My plan for this year assuming retirement by July - Spend August in MN, take my parents on a road trip. Late August, fly to Copenhagen, do Copenhagen, Stockholm, ferry to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, fly into Minsk (need to fly in and out for VOA) visit Belarus for a couple weeks, Fly to either Lviv or Kyiv, spend some significant time in Ukraine, making way south to Odessa, then Moldova, keep heading south. My friend will come back to US for Christmas, so I might fly to Tbilisi or Red Sea for a month to stay put for awhile. He'll fly back and we also want to check out Cypruss, Greece, Lebanon, Egypt (i've been there). Not sure how good those places will be in the middle of the winter, won't be swimming I guess. This will put me over 100 countries visited (depending on the flight plan either Estonia or Latvia will be my 100th).