Saturday, March 26, 2011

Is it Vacation Time Yet?

We like to camp and hike when we get the chance, so we've visited a significant portion of the national parks in the US. We've met a lot of new people that way (always fun!) and many of the people we've met have been from other countries, so this chart doesn't come as a surprise to me. Still, wouldn't it be nice to have an entire month of vacation a year? Sometimes I think we'd all be a lot calmer and work harder if we knew we had some major vacation time waiting for us. (And I'm not trying to be unAmerican. I'm just...fantasizing).

via bitsandpieces.us

What are your favorite places to go when you're on vacation? I love Bar Harbor in Maine, Yellowstone, San Diego, and Banff in Canada, just to name a few. Any fun or funny vacation stories? I've had a few incidents with winds that broke my tent poles, hiking up on a mama bear with her cubs, and 4 straight days of rain in Nova Scotia so that my rain poncho practically attached itself to my body.

And is there any place you've never been that you seriously are longing to visit? (I've never been to Hawaii or the Netherlands or France and would love to go to any of those. I'd like to revisit England, too).

Best Wishes,
Posted by Myrna Mackenzie at 1:00 AM
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4 comments:

  1. I am jealous of your travels. However, I have traveled all over Australia. There is much to admire. One day I will take off overseas.

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  2. Marybelle, I'm jealous of your travels, too. LOL I've always really wanted to go to Australia (my mother used to read an Australian author, Lucy Walker, and I gobbled her books up), but it's so far and so expensive to get to. Someday, though...maybe we'll both cross the ocean and see the other side of the world. Wouldn't that be fun? :-)

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  3. Gee we do not even register on that graph!?!
    Last Summer was my first big vacation in almost 10 years... my sister took her two kids, myself and our mother to the San Diego Zoo & Six Flags... it was great except we happened to go during a major heat wave... One day I am looking forward to visitng Ireland!!! :)

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  4. Colleen, I guess I should have known that employers have no legal obligation to give their employees any vacation, but I was surprised to see that zero, too. I've been to San Diego a couple of times (and I want to go back) and I can't even imagine a heat wave there. They kind of got beat up, weather-wise, last year, didn't they? Still, I'm glad you managed to have fun despite the heat. It's such a lovely place.

    And I want to go to Ireland, too! I've been to England twice (another of my favorite places. I feel a post about the town of Lyme Regis coming on), but I never made it across to Ireland.

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