I think my favorite vacation ever was Bailey Island in Maine, up in Coaster's neck of the woods. We went and stayed at a little B&B with great food and warm fireplaces. We were right on the ocean, and it was well before tourist season started (I think we were up there in April). It was a little cold, which is exactly how I love it.

My fave foreign vacation was Israel....that trip was amazing!

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

Mine was Savannah. I realized how much I miss living down South. It was beautiful and very comforting.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Weird things flying around Capitola these days...check out the attached...

...not that I'm a believer, but just sayin'...

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I've smelled pot about 1 billion times already this week. My best guess is that picture was 420 inspired.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

This may be the perfect week for you to take a vacation to a place where everybody has a healthy appetite for all kinds of wonderful silky smooth things.

















..... I'll be watching for you.

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Let's see 6 months traveling around in India and Nepal, was incredible
like a vacation from life

Last summer's 3 weeks in the U.K. was pretty spectacular, even though I have one or two gray areas, memory wise.
I was drunk for most of it and I didn't even get laid. Did I mention I got drunk once or twice?

Two weeks in Zurich for another bike race was equally wonderful. Arriving in a city where I knew no one, I was put up by strangers, fed and shown a great time, all by my new Swiss friends. It is fun to be in a completely unknown city, and try to find your way around...

Martha's Vineyard is always nice, though now a bit too much of a hot spot (curse you celebrities and ex-presidents)

France some years ago. Great inexpensive wine, good food (the french who knew?) and a beautiful countryside

did I mention being away from life and responsibility for 6 months in India was a nice break, (even though, I was too young to know what that means)

Sadly, with Mrs OF, there is no running and no hiding.

Damn it's an idea to sleep on.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

I forgot how much I loved that one.

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I'm not even a huge chocolate fan, but PF's suggestion for a destination doesn't sound too bad.

we went cross-coutry for our honeymoon. camped at lots of major national parks, stayed in a hotel in vegas and then one in san fran. then we ran out of money almost a week early. lol. lots of fun but not relaxing.

when we took the kids to the outer banks, north carolina. it was so much fun to take them swimming in the ocean and build sand castles and hunt for shells and sand crabs. but again - not relaxing.

just last week we were away to niagra falls canada. no kids - VERY relaxing.

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

Great thread osuche!!! Glad to hear that you're RELAXING and INHALING!


Our favorite HAD to be the 2 weeks in the Caribbean with the kids and bro w/wife. Everyone had a blast and we created lasting memories. The kids were in H.S. so they were old enough to enjoy what we enjoy and we were young enough to enjoy what the kid's liked.........
We even burned out a blender by mixing too many pina colada's!!!

Then our vaca to CA for a couple weeks where we met M/M osuche, and Denny & Flutelady..... all have become great friends!

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My Only Two Stories Anywhere!

Afternoon Delight

Delightful Rendezvous!

Is the love I gave her in the past, gonna be enough to last, if tomorrow never comes........

A visit to Egypt with the future Mrs. JSeal.

We traveled up the Nile by boat, visiting the temples at Kom Ombo and Edfu. Continued up to Luxor, where we went to the Valley of the Kings and saw Tutankhamun's tomb, with a day to visit Abu Simbel and Philae. We returned to Cairo by train overnight – there were a couple of Old Kingdom pyramids to be seen in the distance. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is marvelous. We toured the Sphinx and the pyramids at the Giza Necropolis during the day, and enjoyed the Sound and Light show the next evening. We also visited some of the famous mosques in the city. The Shah of Iran is buried in the Al Rifa'i Mosque, near his former brother-in-law, King Farouk.

Quite an experience!

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Eudaimonia

this thread had me thinking again about old family vacations. my 'rents took us on some pretty amazing vacations when i was younger – florida a lot, hawaii, the british virgin islands, a new york trip packed with off broadway shows and a dinner at smith and wollensky’s - i was too young to appreciate them at the time. in fact, i know i spent much of the BVI vaca with my nose in a book, but now i remember them for the amazing and privileged experiences they were. sometimes i wish we had the money to do this sort of stuff with our kids, but then i remember that i love them to pieces and give them different kinds of experiences.

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

Run for your lives!!!

We're being invaded by a 1959 Buick hood ornament!!!

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