My Autumn Bucket List

My favorite season. My favorite time to travel. You can bet that there are a lot of things I would love to do in this time of the year.

• Japan in the fall. I’m sure most of you know how popular it is to visit Japan in the spring for cherry blossom season, which is still high on my list, but from the photos I have seen, autumn in Japan is just as beautiful. I have visited in the blazing, humid summer (never again!) and the winter, but want to visit in the fall next.

• Amsterdam. Another destination that I want to visit in the spring, due to tulip season, but the fall looks absolutely magical.

• Germany for Oktoberfest

• Paris, because Paris is always a good idea.

• Yosemite National Park

• Acadia National Park. Would love to spend more time in Maine in general.

• Road trip through New England. Technically, we have already checked this off, but we didn’t go during peak fall foliage, having caught the end around Halloween. This is one of our hopefuls plans for next year, to drive up in the Jeep with our dog Louis, and take our sweet time enjoying the gorgeous fall colors but this time at their peak!

• San Francisco, Napa Valley area.

• Banff, Canada

Any place that gets true fall colors is honestly on my list. Plus, with our anniversary in October, it’s an all-around favorite time for us to travel. Cooler weather, celebrating us, beautiful shades of fall, less crowds = perfection.

Some of my favorite places we’ve been in the fall:

• Switzerland, last October.

• Boston, always. But we have either visited too early or too late for peak foliage. Good thing it’s my favorite city. When we visited the first time, in October 2019, we drove up to Salem on Halloween Day, can't get much more fall than that, before we drove up to Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. I would love to go apple-picking the next visit!

• Disneyland, September 2018. This one is specifically because of the Halloween decorations.

• New York City. “Don’t you just love New York in the fall?” I still think Boston is superior, but NYC is still a spectacular sight.

So where to next??