Best vacation you ever had

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 05-31-2007, 21:42

Ok whats the best vacation you ever went on? For me it was two weeks in California with my Father , mother, two of my brothers, my wife and my 6 year old son. We flew into Frisco and spent a few days there. We had rented a van when we first arrived and proceeded to drive down US-1 taking all the sites on the way all the way to San Diego. Disneyland,Great Adventure, Knottsburry Farm, Hollywood, the vineyards and Sea World to name a few.

**Tristuskhan** · 05-31-2007, 21:55

Three months alone in Mongolia, five years ago: silence, slowliness and salted butter tea. And a marvellous young woman from New Zealand to accompany me the last weeks. Full moon rising over the Sayan mountains.

**TinCow** · 05-31-2007, 22:00

Impossible to pick one, since there have been too many. However, for the moment I'm rather fond of the one I got back from last week: a week in a beautiful villa on St. Barth's with my wife. Sun, sand, (ahem), fabulous food, and even better wine.

**Togakure** · 06-01-2007, 02:24

I always have trouble picking a single favorite, so I'll list my contenders:

- A week on Kauai, before Iniki devastated her. It was fun to literally roll out of bed and keep rolling, out the sliding glass door which we left open to let in the breeze (and translucent gekkos), and roll right into the swimming pool to wake up in the morning. Silly I know, but fun. I did that every morning I was there, and Kelly got a kick out of it (she's the sweetie I went there with).

- Numerous extended weekends (what I call a working man's vacation, heh), on the California coast north of SF on Highway One. Sea Ranch and St. Orres' Inn (the Treehouse) in Gualala are my two favorite places to stay. I like to go up to Mendocino when I'm up there, and to the Russian River. Many trips with many different people, but the only time I went up with more than one other person at a time was with my two God-daughters and their parents.

Two weeks straight, backpacking in Desolation Wilderness, just west of Lake Tahoe. I lost 15 pounds, got the workout of my life, drank up incredible beauty at every turn, remembering for a time what it means to really be ALIVE. There is nothing quite like having a highland tarn all to yourself, to jump in naked and feel that COLD, to swim around for a bit, and then get out and bask dry on the sunlit granite. I've never felt cleaner, in body, mind or spirit, than after doing that. God's Country, indeed.

Really though, it wasn't so much the places; it was the people I went with. We grew so much closer on these excursions.

**LeftEyeNine** · 06-01-2007, 02:39

Planning to have it in the afterlife. :/

**Samurai Waki** · 06-01-2007, 06:55

One week in NSW, One in the outback, one near Darwin. Tough land the lot of these and breeds much tougher people than myself. I was doing womens work in the Banana Fields because I wasn't nearly fit enough to actually do the harvesting.

**Azi Tohak** · 06-01-2007, 19:51

Fiji was great, especially the company of a woman six years older than I at the time.

New Zealand was fun... except for all the idiot Americans I went with.

Just went to Yellowstone, with a good friend of mine from school. She lives in Idaho very close to the park. THAT was fun. So pretty, even though only a small portion of the park was open. But it was nearly empty. And I saw bears!

Tough to pick. But I'm hoping my vacation in August to Europe will be fun. Just gotta get read

Azi

**seireikhaan** · 06-01-2007, 20:02

Well, last summer I went on a school trip to Europe. Landed in Frankfurt, stayed a few days in Germany, then went to Salzburd for a couple of days. After that, we went to Switzerland for two days, staying in Luzerne. Then we journeyed to Nice in France(that was one doozy of a bus ride). We stayed there for a couple of days, enoying the roasting 100 plus degree temps. We finished it up with four days in Paris. During the entirety of this vacation, I recieved a crash course in Football(Soccer) culture, on account of the fact that the entire time we were there, the world cup was being played out. Never before in my life have I seen such fanaticism displayed towars a sporting event. During our stay in Luzern, the Swiss were victorius in their game against, IIRC, Togo. I thought the city was going to tear itself apart at the seams from all the excitement(and mini-riots) resulting from the victory.

**naut** · 06-03-2007, 13:02

A week in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Saw lions everyday! Was really amazing.

**Shahed** · 06-03-2007, 14:29

Greece was probably the best in many ways.

Travelled around the islands, met and got to know a few women. My "favorite" star being a young American college girl also travelling alone, like me. She was brave, tough, so beautifully feminine, adventurous, fun, romantic, ethical, intellectual, fresh & horny!. In the evenings when we'd find some place to eat far from everything else, and spend time on the beach in the dark with light reflected off the waves. It was tremendous. We spent about a week travelling together before she had to return to America. She'd been there slightly ahead of me. Beautiful beaches, hills, adventure, sunsets, romance, amazing food, fine drink, it was great. I could actually write a book about it.

**Beirut** · 06-03-2007, 23:02

Costa Rica was great. Love the people down there. Wasn't crazy about the scorpion and tarantula in the house, though. Pretty good food.

The Yukon was the best. Huge gorgeous terrain and almost devoid of life. Took a great Cessna flight over the territory and enjoyed the company of some very friendly locals. Nothing like staying in a hotel and being woken up in the middle of the night because the guy's dog in the next room starts barking.

My kind of place.