What do you do for vacation

[oldpilgrim]

I couldn't and wouldn't go 650 miles/day in a car! 300 kills me.

 

[ovrszd]

I couldn't and wouldn't go 650 miles/day in a car! 300 kills me.

I hear ya. It's 700 miles from my house to my buddies house in Alamosa Colorado. We make that trip every year in our open topped Jeep in one day. But there ain't no way I'd do it 14 days in a row!!!!

My dream is to follow his route in the Jeep. But I'm thinking more like a month, not two weeks.

 

[MoPops]

There's a group of riders that ride 1,000+ mile days. They ride every other year in a "Iron Butt" ride. It's 11,000 miles in 11 days. I've never had trouble doing long rides on a bike. I don't like sitting in a car all day, just something about being on a bike. I just don't get tired. Who knows??

 

[tcreeley]

We don't go on vacations. Sometimes my wife visits her relatives and stays at their house/s. I used to like going to Canada- but we have not done that since the US requires a passport card to get back into our country.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Depends. If it's only for a day or two, and the weather is, unpleasant, and it's not duck season, I may just decide to go to another world and kill dragons, trolls, ogres, and orcs. Deer/Bear hunting season you can find me out in the woods between 100 yards to 100 miles from home. May take a week this summer and hike a section of the Appalachian trail. May take another week and hit up a bunch of town halls and cemeteries doing genealogical research. Beach/ocean days only last a single day for me because I go nuts without something to actually do besides sitting there frying in the sun.

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

As much as I too love my project time around the house / property, I do need to "escape" sometimes. I like mountains, wife hates heat - so we have only done one beach vacation in 25 years.
Always did tent camping trips while we raised our kids - state / nat. parks and commercial campgrounds - just depending on where we wanted to go / what to see and do. Usually went north in summer to cool down from the mid-atlantic heat / humidity. Vermont and Maine where our favorites.

Lately, Our whole family has been doing more and more RV camping over the past few years, now that everyone owns travel trailers / 5th wheels (getting a little too old and cranky for sleeping one the ground to be "fun" anymore). All the older siblings (some retired, but most still work FT) and assorted friends / neighbors and any nephews, nieces , grand kids , dogs, cats - you name it - everyone goes to a campground for a week or 2 on a lake or river and relax. All day fishing / floating and evening / night time is 10 or 20 of us cooking / eating and hanging together out by the campfire.....or you can go off and do your own thing - our top rules of the group is no rules and no schedule unless you want to join in for any given activity.

This summer will be the first long solo trip for the wife and I with no kids - 1000 miles out and few different locations for a few days each with the first stop in Minnesota and then on through South Dakota.

 

[Teachu2]

About every other year, the wife and I (both teachers) load up our Harleys and take a three-week road trip. Three summers back, we went to Washington, got on a ferry, and got off at Whittier, Alaska. Rode to Anchorage, Seward, back to Anchorage, Denali, North Pole, then down through Destruction Bay and the Yukon Territory on the Alcan, through Jasper and Baanf, down into Bonners Ferry, across to Seattle, and back home. That was the trip of a lifetime. Over the years, we've seen the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Beartooth Pass, Glacier Nat'l Park, and we always try to go through the redwoods in NorCal.

The last ten years have been tough, as our parents have all suffered declining health. We lost the last of them in October and November, and we are spending a lot of time and energy settling the remaining estate. Add last year's move to the mountains and the subsequent remodeling/building/property cleanup that is ongoing, and we'll probably not get in a big road trip this summer. We can, however, sit on the patio under the oak trees, play a little cribbage, have a glass of tea, and enjoy the peace. If we need to, we'll ride over to the coast for lunch - makes for a nice 300-mile day on the bikes, and let's us relax.

 

[Creamer]

This summer will be the first long solo trip for the wife and I with no kids - 1000 miles out and few different locations for a few days each with the first stop in Minnesota and then on through South Dakota.

Be sure to take the short drive out of your way to Pierre and go to the Oahe Dam. Many people do not know about it but it is the second largest earth dam in the world. it is so big that when you are driving across it you do not even realize you are on it until you see the water next to the road on one side and all you see is hillside on the other.

BTW the you can also visit the geographical center of the US north of the Black Hills. Geographic center of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And say hi to my favorite donkeys down in Custer State Park - you will know which ones I am talking about when you see them.

 

[MossRoad]

Eddie's mention of Estes Park, CO. reminded me of going out there with my wife in 1997. Came around a curve, Elk were crossing the road at a trot pace.... and crossing, and crossing.... I got out, went to the trunk, they were still crossing. Changed lenses on my camera. They were still crossing. Took a bunch of pictures (a whole roll of 24, OOooooo, no digital then). Got back in the car and they were still crossing. Huge herd. That was a fun trip. There's lots to do in Colorado. Especially just after the kids go back to school, but before the roads get snowed shut.

 

[sld]

Just got back from a 4 day trip to southern california. Never been there.

Went to sea world, santa monica beach and laguna beach among other stops. It was pretty cool.

Nice place to visit but don't think I will be moving there.