This time, i'll stick to the United States, since i wrote about Australia last time. As an addendum to that one tho, i'd go to the UK and N. Ireland or to Spain just as readily as Australia.
But America! Land of the free, home of the brave...i could soapbox on the current flavor of those words as pertains to our wretched society today, but i won't. The problem with choosing a spot in the US is that there are so many lovely places, depending on what you like. You could be a kid again and go to Disney World/Land. You could venture into the realm of adventure and scale a mountain somewhere...which i've done actually. I climbed this one with a group of crazy people last summer:
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If vacation means relaxing for you, don't try this:
It's being considered for the List-of-Things-to-Do-Before-I-Die, and many people insist that it very well may be the LAST thing i do before i die. But there are two things i want to do as a "vacation" here in the awesomeazing USofA, and one is a road trip...because i can't decide where to go. I might as well see everything, yes?
Depending on where i live when i start, i'd travel in a sort of squiggly/figure eight pattern. Like if i lived in SC, i'd go south first through Georgia and Mississippi, then head up through Texas and Okalhoma...i love not-quite-southwest states. There is so much space and room to breathe. I'd most likely hit New Orleans on the way. From there, i'd go up toward Colorado and Utah. I took time to draw this just for you guys to show an idea of how it would go:
I actually want to get up to Montana and North Dakota too, but my route makes it be out of the way. I forgot to add Route 66 and the Grand Canyon. And the route doesn't go through New Orleans, which is one of the yellow-highlighted spots. But i definitely want to go through a couple of places specifically just to say i've been there. I've been to nearly all 50 states anyway, so perhaps i'd build a road map based on where i've NOT been. Or i'd narrow down exactly where i want to go and then connect the dots...sort of like this:
Either way, it would be a nice trip. I love road trips...going places in general.
My second fun vacation idea isn't really a "vacation" per se, but it's something i want to do. I want to get permission to backpack or ride on horse back across either a national forest (in Wyoming or someplace) or the west-midwest in general. Just ride, like one would bike across the United States...only on horseback, roughing it all the way. My family has done "rough-it" weeks where we just take a tent and food and things and hang out for a week at various sites we find. Where i live, you can actually pull off the side of the road somewhere, anywhere, and camp. We've done that, and i enjoyed it. But to go across the country, living off of the game and vegetation...would it be possible anymore? Or is that too idealistic and naive to attempt...
And of course, there's always Hawaii...i've never been there. Or Alaska...never been there either. So many choices, so little time!
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