I need vacation ideas

I can go anywhere in the country, but I cannot leave the country. I have 11 days of vacation time coming. I'd like to use 5 of them sandwiched between two weekends for this vacation. All of my family is near me so I don't have any family members that I'd need to travel to see. Likewise for friends. I am single and I don't have any children.

Alaska and Hawaii are the only two states I haven't been to so it would be cool to see them. I don't know what I'd do once I got there, though. Other than that I don't really have any ideas. All I know is that I could definitely use a vacation.

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but that may violate your no out of the Country qualifier.

They all seem to have at least one stop in Canada. I reckon I'd be okay as long as I stayed on the boat at those stops. The reason I can't go out of the country is that I don't have a passport.

I have not taken a real vacation in many years.

Sight-seeing? Relaxing on the beach? Something more active? Maybe you can narrow it down that way.

But with being a trucker you never get time to stop and really take tings in. There's a lot of stuff you miss.

Not so much the beach, but I do like the ocean. Maybe some fishing if I were to get out to the Pacific.

Hope you have a great vacation. Send pictures! :hi:

Spend a night or three in East Glacier and or West Glacier.

I'll have to do a little googling here and check that out.

of course. No sound better than that of the line slapping into the water. Then I kick back with a book, keeping a camera handy for the wildlife. Total bliss. Sometimes I even put bait on the hook. . .

Or the Garlic Festival right down the road from me.

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we have tons and tons of stuff to do.

I haven't got to do too much sight seeing there, though. But I have been to the top of the Sears Tower. I can see my house in Ohio from up there. :)

we never get anywhere near the end of the wish list. just the downtown museum campus could keep you entertained for a couple of weeks. and of course, i would be very happy to buy you dinner.
do go to priceline or some such if you decide to come. i think that the tourist business is a little off (not very), and you should be able to get a great deal. there are really no crappy hotels downtown.

Yosemite. You could go to a working ranch maybe? Depends on what you'd like to do.

I'll think on it some and we'll talk tomorrow. D's getting stuff ready for ya!

c'you then

I don't know about the Grand Canyon. I'm afraid of heights. :)

go out onto the glass walkway however, no way no how.


see you tomorrow at 3pm.

:hi:

I think the best vacation spot is New York City. However, if I just wanted to relax, I'd choose a beach or mountain resort.

Detroit for ball games or visit the WhiteCaps for a fun evening..

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they have excellent ranch holidays

Eat your way through the city. Visit Bourbon St. Take a haunted cemetery tour. Go to the casino. Huge aquarium. Visit the Voodoo museum. Sip a few at a real jazz club. Volunteer a few hours or a few days... Eat at Commanders Palace. Drink a Hand Grenade. Take a long walk through the Garden District - find Anne Rice's house. Go shopping along the Riverwalk. ... It's impossible to get bored in NO.

The people are amazing, food incredible and they can use every tourist dollar they get..........

We just came back from a "road-trip" to New Orleans.

Loved it!

I had never been there before, so I was geeked to see it.

Hotels/motels are cheap and the food....the FOOD!!

i know you drive, heh heh, so you can get out in the countryside

i do not recommend visiting new orleans in september, because of the heat/hurricane risk, unless it's something special like southern decadence, i would schedule it for mid october or later

the only benefit to coming in the heat of summer is larger alligators visible on swamp tours (you can see the small guys year round), however, we have so many alligators currently that you should not have any trouble seeing a wild gator whenever you come -- while in cajun country you can hire a local to take you out on lake martin on a small boat, that's pretty cool

lafayette/acadiana area is good for cajun culture, you don't get the real cajun culture in new orleans (new orleans is creole), but it isn't too far away

i don't know your interests, there are more old plantation houses than you can shake a stick at if you like that stuff, there is pontchatoula and some other places to buy antiques that are not as ridic as shopping on royal street etc.

grand isle for the beach/state park/camping/birding habitat -- it's a barrier island, i don't recommend to go in high hurricane season (keep an eye on the weather but i consider it OK to make plans after the 1st week of october)

well, there are many things to do, 11 days is too long for me to stay in a city for my vacation but you may have a different opinion so i won't ramble too long!

The Olympic Peninsula of Washington state is gorgeous. Lots of fishing, camping, stuff like that. Oysterville. Kalaloch beach. Etc.

Napa California and the wine country. Again, beautiful land, great food everywhere and lots to do.

The White Mountains of New Hampshire. Little cabins, lakes, so many pretty places. Sugar Hill -- I always wanted to stay there.

Colonial Williamsburg and the Chesapeake Bay Tidewater region. Historic places of Jamestown, Yorktown, etc.

My favorite thing to do would be to take Amtrak's Empire Builder train to Glacier Park and stay at one of the lodges. Take one of those red open top touring cars up the Going To The Sun Highway, the jewel of the continent. The glaciers won't be there forever. The 100th anniversary of Glacier Park is coming up in a few months.

I can think of many more trips. America the Beautiful!!

if you want to add a new state to your life list, with 11 days, in your shoes i might pick hawaii -- if you fly to honolulu, i found it easy to get it around on the bus system there (one day i hired a birding guy to drive me around on a bird tour but i don't suppose you'll do that)

this city is particularly well set up with their bus system, you can even get a bus from the airport to the hotels of waikiki, even late at night, i had no problems

the only issues i might see are you mentioned being scared of heights when someone said grand canyon and part of the fun, for me, was going to different sides of the city to hike, and there is a lot of elevational change -- example, there was diamondhead (which is a desert) and you really hike up a lot of stairs to get up that mountain, and there is also manoa falls (which is a rainforest, so you will be hiking in the rain or at least i was), the contrast was quite interesting

but all in all in the area of one city, honolulu, you have rainforest, beach, desert, big honking shopping malls and endless bars/restaurants/entertainment options...you pretty much have it all and i found it easy to get around

i didn't stay 11 days or i would have tried to visit another island besides oahu, but i had a week and was kept real busy!