Hot, no.

Humid, absofuckinglutely.

Sitting in a Borders (wifi access) to check flight info again.

The 6th Floor Museum was really interesting.

Decided to pass on the Art Museum.

Will probably chill here at Borders for a bit, then maybe drive out to Irving to see Jerry Jones' Toilet Bowl.......

Bulgaria? Are you serious? Tell us more please.

Vacation ? What is that ?

What's to tell?

Typical European beach holiday with the Mrs. 2 weeks, 5-star hotel, breakfast and evening meal all paid for...

I'll tell more when I return.

Vegas in August

Ft Lauderdale/Miami in Nov/Dec

just finished LPN school, (graduate sturday, 6/30...) taking the fam to south MO on a float trip on the Current. Figure its the least i can do for them putting up with me for the last year...
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I'm taking a week long research trip to Yellowstone in late August. While half of the days will be filled with meetings and other structured research, the other half should be somewhat vacation-like.

Work hard, play hard...

I've been to canada fishing on several occassions. This place
at Ballards says we don't have to bring any gear or any bait.
All we have to do is bring clothes and a cooler :) They prepare all the
meals and clean all the fish. Heck, I'm going to try it out. I'll like fishing different locations, especially when they CLEAN the Fish.

The Current River is fun. So is the Huzzah River.

Prepare to be underwhelmed.

Are you studying the next eruption of the Super Volcano? We're doomed I tell ya! :)

That sounds even better. I love the taste of walleye, and trout, just about the only fresh water fish I care for.

Leave tomorrow for Sequoia National and then Yosemite Parks!!!!

Enjoy. You'll love it!

Well, did you make it back ok? Were you underwhelmed at the toilet bowl as lj4mvp suggested?

This is "El Verano de Vacaciones" for me.

I'm flying to Baltimore in late July and driving out to Ocean City, MD from there. I'll be there for 10 days visiting family.

Then I am flying out to Omaha in early September to hang out with Bugeater. Apparently he has some friends he wants me to meet, so we'll be doing that.

I have not taken one this year. I am saving up for a trip to mexico on a nice resort all inclusive style. Any suggestions would be great.

Great timing on this thread bump, Mrs. OTW58 and I were just talking about this trip tonight, as it was a 1st Anniversary trip and we just celebrated our 4th on Thursday.

We ended up DRIVING back to STL, because those ****ers canceled our flight a 2nd time. And there was massive flooding in North Texas at the time, so we had to take the long way - cutting across Arkansas and up I-55 from just outside Memphis.

IIRC the rental car fee was upwards of $400. AA gave us enough FF mileage to cover 4 round trip flights, so it could have been worse.

Going to Salida, CO next week for white water rafting, then Chicago 2 weeks later. Maybe Vegas in October if we can save enough by then.

I used to live in Bella Vista Ark, in College and worked at Don's Stateline Liquor on the weekends. Used to float at noel all the time, is the bar Shadowlake still there?

not yet recently, but i am looking forward to a long and leisure vacation

Went to Puerto Vallarta with a frat brother and his two friends from HS. We get schwasted a lot, ran with a group of three Michigan/Chicago dudes who were a little strange at times. First night on the town I went comatose after only a few drinks (nothing would wake me up; slaps to the face, being posed with in pictures et cetera) and had to be Kellen Winslow'ed to the resort. Next night was a foam party, it was sufficiently foamy, got rejected by a hot Mexican girl. Night after that was Zoo, where we had front row seats for the stripper pole contest. I got rejected by an American girl, and later found out my frat brother was telling girls I was gay. Uncool. The Chicago guys' vacation was done at this point so they didn't go back out with us.

Night after that we went back to the same club I went comatose at and had a better time, made friends with a group of Mexicans using the best broken Spanish I could muster. American trio setting next to our both were from Cali; girl was a participant in the stripper pole contest, I learned. When I informed her boyfriend she was off dancing with other people he replied "Eh, it's all right. She likes girls too." I was a little aback. After pounding drinks (one shot was made double strong at the amusement of our waiter) I heard a David Guetta song, and with intoxicated and glasses-less eyes I grabbed the best looking dame I could see in the shortest distance and began grinding. Apparently this lasted for about two hours; I missed the conversation with the British girls were one tried to work game on one of the guys I was rolling with in saying "You look like Wayne Rooney". Poor chap was vodka+cranberry sick and he refused to dance, realizing any movement would illicit vomiting. End of the night the fratbrother went home without me and the other two guys, I managed to get the girl I was dancing with's number (Mexican/American girl from Chicago, incidentally) and the Wayne Rooney look alike puked in the bathroom. We got a cab back and that was the end of that.

Night after that we stayed at the resort. Three of us finished the remaining 30~ beers left. Fratbrother punched me square in the [i]bottom/i] of my nutsack for absolutely no reason. My revenge will not be proportional. Our final night we went out to the Malecon to eat; the fratbrother and the guy who just finished his freshman year of college got suckered into Zoo for 2-for-1 beer "special" by a scantily clad female working for the club. They really, really wanted Bud Light. I was ashamed. The upside was that we watched Game 6 of the Suns/Lakers series to dramatic effect.

Then we had to wake up at 5:00am to catch the 8:00am flight back to the states. I was back home by 10:00pm.

Salida is a cool town that's underappreciated.

And there's some restaurant on the west side of town that has this apple-brie-raspberry appetizer that is worth a murder rap. It's on the south side of the main drag and it backs up to the creek and it has a gift shop boutique place in the front. Go there and have that appetizer. I half-think it might be the Twisted Cork, but I can't find a picture of it.

Damn J Town, sounds like fun.

I may sneak an impromptu Vegas trip in this year. I am unemployed after all. I just need to find someone who can go with me for 2 days to get drunk and gamble.

This will be the first calendar year I haven't been to Vegas since 1997.

Sad ****ing panda.

Closest thing I get to a vacation this year is a long weekend with you ****sticks for MNF.

:D

It was interesting, to say the least. And I forgot to mention about the girl I got her digits from: she stopped texting me after she added me to facebook. Not that I expected anything, but c'mon. If I weren't a jaded prick that would be a kick in the teeth.

And I'd be down for Vegas if you pay for everything sans my plane tickets... And promise to avoid the gaybars.

But it will be oh so fun.

I do really feel bad for all of you people outside of KC coming in just to see your team embarrassed on National TV in week 1, in your newly renovated stadium.

Yep, still there.

Deal. I'll give you a $30 per diem and buy you two drinks per night (but I expect a handy).

My dad used to frequent Shadowlake until 2000... I'm afraid if I go there to party I'll wind up coming across one of his attempted pick-ups. Heeesh.

We're used to it, minus the national TV and the new stadium.

I've driven 8 hours round trip to sit in sub-zero wind chills and see us lose to Miami - a warm weather team, FFS - and I did the same last year with no guarantee of having tickets to see us lose to ****ing Cleveland.

CLEVELAND.

If I can handle that, I can handle all that driving to see us get a new asshole ripped by a team that actually should beat us.

Arrowhead should be particularly amped the **** up for this game.

I expect a very drunken, raucous crowd.

You'll get to see how us loss-hardened midwesterners get the **** down at our stadium. There will me no pina colodas or hacky sacks in the parking lot. Just drunken, rowdy bastards ready to sodomize and terminate Chargers fans.

HAVE A GOOD TIME BUCK.

I am taking 2 vacations this year.

Trip 1 is a Road Trip on the back of my bike. I am going to a wedding in Cleveland. So the trip starts here in San Diego I will travel through AZ, NM, TX, OK, KS (visiting family and friends), MO, IL, IN, OH (for the wedding), MI (visiting family and friends), WI, MN, ND, MT (Glacier National Park) ID, WA (visiting friends) OR, and back to San Diego. We will be on the road for a month.


Trip 2 Maui HI

http://www.countrystampede.com/

VIP is the only way to go.

Hutchinson, KS here in a month, the Bash and MNF in Sept.

North Lima, Ohio to visit the Zim's Crack Creme factory
I'm now able to watch porn 6 hours a night

took the wife to cancun for a week last may.

next week is mens week. got a cabin rented on the current river down in the ozarks. big brother, brother in law and his son, my son and me. going to fish, float, and explore some old family cemeteries.

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So far this year:

January - went to Napa, CA for 5 nights
March - went to Barcelona, Spain for 8 nights
April/May - visited friends in San Jose, CA for 3 days
June - went to Key West, FL for 4 days
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September - 3 day trip planned to Knoxville, TN for the FL/UT game

Still have 5 vacation days left in addition to Dec 24 - January 3 off work. May plan a trip for December.

Going on a trip to Peru in August for 10 days. Visiting Lima (go ahead with your Vander Sloot jokes), Cuzco (Always wanted to see Machu Picchu) and lake Titicaca the worlds highest navigable lake. Used my airline miles for the plane ticket so I've got my entire tax return for spending money. Truely the trip of a life time.

Awesome. I was supposed to go to Peru in October on a retreat but that fell through when my relationship ended. So much to do in that country, have a blast!

Sweet deal man. Have fun. Don't try to smuggle coke back into the US though.

No vacation for me. Never taken one... prolly never will. :(

:deevee::deevee::deevee:


:sulk:
Getting back to work now...

What is this "vacation" of which you speak???

I'm not sure why you are coming to Hutch, but it definitely isn't a vacation spot.

Leaving for Austin and San Antonio on July 2.

My wife and I went to Sedona in May - loved it!

We are taking the kids out to Colorado for two weeks at the end of July - it's an annual Colorado trip thingy we do. Fishing, river rafting, horseback riding, hiking, etc. My favorite trip of the year.:)

I want to make that trip again in a few years. Beautiful place. Might hit Santa Fe, Flagstaff, and maybe Grand Canyon on the same trip.

We just got back from a trip to the Smoky Mountains doing just about the same thing. I took the Goldwing and rode the Tail of the Dragon as well. If any of you ride, I'd highly recommend it! :toast:

In July, my Dad and I are going to Colorado on another bike trip. Can't wait. :D

I was in Denmark from May 13 to June 4 of this year. I miss it already.

I took a week off to be at the hospital and home with our newborn. Went by way too quickly, and wasn't very relaxing, but you know how it goes...

Congrats!

Kansas Cosmosphere 25th anniversary and stop by Yoder.

We went to the Big Island in Hawaii in February for about 9 days. I spent a month working in Pasadena in April, and the wife came down for the last week. So I've certainly seen my share of the beach lately. With a baby coming in late August, I'm trying to cram some free time in.

Went to Memphis, and Mississippi for two days. Used to live in Memphis. Jackson,MS was just pure random. I learned that nothing really is there but damn those things called trees? They were amazing!

Man that sucks, when did that happen?

How old are you? You've never had a vacation, seriously?

That sounds freaking awesome, hope you have a blast mayne!

Almost 32. The only thing that comes remotely close to me taking a vacation would have been my honeymoon, (went to a Chiefs game and hung out in St Joe for a couple of day). Hell, back then my employer was throwing a fit about me taking the time off... for my fuggin' honeymoon! Hello? Needless to say, I quit that job. When I was a kid, our vacations consisted of us going to the lake, so I wouldn't say it was technically a vacation.

But now, I'm just too busy playing "boss" at work, taking care of Gonzo Jr. and well, broke.

All I want to do is see Italy, damn it! :cuss:

you severed diplomatic relations with peru?
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We're broke? This is news to me.
Blowing our cash at the strip clubs again?

I think what you mean to say is between your job, a toddler, a mortgage and bills, a vacation is not in the budget and blowing our savings on a flight to spaghettiville might not be wise.
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I feel sorry for you. Having to take care of Gonzo & Gonzo Jr. must be a fulltime job by itself. One, a baby is a fulltime job....but having to constantly remind Gonzo to not stick forks in the light sockets - you got it rough.

LMAO

Oops! Busted! Why do you think I always have 1's? :D

Thx. It's a tough job, that's for sure. Oh and I can deter Gonzo from sticking forks in light sockets... I just wish he would stop pissing on the tv. :D

Enlist in the Navy - worked for me! :D

Man that sucks, we never took family vacations either. Unless you consider driving 8 hours in the back of a station wagon for a funeral a vacation. I took my first vacation ever this year, it was an 8 day trip to Haiti. So you're working all the time and still not making bank? Sounds like me :(

That sucks I feel for you man. I try to save up and go on a major international vacation every two years. In 2008 I went to Costa Rica. This year I'm going to try not to freeze my ass off up in the Andes.

I don't think Gonzo would be too thrilled about me being around a lot of seamen. :D

Yeah, I never counted funerals. I'm salary, so there's no limit on the amount of hrs I can work. But, I usually average a standard 40/wk. But, along w/ work, I have Gonzo Jr and housework. Gonzo helps out quite a bit though.

The accommodations kind of suck, too.

So do they give any opportunity to earn any vacation days?

Yeah, well, sort of. I accumulated damn near 2 months w/ all the roll-over vacation days so my boss just said to hell w/ keeping track. It's a lot more complicated than I'm going to get into on here. Let's just say that my boss "frowns" upon me taking any time off b/c I am his only employee. I guess he's afraid that all hell will break loose if I'm not here.

That's bullshit he has no business stealing from you the days off that you've earned. Sadly that's the attitude of a lot of employers here in America. On average Americans get less vacation days than the rest of the industrialized world.

You just need to get some of that stuff that keeps cats from peeing in certain spots. It worked for my wife - now I only go in the corners.

I agree with that completely.

Already went on a big trip in April. Now I'm thinking somewhere in South America in the fall.

Rio's awesome that time of year. Especially if you're single.

Try Central America. Costa Rica is awesome.

Will be going with a gf.... hmm save rio?:D Se wants to head to Buenos Aires. Anyone been?

I hear nothing but good things about this place? Why? Is it the outdoor activites, beaches, and is it cheap? Talked to someone the other day said San Jose? (I think where u fly into) is boring and skip it. It's the capital, and is it rly that bad? I figure there would be things to do

Went to Newport News, Va in January, Las Vegas in Feb-Mar (got to see the NASCAR race for free!), Hawaii for 2 weeks in May, Currently in Okinawa......More island hopping on the way home this fall. It's all for work, but the wife says it's vacation since the kids aren't with me. She should have to put up with some of the 'children' on these trips!

I...well, We just rolled in from a 13-14 hour drive from PCB.

I think it was the best weather I've ever experienced there. It rained for most of the last day but not all and up till then it was low 90's every day that week.

Pure sunshine with no oil.

The prettiest I think I've ever seen the beach down toward Thomas Drive. The water was so clear....clearest I've ever seen it and flat.

The flattest I've ever seen it. Awsome!

Just Awsome!

I'm not a beach dude but it was a really good trip. I fear that the oil is going to hit soon but we beat it for our trip. They had found some tar balls on the west end of the beach the day before we left but the beach was still open.

I feel really fortunate to have spent time on the beach this past week because it may never be that nice again.

PhilFree:arrow:

Not for me this year. I'll be using most my comp time to take off for Chiefs games.

Having a $3it ton of 4 day work weeks will be nice though...:)