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Mondays are for dreaming: Ten dream-worthy travel moments

By Mara 9 Comments

Playing on the Castel San'Angelo

1. Watching my one-year-old son joyfully drive his little plastic green car at the top of the Castel San’Angelo, Saint Peter’s dome in the background.

2. A Sunday in Luxembourg, August 1978: All of the exchanges were closed. On our two-day train ride to Florence (where we’d spend nine months) my mother, sister, and I survived on Coke and a couple of breakfast rolls.

3. Meeting an Italian housewife whose only English was singing “On Top of Spaghetti” to my toddler.

4. Getting advice on how to cook rabbit sausage in the Place Monge organic market.

5. Listening to my older son play Bach on a piano in the hot, deserted expanse of Paternoster Square, London.

6. Wandering through the village in India where my parents spent the two years immediately prior to my birth while schoolchildren clamored for my autograph.

7. Riding a bicycle through Admiralty Arch into Trafalgar Square.

8. Realizing on my first major road trip as a mother that I wasn’t able to easily pump breast milk in the car.

9. Feeling a manatee push the kayak I was riding in from underneath.

10. Meeting my neighbor in Austin (leg seven of eight in a 13-month trip) and having him say “Welcome to Texas! We’re glad to have you!”

This post is an entry in the Grantoursimo HomeAway Holiday-Rentals travel blogging competition. What’s your Monday dream?

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  1. Vera Marie Badertscher says

    February 28, 2011 at 11:21 am

    It must have been a joy for you to compile this list. What a lovely bunch of moments (some not so lovely at the time). I’m just waiting for Tommy to start his own blog with his own memories!

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  2. Debi says

    February 28, 2011 at 11:39 am

    What a fantastic list – I’m feeling inspired to come up with my own! This Monday, I’m dreaming of the trip we’re planning this summer to Michigan, where we’ll visit the farm my great-great grandparents built when they emigrated from Germany.

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  3. Sonja says

    February 28, 2011 at 12:32 pm

    Loved reading these memories!

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  4. Jen says

    February 28, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    These are wonderful moments spread over so many trips! Thanks so much for sharing!

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  5. jeannie says

    February 28, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    what fond memories! good luck!

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  6. Donna Hull says

    March 1, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    What beautiful travel memories, especially so since your children played a part in most of them. My Monday dream is to cavort with the penguins on a trip to South Georgia in the Antarctic. Uh, on SilverSeas luxury adventure ship, Prince Albert II. What can I say? I’m a travel princess who wants the best of both worlds.

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  7. lara dunston says

    March 12, 2011 at 2:56 am

    Thanks so much for your entry! Just a note to let you know we’re announcing the winners (finally!) today.

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