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Raul if you like sci fi and or music the Museum of Pop Culture is totally cool AND within walking distance of the Space Needle.

Maybe we will go there Saturday or Sunday. We are there for 7 nights 6 days.

Small world! Me and the wife have been watching Panama Canal cruises, nothing is set for sure but I want to do that one day as I love cruises!

I'm heading to New York for my holiday this year, I've never been across the pond so I can't wait! 😄

Very cool, what are you going to do and see there?

Never been on a cruise. Don’t think I’d like to be stuck onboard with a mass of people.

Lived there for a decade. You’ll love it.

I'm not a people person that's for sure and I hate crowds, but I love cruises because the big ships are as big as a hotel and you can always get away from people. Everybody I know who said they weren't interested in a cruise, then took one, ended up loving them. They have short cruises like only 3 days. Actually sometimes you can get a 1 day/overnight cruise on the big ships.

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Yeah cruises can be pretty short which is helpul if you're not 100% sure they'd be suitable. I went on a two and a half hour cruise to the UK once, can't really say it was that memorable tbh but I wouldn't be averse to perhaps giving it another try one day.

A friend of mine has been all round the world (literally) on cruises. She’s off for 7 days now on an Alaskan cruise. She loves them.

I've been to Alaska twice on cruises. I kept hearing well seasoned cruisers saying their favorite cruise was to Alaska. Now I know why!

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Huh. If I took a cruise I wouldn’t choose Alaska, but somewhere tropical, I think. But, like I said, she’s cruised everywhere.

You can do Bermuda from New York, we did that from Boston...they even speak English there and it was very warm and tropical. Lovely place.

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Bermuda is British so they most def speak English there. :)

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Gosh, where do I start! 😀
I'll be in New York for 2wks,i want to do lots of sight seeing, and since seeing the heroic actions of a pilot landing his stricken plane on the Hudson River that is one place on my list, along with Brooklyn Bridge, Statue Of Liberty, Empire State Building, I also want to experience having a meal in a New York Diner, I want to ride in a yellow cab and see the yellow school buses, my list is endless! I just hope 2wks is enough! 😎

I've been on many cruises, I love the open space when at sea, I always go for the outside cabin (with port-hole) so I can see what the weather conditions are like the minute I wake up.
We did have a bad crossing to Spain once, but all modes of transport have their own problems in bad weather.

Not a people person @Citizen Rules? My word, I think of you as one of the most people of all the persons here :)

I myself have avoided cruises because I get nervous that I might not like being on a boat for a week and discover that I direly want to leave. So that would involve an I Love Lucy like episode of being air lifted by helicopter - neither is an appealing prospect.

I suppose I could try one of those short cruises you mention. Maybe a day .

But the truth is I love a road trip. The ride is as much fun as the destination for me.

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Well it's been a great time in Seattle and Washington so far.

Tuesday we headed downtown. Hit up Pikes Market, saw the Gum Wall, went to the aquarium and got some awesome seafood at The Crab Pot.

Wednesday we drove to Olympic Lodge up in the Peninsula. Went to Hurricane Ridge. That drive up was something! Lots of fog to make it quite interesting and a deer on the road. Then two deer in the parking lot hanging out by someone's car. A great view from the top as we seemed to be above the fog. Then later in the afternoon went on a hike by Lake Crescent and Marymere Falls.

Today we drove over to Hoh Rainforest and hiked The Hall of Mosses. Just great scenery. Drove over to Rialto Beach, saw an awesome herd of Elk and was blown away by the view of the Pacific Ocean there.

Hard to decide a best view they were all great.

3 more days here yet, but headed back to the Seattle area again tomorrow. Still going to squeeze in another National Park and for sure the Space Needle and we will see what else we end up doing.

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Friday drove back from Olympic Peninsula to hotel by airport then went back downtown. Visited the Columbia Tower which had great views and then went on an Underground Tour of Seattle which was pretty neat. Drove back to hotel to eat at Aqua Terra. They had an amazing steak.

Saturday we drove to Mount Rainier. Drove as far as we could for now which was Paradise and Henry M. Jackson visitor center. It was a really nice visitor center. Then we backtracked, went hiking a bit by Narada Falls and Trail of the Shadows. Went back to hotel and had a great meal at Spencer's.

Sunday finally hit up the Space Needle and the Museum of Pop Culture. Really liked the Space Needle atmosphere. We then went back to Pike Place to walk around a bit, grab some souvenirs over there and by the waterfront. Then proceeded to Wild Ginger for dinner. Highly recommend that place.

Overall an excellent time. Could see myself going again in the future.

I fly to America tomorrow from Heathrow, 2 whole weeks to do as much as I can with my family in New York!😎

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In case it proves at all helpful here's my impression of the traffic in Seattle:
vroom, vroom; toot; parp; brrrmmmm; whirrrr; peep; purrrr; honk

*I do freely admit that does also sound remarkably similar to my impression of the traffic in London, Prague, Berlin and Paris too so will completely understand if it doesn't prove of any value to you

**I will also freely admit that last one might have been a goose and not a car

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Just had an amazing 2 weeks in New York with my kids, my daughter had her bag snatched on the 3rd day but it didn't spoil our holiday!! Would I go again- hell yeah!! 🇺🇸

Your daughter had her bag snatched? Was this on the street in Manhattan?

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Dakota trip coming up in 12 days! Finally

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Fielding recommendations for 2022 US Vacations

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At home under the blanket. The best place for a long-awaited vacation!

Spending next weekend in northern Michigan for the fall color change. Nothing beats the colors over Lake Michigan. Also visiting Charlevoix, Petosky and Harbor Springs.


EDIT: Have to add the "Tunnel of Trees", hwy M119 north out of Harbor Springs. Pictures doesn't do it justice.


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The southwest, so much to see and do there and it's warm in the winter!

they look amazing those photos :eek:

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We want to go all over Finland with my family. It has been a dream of ours for a long time. And since the quarantine is getting worse every day. We've decided that either we're going on this vacation. Or never. We even got vaccinated so we wouldn't have any problems with the trip. We decided to become a map creator and create our own interactive map. And print it out. There we marked which places we wanted to go and how to get there. With these maps we are like travelers. Very atmospheric for me.

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The perfect vacation for me is the one that brings a lot of emotions. For example, I like to go on vacation to Japan. It surprises you with its diversity and possibilities. At every step you can see something that you will be delighted with.

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Anyone going anywhere this summer?

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Hard to say. The yearly Seattle thing is off for the third straight year, I think. We might try to do something else around the same time. Small chance we'll take a very short trip to Vegas to see a couple of shows. A modest road trip is kind of tempting, too.

How about you/everyone else?

Nothing too huge, gonna hit up Cincinnati/Kentucky area in July.

Smoky Mountains cabin rental next July, really looking forward to that.

About the best i got this year is a canoe rental for a few hours down in the panhandle.

There's talk of going to see mom's mom for a week, but not sure i count that as a vacation.

Last year, i spent my vaca time working on my mom's home and moving her from VA to AL. Looks like i'll spend my vaca time this year moving her into MY home.

I'm hoping in a few years to try a cruise through alaska, but i may keep kicking that down the line.

It’s nice of you to do this.

I'm vacationing in Helen this weekend, a town in the North Georgia mountains made up to look like an Alpine Bavarian town. It's the same place in the season 2 episode of Atlanta.

Our condo has a small DVD collection, which has this standout:

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Looks like it will be a wonderful trip.

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Smoky Mountains coming up in July. Exciting.

Also doing a trip in August (location to be determined). Quite a full year.

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August location to be determined has been determined as Utah. Super ecstatic

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I really enjoy it when I went to the US as a child with my parents. I find it fun.

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Just wrapped up a 2,000 mile roundtrip road trip to Virginia. With a pit spot at Flight 93 Memorial which I found fascinating. Visited Shenandoah, took the family to an aquarium and water park, and visited some other national park sites. Was great.

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I don't take a lot of "true" vacations. Overwhelmingly they're tied to some kind of event or something that feels vaguely work-like. I went to Seattle five years in a row for PAX West to help work a booth there, for example. I go to Laurel, MD once or twice a year for an esports commentary gig, and went to San Diego once for the same.

However, I'm actually probably taking a couple of honest-to-God vacations over the next year. The first a week in Florida in December (if anyone wants to meet up, let me know!) and then a couple of days in New York City in January for the D20 "Gauntlet at the Garden" event (ditto). There's still some obligations attached to the former, but it's not work like the other stuff. So it's an important half-step towards actually relaxing. ;)

At some point before long I'll schedule a vacation where I literally have nothing to do, but I find having something that registers as a life event and/or productive makes me feel better about putting the time or money into it, so I'm working my way up to the real thing.

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When or if you do vacation @Yoda, are you looking for the more relaxing type or the get out and see it type.

More the latter. I mean, I feel like I should relax more, but it also feels like a wasted trip to not check out a few things specific to the place. I usually hit up a local museum, and the local zoo. I like zoos in other cities in particular because it's pretty relaxed compared to most sightseeing.

That said, I think this is kind of downstream of the type of vacation you take in the first place. If you go to New York it doesn't really make sense to just relax. Ditto most large cities. I almost never just go to the woods or the beach, or other places like that where it would make sense to not do too much.

Hoping to change that in the next few years, though. :)

Three words for you...Take a cruise!


You can thank me latter:)

My wife's parents still live in Tokyo so we go there almost once a year to visit. Besides that we try and take another vacation once a year. Some of the better places we've been to are Alaska, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Palermo, Rome, Athens, Montego Bay, Boracay Islands, Paris, Nassau, Barcelona, Madrid and a few others. Some places we want to go soon are Tibet and Iceland.