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Post by wewbwb on Aug 26, 2016 16:30:29 GMT -5
This is before you. The open road. Where would you go? Who would you bring? Would you go back home? Just asking. (Side note: This is the crap I think about when I can't sleep)  |
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Post by obobfla on Aug 26, 2016 17:21:38 GMT -5
To the Smoky Mountains - kidnap a woman in Georgia who is in a similar situation as me and hide ourselves away in a mountain cabin.
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Post by jim44444 on Aug 26, 2016 17:59:33 GMT -5
Hello Florida Keys. I would not take someone with me but I am inclined to pick someone up along the way.
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Post by obobfla on Aug 26, 2016 19:12:40 GMT -5
Been there plenty of times! Love Big Pine Key - went there on my honeymoon.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2016 19:32:22 GMT -5
This is before you. The open road. Where would you go? Who would you bring? Would you go back home? Just asking. (Side note: This is the crap I think about when I can't sleep) I would (hypothetically of course) take my RV and just drive to wherever I felt like going, turning in any direction that looked interesting, staying for a few days if I liked the location or activity happening there, staying 5 minutes if I didn't. I would take a woman who liked 4 things; 1) talking with me, 2) dining with me, 3) dancing with me, 4) shagging with me. It would be at least 6 months to 1 year before I even thought of going back. |
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Post by petrushka on Aug 27, 2016 5:30:54 GMT -5
If my last experience of a road trip is anything to go by, I'd be pining to get home after about 3 weeks. Back to my computer, back to my kitchen, back to my workshop, back to my bed and my bathroom (with a bidet).
Well, I was on my own - having company might have made all the difference: but I WAS on my own and after 3 weeks motel rooms got awfully boring. Giving my camera a workout for 1/2 an hour or an hour a day didn't make up for that, particularly since it turned out that the 300mm lens I had bought for the trip was 'soft'. Only brought back a handful of good shots.
It did kind of cure me of the idea of getting an RV and taking off, hitting the road. Guess I am sessile by nature.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 12:08:32 GMT -5
If my last experience of a road trip is anything to go by, I'd be pining to get home after about 3 weeks. Back to my computer, back to my kitchen, back to my workshop, back to my bed and my bathroom (with a bidet). Well, I was on my own - having company might have made all the difference: but I WAS on my own and after 3 weeks motel rooms got awfully boring. Giving my camera a workout for 1/2 an hour or an hour a day didn't make up for that, particularly since it turned out that the 300mm lens I had bought for the trip was 'soft'. Only brought back a handful of good shots. It did kind of cure me of the idea of getting an RV and taking off, hitting the road. Guess I am sessile by nature. In all the world to go and choose from, you choose to recount a realistic bad road trip you had? Who do you think you are @roch649? Where are the optimists on this forum? Let's take over at least some of the threads on here! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 12:21:10 GMT -5
Never been west of the Mississippi...want to see what the heck is in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, etc....
I would go alone...see the national parks, hike parts of the north country trail in Michigan or Minnesota...just find myself. Stop and stay wherever... try to meet some of the people of these places...stick to open spaces...
I'd get a cab for the back of my truck...just in case so I had somewhere to crash...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 13:25:54 GMT -5
Never been west of the Mississippi...want to see what the heck is in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, etc.... I would go alone...see the national parks, hike parts of the north country trail in Michigan or Minnesota...just find myself. Stop and stay wherever... try to meet some of the people of these places...stick to open spaces... I'd get a cab for the back of my truck...just in case so I had somewhere to crash... I like it @roch649, alone touring west of the Mississippi is OK. The entire USA is wonderful!! You have such great cities back east, DC, Boston, NY that I loved visiting. San Francisco is the only city I have been to on the west coast that can compare. Our parks are treasures! I would say take your family on 2 trips for surprise vacations(if your kids are old enough, this means your wife also!) in the next 5 years. 1) Hawaii (the big island or Kauai) at least one week. 2) Yosemite and stay in the valley...spectacular Your kids will remember these trips forever, and your wife may not have sex with you, but she will not be nearly so bitchy, which is not a bad thing! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 13:29:14 GMT -5
Never been west of the Mississippi...want to see what the heck is in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, etc.... I would go alone...see the national parks, hike parts of the north country trail in Michigan or Minnesota...just find myself. Stop and stay wherever... try to meet some of the people of these places...stick to open spaces... I'd get a cab for the back of my truck...just in case so I had somewhere to crash... I like it @roch649, alone touring west of the Mississippi is OK. The entire USA is wonderful!! You have such great cities back east, DC, Boston, NY that I loved visiting. San Francisco is the only city I have been to on the west coast that can compare. Our parks are treasures! I would say take your family on 2 trips for surprise vacations(if your kids are old enough, this means your wife also!) in the next 5 years. 1) Hawaii (the big island or Kauai) at least one week. 2) Yosemite and stay in the valley...spectacular Your kids will remember these trips forever, and your wife may not have sex with you, but she will not be nearly so bitchy, which is not a bad thing! 1. I have no kids....don't really even like kids... 2. W hates everything outdoorsy...lives her life indoors in a heated, air conditioned box....some of our neighbors think I live alone....they have never seen her. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 13:43:44 GMT -5
I like it @roch649 , alone touring west of the Mississippi is OK. The entire USA is wonderful!! You have such great cities back east, DC, Boston, NY that I loved visiting. San Francisco is the only city I have been to on the west coast that can compare. Our parks are treasures! I would say take your family on 2 trips for surprise vacations(if your kids are old enough, this means your wife also!) in the next 5 years. 1) Hawaii (the big island or Kauai) at least one week. 2) Yosemite and stay in the valley...spectacular Your kids will remember these trips forever, and your wife may not have sex with you, but she will not be nearly so bitchy, which is not a bad thing! 1. I have no kids....don't really even like kids... 2. W hates everything outdoorsy...lives her life indoors in a heated, air conditioned box....some of our neighbors think I live alone....they have never seen her. Wow, so what you are telling me is that it is more like you are just roommates?? Have you ever talked about taking separate vacations? |
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Post by bballgirl on Aug 27, 2016 14:01:16 GMT -5
Road trips I would be interested in would be:
1) West Coast - Pacific Highway starting in the North and making my way down to San Diego.
2) Southeast - Starting in Savannah down into Florida across I-10 all the way to New Orleans (raw oysters at night and beignets for breakfast)
3) Florida down to The Keys
4) Northeast- Rhode Island up to Maine living on lobster!
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Post by wewbwb on Aug 27, 2016 16:55:46 GMT -5
Road trips I would be interested in would be: 1) West Coast - Pacific Highway starting in the North and making my way down to San Diego. 2) Southeast - Starting in Savannah down into Florida across I-10 all the way to New Orleans (raw oysters at night and beignets for breakfast) 3) Florida down to The Keys 4) Northeast- Rhode Island up to Maine living on lobster! I just got invited to a "lobster" match in Maine. I'm debating going as i would need to take a day off work. Also the fridgeaire may want to tag along. |
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Post by petrushka on Aug 27, 2016 17:01:50 GMT -5
If my last experience of a road trip is anything to go by, I'd be pining to get home after about 3 weeks. Back to my computer, back to my kitchen, back to my workshop, back to my bed and my bathroom (with a bidet). Well, I was on my own - having company might have made all the difference: but I WAS on my own and after 3 weeks motel rooms got awfully boring. Giving my camera a workout for 1/2 an hour or an hour a day didn't make up for that, particularly since it turned out that the 300mm lens I had bought for the trip was 'soft'. Only brought back a handful of good shots. It did kind of cure me of the idea of getting an RV and taking off, hitting the road. Guess I am sessile by nature. In all the world to go and choose from, you choose to recount a realistic bad road trip you had? Who do you think you are @roch649 ? Where are the optimists on this forum? Let's take over at least some of the threads on here! Sorry Bob - that was my one and only holiday in ..... 34 years. Nothing to do with pessimism, when you own 750 acres and livestock, you don't usually get to go away. Which, inicidentally, doesn't mean that I didn't find lots of time to relax at home, or with my friends. You just can't take off for more than 3 days at a time. My roadtrip was much anticipated (the highpoint, apart from the touristy things, was visiting with Bazz and Ms Enna) after I had to retire and turn in to 'landed gentry' (in other words I no longer worked, I leased the place out and had unlimited time off). I had one other holiday since, which was visiting with friends in Wellington, and that was lots of fun. But it wasn't a roadtrip in that sense, because while we drove 2000km, we went from friend to friend. Suits me much better ... I'm more of a people person than a tramping or sightseeing person. |
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Post by DryCreek on Aug 27, 2016 17:04:28 GMT -5
wewbwb, Cock fights... dog fights... Now they're battling lobsters? Those Maine gangs are hard core! Be careful you don't get busted in a raid.
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