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Pleo Stuff => Pleo Archives => Archive -- Non-pleo => Topic started by: Will Smart on August 10, 2013, 09:08:14 PM
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Hello everyone! In this thread, please feel free to post your favorite vacation location, and talk about your trip. I am happy to hear about your guys' vacations, and get suggestions on places to go that were amazing :) My favorite vacation of last summer was...
Location: Paris, France
Rating :): 8/10 (I had the flu while I was there)
Description: Most of the trip was spent sightseeing - a boat ride down the Seine, a tour of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc du Triomphe, The Catacombs (walls of bones! :o), etc.
Would you recommend this place?: YES!
Happy travels! :ufo:
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I went to the US (San Francisco and surrounds) :) To meet some of the amazing friends I met on here :)
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My favourite holiday is also a robot related adventure. I went to Western Australia (the plane took 6 hours to get there and it was my first time on a plane) to meet Kat from this forum (hi Kat! (: ) as well as Ice and Mh7ah who are also members of this forum, they post more on Aibo-Life though so you may not know them yet.
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I went to the US (San Francisco and surrounds) :) To meet some of the amazing friends I met on here :)
Awesome! I've never been to San Francisco. :)
My favourite holiday is also a robot related adventure. I went to Western Australia (the plane took 6 hours to get there and it was my first time on a plane) to meet Kat from this forum (hi Kat! (: ) as well as Ice and Mh7ah who are also members of this forum, they post more on Aibo-Life though so you may not know them yet.
Cool! Australia is a m a z i n g ! When I was there, we got to hold Koala bears (the cutest things EVER)! :)
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Koala's are not bears! Completely different mammalian family! Also they have bony bums and their pee smells like cough drops :P But they do have the softest fur!
My next adventure is New Zealand :)
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Location: Glasgow- Fort William, Scotland
Rating : 9/10 (I hate small mosquitoes!)
Description: Hiking/ Walking the West Highland way. Ben Nevis mountain, beautiful. In Scotland live the sweetest people in the world. Superb hospitality. Super beautiful views.
Would you recommend this place?: YES! YESSS!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
(http://www.ryangosling-adventures.co.uk/west-highland-way-map-1.gif)
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Koala's are not bears! Completely different mammalian family! Also they have bony bums and their pee smells like cough drops :P But they do have the softest fur!
My next adventure is New Zealand :)
Good to know. :) How do you know all of this?Location: Glasgow- Fort William, Scotland
Rating : 9/10 (I hate small mosquitoes!)
Description: Hiking/ Walking the West Highland way. Ben Nevis mountain, beautiful. In Scotland live the sweetest people in the world. Superb hospitality. Super beautiful views.
Would you recommend this place?: YES! YESSS!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
(http://www.ryangosling-adventures.co.uk/west-highland-way-map-1.gif)
Scotland sounds amazing! Was it cold there, or was the temp. ok? :D
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Good to know. :) How do you know all of this?
I live here :P And I'm mad keen on critters :)
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You live in Australia? :dance013:
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Notice the little flags under the avatars on the far left? Yup. We have members all over the world here!
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Scotland sounds amazing! Was it cold there, or was the temp. ok? [/qoute]
23 Celsius, but lots of rain :raincloud: ;D
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You guys have all had some amazing trips to some wonderful places, I have been stuck in the states since I was born, My older sister was fortunate enough to live in Germany when she was little. ( it was after the war, but I won't reveal her age............. ;D) Lets just say it was after the war, before the Berlin Wall came down and "The Black Market" was in full swing. My sister was having a birthday party and one of the party favors was Hersheys Candy bars. Back then Chocolate was a luxery for most Germans and the children who were not smart enough to eat them before they got home, most likely lost that sweet goodness. I was told of at least one or two children who lost their candy bars and the parents took them to the Black Market for trade on something like a pair of shoes or for some food that would go a lot farther. Chocolate was mostly a commodity back then, and my father still in the Military had access to things the general public didn't.
I was born here in the states so never had the chance to see where my Great Grandparents came from, ( ON my Father's side.my Grandmother is full blooded Native American...another story.) Anyway, I missed out on Germany, so my vacations are all childhood memories. My favorites are the old standby, Disneyland and Yosemite National Park. It was a tradition every year when my father got his vacation, for us to load up the station wagon and take the trip to Disneyland. Whether we lived in Kansas or California, it was allways Disneyland. When I was about 8, we made the trip from Kansas to Disneyland, via The Grand Canyon, and also visiting Yosemite National Park. Disneyland was allways fun and you could never see everything or go on all the rides even in two days! My favorite rides back then were The Matterhorn, ( loved going through the inside of the mountain and almost going over the edge of the open part of the mountain where there is a waterfall, and back into the darkness..I also loved the Fantasyland rides, Peter Pan, Dumbo flying Elephants and It's a Small, Small World was allways wonderful. ( This was way before Pirates of the Carribean or any of the computer images rides.)
Oh, the Jungle Cruise was fun with hippos and crocodiles right at the side of your boat...and my brother and I allways had fun going to Tom Sawyer's island where you go on the raft to cross over on a raft and get out and just run and play on an island , all rocks, etc, Of course the Steamship ,I think it was called the Mark Twain was fun to ride too, Oh, and there was a train ride that went past an indian village, goes on and on, Everything was fun when I was a kid. Oh, one more, Bear Country Jamboree. Lots of fun singing and Dancing Bears, where you sat in a outdoor arena area and ate and the Country Bear Jamboree played music and sang, lots of fun still thinking about it..
When I was a kid, those were my favorite vacations, mostly because they bring back so many happy memories and my family, both mom and dad have been gone for decades, memories is all I have of my parents and a happier time. When my kids were born I promised them and myself I would take them to Disneyland, but it never materialized for many reasons so the second best thing that we could do for vacation, was to take a bus for a weekend trip to San Francisco to see a baseball game between The San Francisco Giants and The Los Angeles Dodgers. Both my son and daughter were Giant Fans and I have allways been a Dodgers fan, so we all enjoyed the trip, I do not drive and it was a long trip on Greyhound , spending half the time we had just getting there and coming back from the game, but we all enjoyed it. ( this was 1988 when the Dodgers were riding high right before The World Series which they won, and I got to see my fave players and my daughter got to see Will Clark the Giants First Baseman who see loved! ;))
One other vacation or trip I took as an adult was when I moved from where I am now in the Redwoods to see if I could find work in Montana where my sister lives. I quit my teaching job here, packed everything up and my daughter and our two dogs left with my sister and brother in law while I finished packing and finishing other stuff here, and I took the bus to Montana with our BoxTurle, Myrtle in a bag with me on board. It was the most beautiful pristine place I have ever seen outside of the Redwoods, but no jobs to be found. Snow, did I mention Snow, Snow in July and sometimes even August! :o %) That and walking to the High School which was a two mile walk to work in the cafeteria , in the dead of winter where it can be 50 below zero! :o :( NO public transportation back then, mountain lions, elk, deer and even bears a common site on that walk brought me back to reality, I did not belong in MOntana when I did not drive. or could not catch a bus, there were no buses! So after a sharp jab in my backside with what reality is.. I decided I needed to return to CA, and the REdwoods, where at least it was not
50 degrees below zero in the winter, and I could walk to work , or catch a bus, and there were not mountain lions or bears to cross my path if I had to walk to work.( Though one time two blocks from our house, my husband and I both saw a big black bear cutting through a barb wire fence on the side of the road to escape through a empty field , hiding who knows where.( a minute later a police car pulled us over asking if we had seen a bear..hopefully they did not shoot that poor bear, it was just hungry and was looking for some berries or scraps to eat..) One good thing that came out of Montana was I leaned to ski, even if it was only on the Bunny Slopes... ;D ;)
Sorry for the rambling, childhood memories took over and memories of happier times. I wish my children were still little and I could do all the things I wanted to do with them and take them to all the places they deserved to see and hopefully my grandchildren will get some of those memories as well. I would recommend Montana as it is one of the last places anywhere that is prinstine and something like 80% of it is just land, no people, Glacier National Forest, part of it is in Montana, part of it is on the Canadian side is a 10 out of 10, sheer beauty, If you like the cold and snow, and wild open places, Montana is your ticket. Disneyland, I think everyone in the world has a inner child, and if I can recommend only one place to save up to visit, it is Disneyland, I could spend days there and still not see everything and it is allways adding new things. If you want a place to just let go of all your worries and be that child you remember, then Disneyland is at the top of my list, whether you are 10 years old or 100 years old, Disneyland is the Ultimate Vacation and fun Spot! :)
RWM :cat-hug:
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I really enjoyed your story RWM :)
I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side but I think you are really lucky to have seen the things you have seen and the times you have lived through. I would give anything to have been able to live through the 60/70/80's
I wish I could have been a 60's hippy :flowers: and a 70's rockstar :clap: or just look really cool walking down the street to buy a record in my awesome 1980's clothes and really big hair do. :moose:
I would love to see the Grand Canyon, Montana, Disneyland, Kansas or California, mountain lions, elk, deer and even bears :dino-chase:
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>:(Thanks Luna, that really made my day, week and a lot more, I loved growing up when I did, just makes me feel so old now... :o :( ;) but in the heyday of Haight Ashbury, I went to SAn Francisco and lived near Golden Gate Park with my Girl friends family, 1967, 68. Went to High School there, Had some great memories and remember tourists stopping my friernds and I to take our pictures, LOL. Another time on New Year's eve, we were walking through the Haight and they had these open store fronts with live in prompt music bands blasting out. Hippies were giving out incense sticks to people walking down the street. There were these busloads of tourists slowly going through the Haight and taking our pictures with the windows rolled up. ( LOL, afraid of hippies!) and I even went to a Peace Moratorium, May 8th at Kesar STardium to stop the war in Vietnam. The speakers included Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, ( he was allways on hunger fasts) and Country Joe McDonald and the Fish.
One of my best memories involving Disneyland was in 1970. My friends and I were just getting ready to get on the It's a SMall SMall World ride in Disneyland when we saw someone very familiar looking with a small group of people around him. He was dressed all in black and had a oriental woman with him................It was John Lennon of the Beatles. My friends and I were too speechless to go get his autograph so we sent the little boy with us to get his autograph. He signed it, it is a small gold colored Hara Krishna Card with the Krishna chant on the front and John Lennons signature on the back.............What a great memory! ;D lots more but those allways make me feel young again................RWM :cat-hug:
off to the drs. for my post op foot apt, see you guys later
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It's really exciting reading about everyone else's experiences all over the world. :D I had hardly travelled at all up until a few years ago, I just stayed on my relatively small island in my relatively isolated country and that was normal for me so I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything. But now that I'm old enough to have saved up enough of my own money, and have a gentleman friend more accustomed to expecting holidays, I've done some more travelling. We've made two trips over to the US over the past couple of years - one actual holiday and another working holiday - and I'm glad I decided to do it.
One of my favourite adventures on the first trip was in Colorado, where we stayed with a long-time online friend of mine I'd never met in person before. A bit of a bold move, but it worked out really well as she took us out to Dinosaur Ridge, where you can see amazing preserved dinosaur footprints from when the area was underwater. They have some skeletons too in the rock but I really loved the footprints as they represent something of the dinosaur's time alive, rather than its last moments. You can see the tracks of the big parent dinosaurs with smaller baby tracks following them (or mischievously walking the other way!) and even though they are long gone I love the sense that they moved on after that moment was captured and had other adventures. I was really tickled as well to learn that Camarasaurus is a Colorado-area native, so some of those footprints I saw may have been the great-great-ancestors of our Pleos!
Another exciting thing we got to do on that trip and a bit of a contrast to the dinosaurs was be at Kennedy Space Center the day Atlantis was supposed to be taking off for her final mission. Of course she didn't end up actually going until a week later because of weather, a possibility we'd accepted when we tried to be there for the launch, but in a way that was better as we had the opportunity to see the shuttle on the launch pad and do tours they might otherwise have been too busy to run. At the end of one of the tours you get to walk into a big shed, with little explanation, and they have a Saturn V - the 'moon rocket' - all laid out on its side to look at, with all the segments separated and information boards explaining what each part contributes. This particular rocket has never made its way into space but is, as far as I understand, the real thing and might have gone into space had the Apollo program continued. The feeling of standing next to it is indescribable, both because of its size and significance, and I've been privileged enough to see two of them now as we were also able to visit Houston Space Center where they have their own on display.
Of course, in that way that 'small things' tend to have of worming their way into your soul, the thing I think about and talk about most of all my experiences in the US is... squirrels! That may sound funny given Australia's reputation for cute furry critters, but we really have nothing that is quite like those little guys or quite so readily seen - our furry animals are not city-tamed and generally hidden from view unless you're actually visiting a wildlife park. It actually makes me kind of sad that if I am to ever see them in person again I will have to spend thousands of dollars and hours flying across the world! :-[ Oh well, maybe I will have the money and the free time to do that again some day, and perhaps then I'll be able to meet some new friends while I'm there. ;)
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Hehehe, I was sooooooo excited to see my first squirrel and smell my first skunk ;D
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I have to admit the squirrels were one of my favourite things from our trip to America too :) We went - a few years ago now - to Salt Lake City and spent 3 weeks in a Ski resort up in the mountains. It was like living in a fairytale for those three weeks. The snow was so beautiful :) We had never experienced snow before and now all of us have been left with a sense of longing to return to the snow and ski some more. We made snowmen, snow angels, threw snowballs, wrote our names in the snow, followed animal prints in the snow, watched squirrels running across the snow and skied in the snow. Caught snowflakes on our tongues and marvelled at the way it sparkled like diamonds in the sun. And best of all - had Christmas day twice :)
My favourite local destination to holiday is Taunton Farm in Margaret River WA. We go there for a week every year or two. Kick back and relax by the camp fire. walk across the field to the wineries, or the other field to the cheese factory and ice cream factory. There are lots of beautiful wineries all around that region just a short drive from where we stay and a few breweries too. You can also go caving, canoeing, bush walking, and surfing or beach visiting if that is your thing. We tend to go out to a different winery or brewery for each meal and spend the time in-between going for walks through the forest or just relaxing. ;D