Ahhhhhh....Vacations.....

[blithe spirit]

I am starting my Spring break right now...I know some of ya'll have been teachers and some of you still are, so I know you can appreciate the feeling.

This got me to thinking about relaxation...even if we don't work a job everyday, I imagine we all have a routine we might like to take a break from...

What kinda things help you flip that switch from work mode to vacation mode...

For me, I like a change of scenery...I like to go places...do different things...sometimes travel.

[crestofwaves]

I've seen these kinds of ADHD fits  in one form or another.  Just think of it as a chemical thing going wrong or like an epileptic fit. Stay detached.  When he gets over it, he will be a sweet kid again.

[ProblemAgain]

myrtle beach was mentioned and serendipity strikes...

Myrtle Beach: What to See, What to Skip

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• Myrtle Beach: What to See, What …

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guess the onliest thing lacking is a map to frenchy's house....

[crestofwaves]

We are going there mid April.  When I signed on to this job, I told them I had that week for vacation and they said OK, so OK it is.  We have hopes of moving to the area since we have friends and family down there.

I am off this week.  Wow. I feel like the person I was for the past seven months.  Work and I just do not get along anymore.  Love love love being free.

And, best of all, I opened a brand new, fresh, pakage of coffee today, so THAT was the way I started my day at 10:30.

[Kim]

Over the course of my 47 years, I've enjoyed many vacations...nothing terribly exotic or much different than what millions of people do but enjoyable none the less. MY "FAVORITE" is to go to the beach but I LOVE when I discover something I've never seen or been before. The longing for a vacation when you cant take one because of time or money or BOTH can be frustrating but I know if I just go to a nearby lake, enjoy the scenery, the birds, etc and take some pictures (for NO real reason except to relive the moments when I get home is a good way to have a "mini vacation". I also enjoy taking a Novel (NOT anything non fiction...but "escape fiction" to a full serve restaurant and just eating slowly and drinking (usually sweet tea but sometime hot tea) The restaurant thing was an easy way to recharge myself when I had kids at home and NOW its good because I LIVE with an old couple all week and they ARE like children sometimes.

MY HOPED FOR vacations THIS year are simple but may be quite tricky to obtain as its difficult in MY job to get any time off. I want to go to Wisconsin. My 27 year old son lives there and when I was up there before, i fell in love with Wisconsin!! I want to go to Tennessee because I used to live there and I miss it SOOOOO MUCH. AND...to see my mom and stepdad although they are TRYING to move to Florida and may be gone by the time I get down there. My boyfriend and I WILL be going to lake Erie like we did last year. We stay in cottages that are on the beach and across the street are the grape vineyards as its wine country up there. That's about the only definite vacation so far.

[Lifesighs]

I like the day trips, many memories of the 4 hour drive to get to the ferry to Mackinaw Island spend the day walking or horse back riding around the Island, ferry back to the car and a leisure drive to get home by midnight.

I always slept so well after a full day.

At this time of year we always planned a trip to Frankenmuth for shopping and family style chicken dinners.

Those were the days when my son was a kid when we lived in Michigan.

[uno,dos,3]

don't know when I'll be back again, babe I hate to go.....it's a Boeing 787 dreamliner......

[blithe spirit]

Ya'll taking this on the road I see....or the air as it seems.

[crestofwaves]

We are day trippers as well, and Sunday "let's go for a drive" people too.  I like planned as well as spontaneous jaunts.  some of the best things ever happened spur of the moment. 

 

When I was married the first time, my husband, a good man, just was not my partner.  We were too different.  So, I started going for long rides by myself or with the kids, stopping for lunch either alone or with the kids, and I loved stopping to get things like Snapple and chips ( I was younger--could eat chips in those days) and just drive and listen to music. There is a country song that calls a car a "juke box on wheels."  That's what it has always been to me.

 

[Mickchick]

My late husband and I used to take day trips all over the north Georgia mountains, up to NC and TN, while he was alive.  Our vacations each year consisted of flying to a locale, renting a car, then driving the wheels off of it for the next 9 days before flying back home and back to work.  The only time we deviated was the year we drove from Atlanta to San Antonio, TX, via Montgomery, Mobile, Biloxi, New Orleans, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, then returning through Waco, Austin, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Norman, OK., Hot Springs, AK., Memphis ... we didn't stop everywhere, we didn't spend more than a couple of hours someplaces, but we sure did get to see a lot of the country!  We did the Northeast from Baltimore to Acadia National Park in Maine, across to Buffalo, NY and Niagara Falls, the Green Mountains in Vermont, and Gettysburg and Amish country in PA,  Another time we flew to Denver, then drove through Wyoming, Jackson Hole, The Grand Teutons, up through Yellowstone, across Montana, up to Glacier National Park, then across Idaho (Couer d'Alene was beautiful!), through Spokane, to Seattle, and then back down to Mt. St. Helen, down to Oregon, across Oregon, southern part of Idaho, dipped into Nevada, and Utah to see Salt Lake City, and back to Denver.  Another trip started from Minneapolis, across Minnesota, through Fargo (I HAD to see if people really talked the way they did in the movie, Fargo!  They did!) across the badlands, through Montana, Great Falls, and back again this time going through southern Montana (Custer's Last Stand), Buffalo, WY, and SD - Mt. Rushmore, Geronimo, Wall (that great "drugstore" there), The Corn Palace in Nebraska, and last but not least, the Indian Casino (for him) and The Mall of the Americas (for me!)  Those are memories that will last a lifetime!  

[frenchy]

the only place you missed mickey was the corner in winslow arizona .. i'm surprised at you .. 

[Mickchick]

Damn, I missed that one when I was in Arizona with my ex-husband, too, lol!  We hit Colorado Springs, the 4 corners,  Bryce Canyon in Utah, Flagstaff, Sedona, Phoenix, Tucson, and Bisbee, then swung through Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and the Painted Desert in New Mexico on the way back to Chicago ... or were we living in Iowa by then?  One forgets, lol!  Ah well, maybe the next road trip to the SW will include Winslow!

[crestofwaves]

Chief, that sounds like an ideal day.  I miss days like that.  Will have to take them up again, even if I have to go alone.  My husband can't walk around a lot anymore since he is becoming disabled.