Issue 8: Travel Plans for 2023

The Pleasure of Anticipating Travel

After the new year energy wears off, January and Febuary can feel a bit bleak and dreary. For me at least, a bit of laziness also sets in after settling back in at home after the holiday travel. My personal antitode is to use this time to shore up travel plans for the rest of the year. Because even if I am not quite ready to get off the couch right now, I want to be ready with some exciting plans when I am. To that end, here is what we are currently looking forward to in 2023:

Winter: Tucson, AZ and Pocono Mountains, PA

Spring: Costa Rica; New River Gorge, WV

Summer: Asheville, NC; Berkshires, MA; Greece; Naragansett, RI

Fall & Holidays: Deer Valley Family Camp; a National Park TBD; contemplating Canada OR Mexico around Christmas

Fingers crossed, this will be the first year that all four of us will be doing passport travel. We’re looking forward to some exciting trips from our family bucket list, a big family wedding, and returning to visit a few favorite places and people. We will also have a fourth grader this September, so hope to kick off a year of exploring the national parks in the fall.

Other Adventures for 2023

One tradition I am glad we started last year is brainstorming a list of things we want to do and places we want to go, individually and as a family. We ended up completing a number of fun things from that list (e.g., surf lessons, jet skiing, ear piercing, visiting Fenway Park). We are still finishing up this year’s list, but here a few items that made it onto the draft:

Basketball Game: We all loved rooting for the Red Sox @ Fenway last summer. We’d like to continue the tradition of seeing a live game. This year, we’ll be looking for tickets to a college or NBA basketball game; I’ve never seen either live!

New York Theater: We saw Wicked last June on Broadway and loved it so much that we immediately bought tickets for another show in December (Music Man). Since we regularly visit family members that live in a suburb of NYC, we are going to plan to see a new show during one of our visits.

Parent-Kid Weekend: I’m aiming to take a one-on-one trip with at least one kiddo this year, and hope to make it an annual tradition going forward.

What do you have planned for 2023? Drop me a line, I’d love to know!