Anyone go on vacation this summer?

[27145]

Anyone do anything fun, like hiking on the Iraq/Iran border? Are you more the yachting type who enjoys the ocean off the coast of Somalia? What is your idea of a fun vacation? I personally enjoy feeding bears in National parks. They love to eat bacon out of my hands.

 

[vic3620]

summer vacation

We spent a week in tenn/kentucky, on dale hollow lake.
we rented a 64' houseboat and pretty much done nothing but
relax in the water.
2 jetskis to keep the kids busy ....beer to keep the adults busy.
kept the boat tied to a bank way back in a isolated cove.
very relaxing. I would recomend it to anyone who loves the water.
.... by the way no alcohol was consumed while boat was not anchored.


vic3620

 

[longranger]

I moved to where I used to vacation when I retired.

 

[G.T. Smith]

hey,27145

Anyone do anything fun, like hiking on the Iraq/Iran border? Are you more the yachting type who enjoys the ocean off the coast of Somalia? What is your idea of a fun vacation? I personally enjoy feeding bears in National parks. They love to eat bacon out of my hands.

After I got up out of the gutter, lying face down in my own vomit, celebrating my 1000th post on this forum, my Wife and I hit several pow-wows in Oklahoma. Her Mom and Step dad live in Miami Okla. and so we have a centrally located place to stay and hit different pow-wows around the region.
27145, glad to hear it was the bacon they got out of your hands.
God bless America,
gordon:

 

[Gran Torino]

We went to the Grand Canyon....Meteor Crater...Sunset Crator....Williams.....Flagstaff.... Monument Valley...Petrified Forrest....Sedona....Oak Creek Canyon and a few other places. It was a great trip.

 

[Gasman1972]

I went body boarding at the outer banks in the roughest surf I've ever seen (I haven't seen much). I almost drown once, got stung by a jelly fish, and cracked or broke a rib that I still can't sleep on. This happened the first week of August.

That's the honest truth. The wave that got my rib was way over my head. It caught my board and smashed it into my side and then turned me into a washing machine agitator almost drowning me. As I tried to make my way back to shore a jelly fish stung me. I fought the sea and the sea won, big time.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Five days in the Black Hills during Rally Week, riding places that the Harleys don't go much, if at all: Red Shirt Table, Cuny Table, Sheep Mountain Table, Slate Creek Dam, Cement Ridge, Victoria Lake Road, Yellow Thunder, Red Valley Road, Cicero Peak, Black Fox, Bulldog Gulch. I did mingle a bit at Moonlight Gulch Saloon for lunch a couple of times, and hung out in the shade in front of the shuttered Longhorn Saloon in Scenic for a while, watching the pirates rumble in, take a few pics of the closed-down town, and rumble out again.

Earlier in the summer, I spent a few nights in a Forest Service campground off the Gunflint Trail with a bunch of my wife's family. Did a little bicycling on forest roads, shooting in gravel pits, and ate a lot of fresh bass and walleye. It was also necessary to drink a little rye whiskey. I think I'll make a full week out of that one next year.

 

[hiram2005]

I went to Arizona again. Flagstaff, Sedona, Kingman, Oatman and Wickenburg. Out there for nine days. Soon, maybe very soon, I will live there.

 

[Cyrano]

Did some of the gun museums back East: the USMC Museum at Quantico; the NRA Museum in Fairfax, the Udvar-Hazy branch of the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport, the West Point Museum, the Southern New England Military Museum at Danbury, CT (a disaster), Springfield Armory NHS, the RCAF Museum at Trenton, Ontario, the Canadian War Museum at Ottawa, the Canadian Warbirds Museum at Hamilton. Exhausting, but fun. Over 500 pix, saw wonderful things.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

We went camping at Pt. Reyes north of S.F. It's less than two hours away and was really nice there. Notice Cassius Clay flashing a dog smile there on the right. His new little platinum blond girlfriend Heather had fun too!

 

[DustyJacket]

Two weeks of motorcycle camping in Colorado:
Top Of the Rockies

 

[lawandorder]

Late Spring..........

spent a week in Bryson City NC and prowled the SMNP and surrounding area. Had just read some of Horace Kephart's books and he motivated me to go there.

 

[Stainz]

My wife was shocked when I asked if her s-i-l could care for our six inside cats and tropical fish for a few days - even though we agreed we couldn't afford anything more than a 'stay-cation' this year on her Labor Day week off. I had asked, 'WWBD?' ('What Would Barry Do?'). Well, Barry - aka Obama - would go on vacation and charge it to the American people! Well, I did charge it... it was right at a kilobuck total. Some was from plastic gift cards from Mrs. Stainz's students at their end of the year party. We needed the trip - left then TS 'Lee' flooding around our home - arrived at Alabama's Gulf Shores, aka the 'Redneck Riviera', in time for the first picture below. Afraid of flooding while we were gone, we were fine - great trip!

I found a way to pay-off the plastic, too... glad I 'took' the chance. We needed that!

Stainz

 

[brucev]

This past summer my wife and I drove up the east coast through Washington D.C., New York and Boston. We had a lot of fun, especially in Boston... downtown is great as are the historic sites like the U.S.S. Constitution, Bunker Hill, the Freedom Trail, etc. We then went with our extended family on a camping trip for a week on a lake in New Hampshire. It was very nice.

 

[Bombsaway]

Took the wife on a cruise to Alaska. Started in Anchorage and ended up in Vancouver. I have NO desire to go back to Canada!

 

[The Big D]

Suspect most of you wouldn't approve of some locales, but here's where I have traveled since April:

Chattanooga, TN, Las Vegas, New York City, Long Island, NY, New Jersey (various parts), Washington, DC, San Diego, Pittsburgh, PA, St. Michael's, MD, South Bend, IN, and Chicago.

Not sure if all properly meet the definition since retirement means every day is "vacation."

Be safe.

 

[peyton]

Wyatt, I am sure Cassius Clay is glad you brought Heather along Beautiful beach, walking those hills behind you might be considered exercise!!

 

[Bill_inBouse]

What's a vacation? Trouble with being retired....no more vacations, no holidays off to look forward to as a three day weekend, no weekends off period. Every day is the same


Sorry could not resist.

 

[pawncop]

Went to Chicago, watch the Cubs play the Cardinals at Wrigley, and watched the White Sox play the Rangers at U S Cellular field.

Mrs. Pawncop wanted to stop at Graceland and we listened to good jazz at B B Kings House of Blues on Beal Street.

 

[gr8AmericanBash]

Disney World with the kids, the Mrs. and the FIL

 

[feralmerril]

No vacation for us. But then we live in the middle of where many people go to on vacation. Cedar city, utah. Zion, bryce canyon, cedar breaks national parks are all a hour or less away. Couple hours to the grand canyon. Yesterday Theresa and I took a 3 hour quad trail ride of 25 miles up to 10,000 ft on the edge of cedar breaks by brian head ski resort.
Actualy this picture was last year same time and place. The colors are about a week later this year.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Suspect most of you wouldn't approve of some locales, but here's where I have traveled since April:

Chattanooga, TN, Las Vegas, New York City, Long Island, NY, New Jersey (various parts), Washington, DC, San Diego, Pittsburgh, PA, St. Michael's, MD, South Bend, IN, and Chicago.

Not sure if all properly meet the definition since retirement means every day is "vacation."

Be safe.

I think all those places would be great vacation spots. It's fun going anywhere in the U.S. and meeting people who you might expect to be different than you but aren't at all.

 

[gunlovingirl]

I had to keep postponing due to health issues and tests, but finally made it to MI to see friends and family. There's a lot of places I'd like to see, but I can't think of anywhere that would compare with seeing my family, and the hug I got from my granddaughter when I left. Priceless!

 

[mstuhr]

200 miles on the Gasconade and Cacklefest @ Indy

Howdy,
I had to slow fire all summer due to a shoulder surgery. We did get in 200 miles of the Gasconade River in kayaks. Great scenery and camping.
We went from the south west side of Buzzard Bluff to the northeast side of the river between Hwy.63 and Jefferson City.
Great trip.

I was back for three days and took of for Indy NHRA nationals and Cacklefest.

NHRA at St. Louis is back on the schedule for 2012!
Thanks
Mike

 

[MackTech]

Took more vacations this year than ever. Flew out to Vegas in January, never been there before and loved it. Then me , the wife and kids flew down to Orlando and did the Disney thing. Then a couple of months ago me and the wife pulled the boat to Lake of the Ozarks and went to Party Cove and had a blast. Not to kid friendly at Party Cove but it sure was fun! However, we bought a place on the Ky lake this year so every weekend is like a vacation. I've been working at the same place for 22 years and would only take a vacation once every 3 years so I'm finally starting to get away more often.

 

[feralmerril]

I have a flaw. I live in a beautiful area and have lived in other beautiful areas. Yet in a short while I get restless in the prettiest areas. My very best times has always been traveling or at the wheel of every type of vehicle, motorcycle, quad or airplane. I have been in stunning wilderness areas, most the national parks, beachs etc. Yet in a very short time I get bored and have to be hitting the road or trail. I am constantly looking at local trail maps and road maps. Where I live, while being almost in the bullseye of where people come to see on the other side of the world, yet there are few roads here, relatively speaking. Once you have lived here in a short while you discover I have drove every road and most trails possible several times within a 100 miles. To see new country you have to keep going farther, and that involves motels that I have a hard time paying for. If I was to do life over I could be quite happy truck driveing cross country. But even then, I know Theresa wouldnt put up with me showing up two days a month!

 

[hsguy]

I am on vacation now, got to check the forum though. We are over in Kauai, here are a couple of shots I took.

 

[bummer]

Baseball HOF and a Harrisburg Senators game with the family unit

 

[The Big D]

You are quite correct, Wyatt Burp.

Be safe.

I think all those places would be great vacation spots. It's fun going anywhere in the U.S. and meeting people who you might expect to be different than you but aren't at all.

 

[slumpy]

My vacation is working, working, and then a weekend of honeydo list. I haven't took a real vacation since 2000. I even had to look vacation up in the dictionary.