Vacation Plans?
 

Do you have anything planned for a get away trip any time soon? Going to visit family (which includes who we view as family)? Driving?, Flying? How long has it been since you could go on a vacation?

Now that it has warmed up, I hope to do some RV road trips and camping, but these will all be for just a few days at a time here and there. Hopefully, I'll be in Bodega Bay by the end of next week walking the beach and having some of the fish n' chips there I love.

San Francisco/ Oakland

Portland

Alabama

The Keys

Little Rock

Ohio

WOW!!! Some Planeteers will be in California!!! Shit- da'yam!!!

Great question!
 

I go to the beach every holiday weekend for about 4 days (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day) and the beach other weekends too, throughout the summer. But, I always do this.

THIS year I (we) would really like to do some serious hiking, ziplining, and other more active things on a larger scale than in the past. Combining this with beautiful views including nice, twisty backroads for scenic driving would be perfect! If people have ideas of places to hit on the East coast for any of these activities, I am all ears! Seriously.

I also hope to head to Atlanta, Georgia to attend the WPATH symposium this year in September, but still need to find out about costs.

Not sure either, but I need to get to LA to see my sister and want to visit the beach and maybe even Little Rock.

I need the go to the beach baaaaad!

Hopefully a car trip to South Dakota/Wyoming with the kiddos..and I live in Little Rock, so that's not a vacation :D

I keep thinking Morocco or Croatia this year. But I need to figure out who would babysit the six furry kids before I make plans.

I was contract for a few years with no paid days, this year I have 20 business days I can take off and have got to go SOMEWHERE! :)

Easter week we are renting a house on Catalina island and taking the child and her friend...later in the year Italy, just us two.

Well I just got back from Austin TEXAS.... I'm doing a few wknd get a way's this summer. Nothing big planned as of yet, however that could change. I like being a free bird sometimes! lol


And for sure.......



Little Rock, here I come!!

In 15 hours (Yes, I'm counting) I'm leaving for Mexico. Renting a beach house for the week on the gulf coast of the Yucatan peninsula.

In June I have two work trips which I'll likely put some personal vacation around. First is Barcelona. I love, love, love, love Barcelona. I'll probably head over to Lisbon before or after. Then a couple weeks later there is a trip to Singapore. That's still up in the air, but I'd love to make a stop in Hong Kong or Manila on the way back.

There will be another vacation at some point in the fall. That will no doubt include some beach time.

One has to wonder which you'd choose if there could only be one...

But both are on the calendar.

There is a distinct possibility I will be heading to Poland for work some time in the next 6 months.

Also on my calendar is Portland, several smaller cities like Memphis, Eureka Springs and Dallas, and later this year a sweet weekend in the mountains of Tennessee.

I'll give them your best.

I hear you! This has a lot to do with my doing mini-vacations. At $35/day, getting a house/pet sitter is expensive.

I'm leaving Monday for FL. I can't wait. Really. I have no patience for this waiting stuff. Dallas and NYC in June. Hopefully FL again before the end of the year...

Ten days back in my home of Northern Ireland in the later part of this month.

West Coast USA for 9 days in late June ... starting off in San Diego and finishing in San Francisco but not 100% sure how my itinerary will work out inbetween.

Manila, Philippines in early Oct and onwards to Little Rock and then stay in States for a further week but not sure where yet.

Other than that, a few weekend trips back to Belfast to visit friends and family and, if I can find someone to go with, maybe a continental European city in mid-summer.

I'm reasonably fortunate as, especially by US standards, I get very good paid leave and, here in Europe, we get much more generous public holidays. Added to that, London is a major transport hub so easy to travel from.

late May, camping with my missus in lovely Dorset on the farm we enjoy so much for its quietness and camping again in late June in Cornwall, near to where King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table were supposedly.......definately making a return to the Eden Project we have visited before and the outdoors Minnack Theatre on the edge of the ocean built in the l930's by the bare hands of a wonderful lady.........Rowena Cade, humping boulders and sand up from the beach there...........
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San Francisco in late June
 

Ciaran, late June will be great time to visit San Francisco. The weekend of June 25 -26th is Pride Weekend there.

That's the weekend that I will be in San Diego. I'll be in San Francisco the following week. Just don't know where I'll be in between !

I've been to CA often although not for almost 18 months now so looking forward to returning :)

I don't have any "long" as in many days type of plans. Due to the work I do, I have the entire summer off:-) So, far though, I have only one long weekend trip planned. That one is to go to Columbus, OH in June to see my "younger Femme sister", Johnny Weir, skate in the Skate for Hope ice show. The show is a fund raiser for breast cancer support and research.

That is also the weekend of Gay Pride in Columbus:-) There will be a good many of Johnny's fans converging on the city. Most of us know each other via FB, and some of us have met before at other shows. Quite a few of us are Queer, and all who aren't are total allies. I expect that we will being going dancing at one of the Queer clubs the night before the show.

Other than that, I plan to spend a lot of time doing some projects in my back yard. Maybe a trip to Sun Valley, ID, if Johnny skates there again this summer.

Yeah, yeah...I admit that I am a fiend over Johnny Weir. Good interview here: [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jp4cshfaFw"]YouTube - Facetime With Jeanne Beker - Johnny Weir Pt.1[/nomedia]. I have been a fan of figure skating in general for a really long time and fan of Johnny for about 5 years. His ability and style of skating is completely unique. The way in which he melds his physical masculine strength with his feminine sensibilities on the ice reminds me of the style of Rudolph Nureyev's dancing. This last year in particular, having taken it off from competing, Johnny has been revealing more of his depth as a brilliant creative genius and totally fabulous Femme gay guy. The fact that I've had the opportunity to talk with him a couple of times, once being a very intense conversation about certain things we share related to our Queerness, has only served to endear him to me more. The second season of his show "Be Good Johnny Weir" will be airing on Logo TV starting this summer, I think. Right now, episodes from season one are being shown. The show was originally on the Sundance channel. The documentary about Johnny, "Pop Star on Ice" is the first episode in season one.

Yes, that's the other thing I hope to be doing...visiting my sister in L.A.!

I'm going to New Orleans either in October or November or December.

I initially wanted to go in October, but I just found out that if I go from late November through early January I can get a pretty hefty discount from the hotel chain that my new job is at. (We're talking like $50 a night for a $200 room) (Mind you, the discount is pretty sweet the rest of the year, but it's twice as sweet from November-January)

So November/December is looking pretty sweet right now.

I haven't been "on vacation" since I went to San Diego in 2006. It's fucking time.

So, like, can your friends get discounts at your hotel chain? :winky:

No. :)

(hahahaha)

Rude! :hrmph:

Well, at least your "Man" is sending you somewhere. I have to use vacation time and pay for my own conferences to keep up my social work license in order to do "the Mans" work! :mad:

And we all ought to meet up for SF Pride! Plus,

It would be so great to see folks from the site at SF Pride. Vacation in and of itself!!!