Vacation plans??

[why me]

It will soon be summer and with summer, vacations will start. It would be interesting to read some vacation plans from the members. I suppose that this is our first post-mo summer together and it would be great to share our summer happenings and plans. I will go first.

This summer I am planning to go back to the New Jersey/New York City area. I will visit my New Jersey hometown where I lived as a boy and visit some relatives also in New Jersey. I look forward to walking my boyhood streets and witnessing all the changes that have occured and remembering all the voices from my boyhood. I also haven't seen my relatives in ages and I am looking forward to seeing them again. I will also be in New York City, the city where I hung out as a young adult while going to the university. I look forward to the second-hand bookshops that may pass my way while I am in New York. I love second-hand bookshops. I will be staying with my cousin's ex-boyfriend when I am in NYC. We hope to have some good conversations about life. I should be somewhat out of action for a month when my vacation starts but hopefully I can find an internet cafe and keep posting a little here and there on postmormon.org. And what about you guys out there...going anywhere...?

[stuckasamo]

Yes, I am leaving for Florida tomorrow morning. It's a three-day drive, but i need to rive because I will be there for two months. I plan to spend that whole two months on the beach - far away from my dad :D My parents keep a home in Florida, which works great for me. Though now that my dad no longer considers me his kid, I suppose I have to get a job to pay rent....

[silverfox]

It will soon be summer and with summer, vacations will start. It would be interesting to read some vacation plans from the members. I suppose that this is our first post-mo summer together and it would be great to share our summer happenings and plans. I will go first.

This summer I am planning to go back to the New Jersey/New York City area. I will visit my New Jersey hometown where I lived as a boy and visit some relatives also in New Jersey. I look forward to walking my boyhood streets and witnessing all the changes that have occured and remembering all the voices from my boyhood. I also haven't seen my relatives in ages and I am looking forward to seeing them again. I will also be in New York City, the city where I hung out as a young adult while going to the university. I look forward to the second-hand bookshops that may pass my way while I am in New York. I love second-hand bookshops. I will be staying with my cousin's ex-boyfriend when I am in NYC. We hope to have some good conversations about life. I should be somewhat out of action for a month when my vacation starts but hopefully I can find an internet cafe and keep posting a little here and there on postmormon.org. And what about you guys out there...going anywhere...?

Because our schedules are so weird we usually take little spur of the moment trips. We will most likely end up in Jackson Hole for a few days river rafting.

I also am trying to plan a trip back to MI to visit old friends and my old stomping grounds. I went back about 3 years ago. It had been my first trip in 20 years. It was a great time.

We are trying to also end up in MN with some friends staying at their cabin on a lake.

I hope it all works out.

[free thinker]

It is very difficult for me to get away from my business for any real length of time. When I can I am a creature of habit, and usually end up in San Diego, walking the beach etc. I love it there at the edge of the continent.


I will probably make two or three trips there over the summer.


Free Thinker

[tjohnson]

We are actually heading to Utah this Memorial weekend, if you can believe that... :slap:

It will be interesting to see the looks since my 6 year old son got a full-blown mohawk haircut yesterday... :D

We are planning a week long vacation this summer probably to Las Vegas... the children really want to fly in an airplane, and are also VERY excited about the idea of staying up all night long... :Crazy:

Maybe we should consider having a weekend get-together this summer as a Postmormon group? Maybe like Jackson Hole, Wyoming or ?????

[miss taken]

We'll probably book an impromptu holiday to either Greece, Portugal or Italy. I want to show hubbie Athens, but he wants to show me the 'real' Portugal. So maybe we'll end up in Italy as we both want to see Pompeii.

In the UK we'll probably go on up to the Potteries, and the Peak District.

I can't wait!!!!!

Mary

[taegan]

It will soon be summer and with summer, vacations will start. It would be interesting to read some vacation plans from the members. I suppose that this is our first post-mo summer together and it would be great to share our summer happenings and plans. I will go first.

This summer I am planning to go back to the New Jersey/New York City area. I will visit my New Jersey hometown where I lived as a boy and visit some relatives also in New Jersey. I look forward to walking my boyhood streets and witnessing all the changes that have occured and remembering all the voices from my boyhood. I also haven't seen my relatives in ages and I am looking forward to seeing them again. I will also be in New York City, the city where I hung out as a young adult while going to the university. I look forward to the second-hand bookshops that may pass my way while I am in New York. I love second-hand bookshops. I will be staying with my cousin's ex-boyfriend when I am in NYC. We hope to have some good conversations about life. I should be somewhat out of action for a month when my vacation starts but hopefully I can find an internet cafe and keep posting a little here and there on postmormon.org. And what about you guys out there...going anywhere...?

Well, my FIL will be comming out for the entire month of July, so we're taking him on a tour of Europe. We're hitting France and will take him to see all the WWII memorial stuff, Omaha Beach and stuff like that. Then we're hitting Belgium so I can finally go through the chocolate factory and get my lace tablecloth. Next we're driving to Poland to visit Auchwitz (sp?) and do some shopping for Polish Pottery. After that we're going to go spend 2 days in Austria again, one of my favorite countries! We're still debating on going to Rome or not. So who knows. Other then that, we'll be doing some day trips around Germany and taking in our last summer here.

[noodle]

I'm headed to a mountain cabin in NC (near Asheville), and also to my parent's lake house in SC.

mamajama

[peter_mary]

I hope to minimize my time at work, and maximize my time in the mountains. Just returned from 3 days in Yellowstone, and it was Grand Teton NP the weekend before. In three weeks, I'll be taking my graduating Senior and my wife on an Alaskan Cruise (Vancouver to Seward)...which will be my first cruise. Tragically, I'm not prepared, in that I'm already 30 lbs over my ideal weight...I'll no doubt require two seats on the airplane on the flight home...

Otherwise, it should be lots of camping trips to central Idaho and the backcountry on the border between Idaho and Wyoming. Man, I LOVE that country!

::straps on bear spray::

Peter_Mary

[mutleydog]

We'll probably book an impromptu holiday to either Greece, Portugal or Italy. I want to show hubbie Athens, but he wants to show me the 'real' Portugal. So maybe we'll end up in Italy as we both want to see Pompeii.

In the UK we'll probably go on up to the Potteries, and the Peak District.

I can't wait!!!!!

Mary

I am off to Greece with my gf in September! Can't wait! Looking forward to seeing my Greek family who live in central Athens and Glyfada....always said i would take gf to see the sites!! :D

[miss taken]

I am off to Greece with my gf in September! Can't wait! Looking forward to seeing my Greek family who live in central Athens and Glyfada....always said i would take gf to see the sites!! :D

Mutleydog I am sooooooooo envious!!!! I fell in love with Greece and Cyprus hook line and sinker!!! Even tried learning to read and speak Greek, but all those verb permutations...aaaaargh!!!!!!

Hope you have a GREAT time. We went to Rhodes and Zante last year, but I think I must have been to almost every Greek Island!!! Corfu, Kefalonia, Evia (on mainland) so beautiful!!! Any recommendations?? I really liked Aegina, just off the coast from the Mainland.

Take care
Mary

[mutleydog]

Mutleydog I am sooooooooo envious!!!! I fell in love with Greece and Cyprus hook line and sinker!!! Even tried learning to read and speak Greek, but all those verb permutations...aaaaargh!!!!!!

Hope you have a GREAT time. We went to Rhodes and Zante last year, but I think I must have been to almost every Greek Island!!! Corfu, Kefalonia, Evia (on mainland) so beautiful!!! Any recommendations?? I really liked Aegina, just off the coast from the Mainland.

Take care
Mary

I love Greece too!! My gf has always had a love of all things Greek, but has never been.....just marvelled at it on the TV....well you can imagine how giddy she is knowing she is actually going!!

I have not been to too many islands.....Aegina is lovely though.....so is Poros, Hydra (off Athens) and Spetses....definately recommend a visit!! Northern Greece is lovely too....Thessoloniki.....and the 'fingers' Northern Greece. We took a train from Athens to Thessoloniki all through the mountains...beautiful!!

As a mainland place.....Glyfada is nice....lots to do....nice beach and not very touristy...all the locals go there. Thats where my family live and I am looking forward to going back!! Fantastic! Oh...and theres also Sounion...along the coast from Athens travelling east....

If its any consolation.....I started to learn Greek too......but didn't return after my thrird week because I ended up in hospital.......its not an easy language to learn at all but apparently easier than English!! LOL!! :D

[dogzilla]

I had no plans until I read this thread... Now I'm trying to think of some place cool I'd like to take myself to...

[miss taken]

Dogzilla, you are always welcome here!! You can use our house as a base if you like!!! (and I am serious!!!)
Mary

Mutleydog, thanks for the tips. So nice to go to places that are not overrun by bloomin' tourists...!!!! :eek: (said with tongue in cheek!!!!)

[dogzilla]

Don't tempt me! I've been wanting to go to Scotland for years . . . to do some geneology work. :o

(So sue me, it's a cool immigration story from the 1750's... my paternal side is from Sterling. I think.)

The only thing keeping me from moving to London is the weather.

[miss taken]

Dogzilla, we are a little way off from Scotland. (about 400miles!) but its a pretty straight route from here up to the M6 and then on into Scotland.

London is about 100 miles from us, we are in Wiltshire, right on the Cotswolds (very pretty in themselves).

Scotland is breathtakingly beautiful. I think the Edinburgh Festival is on sometime soon. Fort William is particularly beautiful. That's where we have to go if we want to see mountains instead of hills!!!

You are MOST welcome to use us as a stop off point, and there are some nice things to look at around here if you have the time. Oxford, Bristol are just up the road, as is Cardiff. (save you some money as B & B is about £35 per night £40 at the Travel Lodges)


My maiden name is Scottish, so I have some ancestors originally from that way too, not traceable as yet though. Irish connections are more solid...!!!

[dogzilla]

I've got English and Irish heritage as well. (Which is why I can't figure out how I tan so well and never get sunburned. Either my grandfather wasn't making up that bit about the American Indian heritage he claims we have on his side... or there's something about the German genes I didn't know about. Do Germans tan?)

When I get good and ready to cross the pond, so to speak, I will definitely look you up! Right now I'm saving my pennies to have my pecan tree lopped down to the ground! (And yes, that's going to cost almost as much as a plane ticket to England!) A friend of mine just moved to Sweden (her family is from there), so I might have to do a mid-summer tour of northern Europe someday.

[miss taken]

I've got English and Irish heritage as well. (Which is why I can't figure out how I tan so well and never get sunburned. Either my grandfather wasn't making up that bit about the American Indian heritage he claims we have on his side... or there's something about the German genes I didn't know about. Do Germans tan?)

When I get good and ready to cross the pond, so to speak, I will definitely look you up! Right now I'm saving my pennies to have my pecan tree lopped down to the ground! (And yes, that's going to cost almost as much as a plane ticket to England!) A friend of mine just moved to Sweden (her family is from there), so I might have to do a mid-summer tour of northern Europe someday.

I also have really olive skin Dogzilla, and my theory is, either that my dad's side have gypsy blood, or his Irish Ancestors mixed with the Spanish traders, or some Roman Soldier kitted himself up with one of my dads female ancestors.

You have a Pecan Tree in your garden!!!! I guess it must be pretty big!!

My husband lived in Sweden for a while, so I got to spend a bit of time there. I loved it. So clean, and the weather is dry and fresh, even when it is really cold!!

Take Care, I'm just off to bed, 10.15 over here!!!

Mary

[mutleydog]

Dogzilla,

I live in the north-east of Scotland .....about 20 miles north of Aberdeen in a wee scottish coastal village....not far from the highlands. Always welcome to stay in my neck of the woods! :D

[darkslider]

Dogzilla,

I live in the north-east of Scotland .....about 20 miles north of Aberdeen in a wee scottish coastal village....not far from the highlands. Always welcome to stay in my neck of the woods! :D

You sure about that?

My fiance and I are looking into purchasing some land out that direction and building a house. (Won't happen for 2-4 years, but whatever).

[dogzilla]

Dogzilla,

I live in the north-east of Scotland .....about 20 miles north of Aberdeen in a wee scottish coastal village....not far from the highlands. Always welcome to stay in my neck of the woods! :D

Well, could you run down to the Scottish Archives office and find out for sure if my relative was from Stirling? Trying to track down his branch of the family. There could be an entire Scottish branch that we're completely unaware of...

:D


I'm kidding... But I do see a UK adventure in my future.

[Born Free]

I also have really olive skin Dogzilla, and my theory is, either that my dad's side have gypsy blood, or his Irish Ancestors mixed with the Spanish traders, or some Roman Soldier kitted himself up with one of my dads female ancestors.

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Mary
Mary,

I too have some olive skinned Irish ancestory back there. This is the first I had heard of Spanish traders.

My understanding was that Spanish blood in Ireland came compliments of the wrecks on the west coast of Ireland of the Spanish Fleet that tried to sail around the British Isles back to Spain after the English beat them under Elizabeth 1.

Australia got lots of Irish convicts, which is believed to be a factor in both the language, and the sense of humour.

Daryl

[mutleydog]

You sure about that?

My fiance and I are looking into purchasing some land out that direction and building a house. (Won't happen for 2-4 years, but whatever).

I am very sure!! :D

[miss taken]

Mary,

I too have some olive skinned Irish ancestory back there. This is the first I had heard of Spanish traders.

My understanding was that Spanish blood in Ireland came compliments of the wrecks on the west coast of Ireland of the Spanish Fleet that tried to sail around the British Isles back to Spain after the English beat them under Elizabeth 1.

Australia got lots of Irish convicts, which is believed to be a factor in both the language, and the sense of humour.

Daryl

Daryl, you made me think because here it is common knowledge to me,and I wonder how I come to that opinion. I am pretty sure my dad told me, he travelled extensively around the UK and Ireland, and I guess he picked up things on his travels.

I found this chat room on Irish Roots. But I will try and find better evidence.

http://bbs.vic.ie/WebX?14@165.zO2ja4yizxk.0@.ee75ca3/0

http://www.easyridertours.com/coasting_cork.html

http://homepage.eircom.net/~abardubh/articles/mexican.html

Mary

[miss taken]

We have just booked our family holiday. Entirely independently (no package)!! here

http://www.sorrentotourism.com/

and we get to visit...

http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/pompeiislides.html

and

http://www.roman-empire.net/articles/article-011.html

and!

http://www.paestum.de/en/indexen.htm


This is the hotel!!!

http://www.manniellohotels.it/capodimonte/ukframe.html

I am so excited, but nervous too, as I have a totally irrational fear of flying. Doesn't help that the series LOST started yesterday evening over here!!!!

Mary

[peter_mary]

We have just booked our family holiday.
This is the hotel!!!

http://www.manniellohotels.it/capodimonte/ukframe.html

Mary

Mary,

I'm concerned. I checked out the hotel you'll be staying at, and I worry that it won't meet your standards. But I have a solution. Send me there first, and I'll check it out, and provide a complete report on the temperature of the pool, the service pool-side, the quality of food, the temperament of the maids, etc. I just hate the thought of you going without the assurance from a reliable source that all will be just as you had hoped.

So I beg you...send me first!

:D

Peter_Mary

[dogzilla]

That Peter_Mary, so selfless... Always willing to take one for the team.

:rolleyes:

[miss taken]

Mary,

I'm concerned. I checked out the hotel you'll be staying at, and I worry that it won't meet your standards. But I have a solution. Send me there first, and I'll check it out, and provide a complete report on the temperature of the pool, the service pool-side, the quality of food, the temperament of the maids, etc. I just hate the thought of you going without the assurance from a reliable source that all will be just as you had hoped.

So I beg you...send me first!

:D

Peter_Mary

Looks great Huh!!!!!! I suffer from Vertigo, so dh is doing all the driving!

Just off now!!! Take care all!!!!
Mary

[noodle]

This is the hotel!!!

http://www.manniellohotels.it/capodimonte/ukframe.html
~miss taken

Hey y'all! I have a plan! Shhhhhhhh! Let's ALL show up at the hotel and surprize miss taken! We can ALL camp out in her room! :eek:

[why me]

Mary,

I'm concerned. I checked out the hotel you'll be staying at, and I worry that it won't meet your standards. But I have a solution. Send me there first, and I'll check it out, and provide a complete report on the temperature of the pool, the service pool-side, the quality of food, the temperament of the maids, etc. I just hate the thought of you going without the assurance from a reliable source that all will be just as you had hoped.

So I beg you...send me first!

:D

Peter_Mary
I have stayed in that city. There are cockaroaches the size of mice there. My gosh if you leave a crumb on the room floor you will have a few dozen crawling out from under the refridgerator to get a meal. I also remember I cockaroach that went into my mouth when I was sleeping...luckily it only crawled in half way before I awoken. I found that cobra cockaroach spray did the trick though...I played Rambo for a week...and it was fun...But pompey is great!.....Okay so I am lying...I made the whole story up...never been there but I wanted to get Miss Taken a little excited! :p

[miss taken]

Hey Mamajama, just got back! I would have loved it if you had all turned up!!!! I would LOVE to meet you all one day.

Why me! No cockroaches, a beautiful place to be sure. Amalfi and Positano just round the coast is even more stunning. Did everything I wanted to, except Paestum. Just too far, and the Italians drive like crazy monsters.

Thought Herculaneum was by far the most interesting, since even some wood has survived albeit very charred.

You get to see the original coastline, which the volcano changed in placed by about 50 feet. and the one thing that impressed me is how life is so similar in everyday practical terms. Nothing much seems to have changed really. Pretty wonderful stuff.!!!

Mary