High Five for Friday Travel Highlights

by Janis on June 8, 2012

It’ Friday and even though we both enjoyed a rare week at home this week, we found plenty of travel inspirations.

Inspired by Lauren’s High Five For Friday, here are our Top Five Travel Highlights this week:

1. We registered to attend TBEX 12, the world’s largest gathering of travel bloggers and writers June 15-17^th, 2012 in Keystone Colorado. It should be a fantastic and insightful event in a lovely destination.

2. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movie inspired us to visit/revisit India. (While Mr. Jones has traveled to India for work, he has not really experienced the county; I have not yet visited India.) In this movie, terrific actors Judy Dench, Bill Nieghy and Maggie Smith portray a group of British retirees traveling to India to live in what they believe to be a newly restored, exotic hotel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w

3. A novel renewed excitement for one of our bucket list travel destinations. On the Island, a romantic novel set in the Maldives, is written and self-published by Tracey Gravis Graces and is a New York Times Best-Seller. Despite the plot involving a plane crash and being stranded on a remote island, the book reinforced my long-time desire to visit the Maldives. We’ve got a trip planned to experience the Maldives this November.

4. We re-joined the Amtrak Guest Rewards program. As we plan and prepare for our upcoming train trip from Denver to San Francisco, we re-joined the rewards program for Amtrak. We enjoy travel by train, especially in Europe. This route is rumored to include spectacular scenery through the Rockies.

5. We relived a fun day touring Sonoma Wine Country by drinking a bottle of Nalle wine with our friend Michael. Nalle was one of our favorite small winery discoveries in the Dry Creek Valley during our April visit.

What was your best travel highlight or discovery this week?

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