Friends, family living in ideal areas

[shootingstar]

for vacation planning purposes.

Long ago, I turned down several invitations to places where good friends and family members lived due to primarily work-related reasons. So I passed up: New York City, Cambridge (in England) and Germany. (latter is still possible with dearie having family there).

I wouldn't stay my whole time in a desired vacation spot at a friends's/family member's place, but it is nice to go somewhere and combine personal visits plus see the area. Divide home stayover nights with some hotel/motel.

So now in our lifetime we hope to plot to visit :

*a mountain ski resort in British Columbia - a couple that we know well, live there year-round. They urged us...again to visit.
*mid-eastern coast of Vancouver Island (near a rainforest )- another couple plans to relocate there. Plus I have a childhood friend who relocated south of there in the Vancouver Island winery area.
*Toronto- which is a city I lived in but I do miss certain things there that Vancouver does not offer. My whole family lives there.
*Germany- he's getting abit bored of his original country. But maybe one day..do a bike route crossing that country ..into another country.

Of course, several good friends and family members have visited Vancouver, BC for stayovers. We urge them to and enjoy showing them the area. Yes, we usually do include a little local bike trip around.