My father has invited me to come up with an idea for an interesting vacation with him, "like maybe a safari or something, or, I dunno, the Mediterranean".
The trip would be next summer, and we could probably give it two weeks or so; he has the resources to make pretty much any experience happen in relatively upscale style, and prefers to get two rooms so he has his own space.
I'm looking for suggestions from the Reddit community to help us decide where we should go, and why.
Conditions for the "ideal" vacation:
It can't be somewhere we've gone before together. Previous trips included a jaunt across Spain (the Dali Museum, Madrid bullfights, Barcelona), the heart of Memphis & Little Rock AK, Nebraska (it was his 50th state; he needed it to complete the set), the California coastline, and Germany (Berlin and Frankfurt). When I was a kid, he took the family to Israel/Egypt, Denmark, and Mexico; he's taken my wife and kids with us to Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and an Alaskan cruise.
My father has Parkinson's. He can't stay out past, say, 10 most nights, and needs a few hours in the middle of each day to recharge. He's mobile, but long walks are probably out, as he'd get too tired. I think he knows this is his last real opportunity to push ourselves, so he wants to go out with a bang.
We have a preference for relative luxury and low-energy yet high-intellectual impact activities, such as touring buildings or museums, local attractions and culture, or just exploring a city and its delights.
He tends to prefer a :moving vacation" - that is, a trip that takes us somewhere new every day or three; most of our vacations have involved a series of cities or seaside/cliffside stopovers, with decent driving or even small flights in between.
Shared interests include folk and blues music, intellectual argument, social change, good food, quirky and kitchy stuff, and local history. C'mon, reddit, whatcha got for us?