The Vacation Thread

azgreg

Post them here. Plans, trips, bucket list, pics, etc. All of it.

azgreg

I'll start. Wheels up in 24 hours for France. Not looking forward to the flight.

4.5 hour flight to Montreal
5.5 hour layover in Montreal
6.5 hour flight to Paris
4.5 hour period in Paris
3 hour train ride to Bayeax, Normandy

It's going to be a long day.

azgreg

azgreg
Leg one finished.

mikeintopeka

I'm on vacation this week and flew to LA to watch my daughter graduate from USC with her Doctorate in Ed with our family. Kind of chilling out the rest of the week with some sightseeing and off to the beach today.

LA downtown where we are staying is sad with all the homelessness. Dodged human feces on the sidewalk walking to/from dinner last night. It's pretty neat this is the 50th anniversary (within weeks) of my first commercial airliner flight ever when flying to LA to attend a convention at the LA Biltmore Hotel as a high school delegate. Walking the halls of that hotel yesterday brought back a lot of memories. Can't wait to fill the rental Suburban with a tank of gas before checking it back in on Sunday - NOT!

Tcafla

What’s a vacation?

Mattyv

We have a big roadie planned to visit some Universities.

Phoenix to Boulder, CO with a stop near Arches National park.

Boulder to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with stops in Zion National Park and Fabulous Las Vegas.

Cal Poly to The University of California San Diego with a beach day or two worked in.

2800 miles over 7-9 days at the beginning of June. Hopefully the 4 of us don't kill each other.

darpar

Mattyv with stops in Zion National Park

Good luck getting into the park, it's super over crowded these days.
Get there real early if you go!

Walterjn

Mattyv Cal Poly to The University of California San Diego with a beach day or two worked in.

Consider Santa Barbara for one of those beach days. Only a couple of hours south of San Luis Obispo, and a couple of hours north of L.A. right on the coast.

sdandrea1

I'm on vacation every day so I'll post in the "Whatchya got going on" thread. 😎

Have a great trip, Greg!

ode

Nothing concrete yet, but possibly UP (Michigan), next week Wednesday --> Friday

Sweetgrass, Sage Run / Gladstone, Greywalls / Timberstone, Pine Grove CC

Hayward, WI - Big Fish and some of the courses in the surrounding areas of up north, Turtleback, Spooner GC, Hayward CC and figuring out something along the way, Bass Lake, St. Germain, maybe Wild Ridge🤔

Spartan

Michigan for a week in July. My wife's great niece is having a HS graduation party. Unfortunately she elected to enroll at Michigan.

Tentative plans to go to Europe in December for beer drinking and Christmas markets. We'll have to see how the virus is going.

Mattyv

darpar

Probably only doing 4-5 hours. Do they limit the number of people coming in? It will be on a Tuesday.

azgreg

Zion and Bryce Canyon are awesome.

darpar

Mattyv Do they limit the number of people coming in

Yes and it might be by a lottery system now.
I think Zion is like the 2nd or 3rd busiest NP in the country.
Bryce shouldn't be quite so crowded......Zion is almost like going to Disneyland.
You have to wait in line for everything , we're only 45mins away and we don't even go there.
Let's just say it's NOT a hidden secret anymore......awesome place if you can get in though!

Mattyv

darpar

Thanks. Maybe we switch it up and go to Bryce instead. It is a bit fluid still.

garyt1957

darpar we went to Zion last November, not crowded at all.

azgreg

darpar

When we went two years ago we went in October. Not a lot of people that time of year.

darpar

garyt1957 we went to Zion last November, not crowded at all.

Of course in in winter it's not as bad, but spring through the fall it gets pretty busy.

johnnydoom

No planned vacations. Wife and daughter went to Disney World on a HS Band trip in Feb. If the company comes through with an (as of now) unexpected bonus I might spring for something to end the summer.

garyt1957

darpar that's my point, might be a good time to plan a trip. We were still in shorts. I think we went in April also and it was packed

fatshot

We've been recruited to watch our 16 year old and 12 year old granddaughters in Columbus while daughter / SIL
celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in Hawaii. While I'm there, I'll probably play golf with my oldest son
who also lives in the area, visit The Golfworks HQ in Newark, and go to a minor league baseball game....Does that count as a vacation??? 😁

garyt1957

Just got back from 4 days in Hocking Hills Ohio, great hiking