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I know most will have a combo of the options, but I am looking for your #1.

For me, a road trip through Western USA.

Working my a** off is my number 1 but it wouldn't be my first choice, that's for sure.

My choice would be being at home and/or hitting the various parks/beaches.
 

Camping for sure.
 Gimme sunshine.  Gimme lake.  Gimme my big red cooler.
   

Working my ass off and sitting at home. We're not going to do much this summer. *sigh*

working my ass off to continue to save for my 2010 trip to the philipines sighs sure not my first choice either i would raher be fishing... which is a choice ur forgot on ur poll :))


 

^sorry Orik. But that could have been a choice made under 'other'.

Only place I might go this summer is down to Florida to visit the matriarch since I'm the only grandkid that calls her.  

What part of Florida? That would be a hot place in the summer.

Sarasota and Siesta Key best public beach in the U.S.
 Be one with the Manatees!
 Oma lives there. Only place in Florida I like, the island of Siesta Key is awesome. Its a great village of about 7k.
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 Everybody goes to Miami (its not a relaxing place) or Panama City (which is a dump northern florida is a dump, full of self identified red necks lol) you'll have a better time in the Sarasota area. Not a lot of tourists and more things to do (snorkeling, manatees, etc).
 
 So there's my 'if you want to go to Florida go here' suggestion.
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Siesta Key

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I have been to Miami (and Miami Beach). I was there in mid winter and the weather was perfect. I wasn't there to relax though. I was there to party my a*s off. and I did! That was a few years ago. Ahh, so many girls there! Was nice to leave too. Couldn't imagine living there. But that is just me. I would love to just visit busy cities, but not actually live in one.  After 5 days in Miami, Vancouver seemed so sleepy. But that is not always a bad thing!

Ah yeah. If you're into partying then you'd go there obviously.

For the life in me I don't understand Orlando. Its a waste of space in my opinion and its flat and ugly.

 

Oh OH!  MrPL is going to buy himself and myself (was that good grammar?) bikes!  I can't wait!  He is dying to go bike riding.  Me thinks we're going to go all summer long.

Sounds like fun times, purelife.  

   
 

Ah! Michel's a Key's kinda guy? Spend enough time down on the keys, you'll become friends with Jimmy Buffet.


 

   

 

baah meant Jimmy Buffett. lol
Yeah my dad said they had a family vacation down to Key West one summer. He absolutely hated it. The Keys were boring and it took forever to get to a tiny village that had nothing to do.

I was looking at the weather map of the States today on the back of the USA Today, realized I'd been everywhere on the map mostly in the South and Northeast. lol

Southerners will get mad at this, but I swear I don't understand why people would want to fight in the Civil War for a place that really isn't 'beautiful' per say. (love the food though)
 

   

No I'm not talking about that per say. Southerners have always had this we love dixie can't ever leave, greatest place in the world, defend it til we die, attitude. Southern Pride. I've always wondered pride in what? Yeah the Confederate Flag issue is always comical.

  Its a relationship they have with the land, not civil war stuff, but the land. But to me the land is ugly. Its just a bunch of low lying hills, broad leaf trees, and outside of Tennessee not much to look at in terms of scenery. I've just never 'got it' and I spent my whole life in this area, have family from this area and ties to the area. It's just utter confusion. You get pulled over in the South if you have a non dixie licence plate. Again strangeness. lol

  A couple of my friends from the Island who ventured down to Memphis thinking it was the place to be saw racism first hand when they befriended a black guy who showed them around town. It changed them all, they just couldn't believe what they were seeing.  

  That said, Sweet Tea along with Soul and Creole food of Louisiana is awesome. Plus I always laugh when I take a bunch of friends on a trip who aren't used to Southern culture and look at me with puzzled stairs when I'm eating biscuits and gravy for breakfast at the hotel. lol  

Sportsdude wrote:
Ah yeah. If you're into partying then you'd go there obviously.

For the life in me I don't understand Orlando. Its a waste of space in my opinion and its flat and ugly.

 
 Never been right in the city of Orlando.  I heard it is good if you are a golfer?

Just curious though, isn't everything east of the Rockies flat? I know there are hills here and there, like the Ozarks. But still...

I've always wanted to go to Hazzard County.  

To see the Dukes, Lil Me ?

Yes!  To party with the good ole boys and ride around in the car.  

LOL.....good ol fun indeed.

    SD wrote:  Its just a bunch of low lying hills, broad leaf trees, and outside of Tennessee not much to look at in terms of scenery.

    I wanna know what you have against broad leaf trees. [img onclick="selecte('eh.gif');" alt=emoticon src="vny!://www.pushupstairs.com/images/emoticon/blehnet/eh.gif" border=0]  I like broad leaf trees.  There's nothing wrong with broad leaf trees.  I think that's out and out discrimination against broad leaf trees.  Do you think broad leaf trees don't feel bad that they have to stand around naked all winter ?  Well do ya ?  

Do you spray paint your broad leaf trees black, Miss PC?  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/4.gif)   If you do, then I don't like 'em.  

 Van wrote:[em][/em]
 Just curious though, isn't everything east of the Rockies flat? I know there are hills here and there, like the Ozarks. But still...


Once you go West, nothing back East seems big anymore. The mountains are merely bluffs. Once you go West you don't go back. lol

Ozarks are Plateaus, not really a mountian. People wear no shoes in this part. lol

I've got nothing against broadleafs especially in spring and fall.

Just in the South. Besides Tennessee.

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Tennessee mountains. You get all the pollution with it too! Which is a shame.

 

     
 

Hahaha but every place is like that. lol Immigration/migration practices.

 

   
 

I don't know, when cities places know they're the best they sure do boast about it.
London, Paris, the entire country of France, The US, NY, etc.

 

   

 

True I guess. I just think of it as marketing mixed with history.
Like someone says Rio, Thailiand, Tokyo, Hong Kong, St. Louis lol it gives off certain imagery and stereotypes of what we think of the city / place / country.
 

On my PBS station this program about old steam rail roads did this segment on Kettle Valley Railway in the Okanagan in Summerland.

Looked up the website:
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A good weekend vacation idea.

 

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  My Summer!

I'll probably be spending the summer on Discover Vancouver, Discover Seattle, and possibly soapcentral.com.

Sportsdude wrote:
On my PBS station this program about old steam rail roads did this segment on Kettle Valley Railway in the Okanagan in Summerland.

Looked up the website:
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A good weekend vacation idea.

 I biked this valley, over the big rail trestles. Pretty cool to see.

So....it's 2008.  I got that.  But today was the first day that it actually felt like REAL summer.  It was hot and lovely. (even if I did have to work in the workshop all day, I was appreciative)