Favorite Vacation Destination?

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by Phireman

Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Forest...

Run Forrest! Run!

I won't go that far, I simply enjoy traveling and perhaps it is time to see outside the Lower 48.

[mspivey]

Hope I haven't been there yet. Hard to pick from Page Az, Jellystone, Blace Hills and Everglades.

But I've been to the Buffalo River area of Arkansas about 10 times since I discovered it last winter. That's my fav 3 hour drive place.

[okiebybirth]

Bali - Great surfing, interesting culture, and the first volcanic ash beach I've ever seen.

Turkey - Good Turkish bath and love the bazaar.

Rehoboth Beach, DE - Nice beach with a old boardwalk complete with a amusement park and arcade games.  Good outlet shopping outside the beach area.

[OurTulsa]

New York City!  and then Boston, Chicago, Philly, actually enjoy St. Louis too.  So much to see and do, never a dull moment and don't have to spend half your trip stuck in traffic or enduring a mind numbing drive from area to area.  All of those cities, for me and the fam (including the little ones) are very engaging and entertaining.  My biggest little one was enamoured with NYC and cried the entire day we came back.  The little one is now determined to go to law school at NYU or Columbia.

Our draw is the culture and diversity.  We really enjoy the variety that you encounter; in people and products.  Music and performing arts are also one of our callings.  It's nice have access to such a cacaphony of expression.  Oh, the diversity of food is also vedddy nice.

We've never really been interested in going to a resort/beach outside of the Hamptons, or the Cape.  Even there we spend more of our time in the towns.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by OurTulsa

New York City!  and then Boston, Chicago, Philly, actually enjoy St. Louis too.  So much to see and do, never a dull moment and don't have to spend half your trip stuck in traffic or enduring a mind numbing drive from area to area.  All of those cities, for me and the fam (including the little ones) are very engaging and entertaining.  My biggest little one was enamoured with NYC and cried the entire day we came back.  The little one is now determined to go to law school at NYU or Columbia.

Our draw is the culture and diversity.  We really enjoy the variety that you encounter; in people and products.  Music and performing arts are also one of our callings.  It's nice have access to such a cacaphony of expression.  Oh, the diversity of food is also vedddy nice.

We've never really been interested in going to a resort/beach outside of the Hamptons, or the Cape.  Even there we spend more of our time in the towns.

OT- I spent a week out in New England about five years ago.  It had never dawned on me how close all those major cities are.  Makes sense considering rivers and horses were the way to get around back then.  The Portsmouth, NH area and southern Maine were probably my favorite places on that trip.  Haven't been to NYC in about 30 years, my daughters want to go.  Maybe next year or the year after.

Central Pa. is another interesting area.

[cannon_fodder]

I had a discussion with my son the other day, I don't remember what the question was - but the answer was "I'm not good at picking favorites."  Not favorite food, favorite wine, favorite movie... I'm just not good.  I can give you short lists though.

As per vacation:

New York - its an experience to be sure.  I love the hustle and bustle, the shows, the buildings, the history.  It's much more like a whole other country than Texas.

San Francisco - This place just baffles me.  It has most of the hustle of NYC.  You drive north through the city to get downtown (actually stayed with a friend at Franklin and Green) for a couple of hours.  But then, if you go 30 minutes north from there you are in farmland.  The weather, the bay, the people.  Interesting place.
(I'd show you pictures but my ****ing webserver is down again)

Rainy Lake Canada - Opening day for walleye season is the third Saturday in May.  The same group of guys has been going up there for nearly 30 years and I got an invite a while back.  Not sure if its the fishing, the guys, or the beer... but good times.

Key West - The beaches aren't the best.  The bar scene isn't really my cup of tea.  And its usually too expensive.  Still, for some reason, I love that place.

that said, I am hard pressed to remember a vacation or even a trip that I went on and did not enjoy.  A weekend in OKC, a bachelor party in KC, my honeymoon in St. Louis (we were poor, ok?), New Orleans, Des Moines for a wedding (Des Moines is a whole topic on this board... what a mid sized city does right), Virginia, DC, Memphis for the TU bowl...  great times all around. I suppose those listed above would be areas that I can see myself visiting time and again.  

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder


New York - its an experience to be sure.  I love the hustle and bustle, the shows, the buildings, the history.  It's much more like a whole other country than Texas.

Doing New York-in any season-is an experience I recommend to all (I would like to experience Christmas there, now that would be something!). I've gone for the beauty industry shows there, staying in mid-town Manhattan, and when we had free time, we would go to explore the city, take pics, window-shop, and even eat at some of the more interesting and unique places in the city.    

True story: We'd even tried to take in some of the trendier nightclubs: some of them-and that's very few of them- we were successful in getting into. But most of them we couldn't get into. Guess we didn't have "it." Have to be someone like Naomi Campbell or Alec Baldwin to get in, I suppose.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

True story: We'd even tried to take in some of the trendier nightclubs: some of them-and that's very few of them- we were successful in getting into. But most of them we couldn't get into. Guess we didn't have "it." Have to be someone like Naomi Campbell or Alec Baldwin to get in, I suppose.

Feh, who wants to hang out with low-lifes like them anyhow? []

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

True story: We'd even tried to take in some of the trendier nightclubs: some of them-and that's very few of them- we were successful in getting into. But most of them we couldn't get into. Guess we didn't have "it." Have to be someone like Naomi Campbell or Alec Baldwin to get in, I suppose.

Feh, who wants to hang out with low-lifes like them anyhow? []

Given that the exclusive nature of these nightclubs, it is not an everyday occurance, which makes it all the more enjoyable. Bearing in mind that of all the times I'd been to New York for conventions (as well as visiting my sister and her family, who live in Manhattan), I'd only been able to get into two such nightspots (I must have had "the right look"), and I gotta say, the "Beautiful People" do know how to have fun.

Then again, an ideal scenario for me would be to see "Saturday Night Live" and get into the afterparty. From what I get, this is the ultimate party in New York.