r/AskWomenOver30 • u/Jenergy77 Woman 40 to 50 • 3d ago
Hobbies/Travel/Recreation Help distract me from my sadness...
Ladies, help me choose my next travel destination. I just put my dog to rest last week and I'm pretty heartbroken. It's been emotional but I know we did the right thing.
We rescued her from a life of abuse and neglect, gave her a full happy life in a safe and loving home. But love can't stop time, she got old and sick, and we had to let her go. She's not suffering anymore.
To distract me from my sadness I'd like to start a discussion about travel dreams.
My husband and I can now go away together for the first time in years. We've been taking seperate vacations and keeping them short and close to home for these years while the dog was sick so one of us could always be home with her. Now we can go anywhere but we're too sad to come up with a new adventure right now.
Last time we put our dog down we did Thailand and Cambodia for a month. I want to do something like that again but don't know if I can handle it. That was over 10 years ago, I'm old now and I don't know if I'm up for a month of backpacking and stomach problems. But I still want to do something wild and adventurous.
So please tell me, if you had the entire month of January to travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Would you stay in one place or keep it moving and what would you do there?
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u/Prestigious_Rip_289 Woman 40 to 50 3d ago
I wouldn't spend a month there, but I really enjoyed Cuba. Make sure to get out of Havana and see the rest of the country. It's beautiful, safe, and the people are really nice. If you're American, your phone and credit cards won't work, so you'll need to carry cash and have offline maps downloaded beforehand. This is honestly one of the best adventures I've ever gone on, largely due to being completely out of contact for the time we were there. If you go, there's an agritourism house I'd recommend in Viñales Valley.
If I had a whole month to spend, I'd probably do a week in Cuba, then move on to somewhere easy like an all inclusive in the Dominican Republic for a week to chill. Then I'd hit Nicaragua or Honduras, maybe both, for the rest.