The vacation thread

[qbee42]

It's that time of year when many of us are going on vacation or wishing we were on vacation. I have a sailing trip coming up in a few weeks, so I'm starting to daydream about it. This started me thinking about all of my friends on PC, so here is my request:

Tell us your idea of a really good vacation.

Tom

[firepa63]

A month without PriusChat...

[xartis]

Well, I have a vacation coming up on Sept. 1st. My wife and I along with our 18mo. old daugter will be going to The "Beaches Sandy Bay" resort in Negril Jamaica. It will be our first vacation as a family so we are pretty excited. My wife and I have been to Jamaica before on a cruise 2 years ago, but we were only there for about 8 hours. The resort has a "Sesame Street" theme which our daughter will love. She can go cook cookies w/ cookie monster, go on scavanger hunts with other characters or eat breakfast with them also. And for the wife and I there are white sand beaches, glass bottom boats, free food and drink, beautiful scenery, etc. I don't know if this will be the best vacation, (our hawaiin honeymoon was pretty good) but it will be right up there.

[Neicy]

I just arrived home from my vacation last night. Hybridfest '08. Hopefully a separate thread will be/has been started for everyone to share their photos. But right now I'm exhausted from the drive home - 1100+ miles in 48 hours is a lot for me. Not to mention 5,941 new posts since I left. Next year I need to get a laptop to bring.

[vtie]

I went to Corsica in May, and plan to go to Jordan in October.
Just a few pics from beautiful Corsica:

[TonyPSchaefer]

Originally Posted by vtie

I went to Corsica in May, and plan to go to Jordan in October.
Just a few pics from beautiful Corsica:

wow.

[efusco]

The Corsica pix are outstanding vtie...and you'll find I rarely hand out compliments on photos.

I can't really answer the OPs question...a great vacation for me could be just about anything...ranging from a luxury trip at a resort on the ocean to a mountaineering adventure where I go weeks without a bath or real bed. A good vacation could simply be a novel cultural experience domestically or internationally.

Importanly it would NOT include my inlaws!

[freshmtt]

Well, we already took our big vacation this year. Here is a link to just some of the 670 photos I took on our trip to Ireland in March

Flickr: Secuencia de fotos de freshmtt

I only put up about 30 pics on flicker, well 29 of them are mine, there is 1 photo of the cliffs of moher that is not mine but all the other ones are mine.

I took about 670 some photos in the 10 days we were in Ireland. Had never been there before, WOW!!, beautiful country and so Green, and it made me go GREEN when I came home, traded in my SUV and bought my Prius only 19 days after coming back from Ireland, it was my deciding factor.

[vtie]

Originally Posted by efusco

The Corsica pix are outstanding vtie...and you'll find I rarely hand out compliments on photos.

Thank you! Taking pictures is one of the things I really enjoy.

But I realised that I did not answer the OP's question. So here I go: my two favourites are either

As high in the mountains as possible


Or scuba diving during the day and enjoying the beach of a tropical island in the evening:

[hyo silver]

vtie, I have a sudden urge to see ALL your pictures. I don't care what the subject matter is, they're bound to be excellent.