I also have been to Mexico and Canada and Thailand and Japan and India and Nepal too. So, I have traveled a lot over the world over the years.
Countries I would love to travel to in the future:
I would like to go to Ireland if possible because I was supposed to go in 2018 but a medication went sideways so I had to send my wife and two biological daughters to Ireland, Scotland, and England without me which was difficult because I cannot get that time with my daughters back because they are now 28 and 35 and don't live in California anymore either.
So, Ireland, I would like to go to Paris Again, Scotland again, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and this time see all of Italy and not just northern Italy around Aoste and the Italian Alps. I would also like to travel to Australia and New Zealand too but the flying time might not be great for me at age 76. Sitting that long on a flight is harmful to some people my age so unless I could break up the flight by stopping and staying somewhere like Tahiti or other place along the way I'm not sure I would want to go on a direct flight to New Zealand or Australia but I likely if I can would go both places on the same trip.
Though I would like to go to India and Nepal and maybe Tibet which I couldn't go to in the 1980s when I was 37 for a variety of reasons (to Tibet) now the altitude (8000 feet to 12,000 feet to 15,000 feet altitudes might be fatal for me like they were for a church member who had dreamed of flying into Lhasa all her life and died from the altitude within 15 minutes of landing in Lhasa from the altitude at age 70. I think Lhasa, Tibet is 12,000 feet in altitude.
I also like Japan a lot but it is incredibly expensive to go there so unless you are rich going there is difficult unless you are on a high school or college tour going there with a group where they rent a bus to take you around to different places and then you might get group rates to have several people to a room too so this would also reduce expenses too.
I would have liked to also go to South America but my wife did this on a cruise that started on the east coast of South America then took her to Antarctica and then went up the west coast of South America visiting many ports. However, I have gotten seasick since I was about 32 years age so I know that unless I wanted to be miserable I wouldn't want to cross 35 foot seas like my wife did to Antarctica where 60% to70% of the crew and passengers were sick as a dog for up to a week going from the tip of South America into Antarctica. So, Basically I chose not to go instead of possibly dying or being miserable on this trip. So, she took her best friend as they both have cast iron stomachs and never get sea sick no matter how bad it gets. This was in 2016. However, at times they were airborn in the halls having to grab rails so they didn't die trying to go get food. And the penthouses people were hitting the ceiling of their luxury cabins. My wife didn't get a luxury cabin being a heavy weather yacht sailor growing up so she knew exactly where she wanted to be in the ship so she wouldn't hit the ceiling periodically in 35 foot seas. In other words without a seat belt on a trip like this you might die even with Gyros and a ship built for heavy seas. If you were in most luxury cruise liners in weather like this the ship would sink because it isn't designed for this heavy weather and would capsize and sink. They luxury liners are too top heavy not to sink in heavy weather.
Yes here is the altitude of Lhasa, Tibet:
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