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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Feb 18, 2005 9:05:42 GMT -5
What is your favorite vacation spot? Where would you like to go if you had the means? What's the most unusual vacation you've been on? What was the best? Where will you go this year?
I have plans for 3 vacation trips this year. The first will be in May when my brother gets married in Las Vegas. We'll go for a long weekend, long enough to attend the wedding and dinner party, do some sight seeing and to go to the Star Trek experience (my husband's been dying to go for the last number of years - has anyone been to it? How did you like it?)
The second vacation will be up the mountains for my family reunion (on my dad's side of the family. Approx. 75 relatives at a hunting cabin eating, drinking and playing the weekend away.) We'll tent out in the orchard on the property, play volleyball and catch up with relatives.
Last will be some time down the shore with my parents in the late summer. They've been renting the same house at the Jersey shore for the last 5 years. Its across the street from the beach - a great location. We usually have an influx of relatives the whole time we're down there.
If I had the chance, I'd like to see Scotland (and Britain and Ireland, for that matter.) I'd also like to see Austrailia and, if I had the chance, I'd go back to the Netherlands and Switzerland.
So, who's next?
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Post by lollywit on Feb 18, 2005 9:21:32 GMT -5
St Wolfgang in Austria.
Breathtaking scenery, full of people who actually ski rather than those who compare outfits!
It has become my internal "happy place" when stressed.
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Post by Blade Runner on Feb 18, 2005 9:23:44 GMT -5
For a real get away from it all holiday, I'd go to Koh Phangan, Thailand. But for somewhere new I'd like to do China and India  I basically did the whole of SE Asia about 5 years ago, the whole region is magical and would not hesitate to return for a long period |
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Post by caseOrange on Feb 18, 2005 9:52:25 GMT -5
i haven't gone on a vacation in almost 4 years when me and the old lady went camping in the foothills of the Appalachians. Can't say i've been to any exotic vacation spots, unless you consider the Mississippi Gulf Coast to be exotic. Sometimes we take "forced vacations" (otherwise called "evacuations") whenever a hurricane comes creeping near. i don't work a regular 8-5 job, so vacations don't really mean that much to me. Plus i invariably end up with an unexpected week-or-two off during the course of the year.  |
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Feb 18, 2005 13:33:15 GMT -5
i don't work a regular 8-5 job, so vacations don't really mean that much to me. Plus i invariably end up with an unexpected week-or-two off during the course of the year. As long as its not interrupting your cash flow, that's at least nice. At my last job, I used to ask people what they were planning to do for vacation and they'd say nothing like it was a bad thing. I used to tell people that even if they weren't going anywhere it was better than being at work! ;D |
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Post by CylonGod on Feb 18, 2005 13:51:28 GMT -5
We have been to both Us Costs, mostly the eastern side because we live on that side and have been through out the gulf states. Outside the US We have been to Germany (Frankfurt), Singapore, and Indonesia (Cylongodess's home land). We will be going back there in late May and stay a month. Besides going to Jarkarta (Her home city) we will be going to lovely Bali! Future plans include a European tour, Egypt (pyramids), East Asia (Japan, Korea, China etc) and lastly but not least Australia. We return to Indonesia every 2-3 yrs so most of these will be spun off of those trips each time.   |
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Post by caseOrange on Feb 18, 2005 19:37:49 GMT -5
As long as its not interrupting your cash flow, that's at least nice. At my last job, I used to ask people what they were planning to do for vacation and they'd say nothing like it was a bad thing. I used to tell people that even if they weren't going anywhere it was better than being at work! i'm one of those people who actually loves their job (please don't throw anything at me!).  i enjoy going to work and hanging out with my co-workers, and i feel a little left out when i'm not there, either because of illness or whatever. Any interruption in cash flow a week off causes, i can usually make up fairly quickly.  i'm just a little too weird for reality, i guess.  |
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Post by ah-chie on Feb 19, 2005 8:52:59 GMT -5
Where have I been? All across Canada from Cape Breton to Vancouver Island, as far north as Moosonee on James Bay in the north (took the "Polar Bear Express" train to get there) and as far south as the tip of Point Peelee on Peelee Island. Been to a lot of places in the States - all over Michigan, Chicago, New York City, Boston and Nantucket area, Washington DC, Charleston SC, Florida, New Orleans, North and South Dakota, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (on different trips). Been to England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Cuba. Best city - Paris (would love to go back) Best vacation - Greece (a great place with loads of ancient history to explore and sun and relaxation) All my trips have been wonderful - my husband and I have never had a truly bad experience. Our trips to LA and New York were very fun and despite having initial apprehensions about the big city aspect - the people were extremely friendly and we had no trouble just travelling around by public transit. Our vacation to Greece was an adventure - we met sooooo many friendly people who just took us in (free food and booze - street parties, showed us the sites etc.) and the weather was warm and sunny the whole time. Paris was... well just Paris - so steeped in culture and amazing museums - it was romantically personal and yet busy, bustling and incredibly alive at the same time. We ran out of money and finally just had to eat from take away shops in the parks but that didn't dampen anything - it just made it more memorable. Street muscians were always available to serenade us so we had free entertainment too! Where would we like to go - hopefully we are going back to Europe this summer and take a trip on the Orient Express. Should be fun. Would like to pick it up in Paris and travel from there. We both would love to get to Japan or Australia or New Zealand one of these days - maybe we we retire (in less than 5 years).  |
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Post by Callipygian on Feb 19, 2005 17:01:41 GMT -5
Sounds like you've had some wonderful travels, ah-chie. I'm so jealous of your trip to Greece. That's the one place I want to be sure and visit before I die. I have lots of relatives in Athens and Cypress. My father is a first generation American, and my grandparents didn't speak English. Everytime I think I'll have a chance to go, I end up going somewhere else.
I'm supposed to go to Italy in summer 2006 to visit my cousin. He married an Italian girl he met while on vacation in Spain, and he moved to Italy.
The best vacation I took was to a resort called Laguna Mar on a tiny island off the coast of Venezuela. It was one of those all-inclusive resorts where even alcohol and cigarettes are included. Beautiful place. One day, we chartered this junky little plane to take us to this remote Indian village in the rainforest in Venezuela, and we had an Indian guide who took us hiking to the base of a beautiful waterfall. It was rather funny because neither the pilot nor the Indian guide spoke English. The plane literally had rubber bands holding some of the controls together, and we landed on a rough dirt airstrip in the middle of nowhere. It was definitely an adventure.
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Post by ah-chie on Feb 19, 2005 18:38:14 GMT -5
Our trip to Greece was just... perfect in every respect. Not that everything went smoothly, but my hubby and I just roll with the punches and things just usually turn out better than planned originally. When we went Olympic Airways was on sporatic strikes, so we never new from one day to the next if our flights to the other islands were going to take off. One time they were delayed by a day, but as a result we met a friendly fellow traveller in the tiny island airport on Crete - he was a young doctor from Norway travelling with his girlfriend. He had worked illegally on the island of Mykonos and had many previous friends. We went out with them for a night on the town of drinking dinner and a midnight dip in a pool, and then met them again when we finally got to Mykonos. He took us around for drinks of champagne and strawberries looking out on a cliff at a most glorious sunset on the Agean Sea. Then on to a street party - free booze and food - they closed down one block and his Greek friends dragged the tables out of the houses and the party ran all night long! It was a virtual United Nations - people from Canada, Wales, England, Greece, Norway and France! A night to remember for sure! We rode up thehillsides on donkeys, swam in suphur water, saw a German opera in the shadow of the Parthenon, roamed all over the Palace of Knossos in Crete, slept under the stars on a mattress on the edge of a cliff on the island of Sanorini and was left on our own to explore the ruins of Akrotiri (the guard left for his lunch and we were the only visitors). I could go on and on - I kept a journal and it reads like a novel! ;D It was like three weeks in paradise! I would go back in a flash, but it's a big world out there and both of us don't like to look backward and would rather move forward and experience new things. But I can highly recommend it for anyone who likes the unexpected and is interested in ancient history (I have a passion for Greek and Roman history and art). I loved the food (lemon, garlic and oregano, fresh fish and lamb - yum!!!!) and the casual dress everywhere (except in the Churches which is expected). Another interesting thing is that everyone we met under the age of 50 spoke English and a lot of them had relatives in Canada! |
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Post by Xenu on Feb 20, 2005 20:55:42 GMT -5
I don't wanna be the pooper or anything, but I frakking hate travelling. Maybe its because I used to work in France 3-4 months out of the year, and, well....let me just say that I'm glad I live in the USA . I'm not complaining, because every time I did I'd get an earful about how anybody would love to trade places with me, but just like I'd tell them... you go try it....see how much you love it the first time you run out of cigarettes at 1 in the morning or you just want a fast-food burger past 10 o'clock. Or, god help you, you ever want to use anything but your feet to get around, because the roads over there are straight out of Mad Max; oh, there are traffic signs & signals...but they're really more suggestions than anything else. Your typical French traffic sign translated literally would read something like: "You might wanna yield...you might not...its up to you...vive le Jerry Lewis!" Okay, maybe not the last part, but I swear the number of scooter fatalities there must be in the high thousands....yet I'm still swarmed by packs of them just trying to cross the street. OH, and try being there & trying to get your money exchanged right when they're going through the whole Euro-changeover fiasco...or 1 month after 9-11 and being subjected to every frakkin' person on the street's 2-hour barely-discernable opining as soon as they learn I'm American....and on top of all that, on the last trip my boss stiffed me for almost $500 and I lost my really sweet pair of sunglasses . I'll be staying home for a good while....I've traveled quite enough, thank you. |
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Feb 20, 2005 21:13:08 GMT -5
Ain't nothing wrong with staying home, either. I'm pretty much a home-body myself.
My brother and husband both have done a lot of traveling (in the states) for work in the last couple of years and they're tired of traveling, too. Its gotta be a drag to be on the road for work so often. I only traveled for work once (I had the opportunity to go to Milwaukee, WI to a conference. Wisconsin was very pretty.)
Don't get me wrong, I like to see new places and all, but sometimes I just like kicking back at home, too.
Of course, it is fun to hear everyone else's stories.
Sucks about your sunglasses, though.
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Post by Blade Runner on Feb 20, 2005 21:15:46 GMT -5
I want to visit as much of the world I can so I can see just how diverse this planet and cultures really are. At least when I get to 80 years old I can say to myself, 'I've definately lived my life to the full'
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Feb 20, 2005 21:18:47 GMT -5
A friend of mine had the same sort of attitude.
There are places I'd like to see.
And at the same time, I don't mind staying home, either.
I know, I'm weird.
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Post by ah-chie on Feb 20, 2005 22:37:28 GMT -5
I don't wanna be the pooper or anything, but I frakking hate travelling. Maybe its because I used to work in France 3-4 months out of the year, and, well....let me just say that I'm glad I live in the USA . I thought this thread was about vacations or holidays. Travelling for business is a whole different animal.  Sure I love to travel on my vacations, but I also love my home and spend a *lot* of time there (for most people holidays are more meaningful if you do something different from what you ordinarily do - so for you it would be staying home, for me it would be getting away  . I only get a small window of opportunity to see other places (because of both my husband's and my jobs). I can see your point about not wanting to travel because of your unique situation, but for me seeing other people, places and cultures has always been an enriching, positive experience, so I would highly recommend it to younger folk if they have that chance. But then I don't eat "fast food burgers" (even here at home), I actually like walking or taking public transit and I love getting lost on holiday (it's the best way to meet people actually). ;D |
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