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The Dragon in the Spring and Ft. Lauderdale and Key West in August.

Car vacation first then vacation with the wife second.

 

I go to the Dragon every year as my main vacation

A smaller trip I usually go to Rehoboth Beach every year.

 

Welp.... The wife and I locked in 5 days in October to spend a little R&R in beautiful Old Town in Quebec City. Staying in our normal B&B over looking the boardwalk and the St Lawrence seaway.... Looking forward to quiet time and some nippy weather.....

Aaaaaand not thinking about work....

 

I'm not going anywhere soon:frown2:

 

Vacation? I think I might have heard that word before, but I'm not sure. Can you use it in a sentence for me? :biggrin5:

Jim

 

Saw no polar bears, it was winter, they were sleeping.

I have to fly for work, so I have the whole airport/plane thing down to an art, but I still hate the whole ordeal. Much rather drive. I'm still good for 12-14 hours behind the wheel, not that we get all that far with all the potty stops for the dogs and Lois:lol:

Jabbles, if you make the drive to Vancouver, time it so you do Saskatchewan overnight, as it's so flat there you can watch your dog run away for 2 days:lol:

 

Minis like Mount Rushmore and the Western vistas!



Custer State Park...some of the best roads, high and tight, I have ever driven, natural rock tunnels, and a view like this as we drove through one of them



as well as the Devils' Tower NM


one more.."Cathedral Rocks" dwarfs my Mini Cooper


pac

 

I would recommend that people do not put dates of upcoming vacations in the thread. This is public after-all.

 

The wife and I have been to Old Town in Quebec City twice, and we are talking about doing it again probably sometime in the fall this year. We stay in a "Bed & Breakfast" we like.


We normally fly into Montreal and then take the train to Old Town, which is a fun relaxing way to get there. Spend the time sight seeing, and hitting the local restaurants. There is a grand boardwalk overlooking the Saint Lawrence seaway just in front of the Hotel Frontenac. Great for taking a stroll at night.

 

Highly recommend the Casa Marina Resort in Key West!! Matter of fact we have done same trip your doing and the wife and I wished we had just skipped Ft Lauderdale and stayed the whole time in Key West!!!

 

need to do the Keys...

We usually vaca in Europe every even numbered year, but the last two times we were out sync because of the MTTS (I'll have to ask MINI USA to change it..lol)

See America First vacations have been fun...37 states visited, with the criteria being:
1. Must drive the state in a Mini Cooper
2. Must have a traveling dog visit it with you (we have 2)

:cornut:

pac

here is a flickr link to the "best of" photos from MTTS 2012
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjB5xmgC

 

I myself would probably never ever ride the bus (Greyhound).... I guess I'm stereotyped by too many horror movies..... Heh Heh Heh.... But maybe that's just me.....

My cutoff is probably taking my car anywhere within my state and any bordering state.... Longer than that and it's "let's just fly there"..... We do the "Extended Weekend" thing in Chicago and New York and it's far enough away that I wouldn't consider driving..... I'm just too beat making the drive..... Especially since having a car in Chicago is not really a convenience with all the public transportation that's available in such a cosmopolitan city.... Once we get there it's all about walking / taxi / subway..... We fly into Midway and take the subway to the Loop and then walk the short distance to the hotel..... If a car is needed we just get a rental....

Trains..... Well, that's part of the fun..... Really like taking the trains..... Wish there were better train connections here in the US..... Canada has it down with their trains.... Sooo easy....

 

Because the trains in Canada only go east-west, turn around, and go west-east

 

Confused....
Sooooo Canada doesn't have North-South trains for fear they'll bump into the East-West trains or what????

 

US Trains......

 

I have taken a train as far north (as far north as they can go) to Churchill Manitoba south end of Hudson Bay, something like 700 miles north of the 49th, and once you get north of the tree line and out on the permafrost those trains travel REAL slow over that mushy ground.