My boyfriend can NEVER be convinced to take time off from his businesses and go on vacation. NEVER. So I almost peed myself with excitement when he found out he has to go to Vegas for some business thing in March. I have already bought ridiculous flashy cocktail dresses.
I’ll be down there in March! Lets drink!
Fucker. I went to buy my tickets today and the price has gone up. A lot. I WANT TO GO ON MY TRIP, DAMMIT.
If I end up sitting around Ann Arbor all spring break, I will be very disappointed.
I’d like to go back to Europe like I did last year, but finances and circumstances are more likely to send me to Tulsa, OK in May to see my little sister graduate from high school. I guess that works, too.
Last year, we went to Mexico, Hawai’i, New York, Arizona, Monterey/Carmel, San Francisco & somewhere else, I can’t remember.
This year, it’s Las Vegas, Monterey/Carmel, Florida, Aruba, Mexico and Costa Rica, for now.
We’re going to spend a week in Seattle at the end of February. Then we’re going to spend a year on the road starting in about June, covering much of the USA in an RV, visiting friends and relatives and doing a genealogy tour. Eat your hearts out.
Canadiangirl: Alaska cruises are a good deal right now. Bookings are way down and discounts are deep. Go for it!
Channelling ‘Entourage’: Vegas, baby! Vegas!
Sun City (South Africa)
Belgium (for a chess tournament)
Probably Edmonton, maybe Toronto, possibly Boston and very tentatively a cruise to Mexico out of Los Angeles.
Olympic Peninsula for 7-10 days in August. Booked a couple of days at 3-4 of the park’s lodges. Gonna add a night or 2 in Port Townsend. Mountains, hot springs, tidal pools, rain forests - looking forward to it!
We’re hoping to spend some time in Northern Michigan. I really want to visit the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.
Would love to go further - particularly international travel - but this is what the budget dictates.
Make sure to check out all the numbered beaches that are currently accessible (I’m not sure which are and aren’t anymore; sometimes the paths wash out) and Ruby Beach, in addition to Kalaloch. If you’re at Quinault Lodge, and don’t want to pay their price for breakfast, head to the either side of the lake and eat in Amanda Park. Last time I was there, the little restaurant was doing excellent biscuits and gravy and similarly excellent logger/trucker food, with teriyaki and bulkogi on the dinner menu.
My family should be going to the tiny motel in Amanda Park sometime this year, so we can drive out after Dad gets off work, eat sandwiches for dinner at the beach overlook picnic area near the RV beach, breakfast in Amanda Park the next morning, maybe play a bit unwisely on the mouth of the Quinault River, and head out to the beaches to collect rocks and look at birds and if it’s warm enough I’ll swim in the creek/lagoon at Ruby Beach. It’s very rarely warm enough.
I say “should” because I don’t know if there’s going to be enough time to do that (instead of just a day trip to Pacific Beach or the like) on top of the Canadian vacation I’ve been agitating for. Originally, the plan was just that I was going to take my cousin to Canada to make up for the fact that he’s certainly not getting to go to England and Scotland when he’s 11, the way that I did. Then my dad started rumbling about wanting to go to Disneyland, but none of the rest of us like the sound of that, and if he’s going to celebrate his offsprings’ graduations by dumping money into a trip to a place that starts with C it had better be one the whole family wouldn’t mind seeing. If Canada is achieved, we’ll be going to British Columbia in August, mostly to Victoria and Vancouver.
Always nice to get guests downunder. I hope you get here and enjoy it. 
In a few weeks, we’re off to England (for two weeks) via China (Shanghai - four days) and returning via Japan for a week. We might fit in a jaunt across to Paris for a weekend in the middle, but otherwise it’s pretty much all to visit family.
It’s not a vacation, but I’m hoping to go to Cadiz to study Spanish dialectology this summer. Weather-wise, it’s pretty much going to be exactly like home, but with a Mediterranean breeze. I’m hoping to see some more of Europe once I get there, though. I think I’ll be staying in London for a night on the way there (or maybe the way back).
I’d also like to finally take that road trip up to the (San Francisco) Bay Area I’ve been talking about for years. Now that I go to UCSD, I have lots of friends from up there, so it’s looking like I might actually get off my ass and do it–not to mention that gas is cheap now! If everything goes right, maybe I’ll take the 101 all the way up the West Coast and hop to Vancouver. That would be awesome.
I thought the Dodgers played in Florida…?
Jeez, what more do you need? His son’s phone number? I heard he was already giving him away.
For the last 5 years my very kind neighbour has let me and mine spend a week in her bach (holiday house) FREE.
It’s not overseas or anywhere glamorous but it is just across the road from the most gorgeous beach (Papamoa for any Kiwis). The beach is so long it is always pretty much deserted.
There was that day when a shark cruised the beach though…eeeek
I just got back. It was holiday heaven…and then I went back to work!
Why does the summer always seem so short?
My sister is going to be coming to Japan this spring (where I live) so I plan on doing some traveling this year. We decided to go to South Korea for a bit since I have never been there and I wanted to get out of the country again. Then we will come back to Japan and do some internal traveling, probably down in the Kansai region. I am trying to save money like crazy since I have big plans for next year and the holiday is going to do a number on the old bank book but hopefully the yen will stay strong and the won will stay low… (well, hopefully for me anyways, I don’t know about for the economy in general…)
Not anymore- they closed up Dodgertown in Vero Beach and now they play in the Cactus League.
We just got back from Las Vegas, lake Havasu and Yuma which was nice but I am really looking forward to going to BC this summer. We found a cabin on a lake out on the Cochahala about 20 minutes from Kelowna. Very isolated but still close to the great swimming in the Okanagon. We live in Calgary and after BC the lakes around here are… well, just arnt!
Joe
We went to Bonaire for SCUBA diving in October, and it was AWESOMESAUCE. Sunny, hot, still, wonderful. We were there right before Hurricane Omar trashed the place, too. Lucky us.
We will take a couple of days to visit my parents in May. They live in northern Michigan, right on a trout stream, so visiting them is like going to camp… with really nice bathrooms and home cooking. We will hunt mushrooms, fish, canoe, and hike.
In July we’re getting married and taking a short trip we don’t know where–maybe New Orleans. Or maybe Nova Scotia. Dunno yet.
And in October we’re taking the “real” honeymoon to Venice. We’re going to be oh-so-cool, sitting at shady cafe tables, sipping limoncello and not caring what time it is. It’ll be great.
I’m thinking about where we might go, if we take a vacation. My husband hasn’t seen Bryce Canyon. I thought we could maybe fly to his sister’s in Arizona and drive to Bryce from there. It’s a hike, but it’s worth it.
Glacier Park is a short drive from my parents’ house in Southern Alberta. I camped there with Tripler and BrattiAtti a couple of years ago at St. Mary’s, East Glacier.
Yep, Albertan. We usually drive across the US since gas is cheaper down here.
We’re leaving for our cruise tomorrow! Woohooo!