Where to Travel to Next?

With so many places to travel to how do you pick where you want to go? If you're traveling for work you have to go where you get sent but if your travel is for pleasure the options are almost limitless. The Traveler's Century Club designates 314 countries in the world so how do you choose?

I could live quite happily out of my suitcase for the rest of my life traveling from place to place around the world. So where to travel to next has always been a very serious consideration. My childhood goal was to travel to all seven continents but now that I have accomplished that goal my next is to join the Traveler's Century Club for which you have to have visited 100 countries. 100 countries opens up the possibilities immensely. I want to see Morocco, Egypt, India, Japan, Thailand, Norway, Italy, Croatia, Australia, Chile, the North Pole, to name a few. And I want to go on a multi -country tour of Europe and a multi-country safari along the western side of Africa. No big deal huh?

Whether you want to travel in luxury or you're more comfortable with just your backpack you can start finding the next place to travel to by asking yourself these questions...

1. When do you want to go? (Antarctica can only be visited in it's summer for instance)
2. What is your budget for the trip?
3. How long can you go for?
4. How are you going to travel? Car, plane, boat, train? Space shuttle?
5. Hot or cold?
6. City or country?
7. Large resort or small private location?
8. What do you want to see? What do you want to do?
9. Relaxation or adventure?

I really like to just bring out the map and start picking places but the questions above should help you start to narrow it down a little. And remember that these questions can lead you to some fabulous places right here in the good old USA as well, you don't have to have a passport to have a great vacation!