How do you spend your vacation?

[bennieangel]

No special snowflake here, and no "combo" choice - if you can only spend your vacation mostly one way...what's it going to be? 

[babycaps]

ALL.THE.BEACH!! With as many umbrella drinks as possible.
Edit to add:

Except I'll take mine w/o salt!

[bennieangel]

Me too! The drinks are just assumed, aren't they?

[g33kyg1rly]

DH & I are both active vacationers. We love traveling and seeing the sights. DH traveled a lot with his dad when he was younger, and the only foreign country I'd been to was Canada, so we've been making up for it since we got married. :-P So far, we've been to Japan, Italy, Germany, and England. All were awesome, although Japan (our honeymoon) was definitely the highlight. We can't wait to travel with LO once she is older

[northernlghts]

I usually don't take my vacation time sans a day here or there for long weekends. But the last real vacation we did take was relaxing, we went to Puerto Rico two years ago.

[yalllow]

my last "vacation" and when I say "vacation" I mean consecutive days off...  was almost a year ago in March... March 14th to be exact.





this is what I imagine I look like on a beach or vacationing:

[bennieangel]

babycaps ... no salt? No thanks! I love the salt. On the rocks. Never blended.

[babycaps]

bennieangel, on the rocks, never blended. No salt, but yes on a spicy salt like "Tajan"!

[bebeski]

I miss my days of laying on the beach all damn day. Sigh.

[Deleted]

We take one real vacation a year -- a week on the beach on Cape Cod.

[kaitkat]

We love going to warm places tho last time we went away was our wedding slash honeymoon! Thankfully my parents have a place in Arizona so we will vacation there with the kids till we decide they are old enough for Mexico

[twaffle]

We take two holidays a year, one around Europe that is active and we discover and the other one when we go back home and we try to make it 4 weeks or more. Pool and relaxing times

[twaffle]

Jan 28, 2015 16:10:35 GMT -5 @highpeak said:

Jan 28, 2015 14:18:41 GMT -5 g33kyg1rly said:

DH & I are both active vacationers. We love traveling and seeing the sights. DH traveled a lot with his dad when he was younger, and the only foreign country I'd been to was Canada, so we've been making up for it since we got married. :-P So far, we've been to Japan, Italy, Germany, and England. All were awesome, although Japan (our honeymoon) was definitely the highlight. We can't wait to travel with LO once she is older

Where did you go in England? It's hard to imagine why anyone would consider here a holiday lol

I love going to England for holiday. Bath is my favorite.

[bsouls]

I like staying home!

My aunt has a lake house in West Virginia, so it's a meet up place for family. Usually, people shoot for July 4th, but we went for Labor Day this year.

[jtizzay]

I didn't vote because I'm mobile lazy and ss. We take a lot of vacation. We haven't done an active vacay in a few years. Now we just do long weekends to miami. Pool and beach.

We're heading to Montana just us two over presidents weekend for a very long romantic weekend.

[lostinfaith225]

We do the beach once a year. We also love traveling new places and exploring.

[g33kyg1rly]

Jan 28, 2015 16:10:35 GMT -5 @highpeak said:

Jan 28, 2015 14:18:41 GMT -5 g33kyg1rly said:

DH & I are both active vacationers. We love traveling and seeing the sights. DH traveled a lot with his dad when he was younger, and the only foreign country I'd been to was Canada, so we've been making up for it since we got married. :-P So far, we've been to Japan, Italy, Germany, and England. All were awesome, although Japan (our honeymoon) was definitely the highlight. We can't wait to travel with LO once she is older

Where did you go in England? It's hard to imagine why anyone would consider here a holiday lol

We did London, Salisbury, Avebury, and Stonehenge.

[bennieangel]

Jan 28, 2015 19:34:54 GMT -5 jtizzay said:

I didn't vote because I'm mobile lazy and ss. We take a lot of vacation. We haven't done an active vacay in a few years. Now we just do long weekends to miami. Pool and beach.

We're heading to Montana just us two over presidents weekend for a very long romantic weekend.

That sounds amazing! Baby making weekend

Do you have a condo in Florida?

[RandomName]

It really depends on where we are going, I love to travel. In recent years overseas travel has become less realistic money and time wise so we have been traveling within Canada and starting to explore the states.

If I had to choose though: I do love me a beach, with a warm breeze, a slushy drink, and sexy man candy to stare at (aka bf hehe). If only I could find an all inclusive with day care...

Eta: clarity

[jjsmom80]

We have a house on an island in the middle of a big lake in my state. Technically up until this summer it was just a 16x20' shack with no running water and a composting toilet, but this past year i helped my mom build her dream cottage, 25 years in the making. We spend every weekend and at least one week during the summer there. Swimming, kayaking, naps in the hammock and lots of beer. SOOOO relaxing! Took DS there for the first time at 5 weeks old. Other than that any other vacation time we have is spent at home doing projects or the occasional day off by our selves to veg. Nothing fancy. I feel like traveling by plane makes me need a vacation after my vacation!

[linzerd]

I wish we could take a trip! Sadly we can't ever afford it. We've been together for almost 12 years and only taken 2 trips. Our honeymoon and then in Feb 2013 we went to Turks and Caicos and it was the most amazing vacation everrrr! Other than that, FIL has a place in the lakes region in NH and there is one of the most beautiful beaches in MA 5 miles from our house. We also have a pool. So I am a big fan of relaxing by the water with a cocktail!

[Somers Isles]

In Bermuda. If I could live there I'd move right now. I love that island. Love it!

[katie1885]

Mobile lazy person here too!!! Ohhhh I want all the beach, lounging around vacations that I can get! If we could afford more than one a year I would also include one to travel around Europe! My next trip I hope to take is to Greece....I have to check something off my bucket list!

[kewii]

I like active vacations, but the occasional lay on the beach one is ok with me. For our honeymoon we did one of those Sandal resorts. It was amazing!

But every other place I've gone (is it bragging if I list them?) has been more of a go go go type thing. Though sometimes I stack a beach day on the end so I can relax before going home.

[twaffle]

Jan 28, 2015 17:35:01 GMT -5 @highpeak said:

Jan 28, 2015 16:24:18 GMT -5 twaffle said:

I love going to England for holiday. Bath is my favorite.

Oh, I've been there, did you visit the remains of the old Roman baths? There was a guided tour when I went, from the way they described it, I wish we still had them!

Yes I went, but my favorite tour is Bizarre Bath. It's a tour at night where they try to scare you

[twaffle]

Jan 29, 2015 4:08:59 GMT -5 kewii said:

I like active vacations, but the occasional lay on the beach one is ok with me. For our honeymoon we did one of those Sandal resorts. It was amazing!

But every other place I've gone (is it bragging if I list them?) has been more of a go go go type thing. Though sometimes I stack a beach day on the end so I can relax before going home.

I am not really into active vacations. DH does it for fun... He went for a week in Corsica and he hiked east to west. He got such bad blisters in his feet he had to wear flip flops and barely walk for the next two weeks... Give me a beach and a daybed

[jtizzay]

Ha. No in Montana unfortunately I'll be pregnant or af will arrive. Neither is awesome for vacation.

No we don't have a condo. It's just an easy flight and easy to get to south beach so we like it.

[fishbulb]

I love relaxing beach vacations but I also like to include a day or two of sightseeing. I love going to places like Charleston, SC where there are nice beaches nearby but you've also get this historic city to explore.

Most of our vacations lately have been spent visiting relatives. Yet another reason we want to move back east to be closer to our families.

[g33kyg1rly]

Jan 29, 2015 8:12:07 GMT -5 @highpeak said:

Jan 28, 2015 20:07:16 GMT -5 g33kyg1rly said:

We did London, Salisbury, Avebury, and Stonehenge.

Omg, I'd love to go to Stonehenge, maybe I'll convince DH to go for the summer solstice! How close can you actually get? I heard they put a barrier around it?

There is a roped off walkway around it that lets you get close enough to get a good look from all sides (maybe about 5-10m from the circle?). DH went there many years ago and he said you used to be a lot further away.

If you apply far enough in advance, they do have a limited sunrise/sunset tour which allows you to actually walk among the stones. (Unfortunately we didn't find out about it until the day before we went. Next time!)

www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/stonehenge/?lang=en

[lincbeesmom]

Me and DH have only gone on vacation twice (together) since we got together in 2011. One of those times was our honeymoon soooo...yeah.

I like to spend vacations by the beach or pool. I really enjoy seeing tourist spots and landmarks too