My Travel Experience: A running list

I make travel recommendations on my blog.  When I read other people’s blogs, I often ask myself, “but how much do you really travel?”  As in, can I really take their recommendations seriously?  So here is a partial list of our travel experiences.  Partial because I have a bad memory and have likely forgotten some.

My husband’s employers have always been supportive of me joining him whenever I want, which is fabulous and well appreciated, so some of these trips are me tagging along while he’s working 🙂

2020

• BOOKED in Feb 2020: a week on a Ritz Carlton yacht in the Caribbean
• BOOKED 2 weeks on back-to-back Alaskan cruises with the family in summer 2020

2019

• UPCOMING in December 2019: booked 3 days at Disney World with the girls prior to embarking on back-to-back Disney Cruises (Bahamas then Caribbean)
• BOOKED in August 2019: 2 nights at the Elora Mill & Spa, ON
• BOOKED in August 2019: 3 nights at Shamrock Lodge in Muskoka, ON
• BOOKED in May 2019: 2-week Disney Cruise Line Transatlantic Crossing from Miami to Barcelona (+ Portugal)
• Feb 2019: Las Vegas with my husband for 5 days.  It snowed.  We golfed.
• Feb 2019: Elora Mill & Spa for a night.  We ate.  We spa’d.  We slept.
• January 2019 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for a week with my 2 girls

 

2018

• December 2018 one night at the gorgeous Elora Mill in Elora, ON
• December 2018 London, England for 5 days
• October- Nov 2018 2-week Disney Wonder Panama Canal crossing (San Diego to Galveston)
• 2 days and one night at the Millcroft Inn and Spa in Ontario
• August 2018 5 days at Bellagio in Vegas 
• June 2018 2 nights at Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, ON
• May 2018 One night/ 2 days at Ste- Anne’s Spa in Haldimand, ON
• April 2018 one week in Madrid with Husband
• February 2018 1 week all-inclusive with the kids in Montego Bay Jamaica

2017:  this was my busiest travel year on record so far

• November 2017 Jamaica with Husband for ten days
• September 2017 Fiji with Husband for nine days.  My first time on a private jet (from LA to Fiji).
• July 2017 Iceland for nine days with Husband
• June 2017 Chicago, IL for four days with Husband
• April 2017 San Francisco, CA for a week with Husband
• January-February 2017 Orlando for four days + 1-week Disney cruise in the Caribbean + three more days in FL with the kids

2016

• November 2016 10 days in Negril Jamaica with Husband
• Aug 2016 10 days in Negril Jamaica with Husband

Approximately 2010:

• 10 days in California with 3.5 month old daughter
• 3 days in NYC with baby daughter
• 1 week at a Cancun, MX all-inclusive with baby daughter
• Found out I was pregnant with #2 while in Las Vegas at Aria!
• 10 days in Australia (Sydney and Brisbane); went 36 weeks pregnant with #1

Prior to 2015:

• Las Vegas Bellagio *my favourite of the places we’ve been in Las Vegas, primarily due to location on the strip, also a really nice hotel
• Las Vegas MGM Grand
• Negril, Jamaica in April 2015 with Husband 9-10 days
• Negril Jamaica with Husband 9-10 days
• Negril Jamaica with Husband 9-10 days
• Negril Jamaica with Husband 9-10 days
• Negril Jamaica with Husband 9-10 days
• Negril Jamaica with Husband 9-10 days
• Banff/ Calgary with Husband
• Sandals Whitehouse Jamaica (one week, all-inclusive)
• Sandals Ocho Rios Jamaica (one week, all-inclusive)
• Punta Cana, Dominican Republic All-inclusive week at Grand Paradise Bavaro (2004)
• Punta Cana, Dominican Republic All-inclusive Caribe Club Princess (2003)
• Negril Jamaica for a wedding week at Breezes (now closed)
• Saint Lucia; Honeymoon.  1 week at Sandals Grande and 1 week at Stonefield Villas (September 2006)
• Crystal Cruise on Pacific Coast from Vancouver to LA (around 2010-11)
• I took a solo road trip (camping) in Upstate New York (around 2007-2008)
• Wedding in Georgia circa 2008
• Switzerland, Paris, Nice, a day in Italy. High school trip to Europe for 8 days in 1999
• Flight from Toronto- Ottawa and back for a high school conference circa 1999
• Disney World with my family as a kid; stayed at Walt Disney World Dolphin
• Disney World with my family as a kid; stayed at Vistana Resort
• Holguin, Cuba with my family as a kid
• Quebec City/ Ottawa with my family as a kid
• Flying back and forth from Virginia: 8 flights between 2011 and 2013
• Do we count the “hopper” flight, as we like to call it, from Montego Bay, Jamaica to Negril, Jamaica in a little 3-seater!?  We’ve done that 3 times.
• Helicopter flight in and around the Grand Canyon