So where will you be vacationing this summer?

[mvd]

I'll be resuming my DU-posting break to go to Charleston, SC this month. I'm anxious to try that seafood and Southern grits.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. I'll be up in CT a bunch.

which means a lot of striper fishing, tubing so fast I'll suffer some sort of injury almost daily, tanning, and pulling up to the fanciest yachts in Stone Harbor, RI to say, "Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?" then jetting off in my small, but fast boat.

[Tikki]

2. On the hottest day of the year....

...we always end up going to one of hottest places on Earth....well, that's what you get for getting married in August...your Anniversary is going to be in August, also.


The Tikkis

[blondeatlast]

3. BERLIN! And possibly Rome and Prague.

Mr BAL has been business-tripping there a lot and loves it, so the BAL family is going.

Counting the days, hours, minutes...

[mvd]

4. Wow, wish I could go

Have never been out of the U.S. and Canada.

Everyone have a good weekend! :hi:

[blondeatlast]

7. This will be a first time for me, too, unless you count

border towns in Mexico and Canada.

I promise oodles of pictures.

[mvd]

11. Can't wait to see

My grandfather's family came from Italy. Even he hasn't gone.

[Kellanved]

27. Neat!

PM me, if you have any questions.

Have you booked a Reichstag tour? It is worth the hassle.

http://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/info/besucherinfo/faltblatt06.pdf

[LeftyMom]

5. I still don't know if I'm going anywhere

:pout:

[Nikia]

6. Since I will be starting a new job, I will not get vacation time summer

There are people who do vacation in the area where my new job is located though (about an hour away from where I live now).

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. What's a vacation?

:think:

[seemunkee]

9. Atlantic City, NYC, Boston road trip in 2 weeks

Hopefully somewhere else late in the summer like Costa Rica, but that remains to be seen

[huskerlaw]

10. San Francisco

and Lake Tahoe!

I'm not leaving California this summer (except for a work thing in St. Louis)...but it's ok, cuz I'm spending the summer showing CA off to a friend from Belgium.

Next summer, however...the UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands. :woohoo:

[Mutley]

12. In a classroom.

:P

[GOPisEvil]

13. Vacation? What's that?

*grumble*

[no name no slogan]

14. HEY

that's what I was going to say.

* grumble grumble *

[GOPisEvil]

15. Maybe next year...

That's the worst thing about starting a new job: no vacation. x(

[no name no slogan]

16. I hear ya there

I had to burn all my leave time last year for my hospital stay & recovery (didn't qualify for FMLA yet), and it looks like they'll make me burn what little sick/vac time I have now before I DO qualify for FMLA.

I really hate being sick. It's a pain in the ass. :)

[GOPisEvil]

18. I'm currently earning a day per month...

:woohoo:

Next year...two whole weeks!

:party:

[PassingFair]

30. Montreal and Vermont

We are in the "dreaming" stages now.
Next will come the planning stage.
Then we will make the leap into the
actual vacation!

[mvd]

28. Sorry to hear you won't be getting one

Hope you make up for it with a great one next year!

BTW, it should be about Tuesday I get ready for mine.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Hopefully......

All over the frikkin' country! We shall see.......:bounce: :bounce:

[Merrick]

19. Just went to New York and Seattle, so...

probably nothing extensive as I've been gone ten days in the last month or so from work. Probably a short camping trip or two here in SoCal

[tinfoilinfor2005]

20. Disney World.

Eight year old granddaughter coming down to Florida before school starts. Her first time. My two millionith and first. But I will enjoy watching her. :)

[Initech]

21. Well, I wanted to go to the MLB All Star game in Pittsburgh...

but since I couldnt get tickets thanks to their lame-ass raffle system, it looks like I wont get to do that. :grr:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. England!

My first trip over the Atlantic since I was a senior in high school (which is before most of you DUers were born).

I'll spend the first 11 days with a tour group from my church attending a music festival and seeing some of the sights of London. Then I'll have ten days on my own with a BritRail pass. :7

So far, I know I want to go to Canterbury, Bath, York, and Oxford and/or Cambridge. I just haven't figured out in what order. :-)

I've been reading guidebooks like crazy. I'm a firm believer in reading guidebooks before visiting a foreign country because:

1) It answers all the FAQs. (e.g. "What is there to see in London?" "What kind of money do they use in England?" etc.)

2) It answers all the questions you didn't know you had. ("Oyster card?")

3) It gives you the historical and cultural background of the places you're going to see. (I already know a fair amount about English history, but it helps to have reminders about what sights can still be seen.)

4) It gives you an idea of the price ranges you can expect to find. ("Ooh, England looks expensive. I think I'll stick to B&B's.")

[PassingFair]

29. DON'T bypass the Lake District....

it's the most wonderful place on the planet
(from my limited perspective.....)

[UTUSN]

23. uh, at DU? n/t

[bridgit]

24. yosemite, we're too busy to take a proper vacation, plus it's just down...

http://www.nationalparkreservations.com/yosemite.htm road about 3-4hrs, we take little ones all the time with what we do though, so that parts cool :thumbsup:

[clyrc]

25. Germany, Florida, and Oklahoma

I have to wait til the end of July, though.

[gkdmaths]

26. oh, lucky you!

Ill be taking my leave to visit work for two weeks to write the manuscript for submission to a journal. It promises to be relaxing.

I must be on crack. or at least I should be.

[mvd]

31. Ok, I will see everyone after my vacation sometime

:hi:

[tigereye]

32. Gettysburg, perhaps

maybe some Civil War and other historical sites.

We read the Killer Angels this spring, and that whet(ted)? my appetite.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. I'm only 90 minutes from there...

and my sister lives there now. She could probably give me some good info to pass along, if you like.

[tigereye]

36. I'd love to stay in that haunted hotel they talk about

we went to San Francisco last year, so it seems some traveling at this end of the country is in order.

thanks!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. A couple of days in New Hampshire

a couple in the Berkshires, and a couple in Cleveland.

[swag]

34. Just hanging around the Pacific Northwest. Will be up to Seattle

a few times, will probably hit the ocean once or twice, and the Columbia Gorge, but mostly I'll just be in Portland, working on the weekdays.

No real vacation until November, when I hope to get a couple weeks to bounce around Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Manzanillo, that part of Mexico.

Have a good time in Charleston.

[Ramsey]

37. In my backyard

I just bought a new house, so there went my vacation funds!
Luckily it has a pool.

[Burma Jones]

38. We've been to Wrightsville Beach

and will be down in Williamsburg next week. After that, we wait for our daughter to be born in August......

[Burma Jones]

39. Wife and I used to go to Charleston once a year

left our kids with their Grandparents in Wilmington, NC and drove down 17, through Myrtle Beach, down to Charleston. One of the world's finest Restaurant cities, for real. also have some cool experimental theatre, a decent art house cinema and good live music.

There's a place, I forget the name, but they have great beignets, up near the courthouse....

[yellowdogintexas]

40. I am spending a few days in KY with my sister and attending

my 40 high school reunion.

In September, I am hoping that the 3 of us (husband, daugher and I ) will head down to Port Aransas/Corpus Christi area for a week. I have a friend who will rent us her beach house for the week. It is all about coordinating the days off.

[u4ic]

41. Edmonton

x(

[Shine]

42. Maui, baby!

The kids have been to Kauai, but never Maui. :woohoo:

Aloha! :hi:

[Floogeldy]

43. Vacant what? Vacant nation?

Could you repeat the question. }(