2018 Travel Bucket List

As we creep ever closer to saying goodbye to 2017 and we welcome in a new year, thoughts of resolutions and plans for a new, better year are considered. Whilst I tend to avoid the cliches of new year's resolutions I do ponder what has been in the past, where I am in life in the present and what will be in the future.

One thing I think a lot about and try to organise is our holiday plans. With work and school to juggle along with having to schedule in trips to visit family who we live away from it is key that we carefully organise our holiday plans.

New York City holiday hopes

Over 100 years ago my ancestor packed his bags and set sail across the sea to start life in a new country. Leaving his home in Wales he settled and started a new adventure in the Big Apple in the USA.

Living and working in New York he soon made a new life for himself and met a woman who he courted and then married. After marrying his beloved they soon had a family, with their children going on to have children of their own and so forth until today where there is a long line of his descendents living in various areas of America. His descendants are our distant relatives.

About 15 years ago whilst doing family tree research I found all of this out and made contact with a number of our relatives living across the pond. Since then we have stayed in contact, speaking regularly thanks to the wonder of the world wide web. The relatives we are closest to who still live in New York have also visited us twice whilst holidaying in the UK.