What are your vacation plans this year?

We're taking a couple of extra days to do fun family stuff in the Black Hills when we drop off DS at college. Unfortunately he moves in during the 1st weekend of the Sturgis bike rally so we'll try to avoid some of the busiest areas. Hopefully the third time's a charm for weather--last year & then almost 10 years ago when we were in the Black Hills in August it was cold & rainy

The beach area and the beautiful bay. While others in our group headed to shopping during free time we walked up the mountain and sat on a bench overlooking the Bay of Biscay. We were the only ones up there and it was so peaceful. Later, we returned to the hotel and took a nap. Found a little place to eat dinner and sat on the back patio. The waiter didn't speak any English but was adorable in his efforts to please us. I took his picture and it is in our scrapbook of the trip. Then at dusk we took the local bus back to the beach and there were still lots of people swimming. It was just magical. Two days after we left they had a huge film festival and the big attraction was A Star Is Born. We can see why people from all over Spain head to San Sebastian for holiday.

Our waiter:

The view from our bench:

We were at Brevard for concerts 3 weeks ago. We go every year for our music, mountains fix. It is a wonderful, beautiful camp, and the level of musicianship is outstanding. Is your son in the high school orchestra?

We've done a few Saturday trips (Baltimore, Gettysburg) and a few longer trips (one or two nights) to PA to see family, and may do a night in the Poconos in the fall. We've also talked about taking a super early Amtrak up to NYC for the day. We had talked about doing New England for our anniversary, but that may have to wait until next year. I just want to go somewhere. Anywhere. DH and I haven't done a more than one night trip in 7 years.

We took our kids to NYC for a few days before a short cruise to Bermuda at the beginning of June. We also spent several days at the beach at the end of June with my family as well as last week with DH's parents. School starts back in less than a month, so trying to get stuff done around the house before that gets here.

I’m buying a custom dressage saddle instead of a vacation. Planning on London in 2025.

We booked a last minute (for us) trip to Disney World for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party because we want some time at our happy place.

We did a 10 day tour of Portugal, 11 days in Spain, and an 11 day tour of Budapest, Vienna, and Prague.  The tours were through AAA--Trafalgar and Insight--we've used  them before and really enjoyed all the tours through them.  In between the tours we did Spain on our own, though the travel agent at AAA booked the hotels for us--4 days in Cadiz (fabulous little town on the southern coast of Spain) , 2 in Seville, and 5 in Madrid.  Unfortunately, I got the flu so while in Seville and Madrid was just not feeling well, so much of our plan there didn't happen. But the tours and Cadiz were really fabulous!
Our first trip to Europe was pre-pandemic--we did 42 days, we started with a 11 day tour of Italy (with AAA-- Trafalgar), the balance was on our own--4 days in Germany at a friends house, 5 days in Paris, a week in Barcelona, 3 days in Sevilla, 3 days in Torremolinos, 3 days in Malaga, 3 days in Nerja, 3 days in Granada.  On this trip too, we had our fab AAA agent book hotels based on our request to be near sights we wanted to see in older hotels rather than chains.  We were really happy with the entire trip.



 

I just returned last night from a 3 week trip with my sister to Iceland and Denmark.

The first week was spent on an Icelandic horse farm with 10 other ladies trekking around the countryside.
The second week just the 2 of us rented a campervan and and toured around Iceland's Ring Road.
The third week we flew to Copenhagen then rented a car, drove along the southern coast of Sweden to take a ferry to the Danish island of Bornholm. This is where our grandmother was born and her family lived here for hundreds of years at least. It is a popular island for Danes to vacation on, but not too many tourists. Then we returned to spend a few days in Copenhagen where our grandfather was from before flying home last night.

In two weeks my husband and I are going to Rockport Massachusetts for 2 weeks. I love whale watching and will be doing as many trips as possible out of Gloucester.

We've already done our travelling for the year. Palm Springs for a few days and then Canada (Jasper/Banff/Vancouver) and then an Alaskan Cruise.

We’re heading back to Koh Samui, Thailand, in six weeks. I cannot wait to get out of this dreary Melbourne winter and into the heat of Thailand!

We usually do a few small trips throughout the year, but this year we are going all out with one long vacation. We are flying to London and taking a cruise out of Dover, going to nine countries. We are staying in London for a few days after the cruise.

I am going on a Girls Bicycling Trip in France the end of August...So looking forward to that

Then a Mission trip to the Hospital in Guatamala we support in November,
After which a Group of us are taking a side trip to Tikal for 2 days!!!