I want to go somewhere for my 25th wedding anniversary, but must have a low energy trip due to long covid with ME/CFS. We are able to travel for 1 month in March 2028, from Canada. We are avoiding the US. I use power wheelchair when doing longer outings from house. My ideas are too energetic!
I really want to do something special for my 25th wedding anniversary coming up in March 2028, but everything I've thought of might actually be too far out of my energy envelope. We used to travel a lot before I got sick and all of our trips were full of adventure and we rarely sat around doing nothing.
Previous trips included a month long trip to Argentina with a 4 year old, going to Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn and Mendoza; a month in Mexico where we went to 2 all inclusives with different sets of parents/families and then went to Puerto Escondido for 2 weeks with our 8 year old. We did something basically every day on these trips. But we can't travel like that anymore.
I have considered river and sea cruises, but am not sure my body would react well to the movement of the boat. That would make it possible for us to see a variety of things and for me to just rest and sleep as much as I could except for the days we would have to get on/off the boat.
We could go for a month because my partner could work for a few weeks at the travel location, so internet access would be a must. That doesn't eliminate very many places in the world.
Given I have to use a power wheelchair when doing things out of the house that involve me walking distances, crowds or doing anything more than about 30 minutes, it also means that I need to consider wheelchair access as well.
Wish list:
-budget friendly (we don't have the budget to spend thousands a week on anything)
-accessibility
-ideally only one location where we don't need to pack and get to new accommodations weekly
-temperate weather. March in Canada is blustery and still wintery. We would prefer to go to a place that's not say, Iceland, for that time.
-travel from Calgary with direct flights to minimize my travel fatigue. Travel drains me quickly and it takes me weeks to recover, so minimizing or eliminating connections would be key
Maybe I'm wishing for a pipedream and my old life back, especially since it can literally take weeks for me to recover from travelling. But I'm hoping there's somebody out there who has the same conditions and has been able to successfully go somewhere without making themselves worse and actually enjoyed the experience of a different location.
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