What's Your Dream Vacation?

I guess I already had mine - back in 1996 my husband and I went to Tahiti for a week.

That proved hard to beat, but since then we've been to Europe and on a Mexican cruise, amongst other places.

I would like to have a good month to spend in beautiful places like GREECE and Italy.

And maybe an Alaska cruise someday.

the tomb.

Any place that is all inclusive. I don't want to plan, or worry about paying for anything. (I do enough of that at home!) Someplace where I can relax and be spoiled.

I already had it: all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas, everything (I mean EVERYTHING) included, from flight to hotel to meals to show tickets to gambling money.

Oh, and another one I already had: sailing around the Bahamas on a private sailboat. That one cost me about $200 in airfare, though.

Oh, another one: camping by the beach with my kids, and sitting with them to watch the sun rise over the Atlantic ocean. Been there, done that, too.

Drive cross-country! Oops, did that, too.

C'mon, Joyce, go to Montana! Look for one of those 'working vacation' packages, where you can be a ranch hand! That'd be cool. And probably cheap, too, since you'd work off your room and board.

GO! If not now, when?

Paris is always my standard answer for vacation. I would so love to go again in May when the gardens are a-bloom and the skies drizzle a little at night. I'm also eager to visit the Mediterranean, anywhere: South of France, Majorca, Cyprus.

Right now though, I'm just dreaming of somewhere a little warmer than here, sharing a king sized bed with my guy, and ordering room service. I don't ask for much.

A cruise.
Sitting on the deck in the shade, looking out over the ocean. seeing a whale and some porpoise playing. Sipping on a drink, and writing. Later, heading to the free buffet. Of course, I'll bring my thanksgiving pants along. LOL

Great question. When we moved to Florida, howie said that was our permanent vacation and we haven't gone anyway since. Boy, was I duped. lol. My favorite though would have to be Hawaii, any island there.

DWSTXS said:

A cruise.
Sitting on the deck in the shade, looking out over the ocean. seeing a whale and some porpoise playing. Sipping on a drink, and writing. Later, heading to the free buffet. Of course, I'll bring my thanksgiving pants along. LOL

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That, to me, was the worst thing about the cruise we went on: the never ending food.

It was all sit-down service and the food was good, but I got so sick of eating!

When we went to Tahiti, it was Club Med, which was all inclusive. Also a wonderful thing.

Joyce - when I was in high school, my parents and I camped (and hoteled when we needed a shower...) from our home in California, up through Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, and into Montana. One of the best trips of my life. We all fell in love with Montana, "big sky country." It's gorgeous. GO.

My dream vacation? Gosh. My dream vacation is always to visit somewhere new, somewhere completely different I've never been before. So far I've been to:
- Washington DC
- The UK
- Prague and a few other places in the Czech Republic
- Italy
- China (all over the Shandong province, Beijing, and Dunhuang and Lanzhou in the northwest - Gobi desert)

I think my next trip is going to be Jerusalem, to tour the holy land with my mom and some of her friends from church. She's planning that for 2009.

Wherever I go, I like to do it "authentically." I don't like tour groups or packages and I hate cruises. I like to blend in and live like the locals as far as it's possible, explore on my own, etc. Of course I kinda stuck out in China, but I actually did live there.

I'm in the middle of mine... spending six months in Canada travelling around and getting some writing done during the wintery bits....

Willie

Attainable: A week in a house on the shore of Lake Tahoe.

After I'm rich and famous: A week in Ivrea, Italy to revel in the architecture left behind by Olivetti. Side trip to Venice for the same reason.

An around-the-world cruise. Dream vacation. Dream lifestyle.

Mandy-Jane said:

An around-the-world cruise. Dream vacation. Dream lifestyle.

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On a Cunard ship. In the Penthouse.

JoeEkaitis said:

After I'm rich and famous: A week in Ivrea, Italy to revel in the architecture left behind by Olivetti. Side trip to Venice for the same reason.

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Okay, now that's just weird. Not the Italy part, the Olivetti part. Seriously.

Saritams8 said:

On a Cunard ship. In the Penthouse.

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Where do I sign up for this? LOL

joyce said:

...My husband says all the time we live in Paradise...

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Isn't it strange how when you live in Florida, so many folks from up north really believe you live in paradise? I can imagine what some people from Montana must be thinking now: She wants to leave Florida to come here, to visit Montana? Is she crazy? Boy, what I'd give to be in Florida right now!

I don't like to travel, so there's nowhere I want to go and no place I'd rather be than right here where my butt is parked.

I've done a decent amount of travelling, but right now I'm dying to go to Argentina and Uruguay. The flight is just too long for my kids and I don't like long trips without them. Maybe in a couple of years.

My first choice is a long visit to the Holy Land. However, I've also dreamed of taking the castle tour of Ireland. Maybe... *she gulps as she writes, pauses, then presses on*WHEN I become a best-selling author, I can afford one or both of these options!

I’d love to spend a few months in a secluded Italian villa in the mountains.

Ideal holiday - Venice for the carnival with some tall, handsome bloke in tow.

Might well be going to Venice next year for my 30th / Graduation, don't know about the other parts though.