What are your vacation plans for '07

[wildcat]

What are your vacation plans for '07?

Like to hear where some of you are going this year and it also helps me look into a few new ideas.

 

[mja]

We'll be traveling from Wisconsin to visit some friends in the mountains outside of Boise, ID. Still planning the route, but we'll probably go through Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. May also stop at Devil's Tower or Mount Rushmore. Wont be stopping at Wall Drug, been there, done that, don't need to do it again

 

[TromboneAl]

Waikiki for one week. Surf with Nords, snorkel, hike, hang, stoked!

 

[Empty Pockets]

Hunting in Saskatchewan this October.

 

[Fireup2020]

Pack muling/camping through the Sierras for a few days in August.

Halloween in New Orleans! WoooHooooo!!!

Anyone else in NOLA? meet for good/cheap crawfish (I do miss that - but not sure where to go post Katrina out of the quarter)

 

[justin]

Outer banks or other coastal NC beach - probably september after it cools down and the crowds go back home.

Otherwise, just local day trips - the NC zoo, the NC natural history/science museum, etc. (we have two young kids).

 

[Outtahere]

Dh goes to Sturgis every summer for the bike meet, I haven't gone in 10 years and plan on going with him. Haven't decided if I'll take my bike or just play passenger, it all depends on if is son goes with us, then there won't be room for my bike.

Probably only stay a day or so in the Sturgis area, he wants to travel further west which is just fine with me.

 

[eridanus]

Wrangell/St. Elias in Alaska for day hikes, backpacking, flight seeing, and rafting.

 

[saluki9]

Was suppoed to be an a cruise this week which I had to cancel because of work (training a new guy) and our new house.

Probably going to Frankfurt this September for the bi-annual auto show. Also a good excuse to drink a lot of beer.

Going to Honolulu for a week this December because we got a great deal on a new resort there. I'll have to see if Nords will let me buy him lunch?

Other than that, may hit the road for a little tour of the south this summer if my schedule allows.

 

[wildcat]

Nothing fancy here. I may try to go through BOSS's program (not for 99% people) given that I like visit and hike remote mountain destinations by myself.

 

[FinanceDude]

Going to see my uncle in South Carolina at the end of April.

Did the whole Corn Palace/Wall Drug/Badlands Loop/1880 Town/Mount Rushmore thing last summer.............

Next time I go that way, we're doing Yellowstone and Devil's Tower.........

 

[lazygood4nothinbum]

webster defines vacation as respite or intermission. so i guess for vacation i should be working?

i don't know if i have vacation plans. i plan to work on my relationships because i've buried & lost too many people already. so my job is to keep what's left. next week i'm on a maintenance roadtrip with an old highschool friend to visit another hs friend in sarasota. three days in a hotel room with two raging heterosexuals. i don't normally drink but i'm planning to spend the entire time drunk out of my mind. then we'll spend some time in tampa or naples or where my friend wants to visit while he's down here.

my next sort-of-vacation is more a trip to a mall as i've always considered shopping to be a lot of work. the lease is up on the car so i need to actually purchase one. i considered someone elses post (the cycleguy maybe?) who doesn't own a car, bikes around and rents a car on weekends, but that could place me sh*t out of luck if i need to evacuate from a hurricane.

and while i don't care much for the mall i love the idea of being able to shop cross country for a car. i figure i can fly there and turn the ride home into another roadtrip. i might have found a yellow car in washington dc and have a cousin with a townhouse near the capitol so that might be my 2nd 2007 "vacation". still have to workout the itinerary for the roadtrip home.

my 3rd vacation of 2007 was going to be a few months in toronto but only if the house sells first. i won't be comfortable spending that kind of money otherwise. after the inherited house sells, i'm planning to spend summers by renting 1-bdrm or studio apartments in northern climes. i'd like to see toronto, maine, portland/seattle area and vancouver. i figure that will take me at least 3 summers to explore. and paying for apartments by the month instead of hotels by the day ought to make it reasonably affordable.

otherwise, as has been said: i've got no plans and i'm sticking to it.

 

[bbbamI]

Still in the planning stages. Maybe Vegas (we've been there at least once a year for the past 20 years), Yellowstone or fishing in Canada.

 

[bssc]

New Mexico in April to see the Very Large Array / Trinity Site / Alamagordo and, of course Roswell. Then to the Astronomer's Inn in Benson, AZ and Kitt Peak for the night time viewing.

Washingon Metro Area for parents 50th anniversary in June. Going to see Yorktowne, Jamestown and Williamsburg, see lots of friends and the like.

A cruise on the Pacific Coast in September. We go from Vancouver, BC to Los Angeles. Still have a week after that which we need to figure out what to do.

 

[crazy connie]

Back yard in the pool and when it gets too hot here (Phoenix) I will be off to the casino's of Vegas. May go to East Coast to settle up Mom's estate.

 

[simple girl]

Going on a sailing trip (my brother has a 36' sailboat) from NH out to the Isle of Shoals over Memorial Day. 6 of us on the boat (3 siblings and spouses) for 2 days...the gin and tonics will be a flyin' (except the Captain has promised not to partake.."safety of the crew is first!"). Should be an awesome time.

Also may be going to visit our friends who live in Tampa for a long weekend soon.

Have a big cruise planned, but that's for Jan '08.

 

[unclemick]

Nada, none - no plans this year.

However since I'm retired and can get a house watcher/pet sitter at the drop of a hat(close friends) - going 'visitin' for a week or two or three is not out of the question.

heh heh heh - Pensacola, Seattle, Weis Lake south of Chattanoga, New Orleans, San Diego and Rosarita Mexico have people I can 'visit cheap' if the mood strikes.

 

[KB]

Definitely going to Europe for 2 weeks in May.

I'm still trying to decide whether I want to take an 8 day trip to China in November.

 

[eridanus]

Nothing fancy here. I may try to go through BOSS's program (not for 99% people) given that I like visit and hike remote mountain destinations by myself.

BOSS? Is this similar to NOLS?

 

[donheff]

Going to Italy in May for a bike tour along the Tuscan Coast followed by a few days in Rome and Venice. May follow DW to San Francisco later in the summer on a work trip.

 

[Robert the Red]

China for 3 weeks in April -- Shanghai, Xi'An, Beijing, and points in between. (AA frequent flier miles for roundtrip IAD-PVG.)

Maybe London in the fall for a few days -- an old friend moved there and is inviting us. If we can get a decently priced pair of tickets after the summer rush ends.

 

[youbet]

We're looking for inspiration as to what to do.......

Through our first 9 months of RE, we've taken five 1 - 2 week trips, four together and one separately. Most involved being in the outdoors and included fishing, canoeing and kayaking in northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Ontario. We also took a number of long weekend trips. Everything was by car except for DW's trip to Maine to visit an RE girlfriend she worked with for many years.

We have four week+ trips planned for this summer, again all involving outdoor activitivities. We love the outdoors and want to lot of things before age becomes any more of a factor than it is already. But I am becoming concerned that other things we want to do are being procrastinated too much.

I've traveled internationally extensively; Asia, Europe and SA. DW has not. Any thoughts about balance here? Am I perhaps underestimating the physical stamina required for international travel and devoting too much of these first years of RE to outdoor activities?

 

[Gumby]

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[Moemg]

I'm just figuring it out .Either ten days in Costa Rica late fall or fourteen days in Tuscany early fall or a New England ,Canada cruise with a few extra days in New York .Plus of course the trips to visit Mom and my daughter.

 

[Calgary_Girl]

Just got back from a week in Hawaii...spent two days in Honolulu and five in Kauai (which is gorgeous!!!! ).

I'm sure we'll go someplace this summer but it will probably be closer to home.