!