Favorite Vacation?
 

As many of you know from my posts, I'm on a week vacation at the beach. I'm having a great time and I'm more fully relaxed than I have been in a very long time. I quit my job, I'm graduating in May, and I'm starting a new chapter of my life.

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Like any normal human being, I'm thinking back to all my other vacations and wondering if this one is better, worse, or the same as my others. Which was my favorite vacation memory? I simply can't decide.

I thought I'd post this thread and ask each of you if you have a favorite vacation or vacation memory?

I'd love to hear about them!

Honestly, I enjoyed all my vacations for different reasons. One thing I did learn in my college years, when vacationing with friends and doing EVERYTHING together about 3 days is my limit before someone gets on my nerves.

That being said, one year for spring break I went to St. Petersburg and absolutely loved it. It was beautiful and quiet - not a normal college spring break destination.

And I'm in desperate need of a vacation now but I don't like travelling alone and everyone I know has a spouse and/or children so getting away without them is a challenge.

Good question, Osuche. I can't name just one, so I'll list the top 6.

1) Alaska, inside passage and Kenai National Park. Unforgettable.
2) Walt Disney World, as a kid with my folks.
3) Walt Disney World, as a parent with my kids.
4) Breckenridge, CO...a week of skiing and torrid sex with Mrs. Rabbit.
5) Southern Caribbean cruise...a week of diving, eating, partying and more torrid sex with Mrs. Rabbit
6) Western Caribbean cruise...with my brother when we were both single. A continuous week of dancing, partying, boozing, and multiple sex partners.

:D

I loved my trip to Vegas a few summers ago. I'm a night person. I was mesmerized by the lights.

For me, it doesn't get better than going to Chicago for a few days in the summer and staying downtown. A nice morning walk down Michigan Avenue followed by a ride on the Red Line up to Wrigley Field to see the Cubs that afternoon. After the ballgame, hanging out at the bars around the ballpark before heading back downtown for the evening. Maybe stopping by The House of Blues.......... I need to do all of that again soon. It's been a couple of summers. :(

Memories of the trips my mom, sister and I made to Ely, Minnesota to fish with my grandpa when I was a little kid are always great. We stayed in a cabin and would spend most of the days out on the lake. I didn't appreciate the time as much back then as I do now.

I've taken many vacations to the Los Angeles area to visit my parents and while I love seeing them, I'm not overly impressed with the LA area. San Diego, now that's where I want to spend a week!

And of course, the Bay Area isn't too bad either. ;)

Georgian Bay
 

3 day vacation in a cottage on a small island in the Georgian Bay off Point Au Baril, in Canada. The most relaxing and energizing vacation I've ever had.

When I was still single my family ,aunts,uncles ,cousins would go camping at Red River,New Mexico (before it became popular) go horse back riding,hiking,and fishing

After I was married Mrs. Jay-t and kids camped on the Taylor River in Colo. for a week,one of the kids left their window down in the car .We woke up the next day to find 5 humming birds in the car,hiking and just having fun as a family.

Midyear 2006, Lil's place, Oshkosh then Niagara for PAGAN06.

Hoping to surpass this at PAGAN08.

It was an unplanned ride to Canada. We had no destination and no plans of any kind. Ended up staying at a provincial park where you could "boat-in" to your camp site. Our site was secluded and deserted till we woke the next day. A boat had docked but nobody was around till about 2pm that afternoon. Four guys got off the boat and we partied with them for the weekend. So, I was on a lake, on a secluded island with five guys. If there is a heaven...that's it!

Last June at a lovely cabin in the Georgia foothills. That is where my sweet Joe and I had a very special and private collaring ceremony. The hot tub was an added bonus. :brows:

Been lots of good ones but I think our trip to the Smokey Mountains back in the mid-60s has to rank right up there. We camped and had a great time. The park had a couple named Lee and Jean Schilling come in one morning and play traditional mountain music using the dulcimer; the recorder and other traditional instruments. It was great.

Other close ones have been my wife and my trips to three different fantasy motels; and, several years when the two of us visited a naturist resort in Michigan. These were great trips for just the two of us.

Of course, PAGAN 06 and PIP 07 were pretty darn good too. :)

As a kid it was vacationing in Florida over the easter break, we would visit my grandparents.

Once I got older I had a great time visiting the East coast with stops in Maine, Boston and on the way home stopping at Gettysburg PA.

As a child: probably the week spent at Lake Cumberland, near Jamestown KY. My mother had lost her "baby" sister the year before, & the whole family (aunts, uncles, cousins) gathered for some bonding by renting a block of cabins near the lake. No A/C, just screened windows & basic kitchens & toilets in them. We cooked out or ate at a nice little resteraunt nearby, my bro & I made chains out of the 1000s of pull tabs littering the ground, we swam in the pool (which was sitting in the lake, near the shore), & just generally had a big ole time. In spite of getting the worst sunburn of my life (my back was all blisters), I've been wanting to go back for forty years since. Probably won't happen soon, the Wolf Creek dam which formed the lake has been found to be leaking & in danger of collapse; the lake has been mostly drained while the ACE does emergency repairs, which promise to take years.

As a adult: several of the many trips my wife & I have taken to the Smokies, just us, the hot tub, & no kids(!). Also two different trips to Panama City Beach, time spent collecting shells, playing in the sugar sand, & throwing crackers out from our balcony to the hungry seagulls to catch in midair with my (then) young #1 son are memories I still treasure...

Osuche and I at the............. damn, wrong reality.

Want to join me in Capitola? I have a 2 bed/2 bath home with a hot tub...about a block from the beach. vrbo.com is MUCH cheaper than staying at a hotel - and I can eat in. Which is better for my diet.

Seriously....if we want our spouses not to find us, we better meet somewhere else. ;) What did you have in mind?