Best Vacations

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purelife

#15
Jun 12 07 08:55
My fiance's grandma treated us to a trip to Harrison where we stayed at this place near the beach.  This was my first "real" vacation.  We enjoyed our evenings playing on the beach with other people.  We played all the old games such as duck duck goose, some sort of tag/freeze game, hacky sack, etc.  We also went to the springs.  (my first time again)

It was the BEST vacation and most relaxnig.  

I can't wait to do other things like go camping.
 

Sportsdude

#16
Jun 12 07 09:13
camping rules  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

P.C.

#17
Jun 12 07 09:31
 take the cruise from Miami to the Mediterranean when the cruise lines are repositioning their ships around May each year......its around $1500 for a 17 day cruise, then travel around Europe by train....need to fly back from London though.

  This sounds interesting 49er.  How come you need to fly back?  This won't work....lol   but the rest sounds good.

  SD...I'm really not afraid of flying.....I love the sensation of take off and landing......it's the clausterphobic atmosphere and the abrupt unscheduled 'landings'.[/DIV]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

#18
Jun 12 07 09:35
ah, I see. I've never had any abrupt landings. Then again my family did when I was a toddler flying TWA, but that was like the worst airline on the planet. Engines fell from the sky a few times and landed in Forest Park once. lol
They're long gone anyway. phew.
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

#19
Jun 12 07 10:10
I like road trips.  We went to Barkerville a few years ago.  That was a hoot.
 
 I also like car camping, as long as we're stopped in one place for a couple days at a time.
 
 Never been backpack camping with Heckyl and Jeckyl yet.  They could probably manage now.
 
 I haven't travelled off the continent for years.  Just interior BC, Island, Seattle and Cali.
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

#20
Jun 12 07 10:27
I've always wanted to go back and see Barkerville.  I wonder how much it's changed.  Haven't been there since I was  a kid.  But I remember thinking it was pretty cool back then.  I think we camped somewhere called Inkameep or Imkaneep or something like that.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

#21
Jun 12 07 10:30
what's Barkerville?  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

#22
Jun 12 07 10:32
Hmmm.  There's an "Inkameep" (currently spelled Nk'Mip) campground on the lake in Osoyoos.  Owned by the Nk'Mip band.  They also have desert tours and a winery.  
 
 Barkerville is EXACTLY the same.  The kids loved it.  I thought it was the GREATEST PLACE EVER as a kid, but it was ho hum as an adult.  (in the same way that Xmas and BDays are so much more when you're a kid...)
 
 
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Lil Me

#23
Jun 12 07 10:35
[a href="vny!://www.barkerville.ca/"]vny!://www.barkerville.ca/[/a]  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Sportsdude

#24
Jun 12 07 10:35
 oh cool ghost town  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

#25
Jun 12 07 10:40
P.C.- some of the old "hotels" in Barkerville are now open as historic B&Bs.  You might like that- with all the antique furnishings.  Personally, I found the idea of sleeping in a ghost town museum a little spooky- we stayed in a normal hotel in Quesnel.
 
 After that, we stayed on a buffalo ranch in Clearwater before going home.  THAT was awesome.  There are B&B rooms and a campground.
 [a href="vny!://www.buffaloranch.ca/"]vny!://www.buffaloranch.ca/[/a]
 
 
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

WS

#26
Jun 12 07 10:59
Barkerville!  I think I was 5 or 6 when we took that trip...  I vaguely remember standing at the 'gold trough?' panning...  I think I still have that pan...  
Nothing gold can stay.

P.C.

#27
Jun 13 07 07:04
I'm thinking BC Tourism needs to get on the ball with their websites.

I just spent half an hour looking up maps to various places, and found the results to be pretty useless.  You shouldn't need to hit page 3 on a google search to find a map of the place you're searching.  This is the map of Barkerville after a half hour search.

  [INPUT id=multimap title="Click map to zoom" style="WIDTH: 494px; HEIGHT: 257px" type=image alt=Map src="vny!://mc.multimap.com/cs/mi30//M-5/Y27/M-54108Y27856S25W700H400.gif?pdel_id=20070613202449769&service_seq=2585" size=12 name=multimap]

  Then there's the informative 'Map' called Mile by Mile......which I though would be perfect.  It basically is a list in text of how to get somewhere.  This is not a map !  There were 'helpful' links to expand the 'map' for various points along the way.  This is an example of the highway to Barkerville.  I don't know about anybody else, but I know for me personally, I would probably get lost using this 'map'.

  [img alt="Highway Photo: View from highway" src="vny!://www.milebymile.com/hwy_item_images/photo_CA_BC_26_39819_7348.jpg" width=400 align=center]    
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Devil

#28
Jun 13 07 07:34
My best vacation was spending a few weeks with my relatives in Scotland. They taught me how to drink, so I was prepared for university!

I guess the next best holiday would have been Cancun at Spring Break during university. Oh I fell in love with a girl that first night of the week...then a different girl the second night...etc...I love Cancun's sandy beaches. omg that was nice!!  

P.C.

#29
Jun 13 07 07:52
That sounds wonderful Devil.  

  You know, I wonder if we 'romanticize' vacations we had as kids, because we're seeing everything through fresh eyes.....without the jaded opinions we develop as we get older.

Things never seem to be the same when we revisit. (aside from the normal growth and 'progress')

Guess it just goes to show you, we need to appreciate everything the first time around.....as it will never be the same again.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.
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