Travel: Journeying from place to place

In all of my life, the one thing (I've been realizing more than anything lately) that I want to do with my life, is travel.
I want to go, to get out, to live and to see.
There's so much here for me, in the Seattle area. Work, friends, family.
But I'm so tired of being here, stuck. I'm tired of being stationary and I want to be mobile.
I think I'm going to have to sign up for a trip every year, if not every other year so that I can get out of here, especially to further off places, that's what I mean.
Next year I'm taking a trip back to Europe, Germany, Italy and Switzerland that I keep getting more and more excited about, although more and more nervous as well.
I'm more nervous because I'll be going with a group of people I don't know and I tend to be a little shy at first.
I know that it will be an amazing thing for me though and everyone I've told so far is entirely jealous, but anyone can do it! I just so happened to have enough courage to sign up and not back out of it.

Anyways.
A part from that, I will travel as much as I can throughout my lifetime.
I want to go to Thailand and be a part and witness the lantern festival.
I want to go to New Zealand to see where Lord of the Rings was filmed.
I want to ride an elephant in Malaysia.
Sit and soak up the beaches in the Bahamas.
See the great ruins of Machu Picchu.
Witness the running of the bulls in Spain.

I just want to go. To see. To hear. To be somewhere else for a little bit.