Countdown to Vacation - where are YOU going?

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  • jqh23
    jqh23 Posts: 311 Member
    Chicago for one week in two weeks! I haven't been in 3 years, so I am EXCITED!!

    (I live in Florida - we take vacations in cities)
    it's 76 here today but it was in the lows 50s yesterday.. hope you have nice weather while you're here!!
  • cinbol
    cinbol Posts: 27 Member
    Just back from an amazing 14 day cruise on the Coral Princess thru the Panama Canal - full transit starting in LA with stops in Costa Rica, Panama City, Cartagena Columbia and Aruba and ending in FT Lauderdale. We flew out to LA and flew home (to the NE) from FT Lauderdale - this is an amazing experience - to see this canal in operation while remembering it is almost 100 years old....

    Not our first cruise, but our first 14 day - I don't think I can ever go back to a 7 day cruise - how spoiled! Managed to only gain 2.5 lbs which a week later is gone plus another lb lost.... walking the promenade every morning (and seeing whales, porpoise and turtles while doing so!) and taking the stairs instead of the elevator helped to keep the gain down - and being picky about my "cheats".....

    Next vacation is in the RV over the 4th of July with the grandkids and 6 other families we have been "camping" with for the last 28 years - tradition! We now have 3 generations going each year!
  • nicola1141
    nicola1141 Posts: 613 Member
    Ireland in 7 weeks. Not exactly somehwere I have to worry too much about bathing suits, but it's for a family wedding and every visit I've been getting fatter and fatter, so it will be nice to be going in the other direction for once. 7 weeks to lose some inches so I can shop for a great dress for my cousin's wedding!
  • meganepreston
    meganepreston Posts: 487 Member
    I'm a teacher as well and have planned a super exciting vacation: first week off is camping at a local lake with my sis and parents for a week (reading, smores, and relaxing), then roadtripping up to the Adirondacks in New York for some serious hiking, then off to Nepal for a month to explore and volunteer English language lessons (riding an elephant is a MUST this summer!), then back to the Adirondacks for another week to relax with friends (and maybe hike another peak), then a roadtrip back down the coast to NC where I live :D

    Maybe not the most relaxing summer, but so going to be worth it.
  • ChrissyC1985
    ChrissyC1985 Posts: 406 Member
    I am in the uk and for our first hoilday together, my boyfriend and I are going to a nice hotel in the new forest, late birthday present from my parents-so lovely of them.
    I am rather excited to take the other half to beaulea ( classic car exhibition with James bond cars and top gear stuff) and loads of other stuff to see down there. The hotel does afternoon tea as well so that will be brilliant too- leaving in 28 days!
    :bigsmile:
  • crazy4lulu
    crazy4lulu Posts: 822 Member
    we go to maine every year. i know this doesnt seem like a huge trip but for us rednecks here in vt that dont see the ocean... its fun to live on it for a week!
  • maryv83
    maryv83 Posts: 73 Member
    I have a 5 day cruise booked for December to celebrate my birthday (which is in November)! But before that, we'll be taking a trip to Atlanta for a long weekend to visit some family... can't wait!
  • KateRunsColorado
    KateRunsColorado Posts: 407 Member
    I will be going to Alaska in July for my first week off in almost 2 years!!!

    Seriously can't wait. The longest break I've had in 2 years was a 4 day weekend for Christmas. Needless to say I am SO ready!
  • Jackie_XOXOXO
    Jackie_XOXOXO Posts: 93 Member
    I live in Tampa FL. and im currently booked for a Cruise to the Bahmas (2nd time going) in December!!! CANT WAIT!!!!! I love cruising and go a few times a year, when possible. Looking to loose about 30-50lbs before then!!!

    CW 240
    GW 200 or less!!!

    You all seem to be going to some exciting places!!
  • Jackson4590
    Jackson4590 Posts: 145 Member
    A few weeks until the Cayman Islands for our fifth anniversary.
  • MrsB123111
    MrsB123111 Posts: 535 Member
    Exactly 10 weeks and counting until we leave for Puerto Vallarta for my friend's wedding!!
  • RobinvdM
    RobinvdM Posts: 634 Member
    Heading to northern maine for 2.5 months of R&R (after school lets out in mid June) at a very remote campsite where our family has a seasonal along a great river. No cell service and limited internet (if you know the general store owners, as I do, hah :) ) Its where I spent all last summer, and will again this. So much peace and quiet <3
  • srp2011
    srp2011 Posts: 1,829 Member
    7 day hiking trip in Ireland in August!
  • MelSabourin
    MelSabourin Posts: 68 Member
    Returned from a 1 week all inclusive in the Dominican Rebublic on April 19. That one was with my husband.

    Two weeks and counting until an all-girls trip to Vegas to celebrate my best friend's 40th...sure to be total madness:)
  • backpacker44
    backpacker44 Posts: 160 Member
    I leave for 16 days in Cuba, in 10 sleeps!
  • Suzanuh
    Suzanuh Posts: 36 Member
    OBX in August. Love it there.
  • jazzy020106
    jazzy020106 Posts: 485 Member
    Hey, I live in ft. Lauderdale!! Lol. I'm headed to the keys in September!!!
    Have you ever been to Gulfport?

    No, where is that?
  • Lisa1971
    Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
    Going to Germany June 30th for a week and then to Ireland for a week. WOO HOOOOOO!:drinker:
  • nyssa1231
    nyssa1231 Posts: 120 Member
    Thailand and Singapore in December. It's a ways away, so we'll be taking little trips until then (Denver for a wedding, LA and SF and NYC to see family/friends, etc.).
  • jqh23
    jqh23 Posts: 311 Member
    Hey, I live in ft. Lauderdale!! Lol. I'm headed to the keys in September!!!
    Have you ever been to Gulfport?

    No, where is that?
    it is right across the intercoastal from st pete beach
  • Pamella513
    Pamella513 Posts: 72
    48 days unti I'm on vacation!!!! We are taking a road trip. Going to make our way to Chicago and do a bit of touring there and then from there we're going to get on the old Route 66 and go wherever it leads. So much to see on that old Route. Not making any hotel reservations......going to look for places to stay as we go. Going to be on the road for a week. I've never been further west than Ohio, so I'm excited to see what's out there.
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    I'm doing Naiyang-Bangkok-Vietnam in Sept. it can't come soon enough
  • Brandon74
    Brandon74 Posts: 453 Member
    Headed to the beach for a couple days in late June.

    The vacation I am really looking forward to though is the first weekend in August when I am going to Canton, Ohio for the NFL Hall of Fame induction ceremony. I am really looking forward to that.
  • boundlily911
    boundlily911 Posts: 5 Member
    Just got back from a 4 day trip to TN with my daughter to visit my family for my sister's graduation/Mother's Day. Not exactly a "vacation" but it was good to see everyone! Plus, with us living on the Gulf coast of FL, weekends are sometimes like mini vacations themselves. We're going camping the next two weekends here locally and are taking out boat out on the water, etc!
  • RipperSB
    RipperSB Posts: 315 Member
    I leave on the 4th of July for an 11 day vacation in Disney World, SOOOOO excited! I just have to be careful with my food choices when i'm there cause wow fo they have food choices (and i'm on the Dining Plan)!

    Hey daisy, I did WDW for 7 nights over New Year's 2012-13 and we were on the Deluxe Dining Plan. You are right about the food choices, just one of the many great things at WDW. Have fun with it and splurge a little. You do an awful lot of walking there and there are also fitness facilities if you need a little extra burn. 200 days until our next visit...
  • silver_arrow3
    silver_arrow3 Posts: 1,373 Member
    If everything goes my way and it works out, I'll be going on a Greek Isles cruise in September. I did a rather embarrassing, spastic dance thing all over my department office when I found out yesterday...

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