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Heh, I took a bus from LA to florida, for the same reason, and with the same results. Mayhaps we should develop this skill?:beer:
Your best Vacation/holiday ever......
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Heh, I took a bus from LA to florida, for the same reason, and with the same results. Mayhaps we should develop this skill?:beer:
Dragon Forge Design
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The next one..
We always say Wow! that was the best holiday ever..until we go take the next one.. so I say the next one.. Mine hopefully will be a 3 week trip to the UK and France this fall.
But I have to admit, Nothing beats the family trips I took as a kid out west to the Dakotas and Yellowstone and places like that. I think that was the first time I realized just how big this place we call America is.. When you can drive for hours and see.. nothing but tall grass..thats a lot of space.
We always say Wow! that was the best holiday ever..until we go take the next one.. so I say the next one.. Mine hopefully will be a 3 week trip to the UK and France this fall.
But I have to admit, Nothing beats the family trips I took as a kid out west to the Dakotas and Yellowstone and places like that. I think that was the first time I realized just how big this place we call America is.. When you can drive for hours and see.. nothing but tall grass..thats a lot of space.
arogers907
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=)
Glad to have you up to our little state. Don\'t let the secret out, though. If everyone knew three out of four buildings up here were either a bar, ice cream parlor, or coffee shop we\'d be swamped with new arrivals! ;-)
-Andy
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i have been blessed with a few great holidays:
i have loved every trip to paris for the ravage open - beautiful city and met some cool people.
went to rome for a weekend a few years back and had a great time. very romantic city - shame i went with my parents!
a 10 day trip to sri lanka followed by a week in the maldives was cool but not as good as:
egypt! 3 nights in cairo, a week long cruise down the nile, a day in abu simbel, 3 days is luxor followed by 5 days on the dead sea. damn it was expensive but it was brilliant.
i have loved every trip to paris for the ravage open - beautiful city and met some cool people.
went to rome for a weekend a few years back and had a great time. very romantic city - shame i went with my parents!
a 10 day trip to sri lanka followed by a week in the maldives was cool but not as good as:
egypt! 3 nights in cairo, a week long cruise down the nile, a day in abu simbel, 3 days is luxor followed by 5 days on the dead sea. damn it was expensive but it was brilliant.
This is a tough question to answer, as I have enjoyed all of my vacations for particular reasons, and it is difficult to rank them. For natural beauty, my trips to Canada probably win (Banff, Nova Scotia, Victoria), but there are places here in the USA that individually are more spectacular (Grand Canyon, Badlands, Arches National Park, Carlsbad Caverns, Yellowstone, etc.).
I also agree with Dragon Forge Design about looking foward to the next one.
I also agree with Dragon Forge Design about looking foward to the next one.
demonherald
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Born in australia we go back there pretty often and every time I go I try take another country in on the way..... but I think sentimentally my best vacation was when I was 22 I went with my family mum dad brother and sister and my grandparents on my dads side .. we went fishing in scotland camping and spent every night outside having a drink and finding out allsorts of family secrets..... about 6 months later my mum and dad divorced and eight months my grandfather passed away so the scotland trip means a lot....
looking forward I cannot wait for my first trip to spain early next year with my 3 year old...I can\'t ever remember being so excited about a holiday so far in advance.....
looking forward I cannot wait for my first trip to spain early next year with my 3 year old...I can\'t ever remember being so excited about a holiday so far in advance.....
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donga666
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Travelling with young ones is always a challenge, one of my worst was a Greek island with my 18 mth old (he\'s older now). Greece is not child friendly, Spain is!
My best holiday was my 1 year Australian working holiday visa. Travelled from Sydney to Sydney Via Cairnes, Pt Douglas(3 month stay working in hotels), Catherine gorge, Kakadoo, Broom, Perth (Working for 3 mths, then The Ford Galaxy died) and by 4x4 to Alice through the desert down through Adeilade, Melbourne back to Sydney.
During which I got engaged to my now wife, learnt to Scuba, had more fun than was healthy. Even during the crappy bits where we picked chillies for 12 hrs a day!
Excellent!
BarstoolProphet
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That sounds just like Toronto. Except switch \'ice cream parlor\' for \'Donut Shop\'.
arogers907
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Mmm... sounds like I must visit Toronto! =)
-Andy
BarstoolProphet
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Everybody should visit Toronto. I love hearing New Yorker\'s marvel at how green it is, here. Of course, Alaska is probably a heck of a lot greener, but for a big city, we\'ve got a lot of trees.
Seriously, though. Everybody should visit Toronto. We have a lot to offer, for tourism, for art, for fashion. We\'re a worthwhile vacation city.
And no, I don\'t work for Tourism Toronto.
Seriously, though. Everybody should visit Toronto. We have a lot to offer, for tourism, for art, for fashion. We\'re a worthwhile vacation city.
And no, I don\'t work for Tourism Toronto.
BarstoolProphet
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Now, for my best vacation (which could also be tacked onto an older thread \'How I met my sweetheart\'):
I didn\'t actually go anywhere. It was just a week off work, and I was roaming about the city, checking out places I\'d never been before, trying new bars, and that kind of thing. It was the third evening, and I\'d chosen a bar to try and went in.
Up to the bar I walked, checking my watch and noting that it was just past ten, and then noting a lovely young lady looking very annoyed with a guy that didn\'t seem to want to take \'no\' for an answer. He was being pretty annoying. I went over, just as she said \'I\'m waiting for my boyfriend,\' to the guy, which I took as a perfect entry cue, and leaned over on her other side, kissed her cheek lightly, and said \'Sorry I\'m late, babe. I had to change, first.\' Then I ordered two drinks, one for me, one for her, and the annoying guy went away.
By sheer luck, I ordered her her favourite drink, and at the end of the evening, we\'d had a pretty good time, talking. I gave her my number. She called me the following friday, and she\'s been calling me \'geek\' and \'nerd\' over my shoulder for the last few months, now, when she comes over.
And as luck would have it, she\'s a gamer, too.
So, yeah. That\'d be my favourite vacation.
I didn\'t actually go anywhere. It was just a week off work, and I was roaming about the city, checking out places I\'d never been before, trying new bars, and that kind of thing. It was the third evening, and I\'d chosen a bar to try and went in.
Up to the bar I walked, checking my watch and noting that it was just past ten, and then noting a lovely young lady looking very annoyed with a guy that didn\'t seem to want to take \'no\' for an answer. He was being pretty annoying. I went over, just as she said \'I\'m waiting for my boyfriend,\' to the guy, which I took as a perfect entry cue, and leaned over on her other side, kissed her cheek lightly, and said \'Sorry I\'m late, babe. I had to change, first.\' Then I ordered two drinks, one for me, one for her, and the annoying guy went away.
By sheer luck, I ordered her her favourite drink, and at the end of the evening, we\'d had a pretty good time, talking. I gave her my number. She called me the following friday, and she\'s been calling me \'geek\' and \'nerd\' over my shoulder for the last few months, now, when she comes over.
And as luck would have it, she\'s a gamer, too.
So, yeah. That\'d be my favourite vacation.
demonherald
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He\'s pretty seasoned on short plane and long coach trips with the missuses family living in Ireland and us travelling there a hell of lot.....but it\'s keeping him entertained that\'s the tricky part especially when tired and cranky..( mind you same can be said about the missus......) I\'m glad you said that about Greece as I was originally looking at Greece and almost ready to book but wasn\'t sure how it would be for kids so went for the safe Spain option........:beer:
arogers907
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Heh... sounds like my kinda place 15 years ago. Now it just sounds dangerous. =P
As for traveling with kids. My wife is Slovak so we try and get over to eastern Europe at least once every other year. We have a two year old now, though. He travels really well (been to Colorado, Hawaii, Seattle, Austria, Slovakia twice...) but the time difference is really rough on him.
It\'s tough enough for my wife and I to grit it out for a long day and pass out at 8pm, hoping to sleep \'til at least 5am or so. Poor little guy can\'t make the mental justification to power through the first day. It gets to 1 or 2pm and he\'s out like a light.
Unfortunately, that means he\'s bright eyed and ready for breakfast at the crack of 1am. /groan
Luckily, he\'s a pure joy on airplanes. Thank goodness for polar flights! =)
-Andy
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Went on some awesome trips when I was working at the grammar school: skiing in Italy and Austria several times and canoeing down the Ardeche in France. Lots of other great climbing/canoeing/abseiling type stuff as well with some great staff and kids.
Most memorable with the mrs was a trip to Poland last year.
Other than coming here of course!
Most memorable with the mrs was a trip to Poland last year.
Other than coming here of course!
So far my trips to Amsterdam have been the best. However I haven\'t been on a real holiday since I was 13 
I am going on a week long fishing holiday in Devon in September with my Dad this year. It should be great nowt but beer and fishing for a week, that\'s a little bit of compressed heaven for me!!!
I am going on a week long fishing holiday in Devon in September with my Dad this year. It should be great nowt but beer and fishing for a week, that\'s a little bit of compressed heaven for me!!!
MPJ
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A funnyish side story...
Last time I was in London was on business, a sorta sales exchange trip (we were North American distributors for a labelling software product from UK). The sales team there kept telling me how you really have to travel to the client to show the features of the software in action and how if they had a prospect in Germany they would hop in the car and make the 4 hour trip. I had to remind them that from Houston (where I lived at the time) 4 hours would not get me 4 countries away or even 4 states (likely not even 4 counties) but that Dallas was 4 hours away and it was the closest major city (actually not entirely true as Austin, San Antonio and I believe Baton Rouge were all a bit closer).
@BarstoolProfit: Don\'t mean to diss your home but I can\'t stand Toronto (OK, I suppose I did mean to diss Toronto). As a fellow Canadian who has been to Toronto many, many times and never once liked it I can say it has few redeeming qualities. Most of the people are rude, the attitudes are big, and the city planning is poor. Last time I was in Toronto was for my brother\'s wedding, at several points through the evening I had people coming up to me (mostly politicians and lawyers as my brother is a lawyer who specializes in city planning thus lawyers and politicians are mostly who he knows), finding out I owned a construction company in Nova Scotia, then saying how it must be hard for me to find and keep employees back home as everyone is so lazy and unwilling to work. I must admit I\'d never considered smacking so many people in one night before.
Toronto does have 1 redeeming quality... Mr. Sub. We don\'t have Mr. Sub around here anymore and gosh I miss it horribly. Best Subs possible.
All this being said, my next trip to Toronto is July 12, hope to see you there. Actually it\'s to Mississauga but close enough.
